By Dr. Donald C. Collins
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Anti-Malignancy Factors Apparently Present in Organically Grown Foods[spacer height=”20px”]
This clinical note is written with considerable hesitancy, and yet on five different occasions during the past thirty-six years of practice, I have seen a marvelous phenomenon occur.
Five patients have been observed with extensive malignancies—proven by biopsies—of either the gastrointestinal tract or blood (leukemias) or sarcomas. Strangely, these five individuals all died many years later from diseases unrelated to these former malignant processes. It was shown in all five instances, following most thorough and painstaking autopsies performed by highly competent pathologists, that no discernible pathologic evidence could be found that such patients had ever previously had the various malignant diseases proven by adequate biopsies to have been present in the past.
The only constant factor in the lives of these five persons was the fact that they all ate home-raised, organically grown foods that were free from various chemical preservatives and insect repellent sprays. Unfortunately, here in Los Angeles we have learned to our dismay that smog apparently destroys these beneficial factors in organically grown foodstuffs. Possibly, such optimum foods possess unidentified antibiotic factors that are antagonistic to malignant growths in some humans. Some recent evidence attributes such beneficial actions to certain antibiotics studied so far.
[Chart showing specific cancer histories of the patients mentioned; for clarity, chart has been slightly modified relative to original:]
Patient Number |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
Occupation |
Painter |
Student, housewife |
Butcher |
Janitor |
Accountant |
Sex, Age at Death |
Male, 84 |
Female, 78 |
Male, 81 |
Male, 74 |
Male, 79 |
Age at Time of Diagnosis |
52 |
15 |
48 |
27 |
59 |
54 |
50 |
53 |
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60 |
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Type of Malignancy, Grade |
Adenocarc., iii |
Osteogenic sarcoma, iii |
Adenocarc., iii |
Hodgkin’s disease |
Adenocarc., iii |
Adenocarc., ii |
Lymph. leukemia |
Adenocarc., ii |
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Adenocarc., iii |
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Location of Malignancy |
Descending colon |
Rt. femur, mid-third |
Stomach |
Generalized |
Cecum |
Mid rectum |
Generalized |
Upper rectum |
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Rectosigmoid |
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Metastases Present? |
Yes, in liver |
? |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Yes |
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Type of Operation |
Partial left colectomy, transverse to sigmoid colostomy |
Amputation, right thigh, prox. 1/3
|
Two-thirds gastric resection, anterior polya |
Biopsy [lower] axillary |
Rt. hemi- colectomy, ileo-transverse colostomy |
Comb. abd.-perineal resection |
Biopsy, base lower neck |
Comb. abd.-perineal resection |
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Comb. abd.-perineal resection |
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Organically Grown Food Eaten Pre-op? |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
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No |
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Organically Grown Food Eaten Post-op? |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
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Yes |
Note: These were all my own personal patients.
This brief clinical note is written with the hope that it may prove of possible benefit to other coloproctologists dealing with apparently hopeless malignant disease in their own patients. Surely, this recommended adjuvant therapy is innocuous and might prove life-prolonging or even arrest the further progress of the malignant disease. This is certainly worth trying and remembering for possible future use.
By Donald C. Collins, MD, FIAP, 7046 Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood, California. Reprinted from The American Journal of Proctology (Clinical Note), Vol. 12, No. 1, February, 1961, by the Lee Foundation for Nutritional Research.