Big Train Alone Atop Standings After Shutout Win

Big Train Clinch Sole Possession of First Place   The Big Train and Gaithersburg Giants entered Monday night's game tied at the top of the standings, setting the stage for an intense battle for the rights to sole possession of first place. The game certainly contained the excitement you'd expect in such a showdown. Box Score | VIDEO: Post Game Interviews (Colangelo & Wernicki) Michael Boyle (Radford) - pictured above - got the start for the Big Train, and gave the team six shutout innings. Boyle struck out five batters, while allowing just five total base runners (four hits and a walk).  While runs were generally hard to come by, the Big Train did manage to push across three. The first two runs of the game would come in the third inning off the bat of right fielder Kyle Wernicki (Virginia Tech). After back-to-back one-out singles by second baseman Tim Yandel (Tulane) and center fielder David Del Grande (Sacramento State), Wernicki hit a two-RBI double to give the Big Train a 2-0 lead heading into the fourth. In the top of the fourth, the Giants would manage to get a runner on base. However, Yandel made what is the early favorite for defensive play of the year at second base, throwing himself into the air to deny Gaithersburg's Jay Graham a single up the middle and kill any chance of a big inning.  After four shutout innings by Boyle and reliever Will Resnik (High Point), the Big Train would manage to add an insurance run in the bottom of the eighth. After a one-out single by first baseman Johnny Cole (Coastal Carolina), outfielder Logan Farrar (Virginia Commonwealth) would pinch run, and after being moved to second base on a single by third baseman Tyler France(Florida Atlantic), would steal his way over to third base. Then with two outs, Farrar would score on a passed ball to give the Big Train a 3-0 lead heading into the ninth. Cody Mizelle (Florida Atlantic) would come in for the save for the second consecutive night, and for the second consecutive night, he would hold down the fort. Mizelle struck out the side in the ninth, giving up no runs en route to picking up his second save of the season, and the sixth win of the season for the Big Train. With the victory, the Big Train now sit alone at the top of the CRCBL standings, boasting a league-best 6-2 record. They'll look to add to their one-game lead on the Giants tonight, as they host the Vienna Riverdogs at5:00 PM at Povich Field. It's Bunt Bobblehead Night, so come on out to the ballpark to get a free bobblehead of Homer's partner in crime! Tickets to the game can be purchased here or at the gate!

Bryan Wilson Receives Victory Scholarship Award

Philadelphia, Pa. - Typically being a student-athlete ends after your senior season in college, but this isn't the case for Bowie State University's Bryan Wilson and The Lincoln University's Brittney Waters.

Wilson started 14 games for the CIAA Champion Bulldogs of Bowie State, The Upper Marlboro, MD native averaged 7.9 points, 2.9 rebounds and was the third leading 3-point shooter on the team making 32.3 % of his attempts behind the arc.

Waters and Wilson have been selected to receive the Victory Scholarship Award by Sport Changes Life (SCL). SCL awards student-athlete recipients the opportunity to study for their master's degree while continuing their career in sports. Victory Scholars provide its recipients with full tuition fees for graduate school, accommodation expenses, subsistence expenses, and an opportunity to continue their athletic career.

"I am delighted and feel blessed to be one of the Victory Scholarship recipients," said Waters. "This is an opportunity of a lifetime and certainly a dream come true for me."

A native of Capitol Heights, MD, Waters averaged 5.7 points and 2.5 rebounds per game for the Lady Lions. Her experience at the University was enriched and filled with the joy of meeting new people and playing basketball.

Waters and Wilson are scheduled to attend the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland. Waters will play for the Belfast Rockets, a professional team in the Irish Women's Superleague. In addition both players will coach and work with at-risk youths as part of the Sport Changes Life program.

Big Train Best Braves 4-2; MCEA Teacher Appreciation Night TONIGHT!

