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r. Milton White is fighting
"big science" in the war
against cancer.
The researcher and for-
mer surgeon claims to know
what causes the killer disease
and pledges to find a cure if giv-
en the chance.
"I believe I can solve the can-
cer problem with proper sup-
port," he says. "But it's difficult
in this era of major research cen-
ters. I'm not asking for money,
just someone to hear my case."
Dr. White's theory is maver-
ick and he'd be the first to admit
it. From his office in Hamtram-
ck's Greater Detroit Hospital
and Medical Center, the physi-
cian explains that 35 years of
studies indicate that cancer is
contagious. It's caused, he says,
by the spores of plant bacteria.
"I predict that all institutions
attributing cancer to an inher-
ited gene defect or a virus will
go nowhere," he says.
Dr. White brushes off theories
about a breast-cancer gene, the
so-called "BRCAl." He also dis-
misses as inhumane common
treatments like chemotherapy.
If popular approaches to can-
cer were effective, he says, death
rates from the disease would be
on the decline, and, according to
Dr. White, that's not the case.
"I don't keep statistics, but
there is no question that mor-
bidity and mortality rates of can-
cer patients have not decreased
in the last 20 years — despite all
the new operations and new
treatments being offered," he
says.
Dr. White's theory goes like
this: Certain plant bacteria en-
ter the human body. These mi-
cro-organisms might be
airborne. They might invade
through a wound, skin irritation,
or via moldy and feces-contam-
inated food.
Under stressful conditions
(e.g. in the intestinal track), the
bacteria can release microscop-
ic, uni-cell spores, called conidia.
The conidia, mistaken by the
body for food, can enter human
cells, primarily at the site of a
chronic infection or irritation.
Then comes the malignant
phase.
Normal human cells consume
oxygen and release carbon diox-
ide. Plants, on the other hand,
consume carbon dioxide and re-
lease oxygen. When conidia en-
ter a human cell, a process called
hybridization takes place.
"The DNA of the conidia
unites with the DNA of the an-
imal cell," Dr. White explains.
According to his theory, the
genetic code of the conidia trans-
forms the respiratory process of
the human cell from animal-like
to plant-like. These plant-like
cells multiply and grow out of
control.
This interferes with the body's
metabolism and causes mass
production of lactic acid, a
by-product that prevents
healing of already irritat-
ed or inflamed tissue.
Two factors are neces-
sary for the animal cell to
begin acting like a plant
cell.
The first is what Dr.
White calls an "oxidant."
The term refers to the
plant-like ability of coni-
dia to accept negatively
charged molecules, such
as hydrogen.
The second factor nec-
essary to create and sus-
tain the malignancy is
blood. Conidia must re-
ceive a constant flow.
Dr. White, who works
out of the old North De-
troit General Hospital
(now called Greater De-
troit Medical Centers),
draws on years of labora-
tory research to answer
some cancer-related ques-
tions.
* How does the cancer
spread, or metastasize?
Dr. White says conidia travel
through the bloodstream and in-
filtrate chronically irritated cells
in other parts of the body.
* Why is it that some parts of
the body — like the skin,
breasts, colon and lungs — seem
more prone to malignancies?
Explains Dr. White: Those ar-
eas are especially vulnerable to
bruises and irritation.
For instance, sunburns aren't
the direct cause of melanoma
(skin cancer), he says. However,
they do irritate the skin, which
affords plant bacteria easy ac-
cess to the body where they can
shed conidia. The spores, dis-
guised as food molecules, enter
the cells. Hybridization takes
place. The oxidant begins ac-
cepting negatively charged ions.
A cancer is born.
* Mainstream medicine at-
tributes several different types
of cancer to inherited gene de-
fects — a theory Dr. White re-
buffs. He calls the latest,
much-trumpeted theory of a
breast cancer gene (BRCA1)
dead wrong.
"I discount it 100 percent," he
says.
Why? Dr. White contends this
theory cannot explain why cer-
tain by-products like lactic acid
build up at the site of a malig-
nancy.
* If cancer is contagious, as
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