Q: I have a friend with a 11 year son with a brain stem tumor and now his 5 year old has a pancreatic tumor. I am offering to check environmental issues. Are there any other thoughts. thanks Wm Lee MD

A1: Dear Dr. Lee:

I have three kids in a space of 6 weeks with brain tumors, a 12 yo with a brain stem glioma, the others with astrocytomas at various stages. It's important to identify the endocrino-metabolic factors that manage the growth of the cancer. Typically, TRH plays an important role here, and you will see this with an elevated CA 15-3 level, which implicated a role for the pancreas as well.

I use a functional neuro-endocrine lab system called the "Biology of Functions" to describe very precisely what the origin of the tumor is, and whether it is anabolic or catabolic, and the best course of treatment. Please drop me a line to discuss further.

Kamyar Hedayat
Medical Director
Full Spectrum Health Integrative Medical Center
10225 Barnes Canyon Road, Ste A210
San Diego, CA 92121
Web: fullspectrumhealthmd.com
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A2: Unfortunately we are seeing more and more of this in our lives....check your homes for environmental toxins, schools are BIG violators (mold, pesticides, foods) Does your local health depts use "spraying" of pesticides to rid the community of mosquitoes??? Don't forget your children play on your lawns, on the play grounds at school, parks, etc., etc., and get horrific exposures....Do you use plastics....How many buy bottle water from the stores? Do you ever wonder how long that product has set in the sun or heated warehouses? Do you allow your children to drink soda's from cans and or plastic bottles? Do you?? What do you do your laundry in....what kind of body creams do you use? What kind of shampoos? Even all cotton clothing has pesticides in them, so it is imperative that a minimum of 2 washings happen to those garments. Children sleeping in synthetic clothing and on synthetic bedding is a constant danger. If you move into a new home did they use Formaldehyde in your cabinets, walls and floors?? Do you use "good" air filters ?? If you paint the inside of your home, is it VOC free? Is your home and/or office EMF/EMR free??

I could go on and on, but you get the drift....starting with cleaning up the home environment, clothing, lifestyles and foods, it a good start.....were you aware that this is one of the health problems we are faced with, with GMO foods...how many moms cook with Teflon?? How many use microwaves? How many use plastics?

I encourage all doctors and healthcare practitioners to start walking the walk...prepare handouts for your patients....put together 3 ring notebooks for your waiting rooms....encourage FRESH foods that are organic and not processed, fast or frozen foods. GET rid of the microwaves....

Dr Doris Rapp, the Godmother of Environmental Medicine and author of several books has been preaching this for the last 40 years...encourage your patients to buy her book "Our Toxic World".....I guarantee it will shake them to the core....this situation is a tragedy, but some good could come out of it by using it as a good example...encourage the parents to start an educational/awareness foundation or drive....take lemons and make lemonade...

Unfortunately, it appears as those these children have been assaulted with environmental toxins??!!

I can speak to all of this as I have battled (5) environmental Cancers....your body is what you make it....clean up your homes and you will save lives.

Regards,

A3: I would certainly check the children's environment for possible adverse environmental effects of EMF/microwave radiation in the home, around the home and in the schools. Is there Wi-Fi used in the home, in the school ? Is the home located within 1000 feet of cell tower antennas/monopoles?
Do they live near an area using extensive pesticides or other deleterious environmental chemicals?
What is the source of the water that the family drinks?

Thea Fournier, CN, LLC, (Associate Member- AAEM) Massachusetts

A4: Are you including the environment prior to conception? Mom or Dad deployed in the military, or military zone, notably Middle East?

It seems that we are getting many offspring who are veritable time bombs, set at conception and in utero with different delays.

We don't have the answers but it is troubling to these families and any physicians who Care for them.
Regards,

David P. Ponsonby

A5: If you can get biopsy tissue for heavy metal, chemical and pesticide levels you'll see they will be very high. I have done this several times and been amazed at what the tissue levels that were in the cancerous tissue.
David Minkoff MD

A6: Dear Dr. Lee,

I'll leave the environmental carcinogen discussion to Dr. Gordon.
Regarding the cancer therapies, consider Dr. Burzynski's work in
Houston for the brain tumor. I've also recently had a patient with
metastatic breast CA do quite well -- almost cured in fact -- by the combination of vaccine therapies/IPT - chemo/hyperthermia etc from the San Diego Clinic in Tijuana, Mex.

Feel free to contact me if you want more details about the case.

yours,
Ron Manzanero, M.D.
http://www.aimmd.com
Austin, Tx

A7: Nick Gonzales in NY has had the best results with pancreatic cancer. For brain tumors,especially in children,no one gets the results that Stan Burzynski gets. Send this website to your patient. There's a video that recounts the cure of a brainstem cancer in a child. This is the rule rather than the exception with his pediatric brain cancer patients. He showed me a stack of before and after MRI's that left me speechless. Any child with brain cancer should be sent to Burzynski.

http://www.burzynskiclinic.com/

Roby Mitchell M.D.(Dr Fitt)
<http://www.drfitt.com>

A8: Dr Lee,

Brain tumors are often caused by a deficiency of the trace mineral "Gallium." I don't know about the pancreatic CA.
Give him a colloidal trace mineral supplement with Gallium in it.

Peter Glidden, ND
115 E Ogden Ave., Ste 117
Naperville, IL 60563
http://www.drglidden.com
http://www.2ndopinionshop.biz

A9: SV40 can be passed from parent to child if Parent was vaccinated with polio virus during 1954 to 1963.
Alexander Horwin died of an SV40 brain tumor passed on from previous generations. http://www.sv40foundation.org/Alexander.html

Here's one of many, articles that are available about the connection. We HAVE to stop vaccines to save the next generation from a lifetime of sickness and disease.

Regards,
Sherri Tenpenny, DO
Cleveland, Ohio
http://www.DrTenpenny.com

Simian virus 40 in human cancers
The American Journal of Medicine
Volume 114, Issue 8 , 1 June 2003, Pages 675-684

Background: Many studies have reported the presence of simian virus 40 (SV40) deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) or protein in human brain tumors and bone cancers, malignant mesothelioma, and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. However, the small samples and lack of control groups in some reports have made it difficult to assess their reliability.

Methods: Studies were included in this analysis if they met the following criteria: original studies of patients with primary brain tumors and bone cancers, malignant mesothelioma, or non-Hodgkin's lymphoma; the investigation of SV40 was performed on primary cancer specimens; the analysis included a control group; and the same technique was used for cases and controls. Included reports were published from 1975 to 2002.
Results: Thirteen studies fulfilled the criteria for the investigation of primary brain cancers (661 tumors and 482 control samples). Specimens from patients with brain tumors were almost four times more likely to have evidence of SV40 infection than were those from controls (odds ratio [OR] = 3.9; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 2.6 to 5.. The association was even stronger for mesothelioma (OR = 17; 95% CI: 10 to 28; based on 15 studies with 528 mesothelioma samples and 468 control samples) and for bone cancer (OR = 25; 95% CI: 6.8 to 88; based on four studies with 303 cancers and 121 control samples). SV40 DNA was also more frequent in samples from patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (OR = 5.4; 95% CI: 3.1 to 9.3; based on three studies with 301 cases and 578 control samples) than from controls.

Conclusion: These results establish that SV40 is associated significantly with brain tumors, bone cancers, malignant mesothelioma, and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Studies are needed to assess current prevalence of SV40 infections.