Cancer - byAndrew Saul PhD.

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http://www.doctoryourself.com/cancer.html

 

It is common sense to take a method and try it.

If it fails, admit it frankly and try another.

But above all, try something.

 

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

When Anthony J. Sattilaro, MD, picked up two hippie hitchhikers one day, they

told him that " Cancer isn't all that hard to cure. " Ridiculous though the

statement would seem to a hospital president such as Dr. Sattilaro, the issue

was awfully close to home. Dr. Sattilaro, still in his forties, had terminal

cancer. The doctor had already received the worst possible news: cancer had

spread throughout his body. It was inoperable and untreatable. He was going to

die.

If hunger is the best condiment, then desperation must surely be the most

teachable moment. The seemingly inane remarks by his counterculture passengers

prompted Sattilaro to try a rigid meatless macrobiotic diet, high in whole

grains, beans and vegetables. Astonishingly, it worked. In a matter of months,

his physicians could not find any trace of cancer in his body.

You don't believe this. I didn't believe it either. I am as skeptical as the

day is long. In any business telephone call, I document the date, time and name

of the person I speak with. Always. Lots of people do that, yes? OK, try this

one: every time I take my car into the service garage to get the oil changed, I

check the oil before I leave. I am far, far more careful about what I accept as

medical fact.

Throughout this book I've been asking the rhetorical question, " Who are the

quacks? " I've strongly implied, to say the least, that they are the

conventional, tunnel-visioned, synchophantic yes-persons of the medical,

dietetic and pharmaceutical professions. Not alone in this criticism, I quote

endocrinologist Deepak Chopra, MD, author of many best-selling books: " More

people live off cancer than die from it. " There is no profit in prevention, but

plenty of money in disease. Like the " firemen " in Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451,

medical science encourages fires and then glamorizes their bungled attempts to

put them out. By ignoring the evidence (and saying it is anecdotal or

non-scientific), doctors and dietitians have closed the moseleum door on

millions.

A bizarre scenario indeed is our " war on cancer. "

Laetrile is a good case in point. Laetrile is a very controversial anti-cancer

agent, from almonds and apricot pits. It has erroneously been called " Vitamin

B-17 " but it is not a vitamin. Rather, laetrile is amygdalin, a

cyanide-containing substance. The cyanide is the active ingredient, so to

speak, that somewhat selectively kills the cancer cells. It is much like

cytotoxic pharmaceutical chemotherapy (which explains both the need for caution

and also the stringent rejection it has received from the medical powers that

be.) The imperious medical monarchy, which includes the AMA, FDA, and their

ensuing laws, make laetrile therapy strikingly difficult to obtain legally

inside United States borders.

Chapters 8 and 9 of Ralph Moss' The Cancer Syndrome (1980) disclose

nitty-gritty details of some tantalizingly successful laetrile research at

Memorial Sloan-Ketterling Cancer Center in New York City. It seems that

experienced cancer researcher Dr. Kanematsu Sugiura repeatedly obtained

lengthened survival time in mice with spontaneous mammary tumors. He also

prevented tumors spreading to the lungs, and obtained temporary stoppage of

small tumor growth. Problem is, he did all of this using laetrile.

Dr. Sugiura's work constitutes limited, but nonetheless significant, findings.

Sloan-Ketterling's brass wanted him to shut up about the whole thing, and

declared in press conferences that laetrile had no value in cancer treatment.

Once, Dr. Sugiura was personally addressed by a reporter, and he most expressly

contradicted his bosses. How did author Ralph Moss know about all this? He was

the number-two Sloan-Ketterling PR man, that's how.

My personal view is that laetrile is probably a palliative treatment. Still,

the fact that so many orthodox cancer foundations want it kept quiet is in

itself sufficient reason to look into it more. Harold Manner, PhD's article in

The Mother Earth News (November/December 1978, pages 17-24) is an excellent

resource for more information.

So there most certainly is a wider range of cancer treatment alternatives than

conventional medical sources will allow. Worthy adjuncts and alternatives to

chemotherapy, radiation, and surgical treatments are unpopular with organized

medicine, yet are employed by far-thinking physicians and self-reliant persons

around the world. Why is this? Because all possibilities need to be considered

in undertaking the treatment of such a serious disease for which there are far

too few survivors.

