lChemotherapy, Radiation and Surgery are not the answers for all cancers. If they were, then why are so many children and adults still dying during and after treatment?

This site discusses how I am managing to live a good life with cancer. Yes my lungs are not cancer free, but I have already lived longer than the conventional doctors estimated and I am feeling great. I will continue to work to heal myself and also help others to fight for their lives.

Since February 1998 I have been searching for better answers after being told that conventional medicine held no hope and I would live no more than 18 months.

Below you will find information on what has worked for me and others that I have spoken with or read about. I will also share advice given to me by alternative doctors who are responsible for my still being alive.

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Magnets for Healing

Going as far back as the ancient Chinese who understood energies that flowed through their bodies and the environment around them.  Today we can only begin to understand these energy principles with many of the writings of Feng Shui.  

Robert Becker, author of The Body Electric, writes how living creatures can be affected by even small changes in electrical currents or magnetic fields.  During the time that the human first walked the earth, the earth's natural magnetic field had a frequency of one to twenty hertz.  Today the electrical power delivery is about sixty-hertz frequency.  A three-fold increase.  Electromagnetic fields have become the environmental health problem of the nineties.

Increasing the magnetic field around us can help our bodies stay healthier, relieve aches and pains, and can even help in the healing power of many immune illnesses and cell rebuilding.

For myself, when the pain increases I sit on my magnetic chair pad.  Within 15 to 30 minutes most or all of my pain is relieved.  Alternative doctors have been writing on the use of magnets for aiding in the shrinking of cancer tumors.

One product that can really help our bodies to regain the healing energy of the earth's natural magnetic field is to sleep at night on a magnet bed pad.  There are many products out on the market.  One product called the Kenkopad deluxe is made with specially designed magnets manufactured within the mattress pad.  For more information on this and other wellness technologies, one of my dear old friends set me up with products from Nikken.  Cindy is an independent distributor for this company.  Check out their web site at www.nikken.com  You can shop online and if interested use her distributor number 786586900.  

Also I recommend life healing readings of Feng Shui to bring harmony and peace into our lives.  Even more important if your fighting the immune illness called cancer.

Vitamin C and Cancer

by Linus Pauling
(Reprinted from the Linus Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine
Newsletter, Vol. 1, No. 2)

 In my article "How Vitamin C Improves Health"  I mentioned that a large intake of vitamin C has value in helping to control the common cold, influenza, hepatitis, schizophrenia, and other diseases. Only a brief mention was made of cancer. Interest in the prophylactic and therapeutic use of vitamin C against cancer is now so great as to justify a fuller discussion of this question.  Despite the expenditure of billions of dollars on cancer research, there has been during the last 25 years essentially no decrease in the incidence of cancer or increase in the average time of survival after the patient is diagnosed as having cancer. There is now a real possibility that both the incidence and the average survival time can be significantly improved by use of vitamin C.   

Our work in this field began about seven years ago, when I read the book Hyaluronidase and Cancer that had been written by Dr. Ewan Cameron and published in 1966. Dr Cameron, who was Consultant Surgeon (now Chief Consultant Surgeon) in Vale of Leven Hospital, Loch Lomondside, Scotland, advanced the thesis that the most important factor in determining the incidence, progress, and outcome of cancer is the effectiveness of the natural protective mechanisms of the human body and that a considerable control over cancer might be achieved if we could find some way of stimulating our natural protective mechanisms to greater effectiveness.  Over a period of years he searched for such a treatment, but without success. He had emphasized the possibility of strengthening the intercellular cement and thus making the normal tissues stronger and more resistant to infiltration by a malignant tumor. In 1971, I pointed out that the intercellular cement is strengthened by the presence in it of fibrils of the protein collagen, which act like the steel rods in reinforced concrete, and that an increased intake of vitamin C should result in the synthesis of more collagen fibrils and the consequent strengthening of the normal tissues. 

We now know that vitamin C also makes the immune mechanisms of the body more effective.   Dr. Cameron (who soon became a Non-resident Fellow of our Institute) wrote to me in 1971, asking how much vitamin C should be given to the patients. My answer, 10 grams per day, was largely based on the fact that most animals manufacture about this amount (calculated to the body weight of a human being); it is unlikely that the animals would make this amount if it were not needed to keep them in good health. Clinical trials were cautiously begun by Cameron with patients with terminal cancer in Vale of Leven Hospital in November 1971, usually with 10 grams of sodium ascorbate per day, administered intravenously for the first ten days and by mouth thereafter.  Over 500 patients with terminal cancer have been placed on ascorbate therapy. The results obtained are so promising that nearly all the cancer patients who come to Vale of Leven Hospital now receive the vitamin, as do also many of the cancer patients of other doctors in the neighboring regions.  A few physicians in the United States have also begun use of vitamin C with cancer patients.   The value of vitamin C for patients with advanced cancer is indicated by the results of a study of the first 100 patients with "untreatable" cancer who received ascorbate, usually 10 grams per day, in comparison with 1000 controls, 10 for each ascorbate-treated patient, matched for sex, age, and type of cancer, who also had been pronounced untreatable and who did not receive ascorbate (Cameron and Pauling. "Supplemental ascorbate in the supportive treatment of cancer. I. Prolongation of survival times in terminal human cancer," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 73, 3685-3689 (1976)). At the time this report was written 16 of the ascorbate-treated patients were still alive, whereas all of the controls had died. Now, one year later, 13 of these "hopeless" patients are still alive, some as long as five years after having been pronounced untreatable, and most of them are in such good apparent health as to suggest that they now have normal life expectancy.  Moreover, the ascorbate-treated patients who died had survival times, after being pronounced untreatable, several times those of their matched controls, and enjoyed better general health during the final months of their lives.   As much as 50 grams of vitamin C per day has been administered, both intravenously and orally, to patients with advanced cancer, and there is some evidence that the larger intakes are considerably more effective than the intake of 10 grams per day. The present evidence indicates that vitamin C is effective against all kinds of cancer, but, of course, its effectiveness may be greater for some than for others. 

Many studies will have to be carried out to find the answers to the various important questions about vitamin C and cancer.  Our work and that of our Non-resident Fellow Dr. Cameron in this field has been carried out with the aid of grants from the Educational Foundation of America, the Secretary of State for Scotland, the Hoffmann-La Roche Company, and private donors. Our applications to the National Cancer Institute have been unsuccessful and the American Cancer Society has shown a lack of interest in our work. It is my opinion that the discovery of the value of large doses of vitamin C may before long will be recognized as constituting the most important contribution to the control of cancer that has been made during the last 25 years.

Keeping Faith

It has been told to me many times to first find a good doctor and to put your trust in them completely. I heard this a lot in the conventional world of my cancer support group sessions, which I no longer attend.

To me this is garbage. For me my first trust is in GOD or (whoever your spiritual advisor might be). Second is to trust in your inner gut feelings and third to trust in the doctors I choose to work with me not for me.

In other words, don't just accept what your doctor tells you, check out all information, ask lots of questions and know all the risks before you go forward. It is your life and you need to be the boss!