Big Train Back on Track, Best Braves 4-2    After suffering their first loss in five games on Saturday evening, the Big Train got back on track Sunday, defeating the FCA Herdon Braves 4-2. Box Score | VIDEO: Post Game Interviews (Colangelo & Tobin) Danny Mooney (Davidson) got the start for Bethesda, and gave the team his second straight quality start. Mooney gave up just two runs on six hits and a walk over six innings while striking out three. The first Big Train run of the evening came on an RBI single from Johnny Cole (Coastal Carolina) in the first inning. Cole drove in David Del Grande(Sacramento State), who'd reached on a leadoff single. Cole now has four RBIs in his last six games. Four innings later, with the game tied at 1-1, the Big Train would grab their first lead of the game. After a leadoff double by Ryne Willard (Tallahassee CC) and a single by Tim Yandel (Tulane), Del Grande smashed a ground ball towards third base which was mishandled by the Braves' third baseman for an error and a 2-1 Big Train lead. The Braves would come back to tie the game at two in the sixth inning, but two shutout innings of relief by Kit Scheetz (Virginia Tech) would keep the score tied heading into the bottom of the eighth. The first three batters of the inning reached base for the Big Train in the bottom of the eighth, setting up a bases-loaded situation with no outs. After the next two batters were retired, manager Sal Colangelo turned to Big Train veteran Tucker Tobin (George Mason) to come up with a big hit off the bench with two outs. Tobin responded in the clutch situation, sneaking a two-RBI single through the infield to make the score 4-2. Cody Mizelle (Florida Atlantic) would then come on for the top of the ninth, pitching a perfect inning to grab the save and secure the Big Train's fifth victory on the season. With the victory, the Big Train hold on to a share of first place with a 5-2 record. The Big Train will look to gain sole possession of first place as they take on the team they are tied with, the Gaithersburg Giants, tonight. It'sMCEA/MCPS Teacher Appreciation Night, so teachers and their families get free admission and students get tickets at a discounted price! First pitch is set for 7:30 PM, so come on out! Tickets can be purchased here or at the gate!

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Father's Day Tonight at Povich! Big Train's Win Streak Snapped

TONIGHT: Celebrate Father's Day at Povich Field!     Make Father's Day special for the dad in your life by bringing him out to Povich Field for a special Nationals Night at the ballpark!    Screech will be visiting from the Washington Nationals and so will Teddy and the rest of the Racing Presidents for a special Big Train Race! Dads will also have the opportunity to play catch with their kids in the outfield at Povich at 6:45 PM. First pitch is scheduled for 7:30 PM and the gates open at 6:00. Tickets for tonight's game can be purchased here or at the gate. Big Train's Four Game Win Streak Snapped     The Big Train took on the Presstman Cardinals on Saturday night, setting their sites on their fifth straight win. | Box Score  The Big Train got on the board first, as Ricky Santiago (Florida Atlantic) scored on a sacrifice fly by Tucker Tobin (George Mason) in the top of the second inning. The Big Train extended the lead to 2-0 in the fifth, when Santiago scored his second run of the game on an RBI double by David Del Grande(Sacramento State). After the Cardinals came back to tie the game in the bottom of the fifth, the Big Train regained the lead in the sixth as Tobin scored to make the score 3-2. The Cardinals rallied again in the eighth inning, scoring two runs to take the 4-3 lead heading into the ninth inning. Bethesda would answer again in the ninth. After Santiago and Del Grandereached base, Big Train newcomer Kyle Wernicki (Virginia Tech) - pictured above - built on his big game on Friday night by hitting a three-run homer to give the Big Train the 6-4 lead. However, the lead just wasn't enough. The Cardinals rallied once again in the bottom of the ninth, scoring two runs to tie the game at six and force extra innings. The Big Train would push across a run in the tenth, but the Cardinals rallied one final time in the tenth, scoring two runs to win the game 8-7. While the loss is a tough pill to swallow for the Big Train, they still boast a strong 4-2 record in their first six games. The Rockville Express beat the Vienna Riverdogs on Saturday, meaning that the Big Train remain tied with Vienna and Gaithersburg for first place heading into Sunday's action. The Big Train will look to stay in first on Sunday night, as they kick off a five-game homestand against the FCA Herndon Braves at Povich Field. First pitch is scheduled for 7:30 PM, and the gates open at 6:00.

Can a water purifier cure cancer?