 

Vitamin C

It is once again Nobel-prize winning Linus Pauling, PhD plus Ewan Cameron, MD,

a Scottish cancer surgeon, who have demonstrated the effectiveness of ten grams

(10,000 mg) of vitamin C a day in reversing terminal cancer in thirteen out of

100 patients. These patients were given up as lost by medical authorities.

Thirteen out of 100 may not seem like a high percentage of success, but keep in

mind that those thirteen are free of the disease as far as can be determined.

None were expected to live. Thirteen is infinitely greater than zero. All the

vitamin C treated patients have lived, on average, five times as long as

controls who did not receive the 10 grams of C. Do not be misled by false media

hype against Vitamin C. A pair of politically-motivated Mayo Clinic studies

condemning the vitamin are seriously faulted. You will want to refer to Drs.

Cameron and Pauling's book, Cancer and Vitamin C, revised edition (1993) for the

full story. There is no substitute for the truth.

Of course 10,000 milligrams of vitamin C a day is greatly more than what

the federal government maintains that an average person needs. A reading of

The Healing Factor by biochemist Irwin Stone (1979) will explain to you why we

need so very much vitamin C, why it should indeed be normal to consume many

grams of the vitamin a day, and why the lack of C is responsible for our human

race's present state of illness. Irwin Stone, by the way, is the person who

first got Dr. Pauling interested in vitamin C in the first place. For improved

quality and length of life, the key is sufficient quantity of C. More orange

juice just won't do it.

Opponents of vitamin C therapy would do well to acknowledge that Pauling and

Cameron's work has been confirmed, perhaps most notably at Japan's Saga

University by Murata and others (Murata, A., Morishige, F. and Yamaguchi, H.

(1982) Prolongation of survival times of terminal cancer patients by

administration of large doses of ascorbate. International Journal of Vitamin and

Nutrition Research Suppl., 23, 1982, p. 103-113. Also in Hanck, A., ed. (1982)

Vitamin C: New Clinical Applications. Bern: Huber, 103-113). Dr. Murata

employed over 30,000 mg per day and had even better results with terminally ill

cancer patients. In the words of Dr. Louis Lasagna (1981) of the University of

Rochester Medical School, " It seems indefensible not to at least try substantial

doses of vitamin C in these patients. "

Additional vitamin C vs. cancer references are available through your local

library. Request assistance in locating William McCormick's papers, especially

the blandly-titled but excellent " Have We Forgotten the Lesson of Scurvy " and

" Ascorbic Acid as a Chemotherapeutic Agent. " Dr. McCormick shows that cancer

symptoms and vitamin C deficiency symptoms overlap. Scurvy, which is obvious

vitamin C deficiency, is traced to medical writings as far back as1609. The

similarity between scurvy and cancer is so great that it is incredible that

billions of dollars of cancer research in the United States has consistently

missed it.

Residential treatment for cancer by nutritional means is readily available in

Mexico, just south of the US border in Tijuana. Odd, isn't it, that Americans

have to flee the land of the free and home of the brave to get freedom of choice

in cancer therapy? That's free trade for you. American medical doctor and

nutrition PhD, Frank Watts, MD, is one of a number of nonconformist physicians

who have employed a therapeutic program which includes 20,000 mg of vitamin C

daily plus Laetrile, vitamin A, vitamin B-complex, and strict vegetarian diet,

among other things. His experience has revealed that about 70% of 600 terminal

cancer patients have responded in some definite way to the treatment.

There are precious few hospital based megavitamin programs available anywhere

in the United States. Government and AMA pressure on doctors who advocate

Laetrile and vitamin therapy is high, research evidence notwithstanding. This

will change, however, if citizens voice their views to the Food and Drug

Administration, the American Medical Association, the American Cancer Society,

the National Cancer Institute, their lawmakers in Congress and State capitols,

and their own family doctors, and insist on unrestricted freedom of access to

all options, including the unorthodox therapies, for cancer patients in this

country.

