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About the book Fighting Cancer: A Survival Guide
conversations and correspondence
Resources: the start of an adventure
If you have cancer; if you're caring for someone who has it
Cancer Treatment: Personal Stories
Readings from the cancer literature
Other cancer books you might find useful
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Irish Centre uses Chris Teo's herbs Advice to cancer patients from Richard Lloyd PhD How can you find an alternative practitioner? Ralph Moss's Moss Reports and Newsletter Beata Bishop is 70 years old and going strong Support for laetrile and apricot seeds Surgery: how to prepare yourself Active Hexose Correlated Compound (AHCC) and Cancer Herbal approach to treating cancer Skin cancer and sun - some oddities C Cope writes: Have just come across your page on Cancer. When going through chemo my oncologist recommended that I use a product called E.V.P.3 Chemaid. He said his patients had used with great success to limited hair loss during chemo. I was taking weekly Taxol. By using this treatment I was able to save about 90% of my hair. I feel that people should know about this. It is manufactured by Janbe Corp. Information can be obtained from their site, www.evp3.com or they can talk direct to Dr. Pedersen at 818 341 7471. Note: hair loss during chemotherapy also depends to some extent on the protocol used. With CMF, for example (often used to treat breast cancer), there is some hair loss, but a full (although thinned) head of hair is usually retained. Irish
Centre uses Chris Teo's herbs This
is the acronym of a (jokingly) proposed self help group Victims of
Modern Investigative Technology. The more machines we have that can
be used for diagnostic purposes, the more they will be used. No test
is 100% fail-safe. All tests have the problem of false positives and
false negatives. In addition, the more tests that are done the more
surgeries will result. Recent studies show that UK hospitals have
a 10% death risk for serious surgery compared with a 2.5% risk for
the same surgeries in the USA. The more tests are done the more likely
it is that we will suffer. Take note. It may be better not to know
everything. Advice to cancer patients from Richard Lloyd PhD Click
here
for a paper by Dr Lloyd. Those interested in using a Rife square wave
generator may wish to buy used equipment, check out http://www.royalrife.com/board. How
can you find an alternative practitioner? This
is a question I am sometimes asked. For US citizens the following
might be a good starting point: American
Board of Holistic Medicine The Life Extension Foundation also has an alternative practitioner online directory. Ralph
Moss's Moss Reports and Newsletter Ralph Moss is the best informed of all the alternative cancer therapy proponents. His articles are consistently interesting. His latest contains important ideas relating to the state of cancer research. See below. DECLINE
AND FALL OF THE "STANDARD DOGMA," PART TWO I am glad to see this fundamental truth now being recognized in an important article by Scientific American's senior writer W. Wayt Gibbs, entitled "Untangling the Roots of Cancer" (July 2003). However, I feel tremendous regret (and anger) when I think that this was exactly the point of Gerald B. Dermer's 1994 book, "The Immortal Cell," subtitled "Why Cancer Research Fails". Dermer wrote: "If we ever hope to win this war [on cancer, ed.] and make truly significant inroads against the modern scourge of cancer, the establishment must be willing to acknowledge its mistakes. Researchers must turn away from Petri dish 'cancer' to the realities of human cancer." Dermer's no-holds-barred book was almost entirely ignored by the orthodox scientific community. The establishment now acts as if it has discovered this startling truth about cell line research for the first time! Here's yet another example of William James' famous dictum, "First, a new theory is attacked as absurd; then it is admitted to be true, but obvious and insignificant; finally it is seen to be so important that its adversaries claim that they themselves discovered it." Establishment scientists are now casting around for an alternative explanation for cancer. Gibbs offers a two-page chart in the Scientific American article (pp. 62-63) that attempts to make sense of their latest efforts. It is rough going. Among others, there are now the "Modified Dogma", the "Early Instability" theory, and the "All-Aneuploidy" proposal. Limitations of space prevent me from attempting a full critique here of all the theories currently in circulation, but what is now called the All-Aneuploidy theory deserves attention. This theory was originally proposed almost 100 years ago by the German biologist, Theodor Boveri (1862-1915). Boveri, a Wuerzberg biologist, co-discovered the role of chromosomes in inheritance. Boveri could see clearly that the chromosomes in cancer were broken, scattered and misshapen. The more malignant the tumor, the more disrupted the chromosomes appeared to