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2005 - the journey begins -
2006 BIG mistake - 2007
things get serious -
and FINALLY, some good news
When I discovered in September 2005 that a CT
scan had detected a large tumor in my abdomen, my first
re-action was "where do I turn"? I find this ironic, since of
all people you would think I would have the process at my finger
tips. This kind of news, however, is overwhelming: knowing that
whether at this point one chooses the correct path will
determine life or death, can focus the mind wonderfully.
One thing I have
noticed, as I research on the Internet, is how few people who
have successfully challenged cancer seems to post their
experience so others can be helped. Please, if you have
succeeded in this battle - do as I am doing and document it, so
others can learn from your mistakes, and benefit from your
triumphs
The first lesson I learned is that I
should have gone to the Doctor to discuss some of my
symptoms years ago: but they were so minor, I
didn't think it worth while. Just think, I could have been
worrying about Cancer for 20 extra years! A little joke, that
was: but I think that this growth started all of that long ago.
If we had caught it sooner, I could have begun this fight while
the enemy was still quite small ...
What could have caused it? I have to
choose stress as a causative factor. The extremely large tumor
is in my abdomen, not involving the liver or the pancreas, but
impinging on the aorta. I have always internalized stress,
actually feeling that area tense and clench up whenever things
are out of tune. I do all the things I mention in my article on
Preventing Cancer, to which I must attribute the fact that
it took the tumor so long to grow, and life went on as normal
during the process.
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This is interesting, too -"...
An estimated 10 to 30 percent of the
(polio) vaccine given to humans
between 1955 and 1963 was
contaminated with the ( cancer
causing SV40 monkey) virus, exposing
between 10 to 30 million Americans."
According to a
CNN article, there is strong
evidence that simian virus-40 (SV40)
"...
results in a number of rare cancers
including non-Hodgkin's lymphoma"
and
It has been
known since 1960 that early doses of
polio vaccine were widely
contaminated with simian virus 40,
or SV40, which infects macaque
monkeys. Tens of millions of people
in the US and an unknown number in
other countries, including the UK,
Australia and the former Soviet
Union, may have been exposed prior
to 1963.
source:
New Scientist
I received my
polio vaccine in the UK in app. 1955 |
What took me to the Doctor eventually
was a lack of energy: I would get up in the morning, and a few
hours later, would find myself irresistibly drawn back to my bed
for more sleep. In the evenings, instead of working on my
latest tapestry, I would fall asleep in my chair. I thought
perhaps I had Chronic Fatigue, or some liver problem. I asked
my Doctor to palpate my liver, and when he did, he looked very
grave and sent me off immediately for a CT scan.
What they found is what the radiologist
- technical jargon deserting him in his surprise! - termed a
"huge " tumor measuring 15 by 6 1/2 cm in my abdomen, along with
"multiple" lymph nodes measuring more than 1 cm. My dear Doctor
- whom I counseled lo! these many years ago for his diabetes,
when he was a student - came to my house in person to deliver
the bad news.
My initial reaction was ridiculous: I
thought, well thank goodness! There's actually something wrong
with me, and I'm not just becoming lazy. That soon passed, and
a feeling of helplessness overwhelmed me. I can only too easily
see how simple it would be at this stage to just put oneself in
the hands of the "experts", and say - "take care of me".
However, I fortunately did have a base of
knowledge, and the first decision I made was
not to have a biopsy.
The diagnosis on the CT
scan was "probable lymphoma", and by not having the biopsy I am
probably laying myself open to the eventual charge that it
wasn't cancer at all. Be that as it may, I know that the
chances of having cancer seeded elsewhere in the body from even
a tiny needle biopsy is estimated to be as high as 50%.
I had also immediately determined that I would
not be going the conventional route for cancer, and
therefore, while it might be important for the Doctors to know
precisely what kind of cancer was involved, for me it made no
difference.
If you want a good (but wry) laugh, this is why I chose not to
go the conventional route. As you continue to read, you will
be amazed at
what you discover about cancer tumors.