While I'm at it, a caution. Beware of wolves in sheep's clothing: hospitals

and other providers that offer so-called " holistic, " " nutrition-based, "

" integrated, " or " comprehensive " therapeutic programs. The majority of them are

only paying lip-service to consumers' requests for alternative cancer

treatments, just to get them in the door. Their main approaches tend to be

chemo, radiation and surgery. As a benchmark, first ask them if they give

intravenous vitamin C, 20,000 to 30,000 mg daily. That'll settle out the mud in

a hurry.

 

Other Vitamins Against Cancer

B-complex vitamins individually and collectively appear to be useful against

cancer, in prevention as well as treatment. B-complex vitamins (and vitamin C)

are water-soluble, easily-lost-under-stress vitamins. There is ever growing

evidence that stress itself is a major factor in cancer, and it makes sense, as

stress depletes the body of B-vitamins and C. Only in theory does the " balanced

diet " that all of us are supposed to be getting every day supply " ample "

quantities of these and all other vitamins. But no realistic allowance is made

for the very real psychological and physiological demands that each person is

daily subjected to. This is all the more true for a cancer patient.

In America, vitamin deficiency is the rule, not the exception. This has been

the case throughout our youth, since our birth, and even during gestation.

According to Nutrition Action Healthletter, November 1993, researchers at the

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia found that the mothers of children with

cancer were less likely to have eaten fruits and vegetables, and were less

likely to have taken multivitamins during the first six weeks of their pregnancy

than mothers of healthy children. This resulting insufficient intake of folate,

one of the B-vitamins, appears to be a major cause of what are called primitive

neuroectodermal tumors.

Vitamin B6 has been found to be as effective, at least, as the drug usually

used to treat recurrent bladder cancer, says American Family Physician (17:3, p.

293). It was found that many bladder patients were deficient in B6. No big

surprise there, as the 1975 MRCA survey showed that, of adults 19 and over, 99%

got less than the US RDA of B6.

William McCormick, mentioned earlier, cites researchers who found that all

cancer patients they tested were deficient in vitamin C by approximately 4,500

mg. When the US Recommended Dietary Allowance for " C " is 60 mg, how can one miss

the need for megavitamin dosages? The US Food and Nutrition Board manages to

just fine. Item: they raised the vitamin C RDA for smokers to a whopping,

astronomical, all-time soaring high... of 100 milligrams.

It would be a tragic mistake to center any discussion of cancer on a single

vitamin. Research will continue to confirm that all nutrients, and most

certainly all the vitamins are required to prevent and to stop cancer. After

all, which wheel on your car can you afford to do without? Which wing on your

airplane can we leave off next time you fly?

It is our population-wide but medically disavowed vitamin deficiency that is

almost certainly the single most overlooked predisposing cause of cancer. We can

either decrease stress or increase our vitamin supplementation, or preferably do

both.

Transcendental Meditation has been demonstrated to be clinically effective

in both stress reduction and disease prevention. Research by Dr. David

Orme-Johnson has shown that hospital admissions for benign and malignant tumors

are less than half as common for long-time meditators. (Psychosomatic Medicine,

49:5). If there were a drug that reduced tumors by 50%, you would have heard it

proclaimed from the rooftops. Simple and natural tools are greatly underrated.

 

Non-Vitamin Factors against Cancer:

Chlorophyll, the substance in plants that makes them green, helps " inhibit cell

mutations and therefore could help control cancer, " said a Food Watch article in

the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. Sprouts and the live food factors within

them such as enzymes (and chlorophyll) have been extensively used in nutritional

programs to shrink or reduce tumors directed by Dr. Ann Wigmore. She was

probably the world's most foremost authority on sprouts, wheat grass juice,

fasting and raw foods against malignancy. Her lessons on the subject began with

her Latvian grandmother, and culminated with Dr. Wigmore's self-cure of colon

cancer using living foods. Her books include Why Suffer, Be Your Own Doctor,

and Recipes for Longer Life, among others.

Certain minerals an showing up as essential in prevention and treatment of

certain forms of cancer. Zinc is one of them. A study at the Massachusetts

Institute of technology showed that animals fed a low zinc diet are more likely

to get cancer than those with normal diets. Characteristically, the majority of

Americans do not get adequate zinc in their diets, either.

