What If I Could Do My Cancer Treatment All Over Again?

I've learned a LOT over the last 5 years through trial and error.

The standard Western medical approach to women with stage 4 breast cancer is give them chemo until they die, which they always do.  I'm alive because I've been treated for the causative infection since the beginning.

A breast surgeon told me that stage 4 patients don't undergo mastectomies in the oncology protocols because they all die despite the surgery.  I had to have a mastectomy after 3 years of chemo to eradicate the original tumor - chemo hadn't touched it.  My surgical pathology report stated the tumor showed "minimal chemotherapy effect."  After 3 YEARS of chemo!

If I could do my entire cancer treatment over again, this is what I would do:

1.  Start Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) the day I received the diagnosis to effectively and safely treat the causative infection.
2.  Start hyperbaric oxygen therapy the day I received the diagnosis to immediately kill cancer cells and infectious organisms spreading from the original tumor.
3.  Undergo a simple mastectomy ASAP to remove the original tumor.
4.  After a month healing from the mastectomy, start a SHORT course of chemo to clean up any lingering cancer cells.
5.  Continue Traditional Chinese Medicine indefinitely to heal from the surgery and chemo, effectively and safely CURE the causative infection and correct the underlying physical issues that allowed the disease to start in the first place.

Traditional Chinese Medicine seems miraculous to me as a physician and cancer patient.  It has been developed and refined for 2500 years, each successive generation of geniuses perfecting it more.  Modern Western medicine is only a century old.  It has a LONG way to go, although it's best for emergencies like cancer spreading too rapidly to be controlled by slowly-acting Chinese herbs.  I believe TCM has saved my life.  I cannot recommend it highly enough!  Go find a Chinese physician STAT!

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) is an excellent adjunct to TCM.  It's believed in TCM that cancer begins in areas of the body where there is a blockage, e.g. from constant muscle tension.  I believe these are areas of decreased blood flow, therefore decreased oxygen levels, which impairs the activity of white blood cells.  HBOT saturates the blood and the organs of the body with oxygen, leaving cancer cells nowhere to hide.  The oxygen saturation directly kills infectious organisms and cancer cells and arms white blood cells with all the oxygen they need to make oxygen radicals (their ammunition).  It provides the oxygen needed to make strong collagen during healing.  It also immediately relieves swelling, which immediately relieves the pain caused by metastases.

The most effective HBOT uses hard-sided chambers to achieve pressures of 2.2 to 2.6 atmospheres.  Soft-sided chambers only reach pressures of 1.5 atmospheres, too low to mobilize stem cells into the bloodstream.  Soft-sided chambers may have benefits, but it takes many more treatments and much more time to see any results.

A good friend of mine, Robert Lyne Sands, is an expert on HBOT.  You can check out his blog at http://sandsie.blogspot.com/.  He's a redheaded Aussie who LOVES to pick fights, but he's also extremely smart and incredibly kind.  He's a man on a mission.

I've tried a lot of alternative medicines and treatments and those I listed above are what work, with few or no side effects.  I've tried Cimetidine, which did seem to slow the spread of my cancer while I waited for my mastectomy, but caused me stomach inflammation, I believe because it neutralizes stomach acid, leaving the stomach unprotected from germs in food.  We NEED stomach acid!  So use it only for short periods of time.

I've used colloidal silver - it's not only anti-bacterial and antifungal, it even kills fungal spores.  I used too much of it and developed mildly abnormal kidney tests as a result.  The best way to take it is put a tablespoon of the solution in a 2-liter water bottle and sip the water through the day.

The bottom line is, from my rocky experience, to use Traditional Chinese Medicine along with hyperbaric oxygen to eradicate the infection causing your cancer.  Use your oncologist's recommendations, but CAUTIOUSLY.  Be skeptical - you don't HAVE to do any treatment.

And never give up on yourself.