Are you afraid of dying from cancer?  I am, because I have a family history of cancer. I also know how much one can suffer with cancer. And cancer is hitting people more and more now. The chance that you?ll die from cancer is about 20 to 25%. That?s a scary statistic. But is there anything we can do about it?  Or is it our destiny?
Even though Richard Nixon declared a war on cancer a long time ago –in 1971– we are still far away from defeating cancer naturally.  But what about some official medical sources that are declaring victory over cancer? They claim declining cancer death rates, but many doctors believe that the decreased numbers are nothing but early detection and possibly incorrect reporting. I’m one of them.
The numbers lie
The math on survival rates due to early detection works as follows:  Suppose someone develops cancer at age 40, doesn?t get diagnosed until age 57 and dies from it at age 60?late detection means he only lived 3 years. Now imagine the same patient develops cancer at age 40, gets diagnosed earlier, at age 45, and dies at exactly the same age of 60.  He will be counted as a cancer survivor, having lived 15 years since his diagnosis!  But he still died at age 60!
Do more people die from cancer than we think?
Reporting is important too.  As a practicing physician, I know that patients rarely die from cancer itself.  They usually die from an infection like pneumonia. When those related illnesses are listed as the cause of death?not the cancer that contributed to the illness?the cancer death rate drops. But is it a real drop? No.
In my experience, I believe there are more and more cancer cases, and cancer even strikes children frequently now. Cancer also has unusual forms now, like breast cancer in men. I?ve never heard of anything like this in my medical school!
You can follow the rules?and still lose.
Is there a bright side to more cases of cancer? Are we at least better at curing it now?  Medical textbooks say that chances are good that cancer can be treated and cured. The path is supposedly simple:  remove the tumor with surgery, including surrounding tissues because of a possible invisible spread, get chemotherapy and radiotherapy and you have a good chance to get rid of cancer!  But is it true?
I was sitting at the bedside of a patient of mine. She was bald from chemo and radiation. She was so weak that she could barely speak.  Her blood pressure was dropping. She whispered:  ?Why me??  Even though she couldn?t speak beyond those two words, I knew what she meant. She had gotten her mammograms religiously. She had noticed a lump in her breast and immediately reported it to a doctor. She did exactly what the medical textbooks said to do:  extensive surgery, then chemo, then radiotherapy.  But a few months later cancer had spread everywhere.  She knew that she was going to die. She just didn?t know why.  After following all the rules, it didn?t make any sense to her. Or to me.
Medical overkill: is it killing people?
At that time, I didn?t question the textbook scenario:  surgery, chemo and radiotherapy. But while seeing this scenario?s failure almost every day, I started asking myself a question:  is it really the good way to go?  How did it happen, that even though my patient had extensive surgery that removed the whole breast with nearby lymph nodes, plus chemo and radiation, she still died? Are we missing something really big here?
While sifting through medical literature, I ran across an article that seemed to be absurd: the less extensive the surgery is, the higher the chances for survival.  In other words:  the less you remove, the better? How could it be? I thought that one article doesn?t mean much. They could have made a mistake. (According to the Wall Street Journal, the number of retracted articles is skyrocketing.) But later on, I changed my mind:  there were more and more studies that confirmed that same fact:  the less bad stuff we remove, the better ( http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cncr.27795/abstract;jsessionid=F174B5F55B9608B75EF8D4C52C0E6D3A.d02t03 ). 
Is cancer survival about choices?not chemo?
All my medical knowledge was useless to solve this problem because of one simple reason:  I had lots of facts, but no conclusions.  I was searching for answers.  I was getting desperate…until I read an article about a female physician who was diagnosed with breast cancer.  After having minimal surgery, she changed her life completely:  she stopped eating fried food and using plastic water bottles, got more rest and sleep, and made other healthy changes.
Suddenly I realized that some people change their health habits after being diagnosed with cancer.  Not everybody relies on surgery, chemo and radiotherapy!  Could that be the real people were doing better when they chose less invasive surgery? Were they also making better lifestyle choices?  Think about it:  who would opt for minimally invasive surgery: a patient who relies on standard treatment, or a patient who decided to do something else? Obviously a patient who does not intend to change his life would more likely rely on the traditional surgery, chemo and radiation, because he has nothing else left.  But a patient who plans to make lifestyle changes would be more likely to opt for minimally invasive surgery. 
Were people living longer because they had less surgery?or because they were making better lifestyle choices and have a zeal to fight cancer ? It?s something to think about.
My thoughts about cancer prevention:
Get enough sleep. Make sure you go to bed before 10 p.m. and get up at sunrise. Sleeping from 1 a.m. to 9 a.m. isn?t good sleep.
Make sure your vitamin D level is optimal; about 60 to 80.
Have your melatonin level checked, and correct it if necessary.
Get enough omega 3 fatty acids form natural sources like wild-caut cold water fish, minimally cooked, provided that it?s safe, or raw unprocessed fish oil or cod liver.
Get checked for toxins. Detox if necessary.
Stick with a Paleolithic diet, provided that your digestive system is functioning properly.
Watch your mouth! Treat gingivitis if you have it, get rid of your root canals if necessary.
Avoid unnecessary stress by getting rid of everything that is not necessary in your life.
Get enough physical activity. Remember that s.e.x. is an exercise too?a lot more fun than going to a gym.
Have as much fun as possible!
Follow these aforementioned points if you want defeat cancer naturally. Also, by understanding that improving your lifestyle can keep you guarded against various chronic ailments.
Good luck