Even Family Circle reported on research done by Dr. Raymond Shamberger of the

Cleveland Clinic back in its August 5,1980 issue. It indicated that there is a

relation between selenium intake and cancer. Parts of the country with

selenium-rich soils have less cancer than selenium-poor soil populations.

If it seems to you that we need change a national malnutrition to prevent and

holistically treat cancer, you are right. It's the over-cooked, sugar-laden,

meat-heavy diet we eat that got us into trouble in the first place. These

" foods, " and other processed, worthless stomach fillers are not good sources of

what we need to live in health. Our national cancer epidemic is not an accident.

It is not necessary for you to just wait in line for a terminal disease with

your name on it. There is much more to cancer prevention and therapy than the

" food groups " and chemotherapy, radiation or surgery. As much as these may

help, there is at least as much good scientific evidence that nutritional

alternative approaches to cancer work just as well or better. The essential

cause of cancer most likely is many years of deficient diets lacking what is now

suddenly appearing in the literature as " new factors against cancer. " These

factors are not new. They've been there, or in the case of most patients, not

been there, all along.

The time to turn it all around is now, whether a person has cancer or not.

There is no need to wait for AMA, FDA, New York Times, American Cancer Society

or anyone else's approval. The safety margin with nutrients is enormous. It is

deficiency that is dangerous. A determined patient, some good references and

reading, an open-minded doctor and the megavitamin-nutritional facts can do

wonders. You may experience some difficulty in coming up with the open-minded

doctor, but the rest is completely within your power.

For more alternatives, spoken for by people who've had occasion to try them, it

is well worth contacting The International Association of Cancer Victims and

Friends (IACVF) through your nearest chapter, or the Cancer Control Society.

Your library has up to date addresses and phone numbers.

 

Nutritional Support for Cancer Patients: A Typical Quack's Protocol

(Again I state two things: 1. this is just anecdotal information and 2. if you

take any of this seriously, consult your health care provider before proceeding

with this or any program.)

A. Digestive enzyme tablets

Two or more multiple digestive enzyme tablets per meal. The theory is that in

cancer patients, the liver produces insufficient enzymes. Cancer patients eat

and eat and eat but don't get the good of their food. They are starving to

death. Therefore, they need more nutrients than usual. Enzymes break down food

so you can get the nourishment in the food. A " multiple digestive enzyme "

preparation is most efficient.

B. Kelp

5-8 kelp tablets per day. Kelp tablets are an iodine supplement. They have been

reported to help resist healthy cell damage from radiation treatments.

C. Carrot Juice

Drink at least one pint (two glasses) of carrot juice per day. Goal: up to two

quarts (eight glasses). Drink lots of fresh, raw juices. Raw food has lots of

enzymes, and carrots are loaded with anti-cancer alpha- and beta-carotenes.

About two pounds of carrots makes one pint of juice. Buy 25 pound bags because

they keep fairly well. By good tasting produce to get good tasting juice.

Yellow sprouts on carrots means they are old. Brush or scrape the carrots to

clean them; no need to peel.

D. Green Drink

Drink one glass (8 oz.) green drink per day. Green drink is any green vegetable,

e.g., celery, cucumber (peel to remove wax), green peppers, lettuce (leaf, like

Romaine). Green drink is raw liquid chlorophyll. Both chlorophyll and hemoglobin

have remarkably similar structures. For green drink do not use limas, spinach,

rhubarb or asparagus. The last three contain oxalic acid.

E. B-12

Take one of the following, in order of preference:

1. The ideal: intra-nasal B-12 gel or spray

2. Injections of 1000 mcg. per week. Ask for a prescription.

3. Sublingual B-12. 1,000 mcg per day.

4. B-12 supplement: 1,000 mcg or more per day.

F. Potassium

Potassium is in most fruits and vegetables. Read the potassium chart ( " K " stands

for potassium) in A Cancer Therapy: Results of 50 Cases. Eat no salt and no

canned foods; they contain lots of salt. Cancerous cells love sodium, says Max

Gerson, M.D.

G. Protein

Meat: Avoid it. Try to become a vegetarian. Fish is an excellent complete

protein. Broil, bake, or poach in half an inch of apple juice, simmering 6

minutes each side.

