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Aug 31, 2023Liked by Monica Hughes PhD

Had father and brother die of cancers. I didn't know about any treatments other than usual surgery, chemo, radiation until I learned history of allopathic medicine and Rockefeller et. al. It grieves me that all these unpatented treatments always get stopped.

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What's more interesting about this is that the effects of childhood vaccines in potentially stopping a more robust immune response could hurt, not help people in the long run even if you assume that the vaccine works as intended. Measles strikes me as a prime example of this. My grandparents were all born in the 1910's or early 1920's when the vaccines they received were few to none. My grandmothers both lived to 94 my grandfathers both died of heart attacks, one at 84 and one at 93. Could infections serve as a healing mechanism for cancer? There's so many things about healing responses which we do not understand...

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association of childhood mumps infection with decreased risk of ovarian cancer

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2951028/

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Fascinating! Thanks for the link.

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Aug 31, 2023·edited Aug 31, 2023Liked by Monica Hughes PhD

Good point.

There is a theory that experiencing childhood infectious diseases is protective against cancer.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9824838/

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Thanks!

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You're welcome. Homeopaths have known about this association for two hundred years.....that's the main reason why they have always been firmly against vaccines.

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Even in those cases where immuniation was felt neccesary nosodes were often used. The Holy Grail of vaccinologists is rabies methinks

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Aug 31, 2023·edited Aug 31, 2023Liked by Monica Hughes PhD

Amen to that. More research is needed. I once read that having a pin-worm infection as a child boosts the immune system.

Now for giving vaccinations to kids at a later age, giving less, or not giving anything at all - that will lead to a number of deaths amongst the unvaccinated children. Can we not first do more research into what vaccins do to the gut biome and find ways to repair ?

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"that will lead to a number of deaths amongst the unvaccinated children"

There needs to be a decent risk/benefit analysis, though. And those are actually not that easy to do.

Maybe you'll get 350 measles deaths among kids like there was in the 1950s. But you're probably not going to get 1250 pediatric cancer deaths.

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Can't have people realising that being poisoned with chemotherapy is not their only option.

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Aug 31, 2023Liked by Monica Hughes PhD

Right. YouTube thinks they are docs now.

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Aug 31, 2023·edited Aug 31, 2023Liked by Monica Hughes PhD

Mustard gas

In mutagenic plumes

A radio-mimetic substance

Injected, it consumes

Cancers

Organs

Your cells

And the next

But trust your local doctors

'Cause they know what's best

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Aug 31, 2023Liked by Monica Hughes PhD

Thank you for this thought-provoking substack. One request -- can you please insert an intro para about Coley’s toxins? I wasn’t previously familiar with the topic and it took me a while to catch on. Am I the only person who never heard of this before?

Unrelated but possibly similar ... there has been an apparent uptick in auto-immune (probably) / neurological diseases like Parkinson’s and ALS. I have some experience with a patient who went to an ALS clinic for “care” (e.g., UCSF, Sloan-Kettering, Stanford, Kaiser -- many around the world). After all was said and done, what did they do besides observe and peddle experimental drugs and treatments? Provide advice as to how to deal with the next “inevitable” decline. It honestly felt like the patients were Guinea pigs and not much more. I never felt like there was any hope of improvement nor any real plan to find a “cure.” Since they would be dying soon, no moral issue with experimenting on them, right? (Not saying that there was unprofessional conduct, just wonder what the real motivations are. Funding? Yes. Fame? Yes. And??)

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Thanks! I need to include a link to this initial article in the present one! Thanks to both of you for the reminder and the link.

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Thank you.

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Aug 31, 2023Liked by Monica Hughes PhD

Super article........sadly ivermectin as well has shown some amazing anti carcinogenic properties but "y'all ain't a horse!" That whole anti ivermectin campaign still leaves me apoplectic......but I am a horse veterinarian lol so I smelled the rat pretty quickly. And the retractions on all that is buried so deep no one will find it unless they are looking for it.

