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Article: How to cure inflammatory breast cancer: fungal infections cause breast calcifications and cancer.(Letters to the Editor)
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- Townsend Letter
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- August 1, 2008
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The mycotoxin aflatoxin is known to be a potent carcinogen. DNA samples of breast tumor tissue had higher levels of aflatoxin (Harrison et al. 1993) than normal breast tissue from the same patient. This implicates aflatoxin as a cause for breast cancer. Normal breast cells become cancerous when exposed to aflatoxin.
The immune-suppressing drug Cyclosporin is made from the fungal species Beauveria Nivea. Cyclosporin is classified as a mycotoxin in mycology literature. Three studies (Vogt 1990, Escribano-Patino 1995, Penn 1986) have revealed many new malignancies in transplant patients treated with Cyclosporin. One of these studies (Penn) mentioned a high frequency ...