Re: Cancer viruses and dealing with cancer

 "Viruses can help to cause some cancers. But this does not mean that these cancers can be caught like an infection.

Actually many of the cancer viruses have been shown to be contagious. HPV, HIV, hepatitis viruses, herpes viruses, leukemia/lymphoma viruses.........

But it is true that just the presence does not mean one will develop cancer. But this is easily explained. It is called immunity. Viral activity can be suppressed by a strong immune system. A couple of examples of proof of this is herpes simplex and the viruses associated with AIDS. Herpes does not pop up and take hold unless the immune system is sufficiently suppressed to allow the infection to take hold. The same applies to AIDS. Many of the pathogens that form the hallmark opportunistic of AIDS infect the vast majority of the population. Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia bacteria and cytomegalovirus for example, which are both estimated to infect 80% of the population. They do not cause symptoms though  unless the immune system is first suppressed sufficiently through either human herpes virus 6-variant A or the use of immune suppressing drugs such as the AZT given to people testing HIV positive. This is why several cancers are routinely seen in full blown AIDS patients. These people were not born with the viruses, they caught them at some point in their life.

As far as their claim about HPV they are leaving out one other major point. There are NO common laboratory tests that can confirm the presence of a particular virus. Therefore they are relying on PAP smears to look for cervical dysplasia then FALSELY telling women that if they cervical dysplasia that this means they are infected with HPV. This is absolute BS!!! Cervical dysplasia merely means that there are abnormal cells present. This can happen for a number of reasons including other infections, B6 deficiencies, the use of birth control pills, smoking..........

Again there is no common test that can confirm the presence of a particular virus. This includes the commonly used antibody tests and polymerase chain reaction (PCR), also known as viral load. Both of the tests are fraught with accuracy issues and therefore cannot be used to confirm viral presence.  The only test that they can do to prove the presence of a virus is under an electron microscope. But this is time consuming, very expensive and is like looking for a needle in the haystack. So it is used for research, not diagnostics.

Point is though that since they cannot confirm the presence of a virus then they cannot say the conversion of HPV to cancer is low. Especially considering how prevalent the cancers linked to HPV are such as cervical, breast, prostate and skin cancers.