A very recent study was published in the Nature journal on the causes of cancer, especially the “modifiable” causes of cancer, being those you have control over or can change. This new study (Fink et al, 2026) suggests that while cancers are a leading cause of mortality and burden on personal and national health budgets, there are 30 modifiable factors which can greatly prevent or reduce the risks of cancer. As such, up to 30% of cancers in women, and over 57% of cancers in men are preventable!

Some of the modifiable factors to prevent cancer include smoking, alcohol intake, having a high body mass index (ie, being overweight), low physical activity, UV radiation, infections, exposure to various toxicities, and more.
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But the study didn’t even look at foods or diets that people eat, of nutrient deficiencies or excesses as modifiable risk factors! So the cancer prevention rates are actually very much higher than stated above!

One study in the past, entitled “Cancer is a preventable disease that requires major lifestyle changes” (Anand et. al, 2008) looked at the cancer prevention rates in a different way, such as the percentage of cancers which may have a genetic cause compared to non-genetic or environmental and lifestyle (ie, modifiable) causes. This study showed that the largest modifiable factors for cancer development were your diet (30-35%), smoking (25-30%), infections (15-20%), and obesity (10-20%), but genetics only contributes a 5-10% risk to cancer development. Therefore 90-95% of cancers are driven by your modifiable choices! Hence in reality, 90-95% of cancers are preventable!

This information is important for prevention of cancers, but also in the treatment of cancers too!

When has a doctor or oncologist ever mentioned how you can reduce your risks of cancer, or improve your chances of recovery from cancer, by recommending dietary and lifestyle improvements which make up 95% of the causes (and treatments!) for cancer?! You can have all the surgeries, chemotherapy and radiation treatments that doctors recommend, but if you don’t make environmental changes to your diet and lifestyle, you can pretty much guarantee that the cancer will come back. Nobody wants that.
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I have detailed consultations with cancer patients, especially in the initial consultation, to ask a lot of questions to find all the root causes and factors for the cancer development and progression in each person. Then I recommend specific and personalised dietary, lifestyle, and other treatment recommendations. This gives the best possible outcomes for your cancer treatment.

See my website for more information and bookings.

Stay healthy!

References:
Anand, P,. Kunnumakkara, A,B., Sundaram, C., Harikumar, K.B., Tharakan, S.T., Lai, O.S., Sung, B., Aggarwal, B.B. (2008). Cancer is a preventable disease that requires major lifestyle changes. Pharmaceutical Research, 25 (9). DOI: 10.1007/s11095-008-9661-9.

Fink, H., Langselius, O., Vignat, J. Rumgay, H., Rehm, J., Martinez, R.X., Santero, M., Lopez-Perez, L., Inoue, M., Zeng, H., Shield, K., Morgan, E., Ilbawi. A., & Soerjomataram, I. (2026). Global and regional cancer burden attributable to modifiable risk factors to inform prevention. Nature Medicine. DOI: 10.1038/s41591-026-04219-7

August 22nd is Daffodil Day, an annual fundraising initiative by the Cancer Council, for "research" into cancer.

But first, some statistics - over 145,000 Australians are diagnosed with cancer each year, in one in every two men and one in every three women, which is increasing. The most common types of cancers are prostate and breast cancers, mainly being hormonally caused, and bowel cancer, melanoma and lung cancer too.
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Tragically, cancer rates have massively skyrocketed in the last 4 years, for many different types of cancers. I have experienced this in my clinic. I wonder what change happened in the last 4 years to cause this?

In reality, cancer affects everyone - family, friends, children, and colleagues of those who know those who have been diagnosed and are suffering through their typical medical treatments.

What is cancer? The usual definitions say "cancer is a disease caused by an uncontrolled division of abnormal cells in a part of the body". But this definition is wrong, as cancer is NOT a "disease"!

My more correct definition is “cancer is a SYMPTOM of chronic and systemic dysfunction, toxicity and disease, which causes the cells to lack the ability to perform normal functions such as growth, metabolism and programmed cell death”. Therefore cancer is the result of whole body disease, not just of the tumour or cancer cells, which is the symptom of the condition. Hence treating the whole body is key to beating cancer and recovering! Treating each person as an individual is also needed, and treating all the root causes in each person as everyone’s causes of cancer are different.

It is a shame that a diagnosis of cancer is such a stressful, traumatic and scary one, when it really shouldn't be. Modern cancer treatments are built on fear of the worst possible outcome, and the suffering that we all see those undergoing treatment are experiencing. Again, a treatment really shouldn't be like this.

Today the Cancer Council want your money. Allegedly for research into improved understanding of cancer and for novel medical and pharmaceutical treatments to "cure" it. With the cancer industry making a $200 billion a year just in cancer medicines, I don't think we will see a medical "cure" anytime soon. But they still want your money to fund "research" to keep this industry going.

What will the Cancer Council do with your money? See the profit and loss statement in the attached pictures... in 2023, the Cancer Council Australia had over $31 million in income, from grants, bequests, donations, and products, but they spent just $305,113 or 0.96% of their income on research! That is utterly pathetic. They wasted 99% of their income and your donations on themselves and marketing to keep the organisation going... Your money is not going towards cancer research.

So no, I won't be contributing to Daffodil Day, or any other cancer "research" organisation.

I will instead, help my cancer clients by finding and treating the root causes of cancer, which are well known - and helping them with safer, less damaging, natural treatments instead.

Stay healthy.

References:
Cancer Council Australia. (2024). Cancer Council Australia Full Financial Report. Retrieved 22nd August 2024 from www.cancer.org.au/assets/pdf/cca-financial-report-2022-2023