Tofu: Soy products in general contain anti-cancer substances. Cut up tofu into

small pieces and throw it into whatever you are making. It will take on the

flavor of the recipe.

Cheese: Natural, with no coloring added. Eat cheese if it will keep you off

meat.

Yogurt: Low fat, plain. Sweeten it yourself with a little fruit or honey.

Nut butters: Delicious and easy to digest. Buy them fresh and keep in the

fridge.

Almond butter - may inhibit the growth of tumors.

Cashew butter - high in the amino acid tryptophan which helps you sleep.

Peanut butter - select the fresh, natural variety without added fat or sugar.

Milk: There is nothing like high-quality raw milk. Speaking as a former

dairyman, I raised a family on it from infancy. Certified raw milk is inspected

daily. Try to find it in a health food store or from a farmer. If not

available, sweet acidophilus milk or watered-down yogurt digests better than

pasteurized milk.

Sprouts: Eat two jars full per day. Sprouts are a complete protein, a complete

food. A person could survive on a variety of sprouts and nothing else. Buy

untreated seed. Alfalfa is a good one to start with, but include wheat, lentil,

mung bean, clover, cabbage and radish. Each day start two more jars. Harvest

alfalfa at the end of 4-7 days; the others may be ready sooner. Eat them in a

sandwich or as the base of a salad. Dressings and garnishes are okay. Collect

12-15 wide-mouth quart jars and start farming. Ann Wigmore’s books will tell

you how to sprout, and why.

H. Fruits

Eat as many as you wish, any kind, any time.

I. Grains

Whole grain breads, namely100% whole wheat; brown rice; whole wheat pasta.

J. Special Vegetables:

Eat all the cauliflower, cabbage, Brussels sprouts, kale and broccoli that you

can. Research confirms that these " cruciform vegetables " are naturally rich in

several phytochemicals that are like " plant chemotherapy. " They fight tumors.

The other exceptionally fine food class is the legumes: peas, beans and lentils.

They are loaded with fiber, protein, minerals, and complex carbohydrates. And,

they are really cheap. Eat lots.

K. Good Snacks

Popcorn, fresh, unsalted popcorn. On it put 2 tsp. nutritional yeast flakes

which give the popcorn a cheesy taste and additional B-vitamins, chromium and

selenium.

Raw Veggies. Keep a tray of all your favorites in the center of your fridge,

where you can reach it 24 hours per day. Celery, carrots, peppers, broccoli,

black olives, tomatoes, snap peas, etc.

L. Beverages

Vegetable juices, fresh and raw. (Whenever you cook, or bottle, or can

anything, you destroy its natural food enzymes.)

Fruit juices, fresh

Spring water or mineral water

Herbal teas

Green tea or decaf black tea

M. Vitamins

Vitamins are food supplements or food concentrates. They are not drugs, so the

margin for safety is excellent.

Vitamin E

Begin with 200 IU of natural mixed tocopherols and gradually work up to

about1,000 IU daily. If you are on an anticoagulant drug (such as Coumadin), or

if you are on medication for high blood pressure, it is likely that your vitamin

and drug doses will need to be tailored over a period of weeks. You can quite

easily monitor your blood pressure at home, and your doctor can and should check

your prothrombin time for you. Occasionally blood pressure goes up slightly in

folks not used to Vitamin E . Know that it is usually temporary. Reduce the

Vitamin E for a while, then resume a leisurely increase. If your protime gets

too long, have your doctor reduce the drug dose, not the vitamin. Vitamin E

greatly reduces the side effects of radiation therapy. Vitamin E is the body's

number one antioxidant, very valuable in slowing tumor growth and slowing the

spread of malignancies. You will very much want to read Vitamin E for Ailing

and Healthy Hearts, by Wilfrid Shute, M.D., or any other book by him or his

physician brother, Evan. They will walk you through the whole process.

Iron

If your physician says you need iron, take ferrous gluconate or ferrous fumarate

iron tablets, which would replace your current prescription of harder-to-handle

ferrous sulfate. Chelated iron tablets are better absorbed, therefore, better

utilized by the body. Iron is best absorbed if taken with vitamin C but not at

the same time as Vitamin E.

