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A BOUT C ANCER
he word "cancer" is of Latin derivation and means "crab". Today,
T cancer "cure" is a vast industry. But by the turn of the 20th century,
the medical profession had come to the conclusion that it was not a
matter of whether infectious disease caused cancer, but of which one.
For over 200 years, a cancer germ had been discovered and rediscovered,
named and renamed, each scientist adding to the knowledge but to no avail.
The US medical Then, in 1910, certain American medical powers did a 180-degree rotation,
deciding that cancer was not caused by a microbe and that anyone who
establishment once thought otherwise was a heretic, a charlatan or a quack.
accepted a microbial Dr Virginia Wuerthele-Caspe Livingston and her network were none of the
above, their meticulous peer-reviewed research and publications produced
cause of cancer, at the height of US post–World War II technology. Dr Dean Burk, who co-
but in 1910 it did an founded the US National Cancer Institute and headed its cell chemistry
department for 34 years, went so far as to say that Livingston's cancer germ
about-face and from was as real and certain as anything known about cancer. Researcher Dr Alan
Cantwell, Jr, grew up thinking that all germs responsible for the important
thereon refused to diseases were supposed to have been discovered already. But much to his
accept the validity of dismay, he found one that had been left out: the cancer germ. Cantwell
knew that Livingston had already been branded by the medical orthodoxy for
scientific studies that finding this cancer germ—thus, what he thought to be perhaps the major
discovery of the 20th century was left largely discredited.
proved the existence The striking analogy between cancer and tuberculosis (TB) was noticed
of a cancer germ. long before the tubercle bacillus was discovered. In 1877, Sir John Simon
clearly pointed out the similarity and in fact argued very strongly in favour of
a microbial mycobacterial origin for cancer. Since then, literally thousands
of articles and texts have shown malignant changes to spring from
tuberculous infection. But Sir John's vindication would have to wait for
Part 1 of 2 Livingston's germ which, although tuberculosis-like, was not tuberculosis
but an atypical form of this mycobacterium, melded from the mycobacterium
and other related Actinomycetales. Had medical science, and the powers
that be, spent as much time in investigating and destroying Livingston's
germ as they did in attacking her and those around her, cancer might be
curable today.
by Lawrence Broxmeyer, MD Hodgkin's cancer under attack
© 2009 When Virginia Livingston was a student at Bellevue Medical College in
The N. Y. Institute of Medical New York City, her pathology teacher mentioned rather disparagingly that
Research, New York, USA there was a woman pathologist at Cornell University who thought Hodgkin's
Email: nyinstituteofmedical disease (a form of glandular cancer) was caused by fowl tuberculosis.1 This
[email protected] pathologist had published, but no one had confirmed her findings.
Website: Afterwards, Livingston compared slides of the two diseases. In Hodgkin's,
http://drbroxmeyer.netfirms.com/ the giant multinucleated cells were called Reed–Sternberg cells and were
similar to the giant cells of tuberculosis which formed to engulf the tubercle