Early childhood emotional trauma: an important factor in the aetiology of cancer and other diseases

The purpose of this article is to view the evidence to support a connection between early childhood trauma and subsequent cancer. This trauma has a critical period and must occur within the first 7 to 8 years of life and its long latency period will await the necessary trigger, in later life, which will activate the cancer. The important part played by repressed emotions will be explored, in this early age group, which would appear to be the significant missing link connecting early trauma to later emotional and physical diseases, including cancer. However, this trauma does not have to proceed to its inevitable conclusion, but, with the right intervention, this process can be successfully treated and the "time bomb" awaiting the activating trigger can be successfully defused. Furthermore, to look at the part played by stress, caused by the trauma, together with the repressed emotions and how they suppress the immune system and therefore prevents it from performing it's normal function, that of fighting disease and how, by resolving the trauma and eliminating the associated stress, it can reactivate the immune system, thereby allowing it to perform it's natural function. The intervention will be discussed, explaining the method used and how any primary and secondary traumas are located and dealt with.