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Yup!

They pretend they are the good guys by backing down the censorship and totalitarianism a little on a given issue. But by the time this happens, the general public has forgotten.

CT went by the wayside in the 60s and was pushed onto the “quack list” along with other “unproven methods” in the 70s. All the hippie boomers back then knew that natural treatments were being suppressed.

Laetrile was also fraudulently suppressed at Sloan-Kettering, just like CT.

Finally in 2012 SK did a small clinical trial on CT begrudging its utility. It was coauthored by Lloyd Old, himself a cancer researcher who died of cancer not long thereafter, and who personally knew and highly respected Helen Coley Nauts.

The FDA also quietly rescinded a ban on Streptococcus products in 2006. A FOIA uncovered this and the people involved in trying to manufacture CT at the time didn’t even know. They just assumed the case for its manufacturer in the USA was hopeless.

I’m personally not confident that CT is illegal or has been banned in the United States. Of course, laws don’t matter much these days. We’re living outside the rule of law now. And decades of demonization had already done its damage.

Who needs to ban anything when mind control works so well?

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Aug 31, 2023Liked by Monica Hughes PhD

Do you think we will see change in our lifetime? Will big pharma be reined in?? Will they be held accountable at all? I initially thought so but now it is just bury, bury, retract, retract......too many other fish to fry. Thank you for this fascinating article.

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No, I don't think they will be held accountable, except in a much broader sense. The pharma regime simply isn't biologically or financially sustainable. All unsustainable things must end. It's just a matter of how long it takes. Looking at how sick the American population is? I think that collapse is coming sooner rather than later.

Over 20 years after 9/11 the US is basically not recognizable in its former form. I expect that the US will look similarly different 20 years from now, but exactly how, I'm not sure.

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I think one of the most horrific takeaways for me (oh, there are far too many to choose from) was to watch in horror as the majority of the human medical profession folded like a cheap suit over the rona. I guess I realized big pharma was corrupt decades ago but to see the docs et al in the trenches join in was truly saddening.

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It's also worth noting that the pHarma regime has operated with a substantial degree of force and fraud for a long time, which is now being massively ramped up. So what's the limit?

I don't know. I wish the future was easier to predict because I'd be able to plan an action course based on that. We all would!

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And I told the FDA that I identify as a horse, therefore it's all good ;)

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Thanks Monica. We are going backwards not forwards, the NHS is long gone.

A quick check of the literature reveals that Tecentriq is only good for giving you side effects. Its snake oil.

Cancer Treatment In 7 Minutes? England To Offer Shots That Could Cut Cancer Treatment Times

...The novel injection method can reduce treatment time by up to 75%. The immunotherapy atezolizumab, commonly known as Tecentriq, is administered intravenously, straight into patients' veins via a drip.

https://www.indiatimes.com/trending/human-interest/7-minute-treatment-jab-available-first-to-england-cancer-patients-613607.html

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The immunotherapies were supposed to be safer and more humane alternatives than chemo and radiation and the side effects are often much worse. This has been known for at least 10 years since immunotherapy became a real craze.

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We are literally in another sort of dark ages with medicine. It’s so insane.

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Over the years from various sources I have heard that children have a "maturation episode" after they overcome a childhood illness. This seemed to happen to our children on a few occasions. This is just one of the reasons I am uncomfortable with childhood vaccines. I wonder if evolution has taken into account the presense of infectious agents and REQUIRES young humans to undergo ONE or TWO NATURAL childhood illnesses to CORRECTLY PRIME the immune system for later life, I could believe it.

In the same way as we see weak and immunocompromised individuals ailing more often with infectious diseases I wonder if this is a way that out bodies have learned to elicit the help of pathogens to clear out bad diseases by co-opting other diseases that we would normally keep in check with robust natural immunity.

With lots of people and millions of years to experiment many methods will have been tried to 'cure' us of cancer and other serious problems, if temporary symbiotic relationships with microbes have evolved as a mechanism that would not be a surprise to me either. Much like the cow-pox and small-pox relation seems to work where one set of microbes protects us from something worse.

