I just had my mastectomy. My scans had shown my tumor enlarging in size after nearly 3 years of weekly Taxol. The Taxol was stopped and I had my surgery 4 weeks later. During that month, the tumor enlarged rapidly in size - I could actually see it enlarging day by day.
My awesome breast surgeon, Helena Chang, director of the Revlon UCLA Breast Center, got the entire tumor out with clean margins and even got the surgical site closed without a skin flap.
The surgical pathology report on the tumor showed it scored 8/9 on an aggressiveness score and showed minimal chemo effect, only 5% of tumor cells showed apoptosis.
I have lived 3 years now with a very aggressive cancer. I'm not cured but I am certain I will not die from this. I keep searching for new ways to treat the underlying fungal infection as it develops resistance to each new treatment. Conventional medicine has been absolutely necessary for my survival, but it is the alternative treatments and antifungal medicines that have saved me. This aggressive cancer would have killed me 2 years ago without IV Caspofungin and Chinese herbs.
Next I start radiation to the surgical site to clean up residual disease in the area.
Microscopic disease in my body beyond the surgical site is not being treated at this time. This is very dangerous given the aggressiveness of this disease. I requested Tamoxifen therapy during radiation until I start chemotherapy again. My wonderful oncologist agreed to this! It's the perfect drug because it's a potent antifungal agent, the real reason it's effective against breast cancer. It will keep metastases from developing while I'm waiting to restart chemo.
As soon as I started Tamoxifen, little stinging pains that had started in different places in my body immediately stopped. I believe it will be very effective in preventing metastases at this time. I would prefer to continue taking it while I'm on chemo - the infection causing the cancerous transformation would be treated at the same time as the cancer, an effective 1-2 punch. But at this time, Tamoxifen with chemo isn't considered safe because of the increased risk of blood clots.
Before my mastectomy I started taking Cimetidine (Tagamet), an over-the-counter stomach acid reducer. It's been known for years in alternative medicine to block the communication between cancer cells. Infectious organisms, including fungi, are known to communicate through chemical signals so the entire colony can act like a unit, like the Republican party. This is the reason resistance to treatment develops so quickly. I've read that when a primary tumor is surgically removed, the metastases immediately flare up and grow even more aggressively. I believe that reaction results from communication between infectious organisms - when the chemical signals from the largest tumor disappear, the remaining organisms are stimulated to grow even more aggressively to overcome the loss and insure the survival of the colony despite the loss.
So I started Cimetidine pre-op to prevent the flare-up when my primary tumor was removed. I also wanted to slow the growth of any metastases while I am off chemo. Before the surgery, the pain in my breast from the tumor had worsened steadily. When I took the Cimetidine, the pain completely stopped, but would come back with a vengeance 23 hours after the last dose - an intense burning pain, like the nasty buggers were trying to make up for lost time. I'm taking the Cimetidine every 12 hours until I restart chemo to prevent any flare-up when the organisms in the surgical site are fried by the radiation.
Pectasol-C is an absolutely brilliant compound with multiple benefits and it's completely safe. It is citrus pectin that has been broken into pieces small enough to absorbed through the intestinal wall into the blood stream. It has 3 important benefits:
1. Heavy metal chelation - very effective in the gut but also should chelate heavy metals in the blood since it is absorbed into the bloodstream.
2. Heals leaky gut - beneficial to prevent new allergies and heal the intestinal wall of breaks caused by toxic microorganisms in the gut. Should be beneficial for irritable bowel, Crohn's and ulcerative colitis.
3. Turns programmed cell death back on in cancer cells. When fungi infect cells, they shut off programmed cell death (apoptosis), the signals that tell the cell it's time to die. Without apoptosis, the cells become immortal and divide uncontrollably, i.e. become cancer. Researchers at Columbia University recently announced their findings on the effect of Pectasol-C on prostate cancer cells. They grew prostate cancer cells in petri dishes and added Pectasol-C and found that apoptosis was turned back on in these cells, resulting in a 54% kill rate in these cells, a strongly significant effect.
Both prostate and breast cancers have been known for years to respond to Pectasol. All of the hormone dependent cancers should respond as well, since they likely are caused by fungi, e.g. colon, melanoma, uterine, bladder.
I am using cimetidine and Pectasol-C along with Tamoxifen at least until I restart chemo in 2 months. I feel really excited and optimistic based on my immediate improvement in my general state of health and lack of side effects. The integrative medicine I am using as an adjunct to conventional treatment is benign and based on actual physiology and solid medical research.
I plan to continue to astonish cancer doctors with my survival and excellent condition for years to come.
Monday, January 10, 2011
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