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It is now
February
2008. I do not know what my quality of life would be
like now had I chosen to follow the allopathic cancer
treatment. What I do know is that I look and feel fine,
and have had no reason to regret my choice. I continue
to work, walk the dogs 2 to 3 miles a day, and live a
normal life. I recently returned from an 850 mile each
way driving trip with no repercussions. I turned 71 in March
2008. |
Back in 2005, my first step was to
discuss with my husband how we should react to this news. My
proposal was to take a 3 month period, implement all the
therapies I chose, and then check our results and make further
decisions based on that. Fortunately, I have a supportive and
unique husband, who also works along with me here at our
business!
I then read an excellent book called
Cancer Free by Bill Henderson, which pulls
together, discusses and critiques ALL the natural therapies
available, so you can make your choice. I did this to validate
my choices, because it became obvious to me early on that there
are many, many people out there who are only trying to make
money from desperate cancer sufferers.
This is what I did for the first 3 months:
It was not easy. I kept
thinking "if this doesn't work, what does it say about my
lifetime of advocating for natural medicine?". Also, since I
cannot see the tumor, I had no means of knowing whether I was
wasting my time while it grew aggressively.
It was also practically
difficult. The diet involved considerable change to my
routine, giving up my one cup of coffee a day, becoming a
quasi-vegetarian, and cutting out all comforting sources of
sweetness.
Every day I had to reaffirm my
conviction that this would help, that I am getting
better, that the tumor is shrinking. Fortunately, I did
not experience the depression that some people understandably
feel, nor the fear. Perhaps being so busy helped: after all,
if I wasn't eating some concoction, juicing, or swallowing some
supplements - I was doing the dishes: you would not believe how
many dirty dishes this generated. Taking care of business, and
having 2 Irish Wolfhound puppies in the house took care of any
time I had left over!
This is the time when I began to
investigate the connection between thought, character,
spirituality and Cancer. What is increasingly being called "Mind/Body
Medicine." I added daily meditation and Yoga Breathing to my
regimen, and began to make a genuine effort to overcome the
impatience which I know is my main character flaw.
At no point, funnily enough,
did I consider myself "sick". More and more I find
reference to the fact that people who take charge of their
health in these circumstances, and have a positive outlook, are
more likely to defeat the disease. I continued to work, walk
with the dogs 2 to 3 miles a day, and forget about the tumor
most of the time.
I also reached out online, and
was startled to find legions of people offering methods
for "curing cancer". I joined a Group on Yahoo
for people using the Budwig Protocol -
it helped me through the first few weeks, very supportive.
However, it is run by a Dictator. He barred me from the list
when I most needed support, because he doubted that I really had
cancer: it was suggested I was pretending to have cancer
to lure the group to my website. I made the mistake of referring
someone to my article on CoQ10, but was given no opportunity to
explain, nor any second chance.
However, if you are in this
situation, I recommend contacting them and joining the group:
it is comforting to communicate with other people in the same
boat!
In December 2005, after
enduring 2 return visits to the Doctor during which, as I say,
he glumly informed me he thought the tumor was growing, I had
another CT scan. I was relieved and delighted to find there was
progress (or should I say REgress?), grudgingly confirmed by
the Radiologist who termed it "minimal improvement". The main
tumor has shrunk by 1/2 centimeter, and all the other enlarged
lymph nodes, which had previously been in the danger range, were
now under 1 centimeter.
It is not often that an untreated
tumor shrinks over a 3 month period. One friend I was discussing
this with said "I think that's what they call partial
remission". I consider this hopeful.
In July 2006, having
read a great deal about impressive results achieved with
Low dose Naltrexone I began to take the
prescription at 4.5 mg daily. Here we come to the part where I
prove I am fallibly human.
Having given over my condition to a prescription
drug, even though it was at almost homeopathic dosage, I fell
away from my diet and supplement program. I was not taking all
the supplements I originally designed for my self, I stopped
juicing daily, I began to allow wine and sugar to creep back
into my diet. I paid the price. In view of my
experience, I cannot recommend LDN for cancer, though many
people have experienced good results using it for MS.
In April of 2007, it became
obvious to me that the tumor was growing. While I still felt
good, as stated above, continued to walk the dogs, work, garden
and carry on as before - I could feel a change in the tumor: in
a way I am lucky to have it right there in my abdomen where if I
stretch out, I can feel it quite clearly. It was no longer just
in my abdomen right under my sternum, but was stretching down
into my groin area.
