@Bob Moffit,

Sorry About that

Regularly reading your comments, I detect a fantastic grasp of all the awful things that have changed our grandchildren forever.

Regards

Ed

Hi Hera,

I think my purpose in writing this is multi-faceted. First, these studies have been coming out for years attempting to show a correlation of autism to cancer. Some seemed more like genetic hogwash or a possible precursor commercial for a new drug that is for cancer and could then be used for autism.

With the newer research on the microbiome though, we can maybe see a more pertinent connection but not via genes per se, so this quote - "University of Iowa researchers have found that, although patients with autism have increased mutations in genes that potentially lead to cancer, they also have decreased rates of cancer.

“It’s a very provocative result that makes sense on one level and is extremely perplexing on another,” Benjamin Darbro, team leader and assistant professor of medical genetics in the UI Carver College of Medicine, said in a news release."

The search for genes and mutations to connect autism to cancer may be the wrong suspects in this investigation. And the fact that age lessens any "protection" from getting cancer may point to the ever glowing evidence of inflammation smoldering via gut to brain.

The gene guys are losing in all of this research and the culprits of "environmental stressors" for both autism and cancer (and more) are in the gut (then brain).

So again, it is the microbiome that is the key.

Gail,

"Sadly her son developed a brain tumor last April"

There are probably HUNDREDS of links between autism and cancer, depending on how a link is defined! In my eBook (Pervasive Causes of Disease), I identify foundational contributing factors to many diseases (that's where the 'pervasive' comes from). Thus, smoking may contribute to lung cancer and cardiovascular disease. The cancer and CVD could be in different people, and they are linked through the smoking. Or, they could occur in the same individual, and still be linked through the smoking.

Take the example of brain tumor you mentioned. Heavy cell phone use over a decade leads to substantially increased incidence of certain forms of brain cancer, with the rate of increase escalating as one starts cell phone usage at younger ages. According to Martin Pall, RF radiation is a substantial contributing factor to autism, since it keeps the voltage-gated calcium channels open longer than normal, and the excess influx of calcium causes neurological damage. So, the RF radiation provides the common link between autism and cancer. I would suspect cancer and autism share many foundational causes, and the title of the thread posting should be no surprise. In fact, the surprise would be if there are no common linkages/causes.

@ Ed Yazbak

Thanks for links .. unfortunately .. as I said .. I am an uneducated grandpa .. and .. as such .. I find the "conclusions" in them so complex .. that I cannot understand them. Consider them:

"Our updated reanalysis provided little or no evidence to support NCI’s suggestion of a persistent association between FA exposure and mortality from NPC. NCI’s suggestion continues to be driven heavily by anomalous findings in one study plant (Plant 1)."

"..... Finally, we compare a new bottom-up slope estimate of the risk of rat nasal cancer with conventional top-down estimates obtained with empirical dose-response modeling of rat nasal cancer bioassay data."

".... In conclusion, tumor tissue-derived endogenous formaldehyde induced bone cancer pain via TRPV1 activation."

Unfortunately .. while I openly admit I cannot understand the "scientific conclusions" .. since it is all gibberish to me .. the fact remains .. formaldehyde a well-known .. scientifically recognized carcinogen .. remains in childhood vaccines.

As I am trying to say .. is "common sense" .. stupid?

@ Tim Ludeen

"formaldehyde is an ingredient in vaccines because the immune system reacts much more strongly to formaldehyde-damaged proteins. There can't be very much free formaldehyde in the vaccine when injected, because formaldehyde is highly reactive -- its half-life in the body is about 1.5 minutes."

Thanks for your explanation .. however .. as I said .. I am an uneducated senior citizen .. and .. as such .. I cannot fathom why a well-known .. toxic .. chemical substance like formaldehyde .. which a FULLY GROWN human being cannot safely .. breathe, eat or touch .. is somehow "safe" when INJECTED .. into a TODDLER .. bypassing that toddler's natural immune defenses .. his lungs, digestive tract or skin?

In any event .. I sure as hell hope that INJECTED formaldehyde has the same .. "half-life in the body of a TODDLER .. of about "1.5 minutes" ... as it does in a fully mature adult human being .. because .. in my addled mind .. 1.5 minutes in a TODDLER does not equal the same 1.5 minutes in an ADULT.

Maybe it's just me.

The only adult I've ever known who had autism (Asperger's) died of a heart condition. Turns out the heart condition is directly tied to ... mercury!

Out of all of my 30-something friends, most of their children have add, anxiety, autism. The two kids in my circle without learning disabiliites have serious cancers; neuroblastoma and leukemia. The autoimmune implications of pediatric leukemia are certainly linked to vaccines.