Seeing as I believe in Karma and struggle to attribute fault or stupidity to our creator so I often ponder on the purpose of microbes, pests and vermin. My default position has become such that any waste is a SIN and only waste is a SIN. To this end where there is an energy gradient available as a result of the Big-Bang that remains to be harnessed and to let it be wasted is to be avoided and so lion eats impala, bacteria eats lion, grass eats bacteria and so on as long as the sun shines. The creator has made arrangements to use surplus energy wherever it is to be found and if a sedentary person has excess glucose in their cells a microbe may be tasked with using it up rather than have it be wasted. In the same way if we believe in Karma and transmigration of souls we have to try and figure out what possible good Karma could a bacteria soul earn to advance on their path to enlightenment. Well like any other soul we advance if we perform our role in creation to the best of our abilities. For some bacteria this means eliminating surplus glucose from cells so reducing the SIN of waste. For others it may be healing a person from cancer with toxins. Others may excrete Ivermectin precursors to rid a host of parasites when they have served their purpose or a fungus may excrete Penicillin to remove a bacterium when it has overstayed its welcome.

The core position for microbial pathology should be the UNDERSTANDING that higher forms of life came AFTER single cellular life and evolved in the continuous presence of infectious agents that want to use the energy that we have collected to further their own Karmic goals of not wasting a hard earned energy gradient. We have evolved to live with microbes long before vaccines were a twinkle in Jenner's eye.

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Aug 31, 2023·edited Aug 31, 2023Liked by Monica Hughes PhD

Your gut is full of microbes - without them you would not be alive. But you probably know that.

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Quite right. It is now understood in most places that vaginal delivery PRIMES the infant gut microbiota from the mothers biome and it hs become commonplace to transplant this priming set of microbes when birth is by caesarian section.

We know that some bugs cause ulcers, others help us and make Vitamin-K and there are many more subtle effects. Routine antibiotic use is not to be lauded, rather resisted.

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Aug 31, 2023·edited Aug 31, 2023Liked by Monica Hughes PhD

Maybe I should not write this, I am not an MD or it's equivalent. But this is what I saw having had pet-rats for many years. Pet rats almost always carry mycoplasma and when they get a secondary infection they get really ill. Veterinarians then describe antibiotics, often two together. What I observed was this: the respiratory distress went away but soon after the tumors appeared.

I mentioned this to vets but they said it was a coincidence. (I stopped having pet-rats after I realized I was contributing to a too-often despicable cottage-industry.)

Also, after reading your article I read on and found that now for certain bladder cancers the BCG bacil is introduced in the bladder. So maybe the tide is turning ?

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Holy cow! What an interesting observation.

It makes perfect sense.

There’s actually a paper from the 80s that I need to dig out suggesting that some of the polysaccharides in the “cell wall” of Mycobacterium tuberculosis sensitized mice and made them more responsive to CT.

I know someone personally who is cured 10 years ago of melanoma in Mexico by the BCG vaccine, among other things. She lives back in Australia now and as far as I know she is still doing well.

BCG actually has a 90% cure rate for superficial bladder cancer. They just infuse it into the bladder and it does it’s magic. 🔮 🪄😂

The thing about immunotherapy is it a lot of people think it’s highly specific, but it’s not.

Coleys toxins has been tried and has worked on a wide variety of cancers. BCG is the same.

Even clinical trials with polio and measles vaccines have demonstrated cures.

if my husband had gotten glioblastoma just a couple of years later I might’ve been able to save his life. There was a clinical trial showing that a tetanus injection prior to dendritic cell immunotherapy was helping people to live 15 years. This is a terminal cancer that generally finishes people off in under a year, especially at age 50+

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The irony is that while I probably wouldn’t vaccinate my child with childhood vaccines, I think the vaccines themselves have tremendous potential for cancer treatment.

