Psycho-Oncology: The Six Phases of Cancer

 

Cancer has long been associated with stress; however within mainstream oncology stress is generally considered of relative low importance as the primary causal factor in the genesis of cancer. Glen Russell brings forth new never-before-seen concepts identifying stress as the primary instigator of cancer. This document has been created to help medical staff, researchers and lay folk understand clearly the evidence-based relationship between cancer and stress, and documents the world-wide clinical studies and research underpinning the 6 Phases of Cancer; as well as key remedies to help reverse each of these six distinct and interrelated phases.

Phase 1

Inescapable Shock / Psycho-Emotional Trauma Experienced

Phase 1 occurs approximately 18-24 months prior to the diagnosis of cancer. This is where the individual with cancer experiences an Inescapable Shock or acute psycho-emotional trauma, affecting deep sleep and the production of melatonin within the body. Melatonin is necessary for inhibiting cancer cell growth and is the primary hormone responsible for regulating the immune system; in particular production of interleukin 2 (IL-2) which governs white blood cell immune activity and protects against microbial infection. Without enough melatonin due to prolonged psycho-emotional stress, cancer cells thrive. As discovered by Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer every cancer has a specific psycho-emotional cause; whereby a part of the emotional reflex centre in the brain is damaged as a result of the prolonged psycho-emotional trauma. And as each part of the emotional reflex centre in the brain controls and is connected to a different organ of the body, as this emotion centre breaks down experiencing necrosis, so does the organ it controls leading to cancer.

Phase 2

Stress Depletes ADr.enaline Breaking the Cell’s (Krebs) Citric Acid Cycle, Causing the Cell to Ferment Rising Glucose Levels

During phase 2, elevated stress hormone cortisol levels deplete all-important aDr.enaline (epinephrine) levels. There are limited reserves of aDr.enaline in the body and when an individual is under constant psycho-emotional stress these reserves are depleted quickly. While insulin is used to transport glucose into cells, it is aDr.enaline which is critical for cell respiration and for converting this glucose in the cell into ATP energy for the body and for healthy cell division [which occurs via the metabolic pathway known as Oxidative Phosphorylation and via the Krebs’ Citric Acid Cycle of the mitochonDr.ia of the cell]. Without aDr.enaline to stimulate the G-Protein to stimulate production of the GDP molecule [which is essential for mitochonDr.ial cell respiration and glucose conversion] the cell’s Krebs’ Citric Acid Cycle and Oxidative Phosphorylation metabolic pathway is broken and the cell is forced to ferment glucose instead as a means to obtain [smaller amounts of] ATP energy [via the process known as Glycolysis], which creates lactic acid in the cell and a low pH environment.

Phase 3

Somatids Pleomorphise into Yeast-Like-Fungus to Ferment Excess Glucose and Lactic Acid in Cells, Causing Cell Nucleus DNA Mutation & Cancer

During phase 3, somatids (tiny microorganisms necessary for life) that live in our body pleomorphise [or change] into yeast-like-fungus to ferment excess glucose and lactic acid in cells. In a healthy person, somatids are limited to 3 stages in their life cycle – somatid, spore, double spore. However, in a highly acidic low pH lactic acid environment, somatids pleomorphise into a further 13 stages. These stages include viral-bacterial-yeast-like-fungus forms which ferment excess glucose and lactic acid in the cell. These fungal pathogenic forms then migrate to the cell nucleus to reproduce, releasing acidic waste products called “mycotoxins”, inhibiting cell DNA repair and inhibiting the all-important tumor suppressor genes. Without the tumor suppressor genes [namely p53] to regulate cell death (apoptosis) when the cell has mutated beyond repair, the cell lives on and ‘cell-growth regulating’ proto-oncogenes turn into oncogenes, causing normal cells to mutate into cancer cells.

