What is cancer REALLY??

[Melanie Sauer]

Cancer, as defined by common medical terms, is an abnormal cell growth, but no-one seems to be really sure by what EXACTLY it is caused. These cells simply "choose" to mutate and behave in ways atypical to their normal characterisitics. There are a few other opinions floating around: environmental factors, heredity, or simply the power of suggestion. I am paricularly interested in these controversial viewpoints of alternative treatments that include psychological aspects. Some of the doctors I have been researching are: Dr. med. Mag. theol. Ryke Geerd Hamer, Prof. Dr. Klaus Maar, and Bruce H. Lipton, Ph.D. I would particularly enjoy the contributions of learned oncologists, psychiatrists, neurologists, biologists, physicist (prefferably with an understanding of quantum physics), specialists in psychosomatics, and/or psychoneuroimmunologists. However, any interesting contribution to the general topic of cancer is more than welcome. For instance, I would find it fascinating to hear about any "unusual" recoveries from cancer. From what the statistics are telling us, we should all be prepared to attempt some miraculous recoveries of our own in the near future, as it is foreshadowed that by 2017 cancer will be the nr. 1 cause of death world wide. What is causing this increase in cancer inflicted individuals?? Is there a general change in our genes?? Is it due to environmental and nutritional factors?? Or is it simply an outbreak of mass hysteria??