Just want to share some info with any cancer sufferenrs out there. Hope you will bear with me and find some of the information below of use.
I suffered breast cancer at the age of 46 four years ago. Knowing my diet had not been fantastic on the nutritional front and with a stressful relationship was drinking 2-3 glasses of wine an evening, I asked my consultant if he could direct me to a nutritionist. He said he couldn't, so did the nurse. No advice given as to how I could make a difference to my impending treatment.
Like most, I was in shock when I got the results of my biopsy saying I had malignant breast cancer. I waited 7 weeks before I had my mastectomy, because I opted to go to a hospital further afield, which did not automatically take away all the lymph nodes under my arm. I had four tumours, the largest being nearly 3cm. I had the surgery, followed by chemo, radiotherapy, herceptin and then tamoxifen.
After the initial diagnosis and lack of advice from the consultant, I immediately got onto the internet at home to find what I could do to help myself get through all the treatment. There were millions of results and I didn't know what to believe.
Thankfully, my sister had a friend whose husband was fighting aggressive prostate cancer. They had come across the book "Your life in your hands" by Prof. Jane Plant, who herself had breast cancer five times and was finally given a terminal diagnosis of 3-6 months to live. Being a high-flying Cambridge graduate she set her analytical mind to work as soon as she was diagnosed first time round and was desperate to discover why the Chinese have a 1 in 100,000 chance of suffering from breast or prostate cancer, whilst we in the West suffer 1 in every 9. She discovered just in time that the Chinese do not eat dairy, and cut that out immediately from her breast cancer diet. Apparently dairy has a natural growth hormone meant for their calves only, but with cancer, just promotes rapid growth of tumours. Jane Plant also wrote a book with the help of a top nutritionist full of cancer-fighting, delicious recipes. Both these books had a bearing on my positive outlook of my cancer.
This friend of my sister, also gave me the contact details of the Naturapath that they were convinced got them through all the treatment. I went to one session with her and paid £45. She went through my whole life situation, stresses, health, diet etc. She put me on mega supplements which helped boost my immune system and which also helped me fly through the chemo etc with no side-effects at all, apart from losing my hair, also specifying foods to eat and foods to avoid.
Maybe I am naughty, but I have also decided to give Tamoxifen a miss, after having found out all the side-effects it could cause. I read recently that extract of Rosemary does the same as Tamoxifen so am taking that instead. I wouldn't recommend anybody else do this, unless they did their own research. This was a personal decision and risk I shall take on my own. After taking Tamoxifen for five years, there is no guarantee that cancer will not return at any point after that. So I am risking two years of possible return, where the Tamoxifen would probably guarantee two years of worry free.
I am also taking Co-Enzyme 10 each day which is very good at repairing damage done by chemo to the DNA. CQ-10 is vital when undergoing chemo as it protects the heart from damage. I also found lots of articles about bitter apricot kernels. Bitter apricot kernels have a natural cyanide which kills cancer cells. If one is in remission one should take 16 per day. You cannot buy this on the high street, but you can get them from EdenTrust on the internet, which do organic ones. I bought 500 grms for £12.50 which seem to last for ever. A nutritional therapist who has dealt with cancer patients, who I met recently takes 10 per day himself, just to keep cancer at bay. Apparently one only needs to take seven per day to avoid all cancers. The Food Standards Agency recommends we take no more than two per day. Two per day has no preventative effect at all. In the States they are banning the growing of bitter apricot trees, which Ty Bollinger, an activist who is trying to get all the alternative cancer treatments to the masses, is up in arms about. We can send people to the moon, and have made great technological advances, but after having spent billions and billions on cancer treatments and research, they still have not found a cure, but there are 300 alternatives out there that do work. If used by the masses, the pharmaceutical giants would lose billions, so it is not in their interests to find a cure.
When I was going through radiotherapy, I was advised by www.goodhealthnaturally.com to take Curcumin98 at six per day to protect me from getting sore or burnt. This worked for me and I only went brown as one would from the sun. The only problem I did have was that I did start taking them whilst I was on chemo and felt that I was truly filled with poison. I checked on google "curcumin + cancer" and found loads of scientific studies on it. What they did say was that if taken whilst on chemo there would be adverse side-effects. As soon as I read that I stopped taking them and I was fine. I left it until three weeks after my last chemo before taking it again, to prevent me burning whilst on radiotherapy.
Curcumin and green tea were found in the scientifc papers to cure malignant melanoma. You can bet the doctors are not going to recommend that to a skin cancer patient. My niece's mother-in-law died last year at 58 after her malignant melanoma spread. She had gone to her doctor many times over a period of two years only to be told her suspicious mole was nothing to worry about. She finally got an expert opinion only to be told she was terminal. A few months later, after radical chemo, it spread to her brain and she died.
Today I received an e-mail newsletter from a website called cancerdefeated.com where they list six of the best alternative cancer clinics which are based in Germany. The German doctors do not stand by and let their patients go through all the gruelling treatment that we have to go through over here, they put their patients to sleep and cook the cancer out of them. They found years ago that very high fevers in people actually managed to cure their cancer. And that is any cancer. They use no surgery, no chemo and no radiation. Ronald Reagan went to Germany for this type of cancer treatment for his cancer, but although it was known he was undergoing treatment, it was hushed up as to where he went to get it.
This rings true with me as my cousin in Australia recently mentioned that a good friend of hers was cured of terminal cancer in Germany.
Just thought I would share this info with everybody. So many people are affected in some way by cancer or have loved ones or aquaintances that do - it would be great to spread a bit of good news to them that there are places that can cure them.