Carl Helvie refused chemo for lung cancer in 1975
and is now the longest living lung cancer survivor!
Carl O. Helvie is a Registered Nurse with a Masters Degree in Public Health Nursing from the University of California, a Masters Degree in Public Health and Wellness and a Doctorate in Public Health and Wellness both from Johns Hopkins University and continued Post Doctoral study in the Divinity School at Duke University.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16
Cancer Stories
The Purple Dragon Slayer
^When I first started my research I wanted to slay this bastard^
Lisa’s Story
Lisa Engelke is a young, devoted wife and mother of two young children. She is also a Stage IV Metastatic Triple Negative Breast Cancer Survivor with no chemotherapy, radiation or hormonal drug treatments.
As a Middle School student Lisa was enrolled into the independent study program at the National Cancer Institute at Ft. Detrick, Maryland, intending to find the cure for Cancer before it took anymore of her family members.
Hello. I’m honored to be here tonight and share with you the hope I’ve been given in the face of cancer. At this very moment, I am fighting cancer.
Three years ago, I was diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer. I was 35 years old, married to my husband, Ken, and our girls Sam and Layla, were 5 and 3. The news was devastating. It was also baffling. Breast cancer doesn’t run in my family. And, I was on a health kick and feeling my best when the tumor showed up.
Now, “Triple Negative breast cancer” sounds bad, and it is. It is more aggressive in women under 40 and is more difficult to treat than other types of breast cancer. In fact, out of all breast cancers, mine has the lowest 5-year survival rate, of only 14%. To top that off, my first oncologist informed me that conventional cancer treatments would “guarantee a second cancer.”
Seven surgeries and three years later, I’m here tonight to celebrate the light that Believe Big has brought into our lives.
Believe Big has been steadfast, never giving up on me and giving me plenty of practical help.
They awarded me a wellness grant for IV mistletoe therapy, a house cleaning coupon, a treasured book at Christmastime, and my “fav” a Believe Big mug with the I Will Have No Fear prayer card. I see and read it EVERYDAY, multiple times a day. I use my mug first thing in the morning and last thing before bed to remind me of the gift of hope when I am feeling my worst.
I receive amazing support and information from Believe Big at no cost. Believe Big told me about mistletoe, directed me to a physician who could prescribe it, and connected me to a health center with an integrative approach to treat my individual “terrain”.
To this day, I refer to the Believe Big website almost weekly.
The “first steps” section was like gold to me when I was newly-diagnosed, emotional and needed someone to tell me what to do next.
The website’s comprehensive list of mistletoe doctors state by state is invaluable, along with healthy recipes, ways to navigate safer foods and products, and other tools that launched me into my research journey.
I now have a retreat-like in-home studio for the non-toxic therapies that elevate my health and well-being. My individualized diet and supplements, light exercise, juicing, meditation, on-going mistletoe therapy, and Acupuncture all started with my call to Believe Big. I “Believe Big” and maintain a positive attitude every day. I’ve followed this protocol without conventional treatments and it is working. I stand here today not in full remission, but full of hope.
Soon after my diagnosis, I attended the Believe Big Dinner and heard inspiring stories of how to integrate treatments, giving me a big dose of confidence that I could do it, too. I am doing it!
Believe Big teaches how to live with cancer. Believe Big teaches us how to THRIVE with cancer. That’s what I am doing here. I don’t want to die from cancer. I want to live with cancer.
I’m convinced that telling our stories is truly a cathartic part of the healing process. Thank you Believe Big for this night and for the opportunity to speak and to fulfill my purpose, my dream….to be a Hope Giver like you. Lisa Engelke
IT Will Never Be The Same
By CBS News October 14, 2015, 5:00 AM
After breast cancer, “I won’t ever be the same. And that’s OK.”
She thought about potato chips. During the hardest parts of her 15-day, 467-mile run — Davina McNaney thought about potato chips. She also daydreamed about taking epsom salt baths and hugging her two young daughters at the finish line. And she thought about the day more than three years before, when she found out she had breast cancer.
McNaney was at home with her younger daughter when the phone rang in October 2012. She had gotten her first mammogram just a few weeks earlier. The doctors asked her to come back for a second mammogram and biopsy. McNaney didn’t think much of it. Although some members of her extended family had breast cancer, Davina’s mother and grandmother did not. Plus, she was also feeling fine and in great shape — she’d just completed a 40-mile race on her 40th birthday. But the nurse on the other end of the line explained McNaney’s biopsy showed DCIS, or ductal carcinoma in situ— the presence of abnormal cells inside the milk duct in the breast.
From Hell to Inspired
Another goal has been reached!
It is such a sweet feeling to be able to climb your way to the top, when you were not even supposed to be able to walk on your own too feet! People were looking at me like I was a bit off, and I am! I walked the whole way to the top barefoot! Obviously far from “normal”. Now they have something to talk about. A few people asked me why and I told them that it was healing and regenerating, and they sounded intrigued. Next time who knows? A new trend might be on its way!