Phase 4

Depleted ADr.enaline Depletes Dopamine and Tryptophan Levels Resulting in Niacin Deficiency, Breaking (Krebs) Citric Acid Cycle

During phase 4, depleted aDr.enaline (epinephrine) levels cause a depletion of dopamine in the brain. ADr.enaline is made by dopamine, and as more and more dopamine is used up during stress, the amino-acid tryptophan creates serotonin to offset depressed mood. This subsequently results in a depletion of tryptophan which is needed to synthesize niacin/niacinamide (vitamin B3) Phase 4 Viral-Bacterial-Yeast-Like-Fungus Migrate to Cell Nucleus* Glucose/Lactic Acid Levels Rise In Cell When Citric Acid Cycle is Broken *Viral-Bacterial-YeastLike-Fungus release acidic waste products called Mycotoxins into the cell nucleus, inhibiting cell DNA repair and inhibiting tumor suppressor genes causing cell mutation and cancer No ADr.enaline Breaks Citric Acid Cycle and Increases Glucose Levels Lactic Acid Somatids become Yeast-Like-Fungus to Ferment Excess Glucose Oxygen and ADr.enaline is needed for Cell MitochonDr.ia Respiration to convert Glucose and Acid to ATP energy ATP ATP *ADr.enaline stimulates the G-Protein, which stimulates production of the GDP molecule. GDP is essential during the Krebs’ Citric Acid Cycle, producing the energy molecule GTP to convert Glucose into ATP energy during Oxidative Phosphorylation Oxidative Phosphorylation Citric Acid Cycle Produces GTP from GDP molecule* GTP Oxygen Water Glycolysis Pyruvate The MitochonDr.ia (engine room) of the cell X AcetylCoenzyme A Page | 4 Psycho-Oncology: The 6 Phases of Cancer – Glen Russell, Puna Wai Ora Mind-Body Cancer Clinic 2013 for cell respiration. Niacin/niacinamide is converted by tryptophan into NAD coenzymes which are subsequently used by the Krebs’ Citric Acid Cycle in the mitochonDr.ia of the cell for glucose conversion, cell respiration and creation of ATP energy. Without tryptophan and niacin/niacinamide, the Krebs’ Citric Acid Cycle / Oxidative Phosphorylation metabolic pathway is broken.

Phase 5

Depleted ADr.enaline and High Stress Cortisol Leads to Vitamin C Deficiency, Causing Cell MitochonDr.ia DNA Mutation & Cancer

During phase 5, depleted aDr.enaline (epinephrine) levels cause a depletion of ascorbic acid (vitamin c) in the aDr.enal glands. Ascorbic acid is the main ingredient used by dopamine to make noraDr.enaline (norepinephrine) which is then converted to aDr.enaline. During prolonged chronic stress more and more aDr.enaline is pumped out and then depleted, meaning more and more ascorbic acid is used up in the creation of aDr.enaline. During chronic stress the aDr.enal glands also release ascorbic acid into the body to diminish the stressful impact of aDr.enaline [and other stress hormones] on the heart and blood pressure systems. Ascorbic acid is essential for preventing cell DNA damage caused by “oxidative stress”, converting oxygen waste products ‘superoxide’ and ‘hyDr.ogen peroxide’ into oxygen and water within the cell mitochonDr.ia during Oxidative Phosphorylation. The loss of ascorbic acid thereby increases cell mitochonDr.ial DNA damage and cell mutation.

Phase 6

Prolonged Stress Results in a Subconscious Wanting to Die, Which Shuts Down the Immune System enabling Fungus & Cancer to Grow

During phase 6, the immune system is shut down by a subconscious wanting to die, caused by elevated stress hormone cortisol levels depleting serotonin and dopamine levels in the brain that cause internal depression. As revealed by God, an individual experiencing Inescapable Shock and prolonged chronic stress often feels tired of life and deep down wants out of the never-ending struggle and pain of life, sending subliminal messages to the immune system to shut down. This occurs at the subconscious level where the immune system receives orders to stop production of interleukin 2-producing T cells, B cells, natural killer cells, macrophages and neutrophils. Without immune system cells, viral-bacterial-yeast-like-fungus that have pleomorphised within cells continue to grow and newly created cancer cells continue to multiply.

