Spiked: Unprovoked Clots are an Early Warning for Cancer

It's not just heart attacks and strokes, watch out for DVTs and PEs too.

Even before COVID and the shots, blood clots have long been a relatively common reason for an emergency room visit. They often happen in a leg leading to sudden swelling, or in the lungs leading to chest pain, shortness of breath and low blood oxygen.

Smaller clots can happen in the brain causing a stroke or in the heart causing a heart attack.

Whatever anyone tells you, they have always been vanishingly rare in children, and they have nothing to do with global warming or eggs.

In the legs they’re called a DVT or deep vein thrombosis and in the lungs referred to as a PE or pulmonary embolism. Once clotting starts it can often progress unless treated - the clot propagates, making even more clot - and the ones in the legs can break off and travel up into the lungs.

Of course clotting can be a normal occurrence and lifesaving in the right circumstances. If you cut yourself you need to clot in order to stop bleeding, so there are signals the body depends on to tell that clotting needs to happen.

Perhaps the most important signal is a break in the blood vessel wall, which under normal circumstances in a healthy person would indicate macroscopic trauma like a cut. Once clotting starts in this situation there are chemical reactions that limit the extent of the clot to the area that needs to be plastered over by the scab.

All this begs the question: why do people clot without good reason?

The basic causes are 3 and have been known since at least the 1800s, described by Rudolph Virchow and famously styled Virchow’s Triad for generations of med students: 1. sluggish blood flow, 2. trauma and an increase in the inherent predisposition to clotting that can happen for a number of reasons since there are numerous clotting chemicals that can become deranged.

A rare example of the latter “hypercoagulability” would be a genetic predisposition that led to too many pro clotting proteins in the blood.

Pre COVID-era when someone came into the hospital with a DVT or PE and there was no obvious reason for it (like trauma, or prolonged immobilization from a cast or due to paralysis), or the location was unusual e.g. in the arm rather than the leg, a workup would be undertaken to determine if they had a genetic predisposition to clotting or some other unusual cause.

One of the important causes of clotting is cancer, which is strongly associated with DVTs and PEs. Cancers seem to abnormally increase the activation of clotting proteins normally present in the blood.

So an unexpected, unexplained DVT or PE was sometimes the first sign in a patient of an otherwise occult (medical speak for hidden, not black magic) cancer.

In cases with no obvious triggering factor we might initiate some basic cancer screening looking for the usual suspects: colon, lung, breast, prostate, etc. A typical workup depending on the degree of suspicion might include CT scans, mammograms, colonoscopy, and a small handful of tumor markers.

Nowadays the first thought in my mind would be not cancer, but spike protein. The spike damages blood vessel walls which can lead to clotting. And within the blood it also triggers the formation of numerous very difficult to break down amyloid fibrin micro clots.

However the spike protein can also cause cancer. For example by inhibition of the important P53 tumor suppressor gene. And as we know cancer can also lead to clotting.

You hear a lot about heart attacks, strokes and PEs because they are often lethal or disabling.

You don’t hear as much about DVTs, but they are also happening to the vaccine injured and to long haulers. Perhaps the majority are simply spike induced clotting, without cancer, but in some cases the clots may be the first indication of a “turbo cancer”.

Nowadays there are advanced methods of early detection for cancer. Instead of a colonoscopy there are home stool testing kits. One company uses a number of common blood tumor markers, but interprets them more accurately with AI. Another detects fragments of DNA released by tumor cells into the blood stream, that can detect 50+ cancers at very early stages.

Cancer screening always carries the risk of over diagnosis. For example one 10 year study split a group of matched women into those who received regular mammograms and those who did not.

The mammogram group was diagnosed with more cancers throughout the study and subsequently underwent more chemo, radiation and surgery.

The other group was screened at the end of the study for cancer and was confirmed to have far fewer cancers overall, which made no sense since they were otherwise a well matched cohort with equivalent risk factors.

This led to one interpretation suggesting that many of the cancers that were detected in the mammogram group would have spontaneously regressed on their own, as they appeared to have done in the no screening group of women.

Despite this risk of over diagnosis, if there is high enough index of suspicion, cancer screening might be life saving, e.g. in a patient with an unprovoked DVT/PE who is heavily vaxxed (or just has a high level of spike indicated by a high spike antibody, which can also occur post infection or shedding), has a heavy burden of microclots, and elevated vascular inflammatory markers like VEGF or SCD40L.

If it turns out that it is cancer, there is now a detailed monograph describing lifestyle interventions and very promising off label drugs with anti cancer effects put together by Dr Paul Marik of FLCCC fame and I wrote a viral blog post on 4 of those compounds here:

Can 2 Cheap Meds, 1 Vitamin & Baking Soda Kill Any Cancer?

Of course if it is a spike induced cancer, clearing out spike protein would also be a top priority. Some of the most important susbtances for that are nattokinase and augmented NAC, though there are many approaches that may be part of a more comprehensive protocol.

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