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mains to be done. Even promising nonelectromagnetic approaches have
been victims of bias. There's sound evidence, for example, that mega-
doses of vitamin C do slow tumor growth and increase the chances for a
complete cure, but Linus Pauling hasn't been able to persuade any of the
powerful institutes to perform a large-scale trial. Some animal tests are
now being funded, but, since vitamin C is nontoxic, immediate clinical
experiments on large numbers of humans would make much more sense.
In following up the regeneration connection, two experiments in par-
ticular are crying out to be tried. Someone must attempt to duplicate
the electrical environment of regeneration around tumors in lab animals,
using electrodes. This would involve introducing small negative currents
to thoroughly test the hypothesis that cancer cells are stuck in a state of
incomplete dedifferentiation. The idea would be to dedifferentiate them
the rest of the way and then let normal processes in the body turn them
into healthy mature cells. The same hypothesis should be tested another
way by surgically creating neuroepidermal junctions near the tumors.
Will these experiments be done soon? I wish I knew. The multi-
billion-dollar cancer research bureaucracy could certainly afford them,
but, although there are a few signs of change, the establishment is stuck
in the near-primitive state of the war mentality. I've maintained for
many years that we won't learn much more about abnormal growth until
we learn more about the normal kind. That approach can lead to cancer
treatments that are truly compatible with our bodies, far safer and more
effective than the simplistic, dangerous ones now in vogue.