Can a Fungal Infection be Mistaken for Cancer?

[Guest guest]

http://www.mercola.com/2003/may/24/cancer_contagious.htm

by Holland [excerpts from the full article]

I recently spoke with a nurse who was diagnosed, as an adult, with

leukemia. She endured the chemotherapy...only to suffer from a secondary fungal

infection during that time. The intensity and duration of the antifungal

treatment rivaled that of the chemotherapy. At any rate, she recovered from both

afflictions and went back to work.

Later, " Your leukemia has returned, " her oncologist told her, and he

proceeded to lay out the next line of chemotherapy...she opted to get a second

opinion... She took her tissue sample to another hospital, and what she was

told there was absolutely stunning: " You don't have leukemia, " remarked the

pathologist, " what you have is a fungal infection! "

The scenario that her doctors figured was that her previous fungal

infection had returned -- a total possibility. But for this nurse, more

questions were raised. She thought, " If they diagnosed my fungal infection as

leukemia this time, is it possible that they were wrong the FIRST time? Was my

leukemia really a fungal infection to begin with, and was my so-called

'secondary' fungal infection I had earlier really a full-blown manifestation of

what originally might have looked like leukemia? "

Fungal infections not only can be extremely contagious, but they also go

hand in hand with leukemia -- every oncologist knows this. And these infections

are devastating: once a child who has become a bone marrow transplant recipient

gets a " secondary " fungal infection, his chances of living, despite all the

antifungals in the world, are only 20%, at best.

And then the unthinkable thought arises: what if all of these children

didn't even have leukemia, but rather a fungal infection, just as this nurse

did? If doctors, in the 21st century, could mistake a fungal infection for

leukemia in this nurse, could the same fate have fallen upon these children?

Grains such as corn, wheat, barley, sorghum, and other foods such as

peanuts, are commonly contaminated with cancer-causing fungal poisons, or

" mycotoxins. " One of them, called aflatoxin, just happens to be the most

carcinogenic substance on earth. If this is indeed a problem, Kaufmann asserts,

then cereal for breakfast and soda pop for dinner may not be conducive to a

cancer-free lifestyle.

Holland, MD

Co-author, The Fungus Link, Infectious Diabetes.

[Read the full article at this link:

http://www.mercola.com/2003/may/24/cancer_contagious.htm ]

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