I don’t know much about other cancers,  but I look up hormone driven breast cancer             a lot because this is what I am in remission from.  I also think breast cancer needs to be approached in an integrative fashion  to include chemo,  radiation,  surgery,  medicines  and complementary protocols. To do it any other way, is in my opinion, playing Russian Roulette and plain suicide.

This includes  Vitamin C (Iv or liposomal ), Mushroom (esp. Coriolus), Frankincense, NAC,  Lugol’s iodine,  Reservatol,  2 Tablespoon ground flax seed everyday, and circumin with pepperine,  vitamin D3,  B-complex,  selenium,  wheat germ extract,  DIM, and  IC3, sulphoraphane (these last 3 relate to hormone driven cancer).

A good diet is essential as well to keep your immunity up, reduce carcinogenic and inflammatory foods and to prevent and reduce angiogenesis. An interesting TED talk about eating to starve cancer!!!

Getting to bed by 10:00 to maintain melatonin levels is great.

Exercise is essential as well, but not the type to wear you down and exhaust you but the type to give you a medium workout and increase your energy and well being, like yoga.

Alkalinity is great, too. Blood pH values compatible with life in mammals are limited to     a pH range between 6.8 and 7.8.  Changes in the pH of arterial blood (and therefore the extracellular fluid)  outside this range result in irreversible cell damage.   When we talk about any range outside of this I believe people are talking about urine pH level  which  has a wider range.

In a pH balanced body. urine is slightly acid in the morning, (pH = 6.5 – 7.0) generally becoming more alkaline (pH = 7.5 – 8.0) by evening in healthy people primarily because no food or beverages are consumed while sleeping. Whereas,  during  the  day  the  body buffers the pH of the food and beverages consumed by releasing electrolytes and the pH level goes up.

Generally, when urine pH is 6.0 and below for extended periods of time, it’s an indication that the body’s fluids elsewhere are too acid,  and it is working overtime  to rid itself of an acid medium. Thus, when urine pH is normal, then the blood pH is normal, but when the urine pH  is overly acid,  the  body  releases  too  many  electrolytes  to keep  the pH level normal and maintain life.   One keeps themselves  within  the  urine alkalinity range with lots of alkaline foods, ie: green vegetables.  This helps decrease stress on the body, give it vital nutrients and once again, keep immunity strong.

Doing complementary protocol alongside conventional will limit  side effects and boost   its effectiveness.  I had rock in the sock treatment last year and had no side effects except loss of hair. I felt great whilst I endured 4 rounds of dose dense Adriamycian and Cytoxan at two weeks apart.  This was followed by 12 rounds of weekly taxol.  My immunity stayed within range.   I had no mouth ulcers or neuropathy.   I did put ice packs  on my feet  and hands during chemo to prevent neuropathy.  I  went  to  Mexico  for  local radiofrequency hyperthermia to my breast  with temperatures up to 107 degrees  and  whole body sound frequency hyperthermia up to 104 degrees.

Germany has an excellent hyperthermia protocol and local, whole body and regional machines.  I would have preferred to have went  to Germany,  however,  due to financial constraints, I could not. There is only one place in Mexico that does local radiofrequency hyperthermia (which I prefer).  That is Sanoviv.  Nowhere in Mexico is  radiofrequency whole body hyperthermia given.  They only have sound frequency.   And the Mexican protocol only allows for one hour treatment.  German treatment in 5-6 hours.

I  have a very good high school friend, Nancy, who had stage 3 hormone driven cancer 7 years ago.  She followed the conventional protocol without any complementary. One year later it returned in her bones.  She was so mad,  she refused to do any more conventional and focused heavily on alternative.  She even went to the Budwig Clinic in Spain and two years later the cancer had covered her hips, thighs, shoulders, arms, spine, skull, sternum and a spot in her brain. Her tumor markers were well over 2,000.

She was on her deathbed. She finally decided to go to BioMed in Germany, where she’s had extensive hyperthermia,  mistletoe injections  and  intravenous vitamin C.  She also started incorporating conventional medicine into her protocol.  Not chemo, radiation or surgery, though.  The cancer is now out of her bones  except for a spot  on her shoulder and the brain lesion cannot be currently found.  Her tumor markers are down to about 150.  She feels great.

My mother – in – law  had  DCIS.   She went to some very expensive clinics in Southern California  and one place in Arkansas for photodynamic therapy,  that has now been shut down by the feds.  She then went onto have a lumpectomy.  She must have spent well over 60K at the clinics, when in retrospect all she really needed was a lumpectomy.  When I got diagnosed she was the first to tell me I needed to imagine the cancer away.  That I brought it on by my own stress related issues and bad diet. (I actually ate very well,  however,  I did like the sugar).