Can This Simple Water Purifier Also Cure Cancer?     Jim Humble was hoping to strike pay dirt on a gold mining expedition. A friend offered Humble, a retired miner, a generous share of profits from his South American gold mine in return for some help.     Early in their trek, several members of the team came down with malaria. The men lay in their hammocks shivering from chills and running high fevers. Continued below. . . Breast Cancer Survivor was told: "You'll be dead in a year" (Pssst!! That was 12 years ago!)     Doctors didn't give Wiltrude much hope when they diagnosed her with cancer in the year 2000. Wiltrude, a German psychologist, never thought cancer would happen to her. But it did. And it came as a big shock.     One doctor told her, "You'll be dead in a year." Late stage breast cancer isvirtually incurable using conventional treatments. Even M.D.s admit it. They talk about "buying you more time." (Don't count on it. The evidence shows you're better off doing nothing than chemo.)     When Wiltrude told her doctor she was going to try alternative treatments, he said, "You are committing suicide with what you're doing." But she was determined to find a way to beat her cancer.     Thanks to the wonders of the Internet, this European woman came across a book by my good friend Bill Henderson, one of the smartest and wisest people I know when it comes to cancer treatment.     She tried Bill's top, number one recommendation — a gentle treatment you can do at home for just $5.15 a day. What's more, the cost goes down to $3.50 after six weeks because you just need a maintenance dose. And it even tastes good.     Not only has Wiltrude passed the five-year cancer survival mark, she's survived for 12 years. We just interviewed her recently for this publication. The radiologist who tests her every year told her, "You're the only one with this kind of result."     You can find out more about Bill’s proven cancer treatment plan if you click here.     When I ask him about some of the treatments that top alternative doctors use, Bill sort of shrugs and says, "They're fine, but why bother? My treatment works, you can do it yourself, and it costs practically nothing."     He's coached thousands of cancer patients with all different types and stages of cancer. Most of the people who follow the detailed, specific plan in this Special Report get over their cancer and live for years.     "Almost any kind of cancer is reversible," says Bill. "I never give up on anyone." Click here to learn more about Bill’s amazing cancer protocol.     They also had other malaria symptoms including headaches… aching muscles and joints… nausea… diarrhea… and vomiting.     Unfortunately, the closest village with malaria medications was at least two days away through rugged jungle!     Humble thought about the stabilized oxygen he'd brought to purify his drinking water. He decided to give some to the sick workers.     To everyone's amazement, within an hour the shivering stopped. And within four hours, the men were talking and laughing at the dinner table!     Because he wanted to understand what caused the amazing turnaround, Humble spent a few years studying how stabilized oxygen affects the malaria parasite.     What he found out has saved the lives of thousands.     Humble discovered that it wasn't the stabilized oxygen that clobbered malaria. It was the trace amounts of chlorine dioxide and its chlorite ion that did the trick!     By using higher concentrations of sodium chlorite with an activator, Humble has helped more than 75,000 folks in Africa cure malaria, hepatitis, AIDS, and even cancer.     Humble called his product Miracle Mineral Supplement (MMS) initially. But persecution from — who else? -- the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) prompted him to change the product name to Miracle Mineral Solution.     I often receive inquiries about the MMS treatment. It gets a lot of word of mouth. It's not one of my favorites, for reasons I’ll explain in a moment, but there’s not much doubt it's racked up some successes. The people who advocate it believe it's safe, considering that... Chlorine dioxide has been approved as a water purifier for nearly 70 years.1 Medical professionals have used chlorine dioxide as an antiseptic and pathogen killer for more than 100 years. Chlorine dioxide and chlorite were used to decontaminate public buildings following the 2001 release of anthrax spores in the United States2.     You see, the FDA cops objected to selling his product as a health "supplement" because it hadn't gone through their rigorous approval process. For this reason, MMS is now sold only as a water purifier and is not labeled a supplement. ClO2 = The Formula for a New Cancer Killer!     Chlorine dioxide is a chemical compound made of one chlorine ion bound to two ions of oxygen.     MMS is a solution of 28% sodium chlorite ion in distilled water. The solution changes to chlorine dioxide when you add an "activator" of lemon juice, vinegar or citric acid. Because only certain substances work as activators, it's very important to follow Humble's protocol when using MMS.     When chlorine dioxide contacts harmful pathogens, it snatches their electrons. This causes a sort of microscopic explosion—which won't harm YOU, but destroys pathogens.     