Resurrection: The Cause of Cancer Re-Discovered by  Donald Wilson, BSc.

I am a cancer survivor. I noticed the first symptoms of the disease one sunny morning in 1982. A pain over my left eye sent me off to an ophthalmologist. Within weeks, my happy retirement had been forever shattered. My life was about to end--or so I thought. I spent weeks undergoing radiation treatments, chemotherapy and (horror of horrors) spinal taps.

Through it all, thoughtful friends brought books about cancer. The books brought new insights, new knowledge, and new hope. As I struggled through the after effects of my treatments, I began to read about alternative cancer therapies, follow the advice of some brilliant (and unacknowledged) researchers, and make some fundamental changes in my life. I recovered and today, at age 83, I feel better than I did twenty years ago.

As I learned more about cancer and talked about my experiences, friends and acquaintances encouraged me (dare I say they pushed me?) to write a book. I admit I stiff-armed the suggestions. Another book about cancer? Why? There are hundreds of them out there. I felt that I didn't have anything really new to add.

However, as I continued to read, some of the missing parts about the disease dropped into place. Reading about cancer and trying to reconcile information about prevention, cause, treatment, and the history of mortality, was like working on a complicated jigsaw puzzle. One day I realized that I had a new slant on the cancer problem, one that was supported by what I felt were real facts, and it gave me the impetus to think seriously about writing a book.

In the end, I sat down to write this book for three compelling reasons:

First, people with cancer, especially those who are newly-diagnosed, have an immediate need to know more about the disease. They ask: What is it all about? What are the options, if any? What can I do to help myself get out of this mess?

When they start looking for books, they find lots of them. It then becomes a problem of picking which ones to read, and so many of them are several hundred pages long. Fast answers are required. This book is designed to answer most of a cancer patient's most pressing questions, or it directs them to a good source.

Second, I wanted cancer patients to understand that the conventional medical community, which includes clinicians and researchers, is really not addressing the cancer problem all that well. For many, many years, overall mortality from cancer has been increasing. Did you know that mortality from lung cancer in women has been increasing by three to four per cent a year in

Canada for the past twenty years? Or that mortality from prostate cancer has been increasing by about one per cent per year for the last fifteen years? This is occurring even though the conventional medical community has spent over 30 billion dollars on cancer research in the past 25 or so years in Canada and the United States.

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At the same time, I wanted people to know how to avoid cancer, because prevention is so much better than treatment. Of course, if you already have cancer, you may think ideas about prevention are a bit late in coming. I encourage you to read this book anyway, because you may want to incorporate some of the prevention measures I describe into your program. The literature I've read indicates that if something helps prevent cancer, it might also promote recovery.

If the first two reasons weren't compelling enough to make me want to sit down and write, then the third certainly moved me to action. For eighteen years, I've been studying medical literature on cancer, nutrition and health in general. And I've made some amazing discoveries. The most overwhelming discovery is that, incredibly, the cause of cancer is known-and it's been known for at least 70 or 80 years.

In this book, I describe the research that supports my discoveries using a lay person's language. If you want to delve into the research yourself, I have provided a detailed list of references at the end of the book I will also tell you why so much of the current research is not producing results for the cancer patient.

One of the favorable aspects of my brush with cancer was that I had retired a few years earlier, so I had lots of time for reading and for making changes to my lifestyle. Most people are not that fortunate. As a result of my reading, I believe that lifestyle is the principal cause of most cancers. I do hope that those who decide to read my story will feel motivated to make important changes in lifestyle. Doing so is one of the more difficult things for most of us to do--but one of the most important for a healthier and happier life.

* Source: Introduction from Resurrection: The cause of Cancer Re-Discovered By Donald Wilson, BSc.