be. Could this chromosomal disruption actually be the cause of cancer rather than just an incidental and inconsequential effect of the disease? He also postulated that cancer was caused by the massive instability of the chromosomes inside a tumor. If true, then both the diagnosis and the search for effective treatments could be enormously simplified. Boveri's idea faded from sight, especially once the oncogene theory took hold, but it was revived in 1999 by University of California biologist Peter Duesberg and his colleagues, who are quoted favorably in Scientific American. This is as it should be: the theory is very attractive in its simplicity and deserves both serious attention and funding. It is heartening, also, to see a favorable, albeit brief, discussion of the work of Muhammad Al-Hajj, Michael Clarke and others at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, on their discovery of malignant stem cells within tumors. As readers of this newsletter know, these investigators have shown that less than 1 percent of cells in a tumor can actually cause a metastatic cancer. I have explained elsewhere the link between their work on stem cells and the old idea that cancer is a kind of "aberrant pregnancy", caused by cells that behave like trophoblasts (trophoblasts are the crucial cell line in early pregnancy) appearing at the wrong time and place. I have a feeling that although the standard dogma was already tottering, it was this startling work at the University of Michigan that really pushed it over the edge. Click here or go to the following website for my earlier article on the Ann Arbor work: http://www.cancerdecisions.com/042603_page.html Scientists
are now trying to find their bearings by identifying the "six
diabolical superpowers of cancer." These are: The aforementioned Ann Arbor scientists have shown that very few cells in a malignant tumor actually possess this metastatic potential. The tiny minority of truly malignant cells turns out to be not mutated somatic cells (as has been claimed for many years) but instead a kind of stem cell. These unusual cells share surface markers with trophoblastic cells; in fact, some people speculate that they are indeed trophoblasts. The trophoblastic cell is the only normal, non-malignant mammalian cell that shares cancer's capacity to ferociously invade and disrupt normal tissues. The trophoblast does so in a "good cause," to establish a beachhead in the uterus for the budding embryo and thereby make fetal development possible. It is here, I believe, that scientists should focus their attention when seeking a normal corollary to the supposedly "diabolical" process of cancer. Cancer did not drop from outer space. It is an intrinsic perversion of the life force. As the controversial proponent of this point of view, Ernst Krebs, Jr., used to say, "cancer is trophoblast in spatial and temporal anomaly, hybridized with, and vascularized by, hostal or somatic cells and in irreversible and fiercely malignant antithesis to such" (Townsend Letter for Doctors, Feb.-March, 1993, p. 175). Here
are two earlier articles I wrote on this topic: The demise of the standard dogma may usher in a fruitful period in which new hypotheses, such as the All-Aneuploidy theory or a revived form of the trophoblast thesis, may finally have a chance to gain acceptance. People
of action often have little patience with theorizing. But theories
provide an important road map to future treatments. A theory determines
where in the wide world you should begin your search for a cure. The
current generation of anticancer agents is the product of the now-discredited
standard dogma of carcinogenesis. Many of these drugs were designed
to attack some alleged oncogene or to stimulate some putative tumor
suppressor gene. The failure of the standard dogma now exposes why
so few of these drugs have a demonstrably beneficial effect on patients'
survival. Ralph W. Moss For
Gibbs article click here:
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DISCLAIMER Beata Bishop is 70 years old and going strong Beata Bishop, author of the book My Triumph Over Cancer, which details her fight against 'terminal' melanoma using the Gerson diet is alive and well and at the age of 70 is still leading an active life giving lectures. Ralph W Moss, PhD, the author of must-read book The Cancer Industry, has noted the fact that in Sri Lanka the cancer mortality rate per 100,000 is 26.1 for females and 29.3 for males. This compares with US rates per 100,000 in the region of 138.6 for women and an astounding 206.0 for men. This difference is highly unlikely to be due to genetic or hereditary factors, for two reasons: 1) the population of Sri Lanka is ethnically very varied and 2) the cancer rates of Sri Lankan immigrants to North America and Europe rise considerably within just a generation or two. In
Sri Lanka a typical diet includes large amounts of
turmeric - a spice that contains curcumin, used in curry powders. According to Dr. Moss the three key benefits of curcumin intake are that it:
Herbalgram is the magazine for the American Botanical Association.The link below leads to an article that argues for less restriction in licensing rather than more when it comes to herbalists. The same arguments could be made against the medical profession which touts its 'peer-review' protocols as a way of ensuring quality. What it certainly ensures is compliance with authority. It actually prevents innovation as I discovered when I tried to get the doctor to give my daughter vitamin C suppositories. He said i) not only did he know nothing about vitamin C (it wasn't touched on in his medical training) and ii) it wasn't possible because the hospital did not stock such an item and iii) he would be laughed at by the rest of the team managing her case. [This had an interesting outcome. I gave her dissolved vitamin C crystals in her feed. The next day the doctor told me that results showed her infection had gone out of control. However, when I saw her she was in fact looking very well. The doctor checked again and agreed that things were much improved. 'That's the vitamin C' I said. 'No!' he insisted. 'It was a false positive.'] Click here for the article. Support for laetrile and apricot seeds Email received by Jason Vale in support of his fight against the FDA Hello,
Jason In
case you see fit to forward my message to others, let me add that
I was down with cancer in 1972, but learned way back then of exactly
the same treatment that you have promoted in recent years. I attribute
my freedom from cancer to the nutritional value of amygdalin (laetrile)
which I have taken all these years in the form of apricot kernels.
And if anyone would like to read of my cancer experience, it's in
the health notes section of my personal
website: http://home.earthlink.net/~lmstandish/index.htm. Surgery: how to prepare yourself For those deciding that surgery is necessary, Dr Jonathan Wright, a leading US alternative health doctor who publishes a monthly medical newsletter, has provided the following tips: For one month before surgery and six weeks after, take:
Just before and right after surgery, take:
As soon as possible after surgery, take:
All of these items are available at most natural food stores. Active Hexose Correlated Compound (AHCC) and Cancer AHCC appears to be a proven immune system booster and there is some anecdotal as well as good orthodox clinical evidence that it is having a tumour suppressing effect. This doesnt mean its a cancer cure on its own (though some results might lead to that conclusion!) but it could be a very useful element in an alternative anti-cancer arsenal. It has been shown to increase the activity of natural killer cells by as much as 300 percent and there are reports that individuals suffering from breast, prostate, and other forms of cancer have experienced dramatic improvement and even full remission after taking AHCC. Most of the research has been done in Japan where AHCC was developed. In one study of 5 breast cancer cases given 3 grams of AHCC a day. 2 (40%) had gone to complete remission by the end of the 8 month study. It should be noted that participants in these kinds of study have usually been considered terminal. This is an astonishing result.
In a Japanese study, 40 hepatitis patients treated with AHCC experienced more energy and appetite, increased platelet counts, and a halt in the progressive development of cirrhosis. Immpower AHCC appears to be the most highly regarded and is available from many internet herb shops. Dose 3 grams a day. This supplement has been developed by Dr Mamdooh Ghoneum, an Egyptian immunologist at Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science, Los Angeles. (I have not been able to find any information as to why it is called MGN3 but I guess that the first two letters are Dr Ghoneums initials). Dr. Ghoneum has said that MGN-3 is, "the most powerful immune complex I have ever tested," This supplement appears to have a marked effect in increasing natural killer cell activity as well as natural interferon and tumour necrosis factors. It is a potent immune system booster. MGN3 can also be used to lessen the toxic side effects of conventional cancer treatment. MGN3 is made from the outer shell of rice bran which has been enzymatically treated with extracts from three different medicinal mushrooms: Shiitake, Kawaratake and Suehirotake. In Japan, these mushroom extracts have become the leading prescription treatments for cancer Articles on MGN3 quote the story of a 58-year old multiple myeloma patient diagnosed in 1990. He underwent several months of chemotherapy following his diagnosis. Although his condition seemed to stabilize, his blood still showed markers for multiple myeloma eight months after chemotherapy. He then began taking MGN3 and in less than 6 months, follow-up lab work showed no indication of cancer. In 1998, eight years after his initial diagnosis, he was still alive and cancer-free. He is the first patient known to have survived multiple myeloma, according to Dr. Ghoneum. Everyone's Guide to Cancer Therapy certainly