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“home in” to the liver. The attraction of certain metals, like thu-
lium, gallium, technetium specifically to cancer sites has been
the feature making bone scans possible. Cobalt is specially at-
tracted to dividing cells.^30 The attractive force between bacteria
and white blood cells can be “felt” for long distances; it is de-
stroyed by heavy metals and fungus toxins.^31
Perhaps some of these are not true forces—but just an acci-
dent of shape or chemistry, the way a kitchen sink drains and
“attracts” water because of the hole in the base. Perhaps cell di-
vision itself makes cells act like a “sink.”
Whatever the mechanism, heavy metals now arrive at the
tiny site undergoing rapid mitosis: copper, cobalt, vanadium,
germanium, lead, mercury, thallium, nickel, cadmium, and the
lanthanides (“rare earth” elements). As well as arsenic, asbestos,
freon, silicone, urethane, acrylic acid, and other non-metals.
Copper, cobalt, and vanadium are always there, detected by the
Syncrometer; the others are often there. Most of them are
known mutagens.^32 Together, they begin using up all the sulfur
that is available in the cells: all the cysteine, methionine,
taurine, glutathione, SAM, pantothenic acid, coenzyme A, and
vitamin B 1 (thiamin) because these all contain sulfur.
Metals (except the lanthanides) typically combine with sul-
fur to form sulfides. This also detoxifies them in the body, solu-
bilizing them, so they can be excreted. Soon the cells are in sul-
fur bankruptcy. Cysteine and methionine are amino acids, glu-
tathione is a reducer and immune-supporter, SAM and coen-
zyme A do other vital chemistry, and pantothenic acid and vi-
tamin B 1 are essential parts (cofactors) that enzymes must have
(^30) Liquier-Milward, J., Tracer Studies on Cobalt Incorporation into Growing Tumors:
Uptake of Radioactive Co^60 by Normal and Malignant Cells, Can. Res., 1957, pp.
841-44.
(^31) Ward, P.A., Goldschmidt, P., Greene, N.D., Suppressive Effects of Metal Salts on
Leukocyte and Fibroblastic Function, Journal of the Reticuloendothelial Society, v.
18, no. 5, Nov. 1975, pp. 313-21.
(^32) Sigel, Helmut (ed), Metal Ions In Biological Systems, Carcinogenicity and Metal
Ions, Marcel Dekker, Inc., v. 10, 1980, chapter 3. Issaq, H.J., The Role of Metals in
Tumor Development and Inhibition, pp. 55-93, but this entire volume is devoted to
various aspects of metal involvement in cancer.