Vitamin C

Begin with 1,000 mg a meal for a total of 3,000 mg per day. Your goal is bowel

tolerance, which may be anywhere between 20,000 to l00,000 mg per day or even

higher. It would be ideal to take some Vitamin C every half hour you are awake,

which is a real nuisance. Do the best you can to divide the dose for maximum

absorption. For maximum stomach comfort, I strongly recommend a “buffered”

Vitamin C supplement for persons taking a lot. Instead of tablets, try Vitamin

C powder for economy and a " fewer pills to take " feeling. Mix the powder in a

sweet beverage such as fruit juice. Take the amount of Vitamin C needed to feel

better, to show improved lab tests, and to get well. Patients in remission

should continue taking it for life. There are two meanings to that statement.

Do not be put off this valuable adjunctive therapy by unscientific scare

tactics. Please be certain to read Cancer and Vitamin C by Ewan Cameron and

Linus Pauling.

The Carotenes and Lycopene

Until you can get a juicer, eat lots of yams, sweet potatoes and winter squash.

These are all very high in all the natural carotenes, not just the best known

beta- form. Tomatoes, preferably uncooked, are loaded with lycopene, which is

even more valuable than carotene. Studies in Italy (of course) showed that men

that ate five or ten fresh tomatoes daily had almost no prostate cancer. Red or

purple grapes (and fruits and vegetables in general) are high in many other

cancer-fighting antioxidants related to the carotenes. Enjoy!

Selenium

Only a minuscule amount is needed, generally around 300 micrograms. A microgram

is a millionth of a gram. Selenium works closely with vitamin E. Avoid

excesses; more is

not better in this case.

Zinc

The zinc in your multivitamin (perhaps 15 mg?) is low. Take 50 mg of zinc

gluconate or preferably zinc monomethionine. Work up to a goal of perhaps 100

mg per day. Zinc reduces postsurgical healing time and profoundly strengthens

the immune system.

Calcium and Magnesium

Tablets can be used to conveniently buffer between-meal vitamin C doses. 1,500

mg of calcium and 500 mg of magnesium is a good target amount. Divide the doses

as much as humanly possible, including snacktime and bedtime. Your body will

absorb it much more efficiently that way.

Vitamin B Complex

Take one balanced B-50 tablet with each meal, at least. If you are on intense

drug therapy or are very fatigued, you can take additional B’s between meals.

Patients on chemotherapy report greatly reduced nausea and much less hair loss

when they take their B-vitamins (and C). You have to try this to believe it.

Suggestions

If you get diarrhea, ease up on the vitamin C or the vegetable juices. If not

sure which, decrease one, then the other, to confirm which you actually need to

reduce. Bear in mind that diarrhea may be due to radiation or chemotherapy

treatments. Cheese tends to help stop simple diarrhea. Chronic diarrhea

requires medical attention.

If you need to sweeten something, try a little honey, sweet molasses or pure

maple syrup.

Give this protocol a full four months trial, with your 100% effort, before

giving it your final evaluation.

Don't eat anything without reading the label. Don't eat anything unless you

know

what it is. If you cannot pronounce it, don't eat it.

If your medical doctor is not familiar with orthomolecular (megavitamin)

nutrition, hand him or her books, with the bookmarks stuck throughout, and ask,

" Have you read what we've read? " Let Dr. Pauling and Dr. Hoffer and Dr. Williams

and Dr. Gerson and Dr. Cameron do the talking. When you go to battle, don’t go

without your best soldiers. If you are still unfamiliar with these physicians

and their work, you are not ready to fight.

No-No’s:

Avoid sugar

Do not smoke. Stop, or at least cut down, immediately.

Avoid alcoholic beverages (However, organically-produced red wine in moderation

is a reasonable compromise. It is best to dilute it with two parts water before

drinking. Grape juice is good, too!)

Eat no artificial colorings.

Avoid any food with preservatives.

Do not consume aspartame (Nutri-Sweet).

Never eat any product containing saccharine, which has been found to cause

cancer in laboratory animals.

 

Who gets the credit (or blame?) for this therapy? Certainly not me, although

I'd love to take the bow. But no, this is the collected, derivative work of

many researchers. I'm not smart enough to come up with all this. I am just

barely smart enough to find out who is getting good results... and copy them.

And as a quack, that is about all I do.

