THE CANCER FAMILY

The CANCER FAMILY

I have tried to visit beauty parlours earlier on in life , in my mid 30s,  while I was still practising as a Family doctor to understand if a proper lymphatic massage could drain out the look of fatigue from face--the baggy under eyes, the droopy nasolabial folds, the swollen ends of the area just below the ends of eyebrows, the double chin, the squared shoulders with almost hump neck and a heavy upper half. Though my bone structure has always been heavy and strong but slowly as I lived my life in accumulated stress my body structure started leaning towards obesity and a haggard look. I wondered then if a good masseur can make the accumulated fat magically disappear with her expert hands. But I never found such lymphatic drainage treatments offered at the parlours:

Back then I believed, as I had studied in college that the causes of cancer were:

• A GENETIC PRE-DISPOSITION
• CARCINOGENIC AGENTS LIKE SOME PAINTS& CHEMICALS ETC
• A STRESSFUL LIFESTYLE
• FAMILY HISTORY
• DIETARY INDESCREPANCIES AND COMPOSITION
• INFECTIONS by certain viruses and fungi
• EXPOSURE TO HARMFUL RAYS
• EXPOSURE TO SMOKE< ALLERGENS, MICROFIBRES AND POLLUTANTS
• OBESITY< DIABETES< HYPERTENSION TRIAD SYNDROME

I examined my stress and obesity later on in life as it increased--both stress and obesity. So acute was my stress at one point that it resulted in a mad delsuional episode that lasted a few years. I was given drugs for the psychotic breakdown. once during that phase, a few lumps appeared in and around my left nipple area. They were cystic, soft, slightly mobile and only slightly tender to touch. I mentioned it to husband who wanted us to consult gynaecolist. I pondered over it for a few months. The drug I was taking had the side-effect of lactation and so I deduced that possibly those were causing cysts in the milk follicles. Then with some warm water one day I washed it well and massaged it gently to direct the pointed tip of it that was leaking to open up a bit. Gradually, all the pus like fluid was drained out and the cysts disappeared.

I also remember a relative , a sister telling me that she had lumps in armpits that were lymph node enlargement and I suggested she wear loose clothes that were clean and to keep the area powdered and dry.

Then gradually it felt like I understood the effects of the stress I was having in my head--my lymphatics were getting jammed,. Some days I would wake up with a bloated face, or heavy double chin etc, signs of congestion,. My voice seemed gruff on some days, almost with a cap over its volume, my stamina was less, I was lethargic, lazy and physically very hard-pushed to take up exercise regularly. Though my head was in its most creative phase but it suffered headaches and blurring of vision, bursting at seams kind of feeling.

It was then, in a matter of few years the idea struck me that some or all of the cancers may indeed be because of BLOCKED LYMPHATICS. YES!!! Could it be?

Let us examine the hypotheses theoretically:

GENETIC PREDISPOSITION & FAMILY HISTORY, STRESSFUL LIFESTYLE CAN ALL BE TAKEN TOGETHER AS A group of factors that makes a person behave, think and respond in a certain manner to stress in life, have a certain kind of handed down dietary habits, suffer through lot of stress of having had dreadful deaths by prolonged diseases in the same family--all of which can act together to make any member of the family at risk of stress and habitual stress in thoughts, emotions and head which can somehow cause severe inflammation in brain--which can bring in inflammatory cells in blood to accumulate at the site of inflammation and create excess fluid which is what LYMPH is. It is drained by lymphatic vessels down the head through channels in ear, nose, throat and neck , down through lungs to heart, and pumped again back into circulation after purification along with blood. Some are excreted through sweat pores as sweat, through kidneys as urine and other excretory body fluids as cough, phlegm, tears etc.

NOW SUPPOSE THERE IS A BLOCK IN THE LYMPHATIC CHANNELS because of any reason such as:

High lipids, diabetic angiopathy, allergens that cause more inflammation and blackdes, pollutants that stick to lung surfaces, squeezing space, food that cause increaded lymph or constrict arteries or lung chaneels or lympahtic channels, carcinogenic agents internal or external that block sweat channels or lymphatics or excetory system, scarred internal tissues because of injury or some physical harm such as surgery etc which causes what we call in ayurveda the 'kapha' dosha then we can imagine that lymph nodes will enlarge, get jammed and sometimes be undetected till they harden and completely stop flow through it. When these lymph nodes become multiple and are detected we may look for the source, the primary source to diagnose it as cancer. As CANCER MEANS MALIGNANT GROWTH OF CELLS we must understand that ANY BLOCKADE WILL CAUSE A REBELLION IN SURROUNDING TISSUES AND CANCER MAY JUST BE OVERGROWN TISSUE TO FIGHT THAT BLOCKADE. Because of BLOCKADE IN ONE CHANNEL, there will be retrograde lymph accumulation, more stress, more bursting at seams, more inflammation, more accumulating of inflammatory cells that promote malignant growth at some point of inflammation.

If this could be the mechanism of Cancer production then all the other factors  that are risk factors for cancer can be easliy explained:

THEY ACT SIMPLY AS INFLAMMATORYAGENTS AND BODY CONDITIONS THAT BLOCK LYMPH CHANNEL FLOW AT SOME POINT.

SO, a simply ignored act like wearing tight clothes that constrict our arteries and veins over long periods of time can predispose us to to obesity, hypetension, cancer etc

THE DIAGNOSIS N POPULAR TREATMENT FOR CANCER:

1. SURGERY
2. CHEMOTHERAPY
3. BIOPSY

This seems a bit flawed according to my theory of cancer causation because they all serve to sever the lymphatic channels even more, hastening the blockades, causing faster appearnce of lumps here and there which is called METASTASIS, considered to be transported cancerous cells or new lesions.

ACCORDING TO MY THEORY OF BLOCKED LYMPHATIC CHANNELS BEING MECHANICAL CAUSE OF CANCER IN PHYSICAL BODY, the treatment should be aimed at :

ESTABLISHING PROPER LYMPHATIC DRAINAGE AND REMOVING THE BLOCKADE WITH AS LESS HARM AS POSSIBLE AS WELL AS PROVIDING BY-PASS ROUTES FOR LYMPH TO FLOW THROUGH THE SAME PATHWAY; BUT THE ROOT CAUSE ie the site of inflammation and the inflammatory agent must be identified, all stress removed from head, and such agents must be removed or the exposure to them must be removed, life style should be aimed at being least stressful , seperating from people who cause and feed stress as peacefully as possible, wearing loose clothes to allow proper lymphatic drainage, good exercise and body movement to keep muscles and skin supple and breathing, lungs clean and breathing deep with yoga and other such deep breathing techniques.

MORE?  IF SOMEONE WANTS TO KNOW MORE  especially doctors or researchers who want to discuss this mail me at sreela2012@yahoo.com or thopes76@gmail.com