In May,
I sent off for
Dr. Navarro's HCG test , which came back not
amazingly high, strangely enough, but suspicious.
At this point, my Doctor was very anxious to see
what was going on with the tumor, and wanted me to take another
CT scan.. This I refused to do, based on the knowledge that the
amount of radiation involved in one of these is truly health
threatening. A CAT scan of the abdomen is the equivalent
of 500 times the dose of 1 chest X-ray!
He
then scheduled me for an MRI, which confirmed my worst fears - here
is the report I received:
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The mass is larger than previous and now measures
18.5 x 8.3 x 15.0cm. It surrounds the aorta and now
‘lifts and displaces the inferior vena cava (IVC)
far anteriorly up to the right abdominal wall’ (main
vein that brings blood back to the heart). ‘The IVC
is markedly stretched and displaced and compressed
at various points in the abdomen’ but is patent. A
small amount of soft tissue material is present
within the lumen of the IVC. This implies tumor
involvement into the IVC and implies the possibility
of metastasis to other areas of the body. The mass
extends into the right kidney and the right kidney
is displaced laterally…the right renal artery is
markedly stretched. |
It has taken me several weeks to come to terms
with what has happened, but the last week or so has been taken
up with planning my course forward.
In fact, the June
2007
newsletter had news that was pretty
gloomy: I
decided jokingly that I had a highly nutrition resistant form of cancer, and the tumor had grown despite all the careful
dietary rules, and the many, many supplements.
Then, as
validation of the "nutrition resistant " theory, interesting new
research I encountered showed that tumors resist any effort to overcome them
through immune system support, by shedding cells
called exosomes which induce the death (apoptosis) of the
immune warriors raised to fight them. My take is that all the
things I did to strengthen the immune system certainly
strengthened the organism (me), but could not defeat the enemy within
which grew stronger as it grew bigger.
Tumour-derived exosomes or
microvesicles: another mechanism of tumour escape from the host
immune system?
This changed the elements of
my attack considerably.
- First, it became evident that unless I could
shrink the tumor significantly, I would continue
to lose the battle.
- Second, a method of denying the tumor what
it needed to grow had to be found.
- Third, an attack on the organisms
produced by the tumor had to be mounted.
- Fourth, the immune system needed to be
continually defended and strengthened.
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Accordingly, these are my plans.
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enroll for the
Insulin Potentiated Therapy
- to shrink the tumor
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Implement the Controlled Amino Acid
Therapy program - to starve the cancer
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buy a Rife type zapper called
Terminator
- to hopefully zap the immune system enemy
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in conjunction with careful diet and
supplements - to support the immune system
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add coffee enemas for detoxification.
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I was delighted to find that a true pioneer of low dose
chemotherapy lives and practices in Chicago, a mere 4
hour drive from me. |
There is a distinction between
Insulin Potentiated Therapy (IPT), and low dose chemo
as offered by some allopathic physicians. The conventional procedure uses the same drugs as
ordinary chemo, simply in lower doses. It has even been
suggested that using this approach may cause the cancer to
become resistant to chemotherapy, and perhaps even return.
No-one knows for sure.
IPT, in contrast, takes advantage of the fact
that all cancer cells have multiple insulin receptors to piggy
back VERY low doses of the chemo straight into the cells when
those receptors have been opened, where
it has the effect of poisoning the cancer without any serious
side effects to the patient. Less is, in effect more - a very
elegant solution to the problem of how to kill cancer cells
without harming healthy cells.
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In the time between the beginning of June and now,
July 2007, I have continued with the CAAT
(Controlled Amino Therapy) program, the recommended
diet and supplements that go with that plan (I
started this in May), the Rife machine, and the
detoxification with coffee enemas.
BUT I also finally followed my own link, which
ironically had been on my website all along, and
began the Insulin Potentiated Chemotherapy.
While I have serious reservations about much of what
conventional medicine does (and particularly the
politics of it) I also feel it is folly not to avail
oneself of the discoveries that have been made, if
they can help. This method of attacking cancer cells
without harming healthy cells I consider to be an
example of the best in modern medicine.
