Mycotoxin-Related Breast Cancer, A Major Concern In Africa

Jean Schmitz (left) and Bonnie Anderson visit with a cancer patient. The Courage to Dare Foundation went to West Africa last year to promote breast cancer awareness. Credit: Courage to Dare Foundation

Used as a bio-weapon, mycotoxin has engineered many diseases in Africa, including Nodding and breast cancer.

Mr. Bernard Sode, one of my Ghanaian friends on Facebook, contacted me last year, December 23, to tell me of the death of his wife by breast cancer.

After sending my condolences, Mr. Sode, in grief, asked me,"why so many African women are dying of breast cancer?"

Breast cancer is a global issue and it is increasing rapidly. Each year more and more women are being diagnosed with breast cancer. The cause of breast cancer differs.

In this article dedicated to Evelyn Sode, Bernard's wife, the Dutch Micro-surgeon/scientist, Dongen, explains some factors which have facilitated to the rapid occurrence of breast cancer in Africa.

In Africa; mold exposure is a growing problem. What is the mold? It is a fungus that grows in the form of multicellular thread-like structures called hyphae.

African-American women have had a lower incidence, yet higher mortality rate from breast cancer compared with White-American women. Why?

African-American women also have had a higher risk for early-onset, high-grade, node positive, and hormone receptor-negative disease. Similar features have characterized hereditary breast cancer, prompting speculation that risk factors could be genetically transmitted.

Evelyn Sode, a victim of breast cancer
Further evaluation of this theory required the study of breast cancer among women from Sub-Saharan Africa because of their shared ancestry with African-American women.

Black and White women and the difference in breast cancer

The average age of breast cancer diagnosis in Africa is approximately 10 years younger than Breast Cancer BRCA patients of western nations, and disease stage distribution was shifted toward more advanced disease, which resulted in higher mortality rates. However, these features were also found to be similar to data on breast cancer in African-American women.

Moreover, mutations in BRCA1 and BRCA2 have been reported in African-American women, but the extent of the contribution of BRCA1 and BRCA2 to breast cancer burden in Africa was uncertain. Limited financial resources lead to suboptimal cancer data collection, as well as delayed diagnosis and treatment of many African breast cancer patients. At least that is what regular scientists state.

But this is absolutely not our conclusion at all. Investigation of growth and endocrine disrupting effects of the mycotoxins zearalenone and aflatoxin B1 on breast cancer in vitro due to the co-occurrence and the endocrine disrupting potentials of Zealerone ZEA and Aflatoxin AFB1. The hypothesis of this project was proposed as exposure to low doses of ZEA and AFB1 might affect the growth of hormonal dependent breast cancer.

This study confirmed the growth promoting properties of ZEA, and is the first to report the combined effects of ZEA and AFB1 on breast cancer cell growth, suggesting endocrine-disrupting mycotoxins that co-occur in a human environment can interact and modulate the effects of each other on human health.

Overall Conclusions
In history, parallels between breast cancer burdens of African-American and sub-Saharan–African women were provocative, indicating the need for further exploration of possible genetically transmitted features related to estrogen metabolism and/or breast cancer risk. And when they say further exploration is needed, then we know there are more guinea pigs experiments on Africans and African-Americans necessary.

The investigation of Alero Fregene And Lisa Newman from the Department of Surgery, University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan published in; Cancer 2005;103:1540 –50, American Cancer Society, lack one thing. Namely; the application of biowarfare agents like mycotoxin and aflatoxin in the environment such as water and food of all Sub-Saharan countries as described underneath.

Moreover, what strikes us most is that nations within the continent of Africa which are most affected are slave trade ports. During the colonial years, these slave trade ports were located in the Western African nations of Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon, Togo, Benin, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Gambia, Guinea, Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, and as far south as Angola.

The term sub-Saharan Africa includes these nations, as well as The Republic of the Congo, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia, Kenya, Uganda, and South Africa. Remarkable is the fact that the increase of breast cancer is found in these countries and in South Africa, but Lesotho and Swaziland are mostly affected.

Environmental health experts in Africa are seeing increasing numbers of individuals with a complex myriad of symptoms directly related to mold exposure. Because mold-related disorders are so often unrecognized and misdiagnosed. We have been posting a series of articles about mold, its potential dangers and the origin of diseases.

All too often, drugs are prescribed that don't address the underlying problem and have side effects that further compromise immune response, further impairing your body's natural ability to heal itself. Even the development of Aids and nodding disease is possible.

One of our discoveries is that there is only one sickness causality, and that is the over-acidification of the blood and tissues in these patients caused by eating poisoned food or living in a certain biological warfare environment, people become overly-acidified.

Mold The Cause Of Mycotoxicoses And Breast Cancer

Mycotoxicoses, like all toxicological syndromes, can be categorized as acute or chronic. Acute toxicity generally has a rapid onset and an obvious toxic response, while chronic toxicity is characterized by low-dose exposure over a long time period, resulting in cancers and other generally irreversible effects.

Symptoms of mycotoxicoses are usually a flu kind of reaction but people are unaware that they have been exposed to toxic mold in their environment. The first step is to identify your symptoms. Most victims will exhibit one, ten or up to twenty or more symptoms on a daily basis.

The most important information about these symptoms can be connected to many other diseases or toxicities. Therefore one must be sure they are dealing with toxic mold. Currently; the only way to prove that a person's symptoms are related to toxic mold spores that put off toxins called 'mycotoxins' is to be tested for the presence of 'mycotoxins' in the body.

Breast Cancer And Mycotoxin
Breast cancer in Africa is associated with an increased frequency of the consumption of mold-poisoned food. Fungi produce toxic metabolites that are referred to as mycotoxins. These can cause cancer. Aflatoxin is a mycotoxin with carcinogenic potential.

This is found in inferior peanut butter and other nut and dairy products. But mycotoxin is also found in water, swimming pools and in remote parts of the jungle as Belgian paratroopers found out in Rwanda and the former Belgian Congo.