If you wish to help other cancer sufferers with your experience of how you managed to cope with your own cancer, why do you only offer bits of information each week when it would have been more beneficial to relate details of your whole experience in one go?

We know you have Cancer. We know you refused Surgery. Having worked in a Cancer Hospital, and seen the truly dreadful results of the "Heroic Surgery" performed on some patients, like one man had half his face and neck removed, and a woman with vulval cancer, who was left with a gaping great hole and had to have her internal organs supported by a hammock of mesh, I don't blame you. However I have no wish to buy a book to find out how you treated yourself. Why didn't you ask to try intravenous vtamin C? If you truly wish to help other Cancer sufferers you should state what you are doing, and what has and hasn't worked for you, not just tried to sell a book.

Whilst I very much hope that you are right about not going for surgery, I have fears about that.  I have given a link to my hypothesis on cancer.  

I very much favour the alternative route because there is likely to be cancer cells left in the body after an operation and if the body is not being encouraged to change its internal environment then these cells may well take a hold again.  Chemotherapy and radiation treatment may knock the cancer back, but undermine the body's capability in the longer term to deal with cancer cells that almost inevitably survive.

However if you do not cut out the central cancer, then I think that the body is very bad at beating a large mass of cancer due to the cancer's effect on its local environment.  For instance I think that macrophages are very important in the fight against cancer, but at the cancer mass itself the MIF (Macrophage Inhibition Factor) excreted by the cancer turns this major cancer enemy (in the early stage) to a cancer protector making up much of the cancer mass.

So whilst alternative treatments, if done properly, may hold the cancer at bay, stop cancer spreading and have cancer on the defensive, it is very difficult to defeat the central cancer mass.  Therefore when the guard is lowered at any stage, then the central cancer is always there to spread out again. If the central mass is removed and the right alternative treatments are done then chances of success are better in the long term.

I doubt that you want to hear this at the moment, but I felt it was important to put this to you.

I have set up a website with my entire story on it.  The reason I did it this way on this blog is because I was requested to do so by the blog's editors.  My entire story and advice, articles, and over 100 pages of information is over at my website if you would care to visit!

This is not much of an installment.  What is the address of your website, where the full story is?

Thanks to Beryl for her comments. Just for the record, I have not written a book about how I beat cancer.  The book I have written is all about how you can look after your health by using nutritional therapy and is full of tips and advice about how you can do so.  All  information about cancer is given free - and I have specifically set up a website to promote alternative health in general, as well as cancer advice.  I am not in this to make money! My site actually is costing me more than it brings in. My concern is raising awareness about how cancer can be beaten using alterntive therapies.

To the comment from John Spottiswoode -  Unforunately for me, the central cancer was around my nipple area and it was very hard to excise without having my entire breast removed.  As that was what my sister had done, that was definitely out of the question! And cutting out the central mass did not help her at all, as she died aged 48.

http://www.naturalhealthbenefits.com

Congratulations on your bravery. it takes real strength to step outside the system and take charge of your own health. It takes character to shed the collective brainwashing of society and step aside far enough to begin to assess all the information (propaganda) from the mainstream medical community in it's true light and decide it is corrupt. If I were in your position I would do the same. Not only do you avoid the long term damage of toxic 'treatments' you also avoid the chemical thinking or chemical clouding that affects your brain, your very ability to think critically, from the moment you take your first pharmaceutical/vaccination etc. I send you my respect (all the way from New Zealand)

Your story is truly inspiring.  I have had a look at your website and it is excellent - I have already directed a friend who is suffering from cancer to it.

I have seen the results of radical chemotherapy first-hand, my sister died from its effects, when her kidneys and liver could no longer cope with the onslought.  She may have died anyway from the leukaemia but we shall never know.....

If I were diagnosed with cancer I would take my chances with alternative treatments, and would be inclined to follow the advice given on your website. It makes perfect sense that the way in which you nourish your body has a direct impact on your health.

It is scandalous that orthodox health professionals do not cover nutrition in more depth during their training. (but then there is not as much profit in this as there is in pharmaceuticals....)

