A woman discovers the source of cancer is bacterial, rather than viral, and spends years in the mid-1900s researching a protocol to successfully destroy it. But the medical establishment vilifies and ignores her findings. So she goes it alone, establishing her own medical clinic that has phenomenal survival rates. Sounds like a Michael Chrichton techno-thriller? No way! It's the real-life story of Virginia Livingston-Wheeler, M.D., a brilliant, stubborn, pioneering microbiologist and epidemiologist whose cure for cancer will one day be viewed alongside the discoveries of Pasteur, Curie, and Salk/Sabin. This story is more relevant today than ever before because the latest science is now validating her protocols. Antitubercular vaccines, autogenous vaccines (prepared from the patient's own tumor), high doses of vitamins A, C, D, E, and essential minerals, and an immune-boosting diet high in cancer-fighting foods like broccoli sprouts and tomatoes are recommended by the academy that once denounced her. That's what motivated author Edmond G. Addeo, who first wrote about the doctor in The Conquest of Cancer (Franklin-Watts, 1985), to revisit and update her story in this book. Addeo is convinced that laypeople- especially the millions diagnosed with new cancers each year- are anxiously searching for a real cure, while newly trained practitioners are bound to be more receptive to the innovative work of "Dr. Virginia," as he calls her. Much of the book recounts Addeo's original research into Dr. Virginia's scientific discoveries that led to successful treatment modalities- 80 to 90 percent cure rate in comparison with the standard rate of 15 to 20 percent. Three chapters deal with hard science: why Dr. Virginia rejected the three conventional cancer treatments of surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation; how the immune system works; and her discovery of the cancer microbe and development of a vaccine to destroy it. Another chapter surveys the many articles she published about the bacterial nature of cancer and subsequent record-breaking treatment of it. Throughout the book are news updates about current cancer treatments, research projects, and nutritional developments that confirm Dr. Virginia's visionary work- promoting the body's innate ability to combat cancer.
