According to Dr. Jason Fung, cancer cells can evade the immune system by mimicking normal cells and hiding from immune surveillance. To boost cancer immunity, it’s essential to understand how cancer cells interact with the immune system.

In a recent episode of Vital Signs, an Epoch TV video series, Dr. Fung explains how cancer acts like an infection and how the immune system is constantly fighting cancer.

There are cases where a person’s melanoma is removed and it is thought to be gone, says “The Cancer Code’s” author, Dr. Jason Fung.  “Twenty years later, that person dies in a car accident and their lung is transplanted to someone else; and later that person develops rampant melanoma, he says, “because the cancer was still there, it was just being kept in check so efficiently by the immune system.”

Hundreds or even thousands of cells are constantly mutating toward cancer, says Dr. Fung.

Dr. Fung is a nephrologist – a kidney health specialist – and an expert in intermittent fasting and low-carb dietary means to counter disease, including obesity and type 2 diabetes.

Yesterday, he joined Vital Signs with Brendon Fallon to reveal how our bodies naturally fight cancer and how this aligns with a new concept of cancer as an infectious disease, as seen with lung cancer caused by smoking, for example.

“That lung cell … has transformed into a sort of survivalist lung cell, it’s trying to survive at all costs against this chronic smoking damage,” says Dr. Fung.  “Now, it actually behaves exactly like a single-celled organism, or, for example, an infection.”

In ‘Cancer Code Part 1’, Fallon and Dr. Fung probe what drives cells to become cancerous and why cancer often persists despite immune system surveillance.

Below is the trailer for Part 1.  The full episode is not available on Epoch TV’s YouTube channel.  After creating an account by providing your email address, you can watch the full 23-minute episode on Epoch TV’s website HERE.  A free account with Epoch TV will give you access to a limited number of articles and videos each month.  It is well worth watching the full episode as it will change your view on what cancer actually is and how it should be treated.

‘Cancer Code Part 2’ is about the cancer-obesity link and improving the “soil” that allows cancer to grow and has not yet been released.   You can keep an eye out to see when it is released HERE.

Further reading: Can we prevent cancer just by fasting? Lewis Howes, 13 November 2020 (accompanying video on YouTube HERE)