Well done for being different and being brave enough not to go down the orthodox route Your actions will I am sure save lives and give hope to many people living with cancer.

good luck and good health

Carmel O'Dell

I think she was far shighted, there is more not known than known. experiments

are still to be done. we can help, all of us

I commend you for your commitment to research what is available in the areas of cancer treatment and nutrition, your courage to follow what you feel is the right path to health for you, and your time and efforts to share what you have found with others.  I would like to share with you what has been helpful for me.

I was diagnosed with breast cancer in August of 1998.  The search began for what I wanted to do.  A friend suggested I go to Park Attwood Clinic near Kidderminster, UK.  Although I was diagnosed in the States I decided to return to Cambridge for treatment.  In the process of considering the options, I decided to have surgery at Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge, but not to undergo radiotherapy or chemotherapy nor to take the prescribed Tomoxifen.  Instead, before my surgery I saw a GP who had additional training in Anthroposophical Medicine.  He started me on injections of mistletoe which inhibit tumour growth as well as stimulate the immune system.  As well as the mistletoe I also had art therapy and a form of movement called eurythmy.

Following my surgery I went to Park Attwood (an anthroposphical clinic) for two weeks where I began to recover and heal. There I continued the art therapy and eurythmy and went on what I call my 'cancer diet'.  I stopped eating 4 foods from the nightshade family:  bell peppers, potatoes, tomatoes, aubergine (eggplant).  I also stopped eating red meat, fried foods, mushrooms, GM foods, processed foods and sugar (as much as possible) and foods with partially hydrogenated vegetable oil.  Because hormones and pesticides given to dairy cows are stored in the fat, I tried to eat only organic dairy products.   I also tried to eat as much biodynamically grown food as possible - this is one step (but a big one) up from organic. Fortunately a small shop near Cambridge was the biggest supplier of biodynamic food in the UK.

I made many other changes along the way as well, but seeing an anthroposophically trained doctor was the best choice I made.  I still return for checkups and I still have injections of mistletoe.  I now eat more meat, have cooked tomatoes, and enjoy sweets in moderation.  Following two lumpectomies and one mastectomy I am healthy and doing very well.

One of the most important lessons I have learned through this is that each of us must find our own way toward health and healing.  Whether it is complete faith in what your doctor tells you, using an orthodox approach, using an alternative or complementary approach or using faith healing, it is important that you have trust and confidence in the approach you choose.  One approach doesn't fit everyone.  And healing comes in many forms.

Thank you for your story which is very inspiring.  I wholeheartedly agree with you that healing takes many forms and is what you have faith in that counts.  I would be interested in the reasoning behind omitting the foods you mentioned, as I belive that these foods (especially tomatoes) carry anti-cancer properties in the form of lypocene.  The first consultant I saw suggested the mistletoe treatment amongst others like B17 and essiac.  However, as the other treatment worked so well, this was not taken up.

Thank you for your comments - I hope you visit the site often.  I have put a new page up today, as it happens and I update it regularly.  

Hi, Susan.

I appreciate the things you have to say. Most important thing of all is that YOU take responsibility for YOUR OWN treatment. That in itself is a big boost toward getting well.

One thing: I NEVER refer to cancer in the possessive, as in "my" cancer, "your" cancer, "her" cancer. It is NOT "mine." I do not want it. It came from an evil place and I am sending it back there.

If anyone needs "official" or "professional" "proof" that the avoidance of "claiming cancer as one's own" is a good thing, they may read or reread "Love Medicine and Miracles" by Bernie Siegal, or they may investigate the art/science of psychoneuroimmunology.

But I should think it common sense not to want to give subconscious signals to the body/mind that one wants the cancer, that it belongs to one.

Best of health and healing to you!

Dear Susan,

The person who suggested you are trying to make money from your diagnosis of cancer is thoroughly naive. It is laughable to suppose someone could make appreciable money from selling a book about how to heal from or how to avoid being diagnosed with cancer.