This means harmful bacteria, viruses and other parasites die when they meet up with chlorine dioxide ions.     My friend Ty Bollinger, author of Cancer: Step Outside the Box, puts it this way: "Once chlorine dioxide ["activated" sodium chlorite] is introduced into the bloodstream, it performs a highly energetic acceptance of four electrons when it comes across any cell that is acidic (a pH below 7.35). This means that diseased cells are essentially vaporized while healthy cells are unaffected."     This spells trouble for cancer cells, which are known to thrive in acidic conditions. MMS Provides REAL Healing for Real People     In his book The Miracle Mineral Solution of the 21st Century, Jim Humble relates the experience of one pancreatic cancer patient whose cancer had returned following surgery.     The patient decided to take MMS in the 60 days leading to his next exploratory surgery at the Mayo Clinic. The results?     Humble said, "Within 2 weeks his cancer readings began to decline. The high reading was 82… At the next visit to the hospital the reading was 71.     "A month later the reading was 55. Two months later it was 29, and so on until the reading was less than 5.     "The doctors at the hospital didn't know what had happened, but as soon as the readings began to go down, they canceled the appointment at the Mayo Clinic. . .When the reading reached 3, they said there was no point in further testing."     This man's story is no isolated incident. Consider these experiences from others who have used MMS to treat tumors, cancers, and other health conditions: "I have been taking MMS now for over a year… I have never felt better and I had an ovarian cyst, [which] has been a problem all my life, disappear after being told there was no cure for it!" —Lynn3 "I was told 4 weeks ago my mother had months to live with stage 4 uterine cancer… Four doctors told me that my Mom was a goner and it was just a matter of time. After taking MMS1 and MMS2 for almost a month… the cancer is almost gone from my mom's body! The doctors and surgeons said it was a miracle and did not know how to respond. They were amazed!" —Sara4 "One of my family friends has bone marrow cancer and before Thanksgiving he was told he would not see Christmas. He started MMS [around] Thanksgiving and he has gained his strength back to go out and do things with his sons. He has told me his blood work is improving rapidly—he isn't telling the doctors what he is taking but he is not gray anymore!" —Kim5     This is just a sample of the thousands of folks with positive stories of health improvement—thanks to MMS. But the treatment can cause a few side effects. From what I've been able to learn, MMS can be difficult to use and to tolerate. A significant number of patients complain of nausea — even vomiting -- and stop taking the drops for that reason. Others find it hard to follow the precise directions, which require taking the MMS drops as often as six times a day.     One savvy reader wrote me that MMS works better than chemotherapy because it IS chemotherapy. You're using a known poison, chlorine, to kill the cancer cells or the parasites that cause them. He may have a point.     Most of the evidence I've seen is anecdotal (like the testimonials quoted above). MMS is by no means a simple miracle that will work for every cancer patient, but I'm inclined to believe the reports that many people find pain relief, improved energy and even complete remission from cancer as well as other diseases — provided they're able to stick with it. From what I gather, a lot of people can't.     I'm going to hazard a guess that MMS is perhaps more effective with diseases that are known to be infectious (such as malaria) than with cancer. The infection theory of cancer is controversial. I've become a lot more interested in it as I learn more, but I'm withholding judgment.     Quite a few alternative cancer doctors swear by the microbe and/or parasite theories and they've had success treating patients. But they usually use multiple cancer therapies at once and their success may or may not be due to killing off the critters. It's just not clear to me yet how all the pieces fit together — do parasites cause cancer or are they just frequently found side by side with it? The anti-infection and anti-parasite protocols work for some patients and not for others.     My good friend Bill Henderson, author of the book Cancer-Free, tells me, "I have high confidence in MMS for killing pathogens, including cancer cells. The only real problem is that this is not how you get over cancer. You get over it by revising the physiology of your entire body to make it hostile enough to cancer cells again that it will keep them under control as a healthy body normally does. So just like lots of other things that are effective at killing cancer cells, I usually don't recommend MMS except as a 'last resort'."     I agree. There are other treatments I'd try first, including the Budwig protocol that's Bill's first-line recommendation.     You can read more about MMS—and even purchase some if you choose—at Jim Humble's website: www.miraclemineral.org.     Humble's discovery is certainly fascinating and deserves more study than it will ever get from our boneheaded medical establishment. You may be one of the people who find that this water purifier can provide the healing waters of life you need!

