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Steps to Recovery for
Cancer Freshmen by Cancer Graduates
D.
CANCER GRADUATES
FOUNDERS’ CASE HISTORIES
They illustrate two approaches,
conventional therapy first or alternative therapy first.
I thought cigars were supposed to be safe,
but after a decade of smoking them, my bleeding lip was diagnosed as
leukoplakia, a pre-cancerous condition, and an X-ray revealed a large black
spot in one lung. Things got worse. My first son started having trouble with
his school work. It turned out to be a brain tumor. Eventually my wife was
diagnosed with breast cancer.
When we learned the shocking news about
our son, we assembled a team of the best doctors we could find, headed by a
professor from Stanford and a professor from the University of California. Our
dedicated doctors tried everything they knew - surgery, chemotherapy and
radiation. But each treatment seemed to produce a dramatic deterioration of our
son's condition. After heart-rending months of failed treatments and dashed
hopes, he was unable to speak, and could only crawl. He had regressed from
schoolboy to infant. One day, he stopped breathing. I gave him CPR for over
half an hour, until the paramedics arrived at long last. It was too late.
MARIA TRIES CONVENTIONAL THERAPY FIRST
"Our son’s illness had bankrupted us, so we were on
Medicaid when I became ill and was diagnosed with breast cancer. Doctors tried
surgery, but it spread the cancer cells. Frightening lumps began to grow on my
arm and on my neck. Doctors told me I now had terminal cancer. They said I
could probably live another six months if I got chemotherapy. That was over 20
years ago when chemotherapy was terribly incapacitating, as we had just seen
with our son. I decided that it just wasn’t worth getting chemotherapy for six
months of disabling illness.
Those were frightening times, because we
didn’t know where to turn. Before, when it became clear our son’s treatments
weren’t working, we had consulted with doctors around the world for help. Our
well-intentioned doctors protected us from the "quack" treatments we
found. Now we had nothing to loose. My husband borrowed some money from his
brother so we could give the "quack" treatments a try.
I went to the cancer clinic of Dr.
Contreras, Sr., (which has now become the modern Oasis of Hope hospital) where I
received many I.V. nutrients, including Vitamin C, enzymes and laetrile, which
soon stopped the cancer from growing.
Many recovered patients and a few doctors
had told us about the Gerson therapy. It included a vegan diet, and frequent,
freshly made vegetable juices. We started doing it at home and I began to feel
better. It included supplements and caffeine infusions to the liver (misnamed
coffee enemas) to speed detoxification from fats and toxins that could suppress
my recovery.
I also tried immunotherapy, including
herbs and thymus for the T-cells. Our family doctor agreed to give me a shot of
BCG tuberculosis vaccine to stimulate the immune system. He made me write that
I was requesting it to prevent tuberculosis, so he wouldn’t get into trouble for
doing alternative cancer therapy. He had to give it in a special way, right
under the skin where all the nerves and dendrite cells would trigger the
maximum reaction. I wasn’t prepared for the awful, searing pain, but I couldn’t
let on because my husband looked like he was ready to pass out.
Soon the lumps started to melt away. Six
months after I started these alternative therapies, I was cancer-free. It took
much longer to get all my energy back.
It was very difficult doing all those
treatments as an out patient, especially on days when I had to drive myself.
Those hourly fresh juices were another problem, even though the family made
many of them. If I had to do it again, I would hire help to make the juices or
go to a hospital that could provide a good vegan diet and fresh vegetable
juices every hour.
When a couple looses a child, they share
so many painful memories that there is an 80% chance of divorce. Now I will let
my ex-husband finish his story . . .
ED TRIES ALTERNATIVE THERAPY FIRST
"I
stopped smoking when I got the news about the black spot on my lung and the
pre-cancerous condition of my lip. Vegetables are reported to have strong
anti-cancer actions, especially when they are raw, so I began eating a raw
salad with every meal. My favorite for breakfast was the sunrise salad of
carrots, pineapple and raisins. The lip cleared up and the black spot
disappeared.
Years later, my PSA prostate test started
to rise above the norm of 4. I decided to avoid the risk of spreading the
cancer cells with a biopsy (which can happen almost 50% of the time according
to one study). When my PSA went past 12, I had a DRE exam which found two
tumors. To see if they were malignant, I had an AMAS blood test, which came
back positive for cancer.
The first two urologists I went to wanted
to do surgery. Besides the grim side effects possible from prostate surgery, I
knew an operation carried the risk of spreading the cancer. I looked up the
statistics and they showed that over 90% of prostate cancers remain
symptom-free all life long. It didn’t make sense to me to accept the side
effects of surgery plus the added risk of spreading the cancer, while I was
still symptom-free. Instead I found a urologist who would monitor me while I
tried the treatments that cured my ex-wife.
I went on a mostly-raw vegan diet that
combined Gerson, Wigmore, Livingston and McDougall diets for great variety. I
couldn’t keep up with making all the fresh juices and my meals, until my Ex
started dropping off prepared meals each week. I took oral supplements,
including immune stimulants for macrophages and T-cells. Since prostate cancer
is usually small and slow growing, I didn’t think I would need to get I.V.
supplements or risk hormone treatment. I meditated at least twice a day, joined
two support groups, and did the coffee enemas. I consulted with a psychiatrist
to see if I had any issues that might effect my recovery. He found unresolved
issues over the death of my son and sent me to grief counseling. This lifted a
burden I hadn’t known I was carrying.
After 4 months on the cancer therapy, my
urologist called me into his office. He said I had better be careful, but he
was smiling. I asked him if that meant it had started to spread. He laughed.
"Oh, no. Your tumors are gone and your tests are all back to normal. If
you’re not careful, you will make me a believer, too!"
Ed@PatientsNCI.org
Patients
can email me here
where
I work as a volunteer.
ON-LINE
LINK TO MANY MORE PATIENTS YOU CAN CONTACT
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The CANCER CONTROL SOCIETY (www.CancerControlSociety.com) has been maintaining lists for many years of patients
and doctors who use nutritional and non-toxic cancer therapies. For 34 years
they also have held a Labor Day convention near Los Angeles with three days of
lectures on the latest non-toxic cancer treatments for those who want to be, or
need to be, on the cutting edge.
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Click on the following link to see the
list of patients that the Cancer Control Society has selected. Let patients you
contact know you got their name from their list. And please let us know about
your experience, since we have not contacted most of them ourselves.
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www.CancerControlSociety.com/directory.html
NOTICE
FOR CANCER GRADUATES
If you have won your war on cancer by
using alternative therapy - with or without surgery, radiation or chemotherapy
- please email us your story to share with cancer freshmen. Check the two
patients above for examples.
1.
Try to be brief
and summarize, but include the most important treatments. You can mention the
doctor or hospital if you recommend them. Then tell what you would do
differently based on what you know now.
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