The results never cease to impress me. Take Joe, for instance. Joe had

terminal lung cancer, and no mistake. He was so constantly coughing up blood

that he had a mostly red handkerchief in his hand all the while I talked with

him in the living room of his small suburban home. Joe was too sick to come in

to my office. In fact, he was too sick to get out of his recliner. In was in

this chair that his life was played out, day and night. He could not walk. He

was in too much pain to even lie down. He spent the night in his chair. He did

not want to eat. Oddly enough, he did still want to live, and he was willing to

try even vitamins if they would help him feel any better.

It was October and the leaves, orange and bright yellow, were falling outside

the picture window as we talked. The TV was on, and some of the family was

visiting. It is never easy to work with the dying. As a student, 20 years ago,

I'd seen enough of them at the Brigham Hospital in Boston. Then, I had listened

and watched. Now, I listened and watched and suggested vitamin C.

" How much? " Joe croaked.

" As much as humanly possible under the circumstances, " I replied. I explained

bowel tolerance to him, and answered the usual questions from the family. Most

centered on how well would it work. Some were understandably skeptical; some

were in overly-optimistic denial.

" If I had the sure cure for cancer, I'd be on the cover of Time magazine, " I

cautioned them gently. " Vitamin C is very much worth using, with due

consideration of how sick Joe really is. "

All agreed that Joe had nothing to lose.

Here is what happened.

Within days, Joe stopped coughing up the blood. If the C had done nothing

else, this alone would have been more than enough benefit. But there was more

good news within the week.

" Joe's appetite is back, " said his wife. " And he is able to lie down in the

bed now. He says he is sleeping much better and in much less pain. "

Wonderful news, especially if you were Joe. Over and over I have seen profound

pain relief and dramatic improvement in sleeping in terminal patients that take

huge doses of C. Again, if the C did nothing else, these benefits would be

indisputable arguments for using it.

A week or so later, I heard still more news.

" Joe is able to walk around the house with a cane . He's even walking around

the yard! "

His wife was quite emotional as she spoke. She knew, at some level, as we all

did, that Joe was not likely to survive such severe cancer. And in the end, he

didn't. But he added to his length of life, and the quality of that life was

extraordinarily enhanced by the vitamin C. He never did all the stuff I

enumerated earlier in this chapter; he couldn't. But he was determined to

manage taking the C, and he did.

Oh, yes: how much did he take? About 4,000 milligrams every half hour he was

awake, day or night. That is approaching 100,000 mg a day. He had a big jug of

water, a big spoon, a big glass, and a big bottle of vitamin C crystals on the

table right next to his recliner.

Joe never got diarrhea.

Much information is available the sources listed below, and those in the

Bibliography in the Appendix.

 

Essential Oncology References:

A Cancer Therapy: Results of 50 Cases, by Max Gerson, MD Read pages 187-250

first.

Survival Into the Twenty-first Century by Viktoras Kulvinskas.

How to Live Longer and Feel Better by Linus Pauling.

The Healing Factor: Vitamin C Against Disease by Irwin Stone.

Vitamin C and Cancer: Discovery, Recovery, Controversy by Abram Hoffer, MD, PhD,

with Linus Pauling 1999: Quarry Press, Kingston, ON ISBN 1-55082-078-8

Cancer and Vitamin C, revised edition, by Ewan Cameron and Linus Pauling.

The Cancer Syndrome, by Ralph Moss

Mother Earth News, " Dr. Harold W. Manner: The Man who Cures Cancer, "

November/December 1978, pages 17-24. This article is about documented laetrile

cures.

A Physician's Handbook on Orthomolecular Medicine edited by Roger Williams.

Dr. Ann Wigmore's Recipes for Longer Life. All her recipes contain no cooking at

all!

(There are many other good resources out there in addition to those I provide

here. This is neither an endorsement of those listed, nor a criticism on those

omitted.)

Copyright C 1999 and prior years Andrew W. Saul. From the books QUACK DOCTOR

and PAPERBACK CLINIC, available from Dr. Andrew Saul, Number 8 Van Buren

Street, Holley, New York 14470.

 

 

 

Gettingwell- / Vitamins, Herbs, Aminos, etc.

 

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