An art distributor fractured his tailbone when he was 18 years old, falling during an ice skating competition. He developed colon cancer two years later. A friend of mine who has managed grocery stores for 35 years, slips and falls at work fracturing his tailbone. Ten months after the injury, he develops rectal colon cancer. Several horseback riders who have fallen from their saddles and have ended up with an anterior compression fracture of the lumbar vertebra, months to years later end up with lupus. A 4-year-old child strikes the right side of his forehead on the edge of the tub. Six years later he develops a brain tumor where he struck his head earlier. A swim coach and a house painter both have impact injuries to the posterior arches of their thoracic vertebrae. Weeks later they both develop melanoma cancer in the skin above the arch fracture and later develop brain tumors. In 1985 Dr. Jim Larsen found a connection between vertebral fractures and autoimmune disease and cancer. He believes that stem cells from the red bone marrow of vertebrae can escape after compression fracture and leak into adjacent nerves, cerebral spinal fluid, and nearby tissues. How the individual's immune system handles the stem cell invasion determines the outcome of autoimmune disease or cancer. The most overwhelming reaction to stem cell bleeding is now called Catastrophic Immune Response, or CIR. After 33 years and over 700 cases, Dr. Larsen has revised his original book, Stem Cells and Spinal Trauma. The Bleeding Spine contains the original stories with x-rays images, new and recent stories, and updates on the difficulty in stem cell therapy. Does our body contain a self-destruct mechanism? Is cancer preventable? The stories within are about people who where healthy until a spinal trauma changed their lives. Read The Bleeding Spine and share the stories. This may help the researchers understand cancer and autoimmune disease, and how to better apply stem cell therapy.