Isn’t it interesting that pharma doesn’t promote its own vaccines for this off label purpose?

Even more interesting is that none of the people who have been associated with pharma who are now part of the medical freedom movement have mentioned this, either.

🤔

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Aug 31, 2023·edited Aug 31, 2023Liked by Monica Hughes PhD

The CEO's at Pharma are probably afraid of the legal ramifications ? In the US you can already get in trouble for incomplete labeling, despite showing a skull with crosses, the name WeedKILLER, a warning protection should be worn.

Re. childhood vaccinations. Let me extrapolate. Little Jenny gets infected with measles and despite good care from doctor and parents, she dies. The parents cry and ask: could this not have been prevented ? The doctor says: well, we could have vaccinated. But we wanted to prevent possible cancer later on in life so we decided against it.

Parents get away with not having children vaccinated because so many other kids and grown-ups are causing the herd immunity. But maybe we should have stopped at Smallpox, Polio, Tetanus, and one or two others with high death rates. HPV was added for awhile then taken off the schedule.

That said, I have no children and never had to make those decisions. But looking at the immunization schedule I have questions. Are we not starting too early ? Also why is there no research done in giving shot separately vs. the "cocktails". (When I had to re-take my polio shot - MD's affidavit was not accepted by the Panel Physician - I did not get just that shot but a DTaPP jab.) Had we had children I never would have emigrated to the US.

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Aug 31, 2023·edited Aug 31, 2023Liked by Monica Hughes PhD

1. I am so sorry to read this (about your husband's cancer).

2. I have a question - lack of knowledge - we talk about "cancer" as if it is one disease. However my impression is there are many "forms" of this disease all needing a different approach ?

3. The rats were infected, probably during their birthing process, with mycoplasma - an organism that does not have a cell wall and is therefore hard to get rid of. (I was told this.)

Edit re. 2: In the NYT newsletter this morning: "Early-stage prostate and breast cancer behave differently from other cancers. We should give them a different name, Laura Esserman and Scott Eggener argue." (Alas, there is a paywall.)

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Yes, true... mycoplasma and mycobacterium as two different things. But doesn't surprise me that any symbiosis (even if labeled as pathogenic) has unintended beneficial effects.

There's even an interesting paper that suggests that a patient who developed a strong fever response to covid infection had a partial regression of cancer. I think it was Hodgkin's.

Fever from all kinds of acute diseases (not just Strep infection) can cause "spontaneous regression."

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Ever seen the TVseries "The Knick" ? They had an episode based on this: "Austrian psychiatrist Julius Wagner-Jauregg won the 1927 Nobel Prize in medicine for treating late-stage syphilis by infecting patients with malaria. Malaria would trigger extremely high fevers that killed off the syphilis-causing bacteria in the body. Doctors could then treat malaria with quinine."

Also, feed a fever, starve a cold, is an old saying.

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Aug 31, 2023Liked by Monica Hughes PhD

This is very interesting. Very similar situation to one I recently read in the book "The trial of Gaston Naessens" who also found a cure - which involved injecting camphor into lymph nodes - which appeared to help many cancer sufferers, some that were also inoperable. The mechanism he touted was that it caused reactivation of the immune system which then went on to remove the cancer cells which sounds similar to the action of the CT. This was mid-late last century, so not that long ago. Seems like the wheel gets reinvented frequently as the knowledge is suppressed! He was mercilessly attacked both in France, where he was born, and in Canada where he moved in order to escape the persecution, and this was by the medical profession who did not want to accept his work. He was not a medical doctor but a true noble scientist (IMO). He also invented a very interesting microscope that enabled him to see things smaller than the regular microscopes available at that time and using it could tell whether I person was cured of cancer or not by looking at the blood.

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This is interesting!

Mistletoe lectin is a molecular mimic of shiga toxin, and likely works on that basis. There are so thee molecules that probably act as so called “danger signals.”

