The Nitrogen Connection and Immunotherapy

It may be added that vitamin C has been found to inhibit the nitrosation of amines in the stomach, thus preventing the formation of nitrosamines (Williams and Weisburger, authors of a chapter titled Chemical Carcinogenesis, in Amdur et al., 1991, p. 146). 

Cause and effect actions may be viewed differently, either independent of the immune system or totally related to it. And in the end we may be talking about the very same thing, only in different ways, and providing different explanations. As for the immune system and its purposes, it can be said that helping the immune system is but a way to help the body itself. In other words, it can be declared a traism that if the immune system is effective, the cancer cells will not grow and multiply, and vice versa. 

There are five reported orthodox anticancer immune therapies (Walters, 1993, p. 56). These include BCG, interferon, interleukin-1 or interleukin-2, tumor necrosis factor or TNF (necrosis means death), and monoclonal antibodies. The first, BCG (Bacillus Cahnette-Guerin), is described as a tuberculin vaccine that stimulates the body to kill cancer cells, and it has been said that it apparently works best when administered with chemotherapy. (However, BCG has entered into mainstream cancer therapy as a treatment against bladder cancer.) Interferon, a family of proteins, is approved for only two kinds of cancer and may prove to be of limited value in others. Both interferon and the interleukins (another family of proteins) have mainly proved to be disappointments. TNF, produced in minute quantities in the body and otherwise expensive, has achieved some dramatic results on mouse cancer. With 

There seems to be a connection with chemically bound nitrogen and the inunune system in one form or another. 

According to Stanislaw Burzynski and his Antineoplaston Therapy, the body s nitrogen content is in the form of amino acid derivatives that are said to inhibit the growth of cancer cells (Walters, 1993, p. 17). These substances are thought to form a biochemical defense against cancer by reprogramming the defective cells. The action is different from that of the immune system, which destroys defective cells. 

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