Walk-off Win Improves BT to 4-1; Nats Racing Presidents at Povich Field Tomorrow!

Walk-Off Win in 10th Inning Improves BT to 4-1     The Big Train hosted the Baltimore Redbirds on Friday night, as they looked to avenge a 2-0 loss from Opening Night last Thursday.  BOX SCORE | VIDEO: Post Game Interviews The Big Train found themselves trailing early, as the Redbirds scored runs in the third in fourth innings to make the score 2-0. However, Bethesda responded in the bottom of the fourth, tying the game and then claiming a lead of their own thanks to three runs. After Tucker Tobin (George Mason) scored on a ground ball by Mike Miedzianowski (High Point), Ryne Willard (Tallahassee CC) - pictured above - hit his first home run of the season, driving in Josh Spano (High Point) and making the score 3-2 in favor of the Big Train. Following a scoreless fifth inning by Justin Hepner (San Diego State), the Big Train would add two more runs in the bottom half of the inning. After the Big Train worked the bases loaded, Tyler France (San Diego State) would come up with a big two-out single to score David Del Grande (Sacramento State) and Kyle Wernicki (Virginia Tech) and make the score 5-2. However, the Redbirds rallied in the top of the seventh, pushing across four runs to take a 6-5 lead. But the Big Train kept their composure, and with the bases loaded and two outs in the bottom of the seventh, Kevin Tatum (Cornell) drew a walk on four straight pitches to plate Logan Farrar (Virginia Commonwealth) to tie the game at six. Neither team would score runs in the eighth or ninth innings, meaning the game would have to be decided in extras. Excellent pitching by Bubba Derby (San Diego State) in the final two regulation innings played a large role in getting the Big Train into extra innings, as he gave up no hits. The story would be the same in the tenth, giving the Big Train offense a chance to win by scoring a single run in the bottom half of the inning. Wernicki would be the first base runner for the Big Train in the tenth, reaching on a one-out single. Wernicki would then move into scoring position on a ground ball by Johnny Cole (Coastal Carolina), and after a two-out walk by Farrar, Spano would have a chance to play hero with runners on first and second and two down. Spano came up big for the Big Train, driving in the game-winning run on a single to give Bethesda the 7-6 victory. The win improves the Big Train's winning streak to four consecutive games, they sit atop of the league in first place. The Big Train will look to stretch their winning streak to five straight as they face the Presstman Cardinals in Hanover, Maryland tonight at 7:00 PM.

Tonight's Game Rescheduled Due to Upcoming Storms; Truck Night Tomorrow with FREE Stadium Blankets!

First Place Match-Up Rescheduled Due to Storm,   Truck Night At Povich Field on Friday     Tonight's scheduled first place match-up that had scheduled the Vienna Riverdogs to visit Povich Field to take on the Big Train is postponed toTuesday, June 18th at 5pm due to the upcoming storms. Bunt Mini-Bobbleheads will be distributed at the make-up date. The next Big Train game will be a rematch of last season's CRCBL championship game against the Baltimore Redbirds on Friday night at 7:30at Povich Field. Fans should make sure to show up early for a few reasons. The first 100 fans will receive Big Train Stadium Blankets courtesy of MyOfficeProducts. Friday night is also Truck Night at Povich Field and the parking lot in front of the stadium will be full of plenty of great vehicles for kids to see and maybe even explore between the time the gates open (6pm) and when the game starts (7:30pm)! A monster truck, some food trucks, the Game Truck, and more will be there and so should you! Click here to get your tickets now!

Big Train Keeps Rolling, Beats Youse's 5-1; Bunt Mini-Bobblehead Night on Thursday!