The Theory

Over the past decades, a number of licensed medical practitioners working in the field of oncology have discovered cancer is preceded by a specific emotional trauma, occurring approximately 2 years prior to the diagnosis of cancer. Two of these practitioners include Dr. W Douglas Brodie, founder of the Reno Integrative Medical Center in Nevada, USA and Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer, a former German physician and founder of German New Medicine. Both of these practitioners claim to have examined thousands of cancer patients in reaching this conclusion. More specifically, Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer proposes that each cancer in the body has a different emotional cause which he has identified; in other words the emotional cause for cancer of the left breast is different to that of the right breast and to cancer of the colon, etc. In my own personal experience in treating hunDr.eds of cancer patients to heal the emotional and psychological cause of their disease, it has been my observation that Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer’s proposed theory that each cancer has a different and very specific psycho-emotional cause is 100% accurate. For example, I always find a woman presenting with cancer of the left breast has [in line with Dr. Hamer’s theory] experienced a psychological and emotional conflict / trauma approximately 2 years prior to the diagnosis of cancer involving the “mother, child or home”. Similarly, I always find a woman presenting with uterine cancer has experienced a “sexual conflict” 2 years prior to the diagnosis of cancer, and so on. On a personal level, my own mother [who was diagnosed with cancer of the left breast in 1992] experienced a psycho-emotional trauma 2 years prior in 1990 involving the death of her mother, in line with Dr. Hamer’s theory. I remember her telling me at the time she felt like a zombie for many months. As is typical with patients I see, my mother had a tendency to over-react to most difficulties in life and was always highly stressed, and it is this hypersensitivity to life’s stressors that makes one susceptible to cancer. Dr. W Douglas Brodie reveals it is not the stressful event that causes cancer, but our inability to cope with life stress.

Dr. W Douglas Brodie: "In dealing with many thousands of cancer patients over the past 28 years, it has been my observation that there are certain personality traits present in the cancer-susceptible individual. These traits are as follows: 1. Being highly conscientious, caring, dutiful, responsible, hard-working, and usually of above average intelligence. 2. Exhibits a strong tendency toward carrying other people's burdens and toward taking on extra obligations, and often "worrying for others." 3. Having a deep-seated need to make others happy. Being a "people pleaser" with a great need for approval. 4. Often lacking closeness with one or both parents, which sometimes, later in life, results in lack of closeness with spouse or others who would normally be close. 5. Harbours long-suppressed toxic emotions, such as anger, resentment and / or hostility. The cancer-susceptible individual typically internalizes such emotions and has great difficulty expressing them. 6. Reacts adversely to stress, and often becomes unable to cope adequately with such stress. Usually experiences an especially Page | 6 Psycho-Oncology: The 6 Phases of Cancer – Glen Russell, Puna Wai Ora Mind-Body Cancer Clinic 2013 damaging event about 2 years before the onset of detectable cancer. The patient is not able to cope with this traumatic event or series of events, which comes as a "last straw" on top of years of suppressed reactions to stress. 7. Has an inability to resolve deep-seated emotional problems/conflicts, usually beginning in childhood, often even being unaware of their presence. Typical of the cancersusceptible personality, as noted above, is the long-standing tendency to suppress "toxic emotions", particularly anger. Usually beginning in childhood, this individual has held in their hostility and other unacceptable emotions. More often than not, this feature of the affected personality has its origins in feelings of rejection by one or both parents. Whether these feelings of rejection are justified or not, the individual perceives this rejection as real, and this results in a lack of closeness with the "rejecting" parent, followed later in life by a lack of closeness with spouses and others with whom close relationships would normally develop. Those at the higher risk for cancer tend to develop feelings of loneliness as a result of their having been deprived of affection and acceptance earlier in life, even if this is only their perception. They have a tremendous need for approval and acceptance, and develop a very high sensitivity to the needs of others while suppressing their own emotional needs.

