Five things I tried in addition to radiation therapy, chemotherapy, and surgery

Mathtutor234 · June 2010

Hi,

I had a diagnosis of terminal colo-rectal cancer with a prognosis of six months to live after I had received about three months of radiation therapy and chemotherapy and a surgery. My doctors were very sure that I would die based on the normal outcome of someone with cancer as bad and as fast growning as I had. That was more than two years ago and I'm in reasonably good health. In addition to the radiation therapy, chemotherapy and surgery I tried five other things. I don't know if they helped or not, but they didn't hurt me, and might have helped. I don't recommend that anyone try these things. But if you have a terminal diagnosis you can decide for yourself if you want to take a chance with one or more of the things. The five additional things I tried are:

1.25 times the recommended dosage of fish zole for 15 or so days about two months before beginning chemotherapy. Fish zole is a parasite medicine for fish that reverses a body's polarity.

Walks of approximately 2 miles during chemotherapy.

Three bumble bee stings administered to the head during chemotherapy.

Twice drinking a heavy concentration of slippery elm bark, sheep sorrel, and burdock root tea (a saucepan almost filled with slippery elm bark and burdock root, with some sheep sorrel thrown in, boiled down) during chemotherapy.

Eating a huge quantity of pork fat during chemotherapy.

Fish zole is a medicine for fishes that gets rid of parasites. It is not for human consumption. If you do decide to take fish zole, for the love of God, only take a very small dosage at first to see if you're allergic to it. What it does is to change a body's polarity. I suspect this might effect the chemotherapy treatments. I believe that taking fairly long, fairly vigorous walks increases the circulation and the effect of the chemotherapy. The three bumble bee stings were free and easily obtained, though they did hurt a little. Slippery elm tea is something doctors used in the past as a cancer treatment. They don't anymore, but it's easily obtained and cheap so I tried it. Burdock root has been used in cancer treatments, but not enough research has been done on it for it to be a standard treatment. Sheep Sorrel is readily available so I gave it a try. Pork fat is very healthy up until the point it causes cholesterol plaque buildup in a person's blood vessels and causes them to have a stroke or heart attack. In my opinion it's very helpful in the body rebuilding itself.

The biggest criticisms I've received in telling other people about these five things is:

1. That they believe it was just the regular radiation and chemo therapy treatments and the surgery that did the trick. Maybe, I don't know. I do know that my doctors were very sure I would die after three months of treatments and after the surgery. More than two years later I'm living independently and am able to take fairly long walks. I'm able to engage in what we might call honest work for about half an hour at a time. And I feel very good.

2. Related to the first criticism, that I'm giving people false hope. Maybe, I don't know. I know from my personal experience that when I received the terminal diagnosis I wanted to try everything I could. If someone had told me some things that wouldn't hurt me, might help me, and were cheap and easily obtained I would have thanked them and tried the things. Just on the chance that they might help.

3. That the five things are outlandish and are improbable aids in the treatment of cancer. Well, pumping radioactive metal elements into a person's blood stream seems a fairly outlandish and improbable treatment to me...And really, aren't most cancer treatments some form of poison?

4. That I'm some sort of scammer cheating people. I don't have stock in a company that produces fish zole (fish zole costs about $15 for 30 pills, which includes shipping) or a pig farm. And I don't ask for money to tell people about the five things I tried. I'm not trying to get money from anyone.

So far a person has let me know that his father, who was diagnosed with colo-rectal cancer and who had a prognosis of a 10% chance of survival survived and is doing fine. The fellow ate a small quantity of almonds every day during his chemotherapy and credits this with saving his life. For the record, I also ate a small quantity of almonds during my chemotherapy (I like to eat almonds) but do not believe it helped the chemoptherapy.

Thank you for your consideration and good luck and God bless you.

kristasplace · June 2010

Outlandish and improbable
I thought your post was very interesting. Congratulations on proving the doctors wrong, and surviving. I agree that pumping us full of highly toxic materials to cure cancer seems more outlandish of a cure than running around with underwear pulled over our heads shouting, "cancer be gone!"

The more i'm researching chemo, the more i'm certain most of it's a sugar pill designed to do little more than make big money for those who profit. Maybe it does kill some cancer some of the time, but at what cost? It seems that most people die from the breakdown of their immune system, than from the cancer itself. Bottom line is, so many of us wouldn't be dying of cancer if chemo actually worked. John has mentioned before that it's possible people who survive cancer after chemo treatments may have survived anyway, without it. The same may be true of alternative methods, except it seems that when doctors give up on their own treatments, and tell the patient to go home and die, if they listen to them, and do nothing, they do die. If alternative treatments are employed, many survive. We have this debate on this board all the time. There are a few people here who did cure themselves by alternative treatments (diet in particular), and are cancer free after 5, or even 10 years later. There are a few on here who did chemo and survived. I can't be sure if there's any stage IV's on here who were 'cured' by chemo that long. There are many who are holding on as stage IV's, but having to do maintanence chemo, and it seems to be keeping them alive. There are simply sides to every story, and we just can't know which is absolute without tons of research. That's where i'm at. Listening, reading, and researching everything i can to make a definite decision as to how to beat my own cancer. I know chemo is out for me, because i don't believe it will work. Belief is probably half the cure right there.

