High Fever & Cancer

Most cases of spontaneous regression of cancer (when it disappears without treatment), have occurred after a fever in excess of 104 F. There is a range between 103.5 and 106 degrees F where tumor cells will die but normal tissue will survive. It’s not the heat that kills, it’s the difference in blood supply and metabolism, or how the two types of cells get energy from food and oxygen. Normal cells are organized with precise borders, like a neat suburban tract seen from the air. Power, gas, and clean water flow in, sewage flows out, and the systems work well because they are designed for the number of housing units.

Now look at a shantytown slum where the shacks are piled on top of each other, with a muddy ditch for water supply and sewage disposal. That’s a tumor colony, and because they don’t belong there, never signed a lease with management, and violate the zoning laws, the cells are always running a deficit for energy. Your cells have two ways to get the energy dollars called ATP to spend: clean and slow with oxygen, quick and dirty without it, resulting in lactic acid, which causes muscle soreness after hard exercise.
The rapid growth and poor supply of tumor cells means that their lactic acid buildup is higher, and the pH inside the cells is lower than normal cells

At high fevers, the part of the brain that regulates temperature called the hypothalamus shuts down nonessential supply girds to conserve oxygen to the brain, which cannot make lactic acid. Cancer cells are forced to choose: starve for energy and die, or make more lactic acid, which they cannot flush away, and they die from acid buildup. A hundred years ago a doctor in Baltimore named William Coley saw that cancer patients who had high fevers after surgery did better than those who did not. He used bacterial toxins to induce high fevers, and achieved a remarkable response rate: up to 45% of bone and breast cancer patients. This is superior to many chemotherapy drugs, but after the antibiotic revolution, his therapy faded into obscurity, although his toxins are still legally available through a clinic in Wisconsin.