It is so interesting that you write this. There is a boy whose mom used to have a blog and who was in with the the neurodiverse crowd. Sadly her son developed a brain tumor last April. He is now dying. Heartwrenching. I was sickened to read one day (she has a public facebook page now) when she wrote that she made sure he received his flu vaccines while undergoing treatment. The ignorance of the mother adds to the sadness of the situation.

"I know many parents, myself included, who would say vaccination was THE environmental stressor which caused regression in our children. Cancer would be the cruelest insult to injury."

Amen to that. Admittedly .. as an uneducated senior citizen .. I have always questioned why formaldehyde .. a known carcinogen and mutagen is a far too common ingredient in so many childhood vaccines?

Here is an article asking the same questions as myself:

http://healthimpactnews.com/2015/formaldehyde-a-poison-and-carcinogen-used-in-vaccines/

Sorry for the length .. the article begins ...

"Warning of the dangers of formaldehyde in the workplace, the government’s own Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) says, “health hazards of formaldehyde are primarily due to its toxic effects after inhalation, after direct contact with the skin or eyes by formaldehyde in liquid or vapor form, and after ingestion” adding that “Ingestion of as little as 30 ml of a 37% solution of formaldehyde (formalin) can result in death” and “Diverse damage to other organ systems including the liver, kidney, spleen, pancreas, brain, and central nervous systems can occur from the acute response to ingestion of formaldehyde.”

Yet, they don’t even mention the effects of exposure by injection, as when formaldehyde is pumped into a newborn baby as part of the HepB vaccine, currently given right after birth, or along with a host of other vaccine ingredients injected over the next few months of the infant’s life

The Rationale for Using Formaldehyde in Vaccines?

"Most people first become familiar with noxious-smelling formalin, the liquid form of formaldehyde, in high school biology labs. It only takes a whiff to know the stuff is poison. But scientific and hospital laboratories are not by any means the only, or even the most common, sources of formaldehyde exposure. For one thing, formaldehyde is a natural byproduct of decomposition, and as such is found in very small amounts in most living organisms, from plants to animals, and including humans.3 In the limited quantities involved in natural exposure, as occurs when formaldehyde is produced, inhaled or ingested in tiny amounts, the chemical is rapidly broken down by specialized enzymes in the body and is either breathed out as CO2 or excreted in urine.

It is this natural ability of the body to neutralize naturally occurring formaldehyde that is proposed as justification for using formaldehyde as a vaccine ingredient, although few data actually address the pharmacologic differences between ingesting or inhaling the chemical and INJECTING .. (My caps).. it, effectively bypassing the body’s usual method of breaking down the toxin. One might assume that, since formaldehyde is routinely used in many vaccines given to babies, even tiny and vulnerable premature infants, studies would have looked at whether it is safe to inject this poison directly into their immature systems. No such studies appear to have been done."

Indeed .. little Is Known About Injected Formaldehyde

"In the majority of studies, human data on the toxic effects of formaldehyde refer to the compound inhaled as a gas, and it is generally reported to be essentially harmless and easily metabolized, with most governing bodies agreeing that the small amounts inhaled, ingested, or injected in vaccines are safe for even the smallest of infants. A model-based study, “assuming metabolism at the site of injection only,” reported that “formaldehyde is essentially completely removed from the site of injection within 30 minutes,” and used that modeling data to predict that infant systemic levels would reflect less than 1% of the usual environmental exposure level.

The Food and Drug Administration reports that, “There is no evidence linking cancer to infrequent exposure to tiny amounts of formaldehyde via injection as occurs with vaccines.”

What they do not seem to consider is that infants are systematically given multiple doses of vaccines at one time, so it is the combined level of formaldehyde exposure that needs to be calculated, not the amount in a single vaccine dose. According to Dr. Sherri J. Tenpenny’s Integrative Medical Center, by the time a child has reached 5 years of age, he or she has been injected with a total of 1,795 micrograms (mcg), or 1.795 milligrams of formaldehyde, as follows18:
•Hepatitis b – 3 doses x 15 mcg each
•DTaP – 5 doses x 100 mcg each
•Polio (IPV) – 5 doses x 200 mcg each
•Influenza – 6 doses x 25 mcg each
•Hepatitis A – 1 dose x 100 mcg each

Teresa's column has the following quote:

"Five years ago, if you had asked me about bacteria in your gut playing an important role in your systemic immune response, I probably would have laughed it off," Daniel Chen, head of cancerimmunotherapy research at Roche’s Genentech division, said in a phone interview. "Most of us immunologists now believe that there really is an important interaction there."

Let's hope and pray that Daniel Chen and his fellow cancerimmunotherapy researchers haven't overlooked the potential "important interaction" between "injected formaldehyde" and cancer.