concurs that surviving multiple myeloma is not common: Almost all patients with multiple myeloma who do respond to chemotherapy will eventually relapse if they do not die of some other disease in the meantime. However, the benefits of MGN3 are not restricted to any particular cancer, nor to cancer alone. Dr Ghoneum believes it is of immense benefit for a wide range of conditions particularly for AIDS. Unlike other forms of cancer treatment, MGN3 is a totally harmless substance and has no known side effects. How much should one take? Normal capsule dose is 250mg. To maintain normal good health 2 capsules a day are recommended but for people with cancer the dose should be 12 capsules a day 1,000 mgs with each meal for the first 2 weeks, reducing to 1,000 mgs a day thereafter. MGN-3 has been shown to be safe to use for long periods of time. While updating my book Fighting Cancer: A Survival Guide, I decided to find out how Burzybski was coping. He has had decades of problems with the authorities. So I asked the clinic how they were doing. This was their reply. Dear
Mr Chamberlain: Attached to this email you will find, 'The State of Clinical Research on Antineoplastons, June, 2003', which you will give you more information about our current results. We do not charge for antineoplaston formulations. We only charge for standard medical services, such as office visits, consultations, nursing services, and standard supplies. Thank
you for your interest in our research. Reading Ralph Moss's book Herbs Against Cancer, I noted that he had very strong criticisms of the Hulda Clark approach to cancer. I decided to take these criticisms to the Hulda Clark support network for some answers. Dear
Sir/Madam Also,
there is the criticism that most of Dr Clark's cures involve cases
where there is no independent corroboration that cancer existed in
the first place - ie no previous diagnosis by a doctor.I would welcome
your comments which I will be happy to post on my Regards I received this answer. Jonathan, I
have never researched the issue of which parasites are found where.I
can personally testify that I have seen the parasites that Dr Your second quesiton is the one I am more interested in. The cases in the advanced cancer book are well documented and I think they are good enough to warrant further investigation. I would not say they are proving her right but they are good enough to warrant further research. Don't forget that she works with patients that are terminal and that have a close to 0 chance of survival, so a small number of cases is very significant. If
you say her files are not kept well enough then I completely agree
and that is why I started this association. Dr. Clark's disregard
Sincerely
Yours Mind
the disclaimer at the end. If anyone has further queries they should direct them to info@drclark.net. My
husband of 30 years was initially diagnosed with a high grade sarcoma
in January, 2003, had his left foot amputated in March and was told
in May that it had metastasized to his lungs, is incurable, is not
treatable and he has 6-12 months to live. An incredible despair seized
us and we couldn't see anything but hopelessness through our tears.
Then I Googled "fighting +cancer" and the first link I went
to was a chapter from your brilliant book. A spark of hope came back
into my life. I quickly printed out the entire book and devoured the
entire thing in one sitting. As I read hope grew and grew. This is one of the most exciting of all herb-based products. It is a patented formula which combines a potent herb – greater celandine – with a chemotherapeutic drug called thiotepa (thiophosphoric triaziridine). It has been well studied – mainly in Germany - and in Ralph Moss’s words: 'What makes Ukrain so unusual is that this forced marriage of herb and drug yields a compound that is lacking in toxicity in normal cells. Yet it seems to have a strong affinity for killing cancer cells.' Ukrain is delivered by intra-muscular injection. The US National Cancer Institute tested it on 60 different cancer cell lines and it was 100% effective against all. Unfortunately, it has not been quite so successful in real cancer cases though results are still impressive. Nowicky himself claims that in cases of terminal stage cancer it can be 30% successful and 90% successful in early stage cancers. Ukrain is a long term treatment over several months and has to be done in a clinical setting supervised by a doctor – however, patients can buy it directly. Curiously, the American Cancer Society has shown no interest in this therapy. Perhaps this is because it was not developed by an American company – or perhaps because it has a herbal connection. It surely couldn’t be because it works. A study conducted at the university of Ulm in Germany with patients having an inoperable pancreatic cancer showed that patients on Ukrain alone were twice as likely to survive 6 months than those on chemotherapy alone. Those taking both had an even better result – being three times as likely to survive 6 months than with chemotherapy