A Midwestern Doctor Has written about the cell danger response, though I have not read that particular article yet. I did see the headline months back

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Aug 31, 2023Liked by Monica Hughes PhD

The Midwestern Doctor was the one who mentioned Gaston Naessens originally in one of their articles - which is why I read the book.

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Thanks for this. I went off to search for the book and found this link:

https://raypeatforum.com/community/attachments/christopher_bird-_the_persecution_and_trial_of_gaston-naessen-pdf.9562/

It sounds absolutely fascinating.

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I’ve shared your pinned article strategically: in private DMs or emails with people I thought would directly benefit from exploring their options. I’ve had a couple of tepid responses, one person who didn’t even respond, and one “unfriending” 😂. They’re told “it’s chemo or death, everything else is quackery.” And you have to make the decision NOW or you’re dead. People sub out “cancer” for “death”, it’s the drummed up fear that keeps the oncology clinics open.

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I wrote these articles about Coley’s and I find that smart and interesting people show up 🤓

That’s part of the reason I do it. And of course I do genuinely want people to have access to information they wouldn’t otherwise know about that I think has mostly faded away.

But I don’t proselytize much about CT even to friends and family because I know that right now it’s for super independent people who have nothing to lose.

I’ve learned to let people come to me if they need help. Having cancer or being a caregiver is an overwhelming experience with a lot of information overload. Sometimes it’s hard to tell where that takes off and lack of curiosity comes in.

There is a s a significant segment of society that will never except anything that isn’t mainstream or status quo. Just how it is.

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When you get handed a terminal diagnosis and they tell you they can’t cure you even with standard of care, things can change real fast.

I should post some of my husband’s statements on this. He was hilarious!

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Would love to read that.

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Coley's toxins are difficult to classify as traditional medicine or alternative medicine because they are basically just a primitive technological outgrowth of a natural phenomenon.

If I'm not giving people a box in which to put Coley's toxins, they don't know what to do with it. I've had both "alternative" and "mainstream" people do the side-eye without telling them where it "fits" in their worldview. If you don't do that, their mind gets scrambled.

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I just hate the fact that we have to frame everything. “Mainstream”, “alternative”, “quackery”... I can’t wait until a day comes when we can put all options on the table, with no qualifiers but data. No suppression, no censorship, just the options. If I think I’ll cure my cancer with skydiving, even if there’s zero data backing it up, it’s still my choice to jump off that plane. 😬

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Haha!! Exactly.

I’ve been weird my whole life and into stuff that was considered very weird 15 years ago that’s now somewhat mainstream.

So it’s possible.

I don’t like these terms either. Something either works or it doesn’t. There are ranges of effectiveness having to do with so many factors but all these terms are just indicative of cults and guilds, and reactionary cults and guilds from outsiders.

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Sep 5, 2023Liked by Monica Hughes PhD

Makes one shudder at how ubiquitous the usage of fever reducing medications is, and the almost backwards understanding that is now common about what fevers actually do

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What a wonderful case presentation. Eye opening for sure. What other cures lie locked away in some dusty warehouse never to see the light of day?

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Aug 31, 2023Liked by Monica Hughes PhD

Thank you Monica! Money won’t be an issue nor travel to mexico. He’s going to the cancer hospital in Duarte & I’m pretty sure immunotherapy is one of their big pushes. I will direct him to your writings. Thank you!

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Karen,

Here are two papers that may interest your friend. Please pass them along! Cheers.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3502841/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221026121730634X

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There are a lot of different immunotherapy options that are reasonably cheap and which I believe also work. I wish your friend the best of luck! I’ll be back with that article later! ☺️

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Aug 31, 2023Liked by Monica Hughes PhD

I often wonder what would happen if, instead of finding a "cure" or a "vaccine" for every thing that plagues a human being's health, they spent all of that money and energy on finding out *why* people get cancer, etc. Could it be they already know that what they would find out wouldn't pad the pockets of those who profit from the illnesses? I think most of us know the answer to that one.

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Aug 31, 2023·edited Aug 31, 2023Author

We know why most people in the modern day get cancer.

