Cherie Calbom - The Complete Cancer Cleanse: A Proven Program to Detoxify and Renew Body, Mind, and Spirit

THE
COMPLETE
CANCER
CLEANSE
A PROVEN PROGRAM TO DETOXIFY
AND RENEW BODY, MIND, AND SPIRIT

CHERIE CALBOM, M.S.
FR. JOHN CALBOM, M.A. MICHAEL MAHAFFEY, P.C.

Copyright 2006 by Cherie Calbom, John Calbom, and Michael Mahaffey

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Calbom, Cherie.
The complete cancer cleanse : a proven program to detoxify and renew body, mind, and spirit / Cherie Calbom, John Calbom, Michael Mahaffey.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 0-7852-6295-4 (hbk.)
ISBN-10: 0-7852-8863-5 (tpc)
ISBN-13: 978-0-7852-8863-3 (tpc)
1. Cancer--Alternative treatment. 2. Detoxification (Health) I. Calbom, John. II. Mahaffey, Michael, P.C. III. Title.
RC271.A62 C34 2003
616.99'406dc22

2003015478

Printed in the United States of America

06 07 08 09 RRD 5 4 3 2 1

DEDICATIONS

JOHN AND CHERIE CALBOM:
To Esther Lucille Batdorf Scalf (Cheries mother),
John Edward Calbom, Sr. (Johns father), and
Reverend Tommy Tyson (our loving spiritual father).
MICHAEL MAHAFFEY:
To a loving God who patiently waits for us all.
May this book be a stepping stone for those who invite their
emotions, bodies, and spirits into their healing journeys.

CONTENTS

PART ONE:
THE COMPLETE DETOXIFICATION PROGRAM

PART TWO:
A RENEWAL OF YOUR BODY, YOUR MIND, AND YOUR SPIRIT

PART
ONE

The Complete
Detoxification Program

A THREE-PART STRATEGY
FOR HEALING

Loves strength, stands in loves sacrifice,
and he who suffers most, has most to gain.

AUTHOR UNKNOWN

C ancer is still the great mystery disease. We all pray that well never get it, yet here we are. When first diagnosed, we search for answers to a myriad of questions: What is cancer? What caused it? What are my treatment options? Will I die? Cancer diagnosis is shocking enough to send us into a state of terror, like being thrown into the strong currents of a rushing river. We want answers, and we want them now.

Answers are essential: the better informed we are about our disease, the greater the odds of overcoming it. The history of cancer incidence in the West, and particularly the United States, speaks volumes. Prior to this century, cancer was rare and afflicted only a small percentage of the population. Stanislas Tanchou, a French pioneering scientist in the field of vital statistics in the 1830s, tabulated Paris mortality rates; he reported that cancer deaths comprised about 2 percent of the total number of deaths at that time. At the turn of the century, the cancer death rate in the United States was calculated at about 4 percent of the population.

Current cancer statistics are sobering:

Cancer is the cause of one in five deaths in the United States

Cancer will affect one in three people in the United States

Over 1.2 million cases of invasive cancer are diagnosed each year.

An additional 1.5 million cases of noninvasive cancer will be diagnosed yearly.

More than five hundred thousand people will die from cancer each year.

Children ages three to fourteen years die of cancer more than any other disease.

The total cost of cancer care and mortality is over 15 percent of all health-care costs, exceeding more than 110 billion dollars.

Statistics do not show that we are making progress in prevention or treatment of cancer. Indeed the facts show the oppositewe are losing the war. The number of new cases of nearly every form of cancer has increased annually over the last century. From 1930 to the present, despite all our therapies and technology, cancer incidence has continued to increase.

WHAT IS CANCER?

Cancer is not a disease of modern man. For more than four thousand years it has afflicted human beings. In fact, ancient Egyptian and Greek medical tracts describe cancerous conditions. Writings about Cosmos and Damian, healing physicians of the third century, recount the unusual healing of deacon Justinians cancerous leg.

Hippocrates described the illness, calling it karkinos, meaning the crab. Historical writings describe tumor growths as having a central area with channels that spread out like arms into surrounding tissue. Ancient observers thought these growths looked like a crab; therefore, its logical that the Latin word for crab is cancer.

By simple definition cancer is a malignant growth or growths and the illnesses caused by those growths. It all starts in a cell. That cell (or group of cells) escapes homeostatic control (equilibrium of the internal environment), reproduces at will, and shows abnormal growth patterns. Also known as neoplasms (meaning new growth), these growths compete with normal cells for energy and nutrition, and are to some degree autonomous. New growth is not an accurate description of most cancers, however, because it often takes from five to twenty years for a tumor to develop from the first mutated cells to a tumor mass.

Cancer cells lose the more specialized functions characteristic of normal cells while at the same time acquiring increased growth function. This increase results in an invasion of the surrounding tissue and the formation of secondary growths at a distanceknown as metastasis. Their metabolism is different from that of a normal cell; something happens to alter these cells chemically. Professor Otto Warburg, two-time Nobel Prizewinner in medicine, was the first to suggest that cancer cells are anaerobic, meaning that they function in the absence of free oxygen. He discovered that oxygen in cancer cells was replaced by an energy yielding mechanism known as glycolysis, which means that the cancer cells feed on the fermentation of glucose (sugar).

Cancer has two characteristics that make it life threatening: it invades tissue and spreads to vital organs where it may compress, obstruct, or destroy vital functions. As cancerous tumors attach themselves to organs, tissues become oxygen starved. Cancer cells appear to take priority over normal cells in acquiring amino acids and nutrients; thus the tumor grows while the rest of the body experiences deficiency and often wasting.