3 years ago I had to use a wheelchair to move more than 10 feet to go anywhere. I spent several years in bed, being wheeled around from the car to my room, when I was well enough to be carried on to a plain. I broke that spell by traveling to Florida by myself, now camping alone in the wild, and today, stretching even more. Reaching higher and higher. The body has no limit. I am growing younger. More on that later ladies. Being 51 is the new 30 for me!
Unsinkable Determination
Then, in June 2014, Van Dyken’s spirited nature and active lifestyle were tested when a near-fatal ATV accident left her paralyzed from the waist down.
Are You This Tough
Gabrielle Anderson – She is that tough!
Tags: www.gabrielegrunewald.comAdenoid Cystic Carcinoma
Gabrielle Anderson (photo courtesy of Gary Wilson)
Gabrielle Anderson was a Minnesota state champion in the 800 meters and earned all-state honors four times in cross country while attending Perham High School. She earned scholarship to the University of Minnesota, and where she qualified for the NCAA Cross Country Championships three times, the NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships two times, and earned All-Big Ten Conference honors five times.
Theresa DiNallo
“After completing a mammogram, they called me and put it very delicately, saying they think there is a mass in a certain area,” DiNallo told news-herald.com. “That’s when I immediately got scared and I remember being petrified the whole time.”Theresa was diagnosed with invasive ductal carcinoma.
Theresa was immediately confronted with all the generic options, such as chemotherapy, she, however, chose to be more forward-thinking and started investigating. One of her first findings was that poor nutrition and alcohol use highly increased cancer risks. She also noted that fat-free, sugar-free and low-fat diet items were laden with dangerous chemicals. Of course, the medical world gave her the “there is no definite cause” company line.
Have Peace Within Yourself
Kris wondered if her cancer was incurable, was she still healthy if she changed what she was doing in the past. And if so, just maybe. Within her mind, body and spirit that could keep the disease in check. Therefore, Kris made a major life forming commitment to a better understanding of living life.
Nordic Region Cancer Rates
The Winning Attitude
A person I talked to most recently through the world wide web is Lene Maria Søndermølle Steffensen Maria. Whom is a five year dedicated cancer survivor of Neuroendocrine Carcinoid which is the same type Steve Jobs had. What Lene Maria does…. is look at other people’s lives as Nearly Fat, Sick & Dead and the reason I included her story, she is breathing testament of Solitarius with a winning attitude.
MIND OVER Medicine ??????????
Mallory Davenport
I had just gotten married that April to my best friend and soul mate.
AND My job as an independent insurance adjuster was going great, I was making good money and traveling the U.S. SO Getting diagnosed with cancer was like being blindsided by a truck.
I decided to do chemo in Fort Worth where I had my house at the time, since Jack and I hadn’t been married that long and we worked on the road, I hadn’t officially moved into his house…. in Daphne, Al. So I started chemo in Fort Worth, Texas in November 2011, the standard treatment for Hodgkins Lymphoma (ABVD). SO This is how my experience began: While arriving at my first chemo not knowing what in the world was going to happen to me.
Ivelisse Page
Study: Mistletoe Effective Against Colon Cancer
Mistletoe gives the kiss of death to cancer
In a new study, Zahra Lotfallani, a researcher at University of Adelaide in Australia,
(that’s her in the pic) found that one type of Mistletoe extract called Fraxini, when compared to chemotherapy, was more effective against colon cancer cells and less toxic.
“Mistletoe extract has been considered a viable alternative therapy overseas for many years, but it’s important for us to understand the science behind it,”says one of Ms Lotfollahi’s supervisors, the University of Adelaide’s Professor Gordon Howarth, and a Cancer Coach.
The Metaphysical Realm
Hi you all, just wanted to share with you my good news. In July 2013, I was diagnosed with stage 4a cervical cancer. I followed the conventional treatment route because I didn’t really know I had any other choice. To be fair it served me well but never fully gave me the all clear. It culminated in October 2014, when they told me …. it had come back in para-aortic lymph nodes with increased activity in the cervix and they could only further offer palliative care.
* I remember Jassy well from out of the blue on Facebook telling us… our group helped her overcome the obstacles in the United Kingdom.
Fiona Shakeela Burns
How Fiona healed leukemia, sarcoma and stage 4 cervical cancer!
In 1976, Fiona Shakeela Burns was diagnosed with leukemia and sarcoma at 11 years old, and was cured with Gerson Therapy.
30 years later, in 2009, she was diagnosed with stage 4 cervical cancer that had metastasized to her ovaries and brain. She refused conventional treatment and healed that too.
I broke our interview up for you into two sections to make them easier to watch and share:
her childhood cancer story (7 min) and her adult cancer story (36 min).
