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the doctor believes, what ac-
counts for its tendency to afflict
some families more than others?
Dr. White says conidia can be
transferred only between people
with compatible blood types. He
refers to his studies of cancer
among spouses, intimate friends
and relatives with compatible
blood types. Patterns of infec-
tion, he says, prove his point.
Dr. White also has performed
tests on mice — which he says
provide further evidence to sup-
port his claim. A tumor survived
when it was transplanted from
one mouse to another with the
same blood type.
Additional tumors disap-
peared when they were taken
from one mouse and placed in
the body of another mouse with
a different blood type, he says.
* If cancer is caused by spores,
is there any way to reduce our
chances of contracting it?
Dr. White isn't sure, but he
nevertheless offers caveats.
ain't eat moldy or staph-infect-
ed food. Watch out for preserv-
atives containing oxidants.
Avoid cigarette smoke, asbestos
and anything else leading to ir-
ritations.
In fact, results from a recent
National Cancer Institute study
seem to jibe with Dr. White's
theory. The study demonstrat-
ed that certain "anti-oxidants,"
like beta-carotene — thought to
boost health and reduce the risk
of lung cancer — actually make
people more vulnerable to the
disease.
For Dr. White, this is old
news. Over the years, his pub-
lished articles have warned that
so-called "anti-oxidants" are ac-
tually oxidants, and they're car-
cinogenic.
"My theories are falling into
place," he says. It's so exciting."
As for a cure, that's where Dr.
White needs help. He says the
key to solving the cancer prob-
lem involves the isolation and
neutmlization of conidia. That's
a challenge requiring the ex-
pertise of a well-trained chemist
or bio-molecular chemist.
Help is hard to come by.
In the early 1990s, North De-
troit General Hospital closed. At
the time, Dr. White, who had re-
tired a number of years before,
was still working in a laborato-
ry on the premises.
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"They can prove me
wrong if I'm wrong."
— Dr. Milton White
Dr. Raymond Novak of the
Karmanos Cancer Institute
disagrees. He says science has
taken solid steps toward under-
standing the disease, which is
particularly difficult to cure be-
cause it "can be caused by sev-
eral different mechanisms.
"It would be nice if everything
could be lumped under one hy-
pothesis, but, in fact, for a dis-
ease like cancer, that's just not
possible," Dr. Novak says.
Dr. Anthony Shields, an on-
cologist at Harper Hospital, is
similarly skeptical about Dr.
White's theory. However, both
he and Dr. Novak say they
would need to thoroughly read
up on the ideas before stating
a definitive opinion about Dr.
White's work.
"On the surface, it does not
sound like a theory that's high-
ly useful or believable," Dr.
Shields says. "People are always
coming up with new theories
and new treatments that don't
necessarily hold water."
Dr. Shields says that he, like
Dr. White, has detected spores
at the site of malignancies. How-
ever, Dr. Shields believes the
spores (or conidia) are not the
cause of the cancer, but rather
symptomatic of infections com-
mon in patients who have un-
dergone treatments like bone
marrow transplants.
The criticism doesn't bother
Dr. White.
"They can prove me wrong if
I'm wrong. I just wish the med-
ical world would listen with an
open mind," he says.
One willing ear is a re-
searcher of endocrinology and
psychiatry, Dr. David Horrobin,
who also edits the journal Med-
ical Hypotheses. Put out by the
world's second-largest medical
publishing house, Churchill Liv-
ingston in England, the maga-
zine provides a forum for new
and unproven theories in science
and health.
"His is a clearly fascinating
idea," says Dr. Horrobin, who
has accepted a number of Dr.
White's articles for publication.
"I think he's collected a reason-
able amount of evidence for it.
"One of the things I try to do
with the journal is publish
things that are potentially in-
teresting and important. If you
look at the history of science, al-
most anything that matters has
been dismissed as lunatic by the
leading experts in the field."
Dr. Horrobin describes the
plight of Dr.
- Ignaz Philipp Sem-
melweis, a Hungarian obstetri-
cian who, in the 1800s, told
co-workers at a hospital in Vi-
enna that mothers and their
newborn infants were dying be-
cause doctors weren't washing
their hands and changing their
clothes before going from the
post-mortem chamber into de-
livery rooms.
"It was 60 years before his
ideas were accepted," Dr. Hor-
robin says. "Nobody would lis-
ten to what he was saying."
Still unheard, Dr. White isn't
throwing in the towel. Every day
of the work week, he travels
from his home in Bloomfield
Hills to his office in Hamtram-
ck, where he studies, writes and
hopes for someone to help prove
him right. Or help prove him
wrong. Or, at the very least, help
prove that ideas, even strange
ones, have a chance of being
heard.
"I am ready to defend my
ideas for anybody, anywhere. If
mainstream institutions had un-
covered the cure for cancer, I'd
have quit a long time ago," he
says. "But, I truly believe that if
you're going to make headway
toward a cure for cancer, you're
going to have to steer off the
beaten path."
To contact Dr. Milton White,
call his office at (313) 369-3392.
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He retains a temporary office
there; but has nowhere to con-
duct research. He says his let-
ters to major cancer institutions
have gone unanswered. ProbaT
bly, he says, because they seem
so out of the mainstream.
Age compounds Dr. White's
fear of being ignored.
"I'm not a youngster," he says.
"I want to be around to prove my
theory, because I feel that the
chemotherapy we use now is in-
humane. It's really an injustice
to the human race. We're going
in the wrong direction."
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