They become the "caretakers" of the world, showing great compassion and caring for others, and will go out of their way to look after others. They are very reluctant to accept help from others, fearing that it may jeopardize their role as the caretaker. Throughout their childhood they have been typically taught "not to be selfish", and they take this to heart as a major lifetime objective. All of this is highly commendable in our culture, but must be somehow modified in the case of the cancer patient. A distinction needs to be made here between the "caregiving" and the "care-taking" personality. There is nothing wrong with caregiving, of course, but the problem arises when the susceptible individual derives their entire worth, value and identity from their role as "caretaker". If this very important shift cannot be made, the patient is stuck in this role, and the susceptibility to cancer greatly increases. As already stated, a consistent feature of those who are susceptible to cancer appears to be that they "suffer in silence", and bear their burdens without complaint. These burdens of their own as well as the burdens of others weigh heavily upon these people through a lifetime of emotional suppression. The carefree extrovert, on the other hand, seems to be far less vulnerable to cancer than the caring introvert described above.

How one reacts to stress appears to be a major factor in the larger number of contributing causes of cancer. Most cancer patients have experienced a highly stressful event, usually about 2 years prior to the onset of detectable disease. This traumatic event is often beyond the patient's control, such as the loss of a loved one, loss of a business, job, home, or some other major disaster. The typical cancer personality has lost the ability to cope with these extreme events, because his/her coping mechanism lies in his/her ability to control the environment. When this control is lost, the patient has no other way to cope. Major stress causes suppression of the immune system, and does so more overwhelmingly in the cancer-susceptible individual than in others. Thus personal tragedies and excessive levels of stress appear to combine with the underlying personality described above to bring on the immune deficiency which allows cancer to thrive."

Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer discovered a connection between cancer and unresolved psychological / emotional conflict through first-hand experience. His son was murdered and soon after he developed testicular cancer, which he identifies as the result of a “loss conflict”. From this experience, and as chief of internal medicine in a gynecology oncology clinic at Munich University, he was able to interview and examine the records of thousands of cancer patients. His research led him to identify the presence of concentric rings in the emotional reflex center of the brain as being evidence of the psycho-emotional trauma on the brain itself, which he called “Hamer Herds”. He proposes the location of the Hamer Herd (HH) on the brain which is seen through a CT scan, is like a map, which to the trained Page | 7 Psycho-Oncology: The 6 Phases of Cancer – Glen Russell, Puna Wai Ora Mind-Body Cancer Clinic 2013 practitioner can reveal the precise disease and its organ-location in the body. Dr. Hamer offers images such as the one below, as evidence of these concentric rings or Hamer Herds.

Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer: “Every cancer or cancer-like disease originates with a very difficult highly acute, Dr.amatic and isolating shock. The experience of shock is simultaneous or virtually simultaneous on three levels: 1. the psyche 2. the brain 3. the organ. The development of the conflict determines a specific development of the HH (Hamer Herd) in the brain and of the cancer or cancer-equivalent disease in the organ. There are very specific signs which clearly distinguish the ordinary conflicts and problems in our daily lives. From the very first moment of a DHS (psycho-emotional trauma), you would experience continuous stress on the sympathetic nervous system. The symptoms would include cold hands and/or feet, loss of appetite, weight loss, sleeplessness and dwelling day and night on the conflict content. This situation will only change when the conflict has been resolved. In contrast to normal everyday problems, we see the patient falling into a lasting stress phase that will cause specific symptoms and a growing cancer. The HH (Hamer Herd) in the brain, which is immediately visible, shows that the patient's psyche has very precise, defined symptoms that cannot be overlooked. I discovered the ontogenetic system of tumors and cancer-equivalents after observing about 10,000 cases. I worked absolutely empirically, like a good scientist should. I documented all the collected cases and the CT scans of the brain with their histological findings. Only after I had put them all together and compared them did I see that there was a system.

