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Types of Leukemias
Majid Ali, M.D.
Leukemias are cancers (malignant
conditions) of blood cells. Leukemias can involve
white blood cells, red blood cells, and blood
platelets. They can be acute and highly malignant or
chronic and follow a slow clinical course.
Cancer is a community of deranged
cells with dysfunctional oxygen metabolism. It grows
and spreads by robbing normal cells of their oxygen.
All abnormalities of protein, enzyme, hormone, and
gene functions seen in cancer occur due to the
primary oxygen dysfunction of cancer cells.
Cancer cells produce large amounts of toxic acids,
clot proteins in all types of body fluids they come
in contact with, devitalize noncancerous cells in
their vicinity, multiply to form tumors, and spread
to distant tissues as metastases.
The three primary characteristics of
cancer cells, by which they flourish and destroy
normal, cells are:
1. Oxidosis (too much
oxidative stress);
2. Acidosis (too much
acidity); and
3. Dysox (dysoxygenosis,
dysfunctional oxygen
metabolism).
I call oxidosis, acidosis, and dysox the three
furies of cancer — after the three furies of Greek
mythology known for their random and relentless
destruction of everything in their way. It is
crucially important to recognize that cancer cells
execute all their evil designs through those
three furies (mechanisms).
How Does Cancer Begin?
Cancer begins when abnormal
oxygen conditions develop within the cells as
well as in the cellular microenvironment. Sometime
ago, I introduced the term oxyecology of cancer
for all interactions among cancer cells and
non-cancerous cells in their vicinity. This view of
the beginning of cancer is at variance with the
prevailing notions of cancer being a genetic
disease. I explain my view in the chapter entitled
"The Dysox Model of Cancer." Here, I briefly state
the state what cancers do:
They inactivate or impede energy and detox
enzymes in healthy cells, as well as prevent the
recovery of damaged enzymes in cancer cells;
They interfere with the functions of
hormones, signaling molecules, and mediators of
healing responses in cells and tissues; and
They alter the expressions of pre-genes,
genes, and epigenes (see below for description).
All of the above changes, in turn, disrupt
cellular energetics and deepen the problem of
altered oxygen conditions. This sets up the vicious
cycle of less functional oxygen and more enzyme
malfunctions, incremental genetic defects, and
worsening cellular energetics.
Equally important, altered oxygen conditions
impair or block the body's mechanisms for correcting
those enzyme and genetic defects. As a result,
all healing enzymatic and genetic pathways are
blocked, and cancer continues to feed upon its own
deranged oxygen metabolism. Thus, in my view,
cancer is caused and perpetuated by abnormal
conditions of oxygen. I will return to this
subject in later chapters of this volume.
Pre-Genes and Epi-genes
Pre-gene is my term for segments of DNA that bind
to triggering molecules before genes are activated.
Epigene is my term for substances that govern the
structure and function of genes. For additional
information on how pro-genes and epi-genes regulate
the behavior of genes, I refer professional readers
to my article entitled "The Cancerization/De-cancerization
Dynamics of the Dysox Model of Cancer" published in
Townsend Letter and included at this site.
Tumor biology, diagnosis of cancer, treatment
options, special nutritional and detox needs of
individuals with cancer, and ethical-spiritual
dimensions of a journey with cancer are vast
subject. I discuss these subjects in my two-volume
book entitled "Oxygen, the Crab, and Cancer," and
invite the readers to consider these volumes.
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