In the treatment of cancer it is to be expected that at the beginning of the disease it may be possible to keep it where it is, preventing it from enlarging, and also to prevent the tumor from ulceration. It happens that in some cases, incipient cancer is healed, but as for established cancer, no.
Often hidden cancer arises in the viscera, and the good, as Hippocrates says, then lies in not touching it. If he is touched, this sometimes leads to death, and if he is left and not treated, then the matter often drags on for a long time and quite happily, especially if the patient is fed correctly, choosing foods from among those that are cooling, moisturizing and generate calm, benign matter; such as, for example, barley water, fish from rivers with rocky bottoms, soft-boiled egg yolks, and the like. If there is a fever, then they give freshly obtained and strained cow's buttermilk, as well as dishes prepared from fresh vegetables, even pumpkin.
Sometimes a small cancer can be excised, and if the cancer can be destroyed by something, then it can only be destroyed by a strong excision to the base, extending to the tissues surrounding the tumor, they are cut out and all the vessels feeding the cancer are removed so that not a single one remains, and after this it should let my blood flow out. Sometimes they first cleanse the body of bad matter by laxation or bloodletting and then keep it clean by giving foods that are good in quantity and quality, and strengthening the organ to drive away the matter. However, excision in most cases only makes matters worse.
Sometimes, after excision, cauterization is also required, and cauterization often poses a great danger, especially when the cancer is located near the main, precious organs. One of the ancients says that a doctor cut out a woman’s cancer-stricken breast to the ground, but the cancer spread to the other breast. And I will say: it is possible that the second breast was already on the way to cancer, and the cutting off coincided with this circumstance, or the disease occurred as a result of the movement of matter. The latter is more obvious.