I am sorry you are being criticized for your efforts. It is certainly uncalled for, and such people are entirely ignorant of what is called for if a person desires to make money from publishing a book. Before people make such a criticism, they should investigate the facts as to who actually makes money from writing books.

God bless you for your efforts!

Dear Susan

Your story is very inspiring. Recently I found I came across some statistical figureswhich endorses the facts that there are many other root causes that coerce the patient towards the dead end, perhaps with undetected, unexplained  unjustified results of the case.

DVT complications kill approximately 200,000 people a year in the United States—more than AIDS and breast cancer combined. Fortunately, DVT typically resolves if diagnosed early and treated properly.

source:http://www.dvtcases.com/

I am desperate to read your book on healing as I strongly encourage the idea that there are many roads to healing which best realised as an experience rather than statistical facts and figures.

May God enrich your knowledge on 'Healing'

and make you more sucessful to promote the cause.

Hi,

Sorry to find comments agianst you.

(If)Myself, Pointing a finger at someone results in 3 fingers pointing me back. I cannot ask my therapist /(doctor) why do I need to visit again after consuming various colourful pills for a week OR why do I need to be regular to complete the antibiotic course without gap (gaps makes your infection win over the medicine)  

It's time we just need to make a collective effort towards exploring the beneficiaries actions and results in the process of HEALING, (is it online research) I think thats what I'm doing right now.

Recently I found a reliable weblink revealing that "anger, unforgiving nature, frustration" is also one among the many causes for a predicted cancer in healthy humans.

This page is a very valuable tool for the few who are counting WEEKS, days, mins, !. I hope not to waste much of time and words, simply I wish to share other weblinks of success stories of patients below.

http://www.gpinstitute.com/cases/cases.htm

I believe that I should first Identify the healer inside myself and provoke the one who created the life, the disease and THE CURE.

RELIEF is neverthless LESS than CURE for an ailing, suffering, withering, convulsing, shouting, crying pain sufferer, The experience of pain is an EXPERIENCE itself.

I believe there is no difference between RELIEF and CURE since no one has certificate to live healthy for 100 years. So, why not live life happily.

May God show the source for peace.

Dear Sue, isn't it interesting that a former NHS nurse is exploring alternative treatments is it because we've seen the effects when people get into the surgery cycle and medication cycle where taking one drug gives side effects necessitating another etc etc and how these are given on a repeat prescription ad infinitum.

I too am untertaking a nutritional diploma because it seems so logical that what we eat affects the health of our bodies.

4 years ago my partner died from liver mets from breast primary, diagnosed 2 years previously. She had mastectomy and chemo. and you do what seems the best at the time but my biggest regret is that she had surgery. The outcome may not have been a whole lot different but the time she had would have been better, she wouldn't have spent most of it feeling ill and battling lymohoedema in her arm.

Good luck to you - stick to what feels right and don't be bullied by medics who believe they know everything.

Thanks to everyone who left their comments - I find this debate very inspiring. To the last person, I say that I am so sorry to hear of your loss and the lack of quality of life in their last years.  I do know exactly what you mean when you say you have regrets.  There is not a day goes by when I don't regret the treatment my lovely daughter received who would have been 31 now perhaps with children of her own if she had received different treatment - as I have heard of many people being cured of non-hodgkins lymphoma by nutritional means.

If only I knew then what I know now!!   However, by sharing my experience and creating the site I hope that something positive has come out of it.  It seems that way by the number of people who have contacted me both in this forum and personally about their experiences.  I hope this debate continues and people become more aware of what treatment options are available to them, other than the conventional ones should they ever be diagnosed with cancer.  

Have you tried injections of Vitamin C?  The dose is 10 Gms and over 3gms cannot be taken in pill form.

I am no expert but if you contact WDDTY ( What Doctors Dont Tell You), they should tell you about their publisher's wife who was apparently successfully treated this way and recovered.  They can also bring you up to date on the case, i.e. tell you if there has been any relapse.

There is a doctor in Tunbridge Wells who will administer this: Dr Schellander (01892 543535).

Good Luck!     Ron Plank