In praise of Four Women Against Cancer

Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients, April, 2007 by Robert S. Carson

I consider it both an honor and an obligation to present this review of Dr. Alan Cantwell's most recent book, Four Women Against Cancer. Dr. Cantwell is a California-based dermatologist, who has published extensively in the fields of scleroderma, cancer, and AIDS.

In addition to my medical degree, I have completed advanced study in microbiology. In my opinion, Cantwell has given a remarkably clear presentation of the concepts of microbiological pleomorphism and the contributions of four major trail-blazing cancer researchers, namely Virginia Livingston-Wheeler, MD, truly a medical giant; microbiologist Eleanor Alexander-Jackson, PhD; cell cytologist Irene Diller, PhD; and world-famous biochemist Florence Seibert, PhD. These four women worked closely together to unravel the bacterial etiology of cancer. (I had the privilege of working with Dr. Alexander-Jackson for many years.)

Intermittently acid-fast bacteria are invariably found in cancer patients, if one takes the time and trouble to look for them. The four women named above are only a few of the multiple investigators who made similar observations of bacteria, not only in cancer, but in a variety of other chronic illnesses.

Dr. Livingston-Wheeler had an impressive success in the management of cancer, the details of which she has published. Critical to her management of cancer was an understanding of the concept of bacterial pleomorphism, in addition to other naturopathic measures, such as the use of autogenous vaccines. Vaccine therapy in the treatment of cancer has had a long and venerable history, probably the best-known being the Coley vaccine, which has been commented upon several times in the Townsend Letter. (1)

Unbeknownst to the four women mentioned above was the work of Gunther Enderlein (1872-1968), a German zoologist, who became famous for his concepts of pleomorphism in bacteria and their role in the origin of cancer. He also devised dark-field examination of cancerous blood. His massive tome, Bacterien Cycogenie, has finally been translated into English.

In his book, Cantwell presents microphotographs showing pleomorphic bacteria in histologic sections of breast cancer, prostate cancer, Kaposi's sarcoma, Hodgkin's lymphoma, and scleroderma. He also provides information for further Internet research into the bacterial causation of cancer.

Robert S. Carson, MS, MD

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1. Martin W. Coley's toxins. (Letter.) TLDP. June 2004.

Four Women Against Cancer by Alan Cantwell, MD Aries Rising Press, P.O. Box 29532, Los Angeles, California 90029; ISBN# 0917211332; Paperback, $16.95