But one thing that gets ignored by the modern medical and food freedom crowd is that even paleolithic man got cancer. And that many cancers seem to be precipitated by *physical* injury is knowledge that has now been practically completely lost not just in mainstream medicine but also "natural health" advocates.

Nauts' monographs are positively littered with individuals who developed cancer locally near a physical injury. There are many causes to cancer, and while physical injury probably doesn't stack up as a major cause, these are not convenient anecdotes to the "just so" story that no cancer would happen if we all just ate organic and exercised.

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Aug 31, 2023Liked by Monica Hughes PhD

Thank you for this Substack article. Timing is everything! A friend has just been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He is a super healthy 70 yr old. No Covid jab. Works out every day. Eats right. But he was involved in a crash less than a year ago sustaining some major injuries. He’s in California. Does anyone here offer this treatment? He’s the father of 2 children under the age of 4!

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No one I know in the US uses CT. There are 2 clinics in Mexico that use CT that I could recommend.

What type of pancreatic cancer? There are risks with these tumors getting necrotic and exploding with immunotherapy I think. I can link a paper later when home on my computer.

The main obstacle to going to Mexico is often mental. (And often financial if people are really strapped.) People can’t break the trauma bond with their oncologist.

See the introductory article I wrote on CT last year. Visceral Adventure li led it here.

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Hmm! Interesting. This reminds me of a relative who was in a bad car crash over 10 years ago and broke her hips and had a long recovery. About 5 years ago she got cervical cancer - I guess not too far away from the injuries from the crash. Never put that together till now!

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But yes. There's a sweet spot where there's a lot of money to be made in the sweet middle: masses of people chronically ill and begging science for a "cure."

I get a little weary of the "profiting from illness" critcism. Almost everyone is chronically ill now, and everyone does have to make a living and hopefully do it honestly, even if it's just writing about it on Substack. Technically, I'm "profiting from illness" by writing this article.

I'm not against doctors and medicine makers (for example, medical marijuana "profits" off of illness, massively) making money if they're doing it honestly and legitimately helping people.

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I'm a medical herbalist so my profession makes money off chronically ill people too.

I don't feel in the least bit apologetic.

Unlike pharmaceutical doctoring, I don't have a state backed monopoly. I have to compete for patients. If I am a lousy herbalist then no one comes back.

Plus I spent thousands of pounds and 4 years studying and I have to keep a roof over my family's head just like everybody else.

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Amen.

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Aug 31, 2023Liked by Monica Hughes PhD

Totally legitimate in my mind to help people feel better. I'd rather go to an herbalist and pay out of pocket for something that actually works than submit myself to the medical experimentation system today. IMO our problem, as a society, is that we don't live as a tight community anymore (too busy, perhaps) and so don't get to know each other well enough to trust each other. If we lived in smaller communities, everyone would know everyone, and people would have to be honest to build a reputation and trust, including doctors and other practitioners. You would see the results in people you know.

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Primary doctors/specialists, at least in the US, now are almost always part of a larger organization (incl. hospitals/clinics) that need to make money if only to pay for the large layer of administrators added (in part needed because of the complicated and convoluted medical insurance system).

If I visit my MD and they mention a test it is written in my file and within a week the phone calls start: why have I not made an appointment yet ? I am also getting way too many referrals to specialists.

Something else I like to mention. More and more MD's are having assistants do the intake. They ask me "why are you here". I answer as best and concise as I can. Then the doctor enters and does not ask me about my problem, but asks the assistent. Mostentimes I am horrified to discover that about half of what I said was not understood/misunderstood. I then spend most of the precious time with the doc on desperate attempts to get my story straight. Is it me ?

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Monica I tried to send a patient to CHIPSA in Tijuana for Coleys Toxins as they (according to them) are the only institution in N America authorized to administer but they have been closed for “renovations “ for many months (I question whether this is true after so long).

Do you know anywhere I can send the next patient?

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