Hugs!
Krista

Mathtutor234 · June 2010

kristasplace said:
Outlandish and improbable
I thought your post was very interesting. Congratulations on proving the doctors wrong, and surviving. I agree that pumping us full of highly toxic materials to cure cancer seems more outlandish of a cure than running around with underwear pulled over our heads shouting, "cancer be gone!"

The more i'm researching chemo, the more i'm certain most of it's a sugar pill designed to do little more than make big money for those who profit. Maybe it does kill some cancer some of the time, but at what cost? It seems that most people die from the breakdown of their immune system, than from the cancer itself. Bottom line is, so many of us wouldn't be dying of cancer if chemo actually worked. John has mentioned before that it's possible people who survive cancer after chemo treatments may have survived anyway, without it. The same may be true of alternative methods, except it seems that when doctors give up on their own treatments, and tell the patient to go home and die, if they listen to them, and do nothing, they do die. If alternative treatments are employed, many survive. We have this debate on this board all the time. There are a few people here who did cure themselves by alternative treatments (diet in particular), and are cancer free after 5, or even 10 years later. There are a few on here who did chemo and survived. I can't be sure if there's any stage IV's on here who were 'cured' by chemo that long. There are many who are holding on as stage IV's, but having to do maintanence chemo, and it seems to be keeping them alive. There are simply sides to every story, and we just can't know which is absolute without tons of research. That's where i'm at. Listening, reading, and researching everything i can to make a definite decision as to how to beat my own cancer. I know chemo is out for me, because i don't believe it will work. Belief is probably half the cure right there.

Hugs!
Krista

Hi, belief is very important in my opinion
Let me start by saying that I recommend everyone to get chemotherapy, radiation therapy, or surgery, or any combination of these if their doctor thinks that there is any chance of these helping. In my case I tried all of these. After the treatments, the surgery in particular, my doctor was very sure that I would die. And realistically, I should have, he cut out some sort of cancerous growth that was the third largest he had ever encountered. When he was telling me about it after the surgery he actually used both of his hands to gauge it's size. He said I was riddled with cancer in my colo-rectal area, it had blood vessels growing in it. And it was fast growing. I then continued with chemotherapy treatment for about another three months, even though the doctors didn't believe it would help that much. They were thinking it would prolong my life, not really get rid of the cancer. But something helped me. I don't know if it was the standard treatments, or one or more of the five things I tried on my own, or if it was just random good luck, or if it was faith. I certainly believe in the possiblity of God. And a local church was nice enough to pray for me. Perhaps that is the reason I've done so well. And it's not impossible that some people's bodies are able to fight cancer on their own, if the white blood cells can learn to attack cancer cells then they should be able to get rid of the cancer. There are, to my knowledge, no documented cases of this happening, but it's not impossible.

coloCan · June 2010

Mathtutor234 said:
Hi, belief is very important in my opinion
Let me start by saying that I recommend everyone to get chemotherapy, radiation therapy, or surgery, or any combination of these if their doctor thinks that there is any chance of these helping. In my case I tried all of these. After the treatments, the surgery in particular, my doctor was very sure that I would die. And realistically, I should have, he cut out some sort of cancerous growth that was the third largest he had ever encountered. When he was telling me about it after the surgery he actually used both of his hands to gauge it's size. He said I was riddled with cancer in my colo-rectal area, it had blood vessels growing in it. And it was fast growing. I then continued with chemotherapy treatment for about another three months, even though the doctors didn't believe it would help that much. They were thinking it would prolong my life, not really get rid of the cancer. But something helped me. I don't know if it was the standard treatments, or one or more of the five things I tried on my own, or if it was just random good luck, or if it was faith. I certainly believe in the possiblity of God. And a local church was nice enough to pray for me. Perhaps that is the reason I've done so well. And it's not impossible that some people's bodies are able to fight cancer on their own, if the white blood cells can learn to attack cancer cells then they should be able to get rid of the cancer. There are, to my knowledge, no documented cases of this happening, but it's not impossible.

Don't neglect or fail to acknowledge the "Power of Positive
Thinking" as a major, powerful weapon in this battle........steve

Five things I tried in addition to radiation therapy, chemotherapy, and surgery

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