alone. Pancreatic cancer is the cancer with the worst prognosis. Ukrain is only available from the clinic of its inventor Dr J Wassyl Nowicky and is produced by his company JW Nowicky Pharmaceuticals. For further information email: nowicky@ukrin.com Colloidal silver has a reputation as a potent anti-viral agent (also anti-bacterial, anti-fungal and anti-parasite). Silver is also a normalising agent within the body according to Dr Becker. The problem is that made up solutions are expensive and of doubtful quality. It is much cheaper to buy your own home making equipment. I have bought some truly awful machines off the internet that do not have a timer and that use cheap quality wire. However, I have also bought an excellent macvhine that doubles as a 'blood cleansing' electronic pulser (based on Bob Beck's design). My contact for this is Paul - who can be contacted at pfchris@powerup.com.au. He sells a quality machine with timer for AU$235 (US$155). Pat Brown writes: I have been reading through your website and have thoroughly enjoyed it. I was diagnosed with breast cancer a year ago and decided on Ann Wigmore's program instead of conventional medical therapy. The tumor has receded by a third and I continue to feel great. Along with a raw food vegan diet, I use wheatgrass or barleygreen or bluegreen algae, they are all useful. I do believe that pancreatic enzymes play a big role in this. I was curious why you don't have some of the books by Wigmore ( she wrote Be Your Own Doctor, but unfortunately Avery will not reprint it or release it for printing), Wigmore's protege, Edie Mae Hunsberger How I Conquered Cancer Naturally or anything by Dr. Lorraine Day , "World Without Cancer" by Edward Griffin, or any books by Caroline Myss. I know you can't cover everything and that would be as good a reason as any. Anyway, thanks again for an informative site. This is a herb that appears to be gaining a reputation as a potent anti-cancer treatment from the Amazon basin. Anyone wishing to read up on it should go to Raintree Nutrition's page on graviola. To find suppliers, just do an internet search for 'graviola' Herbal Approach to treating cancer For many people recently diagnosed with cancer, the idea of following a herbal approach may seem strange. I am therefore linking to the latest newsletter from Dr Chris Teo - a Malaysian herbalist who appears to be achieving interesting results (there's more information about Dr Teo's centre here). Dr Teo is a retired Professor of Botany. I do recommend reading everything he has to say. Good for cancer prevention and good for the heart. Perilla oil aka wild sesame oil - is a very good source of omega 3 oils and could be a good replacement for flax seed oil in that it is easier to digest and doesn't have the mercury content of some fish based oils. (Thanks to Jenny Thomson of the Health Services Institute for this information.) Dr Michael Guthrie is a clinical pharmacist and the director of pharmacy for The Hospital for Extended Recovery in Norfolk, VA. In addition, for the last four years he has been involved with integrative cancer treatment and is currently working with Immune Therapies International of Tucson, AZ. He writes: 'I've been perusing your site and going through your book a little. You've done an incredible amount of work. You've also suffered an incredible amount, but somehow turned it into something positive. I perused your recommended reading section, and pretty much agree with most of your analysis of the books. I was especially amused by your comments about "Choices in Healing". This is an incredibly well referenced book, but left me feeling anemic. I never really knew why...but you nailed it. Mr .Lerner comes down squarely on both sides of the issue...ha.' Everybody should be aware that there is a war being waged in the fields of health and medicine. Sadly, one of the results of this is that what appears as truth is often nothing but propaganda. The only way to deal with propaganda is to patiently tease out the truth from the lies. This article by environmentalist and author John Robbins is a good example of such an analysis. Skin cancer and sun- some oddities It has long been assumed that skin cancer is related to dangerous levels of exposure to the sun. However there are two types of skin cancer - one relatively benign and often omitted from cancer statistics as a result. The other is melanoma. However the connection between sun exposure and melanoma is not clear cut at all. For instance: - Most melanoma appears in areas of the body that are not normally exposed to the sun, especially the torso. - People in outdoor jobs have less risk of melanoma than office workers. - People who live in areas with low sun exposure, such as Vermont and South Dakota, have a higher incidence of mortality from melanoma than people in Florida and Arizona. And sun exposure is associated with lower incidences of every other form of cancer. Should we not therefore encourage people to go out into the sun?
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