She convinced me that chemo and radiation would kill me.  I was so scared.   I knew nothing of cancer.  My own experience was when my grandmother died of pancreatic cancer. (my grandmother was like a mother to me, since she raised me).  It was brutal   and horrifying.  She was diagnosed at Stage 4 upon presentation.  That means chemo, surgery, etc was not an option.  She just had to ride it out and die.  Which she did and        it took 6 months.  I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy

My father died of throat cancer.  I didn’t know him well, but know he suffered.  I don’t know his protocol.  But basically,  all I knew was that  it seemed like conventional was a failure.  It  failed  for  my  friend,  Nancy and my grandmother.  Yet, my mother – in – law seemed to come out of it fairly unscathed and she healed herself “naturally”, as she called it.  She told me that when she went in for the lumpectomy that there was no blood supply to the tumor.  I now know  DCIS does not have a blood supply.  It has not turned invasive yet.  It is in situ, meaning it is encapsulated and angiogenesis has not occurred.

When I first found a lump, my mother in law was the first person I went to.  She and many others in the circle I ran discouraged mammography.   I was afraid of it for lots of reasons, so I went for a thermography who told me it was a cyst and that my hormones were out of whack.   This was the best guy in town.   He had written books on the subject,  also taught seminars at the local complementary healthcare practitioners and was even a professor at a college.

He told me to use a progesterone cream to balance my hormones and  I had fibrocystic breasts  and  to expect more lumps.  I immediately  went on an anti-inflammatory  and alkaline diet.  It also included supplements to balance my hormones and vitamin C IVs.  All of which are part of the anti-cancer protocol as it turned out.

So after a year of feeling more lumps, I experienced what seemed like mastitis and I was feeling very sick and in a lot of pain.  I went to medical doctor thinking it was an infection.  She immediately suspected cancer and sent me for all the tests. By then I had a 8cm tumor with lymphnode involvement.  This is HUGE!   The cancer was estrogen and progesterone positive.  I suspect the progesterone cream had fed the cancer as well.

I had many friends and family beg me not to do conventional. Some even said all I needed to do was pray.   I was scared of conventional and agreed but how was I going to pay to go to Germany?  My friend went 4 times at 25K per trip.  What if I died anyway and left my family homeless and penniless?    After fighting with my husband (the only person who told me to do chemo), I finally gave in.

After my PET scan it was apparent I had fluid on my heart and inflammation throughout my body.   I now know it was the effect of a paraneoplastic syndrome.  My immunity was very strong and fighting the cancer.  However,  in  doing  so  it was also fighting my body.  As soon as I got on chemo,  I felt sooooooo much better.  My father-in-law said he would pay for one trip to Germany as long as I gave up chemo.  It was such a difficult decision.   To be honest, I turned to God for my decisions.

I felt I couldn’t trust myself anymore.  I couldn’t tell what was real from what wasn’t.  Nothing made sense anymore. In the end, I didn’t go. I felt it was too much of a risk and  As soon as I got off chemo, the paraneoplastic kicked in again and I lost sight in my right eye, couldn’t lift my left arm, had muscle fasiculations  and  paresthesias  throughout my body and a bunch of other weird things.  I was sent for a brain MRI and 3 lesions were found on my brain.

I was told the cancer had spread and I had a year to live following brain surgery and  radiation.  In a twist of fate and act of God, my insurance messed up and I had to switch my team of doctors to a new one that accepted my new insurance.  I ended up at U.C.S.D. and they ran more MRI’s, did a spinal tap and after consultations with neuro oncologists and neurologists it was determined to be something called capillary telangctasia (benign abnormality).  Not brain metastasis. Phew!

That was the hardest month,  I’ve ever had to endure  and  a very dark time in my life.     Also The thought of having  to say goodbye  to my children put me over the edge.  I was    put on steroids  for  five  days  and my symptoms greatly decreased.  I finally had breast surgery and my symptoms decreased even further. Presently, I  hardly have any of these symptoms.  In retrospect,  my body fighting the cancer  may very well have saved me.  I kept my immunity up, I believe this did not kill the cancer,  but gave it a good fight and prevented it from spreading.

Following chemo, the 8 cm tumor had reduced to just a few specks. I had 3 positive lymph nodes with micro amounts of cancer in them.  None of this could  actually be seen on MRI, it was only seen upon pathology staining. This is an astonishing result given the amount of high grade cancer I had and the fact it is a hormone driven. While Hormone driven tumors doesn’t shrink as much as hormone negative.  The doctor truly believe I’m probably cured.  However,  I discovered I have the BRCA2 gene, so I will have to live a prophylactic lifestyle from now on.   Had I not done conventional, I believe I would be dead by now.  I will never advocate alternative on it’s own unless it’s an in situ case, such as my mother in laws.

BRCA mutations and a few other gene mutations have been identified as making one susceptible to cancer. I believe there are many more that have yet to be identified. This is where gene therapy becomes very exciting  and so the road to customized cancer therapy based  on  one’s specific gene begins.   I am thinking about becoming an advocate for my scientist friend, Brunhilde Felding, PhD.    She  heads the Scripps Cancer Laboratories in   La Jolla, California and focuses heavily on genomic and immunotherapy. She is currently studying how mitochondrial aberrations in the cell can lead to cancer and how this can be corrected.  Finding a cause is the first step in finding a cure.

Learn in his video series how to destroy cancer cells with whole body hyperthermia and PEMF  at the world renown  Paracelsus clinic in Switzerland.  Dr. Thomas Rau explains  how heat destroys cancer cells and boosts the immune system.