Four years with Stage 4 Breast Cancer and still going strong

 I started this blog entry last fall, after 3 years of continuous chemo followed by 3 months of radiation to my chest and spine.  I didn't finish it because the radiation after all that chemo made me horrifically sick.  Now in Sept 2012 I still have not recovered from my standard Western treatment:

I'm doing very well despite being diagnosed with Stage 4 breast cancer 4 years ago. I'm about to celebrate my 50th birthday, which I did not believe I would reach 4 years ago. Because the cause of my cancer, a skin fungal infection, has been treated, I have not been overwhelmed by metastases.

I've survived years longer than any other stage 4 patient my oncologist has treated in 25 years. I'm the only stage 4 patient in the United States involved in an Amgen drug study to survive. If all patients with hormone-dependent cancers were treated with anti-fungal drugs along with chemotherapy, everyone would survive like I have. Please see my previous posts, starting in 2009.

I've discovered more integrative medical treatments in the past year, which I want to share with you in the hope it relieves your suffering and saves your life, too.

I had a mastectomy last December, followed by radiation. The surgery was a breeze, but the radiation made me horribly sick and weak for

I'm now coming up on my 51st birthday and my fifth anniversary of receiving my death sentence.  I've worked for the past 5 years to create my own stay of execution.  It's clearer to me now more than ever that all cancers start as infection and that cancers are the means by which these infections spread through the body.  The worst thing we can do in fighting these infections is damage the body's defenses, particularly the immune system.  The white blood cells that cause inflammation are doing their job - they're NOT the disease.  They are fighting to control a life-threatening infection.  If we effectively treat the infection, the inflammation will resolve on its own.  Wherever there is inflammation, there is an infection.