I didn't really occupy myself with this until 1978. I was a doctor of internal medicine and had worked in university clinics for fifteen years, five of them as a professor. Then a terrible thing happened: while asleep on a boat, my son Dirk was shot, for no reason, by a madman, an Italian prince. This was a terrible shock for me, sudden and unexpected, and I was powerless to react. Every day events or conflicts don't usually catch us so "off guard". We generally have a chance to anticipate the normal conflicts that we face in life, but the conflicts we are unable to prepare for and which cause this helplessness and inability to react, create, in essence, a panic shock. We call these biological conflicts. In 1978 I developed testicular cancer from such a biological conflict, a so-called "loss conflict". Since I had never been seriously ill, I wondered if my condition had anything to do with the death of my son. Three years later, as chief of internal medicine in a gynecology-oncology clinic at Munich University, I had the opportunity to study female patients with cancer and to compare my findings to see if their mechanism was the same as mine; if they too had experienced such a terrible shock. I found that all of them, without exception, had experienced the same type of biological conflict as I had. They were able to recollect the shock, the resulting sleeplessness, weight loss, cold hands and the beginning of tumor growth.

There is at present a movement to divide medicine into organic medicine and psychological medicine, or psychotherapy. When a doctor states that there is no organic cause, he is giving the psychotherapist a free hand to treat these 'clean' psychological diseases. Such division is absurd in the eyes of a practitioner of the Page | 8 Psycho-Oncology: The 6 Phases of Cancer – Glen Russell, Puna Wai Ora Mind-Body Cancer Clinic 2013 German New Medicine, because illness cannot be divided and parcelled out. The psyche, brain and organ are three levels of the same organism and the course of events on them is always synchronous.”

Dr. Hamer proposes a person who experiences the onset of detectable cancer has experienced a “biological conflict” or Inescapable Shock that causes subsequent organ-necrosis and tumor cell growth. And this has been validated in research conducted by Madelon Visintainer, now Associate Professor at Yale University School of Medicine, where rats receiving mild in-escapable shock had a significantly higher rate of tumor progression. In my own experience of treating hunDr.eds of cancer patients, this biological conflict or Inescapable Shock serves as the “trigger event” for cancer to develop within the body. The cancer-susceptible personality is already highly stressed prior to this trigger event, which is like the straw that breaks the camel’s back, destabilizing the body’s natural homeostasis and causing cancer. What I also found was the trigger event has a common psycho-emotional theme with previously unresolved conflicts the cancer patient has experienced earlier on in their life, commonly during childhood, as well as during past lives. In one notable case, cancer patient Dr. Suzanne Friedman of San Francisco USA [who has given permission for her experience to be shared] presented with stage IV inoperable lung cancer, having been given 7 months to live. According to Dr. Hamer the psycho-emotional cause for lung cancer is “fear of dying or suffocation, including fear for someone else”. In line with Dr. Hamer’s theory, Dr. Friedman experienced a relationship trauma 2 years prior to the onset of detectable cancer where the psycho-emotional conflict she could not resolve was feeling suffocated. Using hypnosis and past life regression, the cancer present within Dr. Friedman’s lungs led us to earlier experiences in her childhood where she felt suffocated and to a past-life where [as a mother of two chilDr.en] she was gassed in a concentration camp in Nazi Germany, experiencing fear of death and suffocation. It was this past-life unresolved event that was the most highly charged, being more stressful than the trigger event itself. And this is not uncommon in cancer patients I see, that the trigger event is less emotionally charged than previously unresolved conflicts. All psycho-emotional conflicts were resolved in this case and Dr. Friedman became cancer-free within weeks. As is common with cancer patients I see, the trigger event presents to help the patient resolve previously unresolved conflicts involving the same psycho-emotional theme. Below is a list of conflicts Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer proposes serves as the trigger event and cause for each different type of cancer in the body.

ADr.ENAL CORTEX: Wrong Direction. Gone Astray

BLADDER: Ugly Conflict. Dirty Tricks

BONE: Lack of Self Worth. Inferiority Feeling

BRAIN TUMOR: Stubbornness. Refusing to Change Old Patterns. Mental Frustration [Dr. Hamer does not propose a conflict for brain tumor The above is Louise Hay’s proposed cause.]

