In Extremis: First Aid for Advanced Cancer

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In Extremis: First Aid for Advanced Cancer(or for anyone with cancer, at any

stage)

If the medical profession has just told you that you have a short time to live,

or have an " incurable " cancer such as pancreatic, liver, brain or lung cancer,

where conventional systemic treatment is at best only palliative, there is a

remarkable therapy you can try which is relatively simple and cheap, can be done

at home, without side-effects, and which a number of MDs who use it claim has

saved the lives of between 60% to 70% of terminal cancer patients, and which at

the very least has been shown to halt or control the spread of cancer. This

therapy is high dose intravenous vitamin C. Intravenous vitamin C is not the

same as oral vitamin C. By giving vitamin C intravenously doctors can achieve a

blood saturation that is not at all comparable with that achieved by the oral

route. The order of magnitude is something like 200%, as opposed to 2%

saturation by the oral route. This very high concentration of vitamin C is

critical in terms of achieving a chemotherapeutic, cytotoxic - tumour cell

destruction - effect. If it is feasible to have a Hickman line put in the

patient, extraordinary doses of vitamin C - anything between 50g to 100g,

depending on the malignancy of the cancer, - can be self-administered at home on

a daily to weekly basis over a period of months, stepping down or up in

frequency according to the individual response. Otherwise this treatment can be

administered on an out-patient basis, anywhere in the world. Its effects appear

to be enhanced by weekly injections of large doses of vitamin B12,

(hydroxycobalamin 1000 micrograms), which forms cobalt ascorbate, another

benevolent non-toxic, but tumour cytotoxic, compound, or in combination with

vitamin K (specifically vitamin K3, though K1 is also efficacious), and Lipoic

Acid, (300mg oral, twice daily.) Lipoic Acid recycles the Vitamin C to keep the

cytotoxic dose more constantly in the body for longer periods.

 

Counter indications to this approach are few. However they include anyone with

kidney failure, or on dialysis, or with uncommon forms of iron overload.

Responsible physicians should also screen for red blood cell glucose-6 phosphate

dehydrogenase deficiency, a rare condition whose presence can lead to haemolytic

crisis involving red blood cell breakdown. The very large doses should also be

built up to gradually over some days to establish good tolerance, starting at 15

grams for 1 or 2 sessions, then to 50 grams and, if necessary, to 100 grams. The

exact dose is determined by the individual's plasma saturation by Vitamin C

immediately after an infusion. WARNING: To avoid the well-documented Rebound

Effect, which can lead to scurvy, this treatment should not be stopped abruptly.

Patients should be gradually weaned off it over a period of weeks, or even

months, and oral vitamin C therapy should continue indefinitely and on the days

in between the IVC infusions.

 

The American Dr Hugh Riordan M.D. is probably the world expert on this approach.

His institute, The Center for the Improvement of Human Functioning, has just

completed a 10 year research project on high dose intravenous C and cancer, and

his patented method recently underwent Phase I clinical trials at the University

of Nebraska medical school hospital. These trials have established the

non-toxicity of this treatment for cancer, and Dr Riordan is now proceeding with

a Phase II clinical trial, under the auspices of the National Institutes of

Health, using therapeutic doses of vitamin C on Renal Adenoma patients. Dr

Riordan has also published several successful case histories, including the

results of treatment on a late-stage lung cancer patient - now cancer free

several years on -, in The Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine. I would recommend

anyone interested in this to get in touch with Dr Riordan, and to consult him

generally for nutritional strategies against cancer, in particular as Dr Riordan

has at his disposal some of the most refined lab-tests in the world for

determining individual bio-chemical profiles and needs in cancer, (or indeed any

other condition). These tests should be a standard in determining optimal

individual nutritional therapy. Unfortunately, as yet, they are not widely

available. Dr Riordan is also recruiting " end-stage " cancer patients for a trial

of a new immunotherapy for cancer, in which the immune system is taught to

recognise and destroy the cancer cells in its midst that it usually overlooks.

The trials are free. But you must be able to travel to the U.S.

 

However, there are a number of other intravenous vitamin C practitioners

throughout the world. The International Society for Orthomolecular Medicine, (Ms

Claire D'Intino) can give you the name and address of your nearest

orthomolecular physician worldwide. (Or see the Countries List in the Resource

Section.) The Doctors and Organisations pages list a few English speaking

practitioners, all M.D.s, who also offer excellent alternative and

complementary, immunotherapeutic approaches to cancer. For maximum efficacy,

they should follow Dr Riordan's treatment protocol, available here, and on

request from the Center for the Improvement of Human Functioning:

 

 

 

DR HUGH RIORDAN

Center For The Improvement Of Human Functioning

N. Hillside Avenue, 3100

Wichita, KS 67219

Kansas

U.S.A

 

Tel: 001 316 682 3100

Fax: 001 316 682 5054

 

 

 

 

 

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