Re: My neighbor has cancer

I nearly died as a result of total blockage of the colon. I thought I was constipated and after several days of not being able to fart or have a bowel movement, I was in serious trouble. Each day, as I got worse, I expected that eventually, I would go and everything would be OK. Anyway, a bone head Dr. had me drink 1 gallon of Nu-Litely laxative which when added to several days of backup literaly filled me up. The Nu-Litely caused severe cramping which could have ruptured my weakend colon. I was near death, when the wife took me to the emergency room. It was 18 days and two surgeries. I had a colostomy bag for one week as I recovered from the initial situation. Then I had the colectomy (1/3 of descending colon removed). The cancer was graded T3-N3-G3-M0. Very serious stage C colon cancer. I went into a clinical trial on 5FU+leucavorin+oxaliplatin. On infusion #8, I had severe allergic reaction to the oxaliplatin and nearly died again. I continued the 5FU for a few more weeks, and then after a short chemo-free mission trip, I chose to terminate all chemo treatments.

Two weeks after I got out of the hospital, I read "The Cancer Battle Plan", and started working on a nutritional program. I was juicing, and mostly following Anne's plan, and my recovery was nothing short of a miracle. I continued nutritional therapy into the chemo. The chemo was every two weeks. The hard part was that I was so aware of my body that I could feel the chemo. I told my wife that I was certain the oxaliplatin was killing me, and in fact, it was. Anyway, I have continued to follow a strict nutritional protocol largely based on Kelley, and my oncology visits are only for blood work and 6 months CT scans (my two year scan is tomorrow).

I gave you my life story, but I have not answered your simple question. As you see, I have had both conventional and alternative treatment. When I went to the doc, he tossed survival stats my way that made the chemo look like a no-brainer. Having had time to research, those stats are somewhat misleading. Knowing what I know now, I don't think that I would choose the chemo.

At this point, it would be premature to say I am cured. Absence of detectable cancer, as we know, does not equal cure. But I doubt any onc reading my pathology report would have expected me to make it to two years disease free, and I have. That is a miracle in itself. And my attitude of cancer is that one is never really cured. One can control the cancer and even eliminate it, but the physical deficiencies that allowed the cancer to form in my body are not resolved, and I am also short nearly 1/2 of my colon. If you read "Alive And Well", a case is given of a woman who terminated her nutrition protocol 4 times, and each time her Breast Cancer returned. The fourth time, the nutrition could not resolve it and she died. Thus, I will never consider myself cured, but only to have my cancer under control, and I will follow a strict nutritional protocol until the day I die, even if it is 50 years from now.

BTW:, I have more vigor than I did 10 years ago. it is amazing what a good diet can do for ones health.

David