BREAST MILK GLAND: Involving Care or Disharmony

BREAST MILK DUCT: Separation Conflict

BREAST LEFT: Conflict concerning Child, Home or Mother

BREAST RIGHT: Conflict with Partner or Others

BRONCHIOLES: Territorial Conflict

CERVIX: Severe Frustration

COLON: Ugly Indigestible Conflict

ESOPHAGUS: Cannot Have It or Swallow It

GALL BLADDER: Rivalry Conflict

HEART: Perpetual Conflict

INTESTINES: Indigestible Chunk of Anger

KIDNEYS: Not wanting to Live. Water or Fluid Conflict

LARYNX: Conflict of Fear and Fright

LIVER: Fear of Starvation LUNGS: Fear of Dying or Suffocation, including Fear for Someone Else

LYMPH GLANDS: Loss of Self-Worth associated with the Location

MELANOMA: Feeling Dirty, Soiled, Defiled

MIDDLE EAR: Not being able to get some Vital Information

MOUTH: Cannot Chew It or Hold It

PANCREAS: Anxiety-Anger Conflict with Family Members. Inheritance

PROSTATE: Ugly Conflict with Sexual Connections or Connotations

RECTUM: Fear of Being Useless

SKIN: Loss of Integrity

SPLEEN: Shock of being Physically or Emotionally Wounded

STOMACH: Indigestible Anger. Swallowed Too Much

TESTES / OVARIES: Loss Conflict

THYROID: Feeling Powerless

TUMOR (IN LOCATION): Nursing Old Hurts and Shocks. Building Remorse [Dr. Hamer does not propose a conflict for tumor The above is Louise Hay’s proposed cause.]

UTERUS: Sexual Conflict

While most people cope with stress, those susceptible to cancer appear to be highly vulnerable to life’s stresses and trauma, and feel unable to cope when life throws a curve-ball their way. These people are perfectionists and live in fear of conflict, stress, trauma and loss and are deeply frightened of negative events. And when faced with a highly stressful or traumatic event they have not anticipated, which inevitably happens during their life, react adversely and are unable to cope. They experience Inescapable Shock and remain deeply affected by the experience. When faced with a major trauma, the cancer personality feels trapped and unable to escape from the memory of the traumatic experience and the painful feelings [of anger, hate, resentment and/or grief] associated with the experience. Stress hormone cortisol levels skyrocket and remain at high levels. High stress levels generally mean a person cannot sleep well and cannot produce enough melatonin which is produced during deep sleep usually between the hours of 1am and 3am in the morning. Melatonin is the primary hormone responsible for regulating the immune system, and when there is not enough melatonin, production of IL-1 (Interleukin 1) and IL-2 (Interleukin 2) is diminished. Interleukin 1 protects against infection and Interleukin 2 regulates the activities of white blood cells [including T cells, B cells, neutrophils, macrophages and natural killer cells] responsible for immunity. Interleukin 2 is part of the body's natural response to microbial infection, and when there is insufficient levels of Interleukin 2, stress-induced viral-bacterialyeast-like-fungus that have pleomorphised in the body [as described in Phase 3] are now free to invade normal cells; damaging cell DNA through the release of “mycotoxins” within the cell nucleus, causing proto-oncogenes to mutate into oncogenes, and inhibiting tumor suppressor genes which results in normal cells mutating into cancer cells. Hence the American Cancer Society states: “Melatonin has been shown to slow or stop the growth of several types of cancer cells when studied in the laboratory” and why the National Cancer Institute Office of CAM states: “Both melatonin and chronotherapy have been studied for many years but, despite largely positive findings, have not been brought into mainstream cancer therapy. We hope these presentations will contribute to reinvigorating activities focused on the examination of these and related approaches to cancer management.”

from the Psycho-Oncology - The 6 Phases of Cancer EBOOK, pp. 2-10, at alternative-cancer-care.com