Big Train Keeps Rolling, Beat Youse's 5-1      The Big Train pushed their current winning streak to three games on Tuesday, beating the Youse's Orioles 5-1 with Hall of Fame shortstop Cal Ripken Jr. in the house. BOX SCORE | VIDEO: Post Game Interviews Cody Mizelle (Florida Atlantic) got the start for the Big Train, and showed off incredible control with his pitches, not walking a single batter in six innings of work. Mizelle gave up just four hits and struck out four. "I just wanted to get on the mound tonight and get a good feel for all of my pitches, get ahead, and get batters out," said Mizelle. A big second inning for the Big Train bats backed Mizelle's mound mastery, as the offense put up five runs. Tucker Tobin (George Mason) - pictured above - led off the inning with his first home run of the season, which would set the tone for the rest of the inning. RBIs by David Del Grande (Sacramento State) and Kevin Tatum (Cornell) pushed the lead to 3-0. Johnny Cole(Coastal Carolina) then extended the lead to 5-0 with a two-run single.   After Mizelle's six shutout innings, Kit Scheetz (Virginia Tech) gave Bethesda two innings of quality relief before allowing several Orioles on base in the ninth with the Big Train up 5-1. Big Train closer Trevor Charpie (Tennessee) came in with the bases loaded and no outs but quickly disposed of the Orioles with a strikeout and a double play. He earned his third save in as many games. The Big Train improve to 3-1 on the season with the win, and will look to extend their three-game winning streak on Thursday against the Vienna Riverdogs. Thursday is Bunt Mini-Bobblehead Night at Povich Field, and the first 500 fans get a miniature bobblehead of Homer's best pal! Tickets to the game can be purchased here or at the gate!

Why that conventional cancer drug won't work

Why Conventional Cancer Drugs Don't Work:
Drug Companies have Cooked the Results

    It's no secret that mainstream American medicine relies heavily on evidence-based, peer-reviewed scientific studies. But that world is being turned on its head. According to researchers C. Glenn Begley and Lee Ellis, writing in the prestigious journal Nature, 89 percent of the published cancer studies they reviewed cannot be reproduced.

    What does this mean? Easy: Those studies are wrong. Or at the very least, they don't provide the irrefutable evidence on which doctors claim to base their treatments. Not to beat around the bush, Begley and Ellis have exposed a whole world of fraud. Let's hold our noses and take a look. . .

Continued below. . .

Is Fire In The Belly Slowly and Silently Killing You?     You bet it is. Inflammation is the number one ager and killer. It destroys tissues and organs. It marches you to the grave faster than any other aspect of health.     You need to understand how the gut is the origin of over 95% of the inflammatory processes in our bodies. Down there in the warmth and dark swarm trillions of microbes. Collectively they share one hundred times the genes we do.     In one of the most startling medical discoveries of recent times, it has been discovered that these microbial genes tell our human cells what to do (not just human genes).     The microbes in us set up inflammatory reactions, from heavy metals and food allergies, to enzymes dysfunction and toxic overload.     Our guts are far more complex than ever recognized; we even have a second brain down there, with over 90% of our serotonin. No wonder all this affects our moods too!     Get the real story from one of the world's top MD writers, in his sensational book: Fire in the Belly.

    The whole foundation of science is that if one scientist's experimental results are valid then another scientist can reproduce them by doing exactly the same thing in the same way. If you get a different outcome each time you run an experiment then the results are random and — essentially — meaningless.

    It's fraud, pure and simple, to use non-reproducible research to guide medical practice. That's the very accusation medical doctors are always hurling at alternative medicine. Now we see the pot has been calling the kettle black. It's major drug companies that are conducting bogus research and who are missing the mark on exactly what kinds of chemical cocktails are needed to fight cancer.

    Worse, the problem goes deeper than flawed scientific research. A lot of money, power, and influence appear to play a role — and the beneficiary isn't public health, it's Big Pharma.

Outdated and misguided cancer treatments

    While any kind of study is subject to some human error, the studies reviewed by Begley and Ellis are missing the boat in major ways. Only six out of the 53 "landmark" published papers they reviewed could be reproduced in a clinical setting.

    Instead of being taken with a grain of salt, as they should have been, these studies became the basis for introducing revolutionary approaches to cancer treatment. Entire healthcare guidelines and clinical treatment protocols have been designed around these results.

