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Cancer

 

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.

 

( Moderator's Note: Meditation like this has been

around for thousands of years in Asia. TM is a recent

move by one modern day group to publicize it in the

west. Use it and call it anything that you like. )

 

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.