Page 149Kobayashi
Finally, I thought I would bring you up to date with the remarkable work of
Dr. Kobayashi, a Japanese oncologist. He has developed a panel of ten tumor
markers coupled with a computerized algorithm that is clearly very useful in the
early detection of cancer.
By combining several markers at once and having a computer program seek out
the patterns that are suggestive of cancer is a big step forward. I’m sure there
will be other work like this in future; but for the moment Kobayashi is out on his
own.
He uses three series of markers:
Tumor specific ones; tumor associated markers and simply growth related
markers. I’m not going to list them all here.
But suffice it to say he can detect cancers fairly accurately that weigh about a
gram or less. That’s too small to show up on any conventional screening and too
small almost to be detected by the eye at surgery. So he may have something
important for us here.
Dr. Kobayashi has not only refined the sensitivity and range of the normal
values of these markers, but has weighted their level of importance and inter-
relationship as a pattern recognition for 5 tumor stages.
He classifies the results as: Tumor free, two levels of Pre-cancer, Pre-clinical
cancer and, five, results suggestive of cancer weighing over 1 gram.
This tumor classification can pretty accurately assess the risk of cancer
developing in apparently healthy persons.
The great thing with Kobayashi is that he is a conventional doctor given over the
mainly holistic methods.
For example he studied the benefits of fasting for cancer patients—remember
everything I said about diet in earlier talks in this series. Austrian herbal
naturopath Rudolph Breuss healed cases of cancer of the larynx, intestines,