    Worse still, a significant amount of published research appears to have been conducted under the cloud of conflicts of interest. Dr. Reshma Jagsi, M.D., who authored a study through the University of Michigan, found a considerable percentage of cancer research was made questionable by ties to the pharmaceutical industry. In other words, Big Pharma is behind the research, paying scientists to confirm that certain drugs will work in cancer treatment.

    Once those treatments are officially "confirmed," they're pushed into hospitals and doctors' offices with a heavy price tag attached. Now, funding by a drug company isn't proof as such that a study is dishonest, but it's a red flag.

    Funding of studies through Big Pharma was the most common type of conflict of interest, seen in 17 percent of papers. The next most common problem was studies in which the authors were drug industry employees, which happened in about 12 percent of studies.

    Without pointing the finger at any one study, the results of these studies are suspicious when taken as a whole. For example, in the studies with reported conflicts of interest, randomized trials were more likely to find the drug was safe and effective. Truly independent studies were less likely to reach the same conclusion.

Why the majority of cancer research is compromised

    The data from any legitimate scientific study should be treated objectively, but this new research makes it clear that those with a conflict of interest are biased in their analyses — whether the scientists are deliberately committing fraud or are biased without realizing it.

    Sadly, evidence suggests the majority of these scientists know they are working with tainted research. When Begley and Ellis approached study authors for details of their experiments, the two were asked to sign agreements that they would not disclose their findings or their sources — proof that the study authors were aware of their own misleading results.

    Along with that, very few scientists involved in anti-cancer research disclose any potential sources of bias, even though all scientists are expected to sign conflict-of-interest and sources-of-funding statements before publishing any work.

    The fact remains that cancer is a major killer. Over half a million Americans died from cancer last year, and another 1.6 million cases were diagnosed. The amount of money involved in their treatment is stupefying — more than enough to light up the eyes of the greedy. Big Pharma is well aware that a lot of money can be made off these people, who are often frightened and willing to try any treatment, pay any price.

    It's a classic example of "disease mongering" where the industry widens the definition of treatable illness just to expand the market, when really, the vast majority of small cancers and early-diagnosis cases can be treated naturally and by supplementing a patient's immune system, while the expensive treatments are all but worthless against late-stage cancer.

How can we raise standards for cancer treatment?

    Our medical community, our government, and the public at large have essentially been hoodwinked by the unscrupulous players of the pharmaceutical industry. Of course, the government and some members of the medical community are partners in the fraud. The end result is that major drug companies determine which treatments can be legally used, and how much they'll cost.

    The question that remains is how to separate legitimate cancer research from a manipulative, self-interested drug industry. Dr. Jagsi calls for more public funding and general support so medical research doesn't have to rely on industry funding.

    I believe more aggressive and generous funding of research into alternatives would yield important breakthroughs, with the important stamp of scientific approval the public craves. This taxpayer-funded research should then be non-patented and available to all.

    Instead, the system works in the opposite way: Research that's largely funded by the taxpayers and by private "nonprofit" sources somehow becomes someone's private property and the very taxpayers who paid to find the cure have to pay millions to get access to it if they have cancer.

    I believe eventually the present system is going to collapse because it's so incredibly expensive and it doesn't cure people. The public is turning to alternative treatments because they're affordable and effective. Many oncologists as well as doctors from other specialties are frantically trying to learn about natural and alternative treatments because that's what their patients are asking for.

    The kind of fool who tells his cancer patients, "Eat whatever you like, there's no evidence of a connection between food and cancer," is going to wind up as a museum exhibit, in the same category as those barbers who used to moonlight as doctors by bleeding people. (George Washington was killed by a doctor who "bled" him to cure an infection — it was considered advanced medical science back then. Lucky were the poor people who couldn't afford the "best" medical care.)

    In the meantime, your best bet is to question everything. If your own well-meaning doctor quotes a study that he or she feels should determine your cancer treatment, question it. Get a second opinion. Look at other studies. Dig for results on natural treatments and herbal remedies. We do our best to present them here to you, but without the deep pockets of Big Pharma it's virtually impossible to get the same kind of exposure for natural treatments that work as we see for invasive drug methods.

    And of course, do everything you can to take your health into your own hands and practice smart eating and consistent exercise habits. Care of your own body's immune system is the one thing that's been proven time and again as the best way to prevent and treat cancer.