Research

Cancer: a single disease with a multitude of manifestions?

Peter Grandics

A-D Research Foundation, 5922 Farnsworth Ct, Carlsbad, CA 92008 USA

Journal of Carcinogenesis 2003, 2:9doi:10.1186/1477-3163-2-9

Published:	18 November 2003

Abstract

The relationships of critical nutrients such as plant phenolics, vitamins, minerals and lipids are considered with respect to the incidence of a variety of cancers, and analyzed in terms of how these nutrient deficiencies alter immune function, DNA integrity and cell proliferation. With a significant correlation found between cancer and these nutrient deficiencies, the hypothesis is presented here that nutrition could provide a unifying perception of cancer and recast it as a single disease. This further suggests that a coordinated administration of specific, critical nutrients to cancer patients could lead to the reversal of the disease. It is also proposed that the concurrent presence of a variety of nutritional deficiencies in cancer patients requires a multilevel, systemic approach to this disease as opposed to the single active therapeutic agent approach that is the cornerstone of contemporary research and pharmacology.