At this point, half way through July and 4
treatments into a 6 treatment cycle, the tumor has
been reduced to a pale shadow of its original size,
a fact that has now been confirmed by an MRI
which shows it has shrunk by over 40%.
And as promised - NO side effects - nada
- zero - zilch.
The hair, such as it is, is still here.
No nausea, no chills, no vomiting, no
weakness. Nothing negative at all. |
Here is the main web site for Insulin Potentiated
Therapy. I spent quite a few hours cruising
there and following their links, and once again I am
amazed at how a therapy with so much potential has
received so little attention from the Medical
mainstream.
I wish that anyone diagnosed with cancer had this
information at their disposal, so that their first
choice (and let's face it, the harsher alternatives
will still be out there should IPT for some reason
fail) could be a therapy with a high success rate,
but without the extreme consequences of conventional
chemo and radiation.
I also find it illuminating that many of the
allopathic physicians who pooh-pooh it, do so
because its success rate of over 60% cannot be
documented. Even if it were HALF that, at 30% it
would still be a slap in the face to the 4% or so
that conventional chemotherapy can claim.
You will find a listing of Doctors at the main link
who can perform this therapy, and if you need one I
wish you the good fortune I had, to find one really
near you.
Wherever you may be , consider Dr. Ayre of
Chicago; he has 30 years of experience with this
therapy, and I cannot recommend him too highly. Here is
his web site:http://www.contemporarymedicine.net/
A compassionate and sensitive
physician, Dr. Ayre was so affected by the
sufferings of patients on conventional anti-cancer
regimens that as long ago as the 1970s he began
searching for the acceptable alternative he knew
must exist. When he found the originator of IPT,
Dr. Perez in Mexico, he left his cozy practice at
considerable sacrifice to himself professionally and
personally, to study this approach. He is arguably
the most experienced administrator of IPT in the US.
At that time, over 30 years ago,
while the evidence existed that IPT was effective,
the science explaining its success was
non-existent: Dr. Ayre put a scientific face to the
procedure, and has already made presentations to the
NIH (National Institute of Health ) in Washington,
with another visit scheduled for October. In fact,
if our MRI shows what we expect it to show, I may
form part if his presentation!! |
I found a therapy
called
Controlled Amino Acid Therapy (CAAT) which in my
opinion, offers a great deal of promise for starving a cancer.
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CAAT is an amino acid
and carbohydrate deprivation therapy, using
scientifically formulated amino acids, that arrests
the growth of tumors and causes them to regress by
altering or impairing the development of cancer
cells. It is a six-to-eight month course of therapy
that enhances chemotherapy and/or radiation, as well
as lessening their toxic effects. CAAT, which can be
taken in the comfort of one's home, has also been
proven to be effective alone. |
I do not entirely understand why it is not
better known, though the lead researcher, Angelo John, son of
the originator of the program, tells me it is as simple as not
having enough money.
Well, I can certainly relate to that: anyone
who comes up with a way to address cancer that is simple and
relatively inexpensive, is probably going to have trouble
raising money! THEY ARE LOOKING FOR SUPPORT AND DONATIONS -
you can support this non-profit here.
I began to implement that, together with the
careful diet the system requires which limits carbohydrates, sugars,
and proteins ito support the therapy.
My first step was to contact my Life Insurance
company to organize what used to be called "Accelerated Death
Benefit", but is now more tastefully known as "Living
Needs". The power of words! Some of you may not know this, but
if your physician determines that your condition may be terminal
within a year, many policies have a clause which allows you to
withdraw a percentage of your interest in the policy without
penalty, to use as you wish: this means ANY therapy you choose.
And it does not have to be repaid. For other options, see
Financial help for cancer patients.
Unfortunately for
me, since allopathic oncologists considers lymphoma of my
type highly curable with conventional chemotherapy, my plea to
have the money made available for alternative therapies fell on
deaf ears. Nor do Medicare or Insurance Agencies generally
pay for alternative therapies. To fund the expensive treatment,
I will have to take out a loan on my policy.
If you have any questions I can answer for you,
please use the link at the top of the page.
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