Breast Cancer Treatment Survivor: Hyperthermia plus Low-Dose-Radiation
Posted by: admin in Alternative Breast Cancer Treatment, alternative cancer treatment on August 24th, 2011
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Breast Cancer Treatment Survivor: Hyperthermia plus Low-Dose-Radiation
A 36 years old, young woman diagnosed with Stage II Breast Cancer, tried many alternative cancer treatment to avoid surgery, followed by high dose radiation and chemotherapy.
She did dot want to go through the devastating and permanent side effects of conventional breast cancer treatments.
After 8 months of having different alternative treatments, her tumor went to Stage 0, very small one, to Stage II. She realized she had to take a more aggressive and effective kind of treatment, and looking high and low in the internet she found Hyperthermia combined with low dose radiation at the Bicher Cancer institute, formerly known as Valley Cancer Institute, in Los Angles, California.
Here is Part I from her video interview:
Alternative Breast Cancer Treatment
This is a transcription from another video interview to the same “graduated’ patient:
LP: Hi Elaine, I’m recording my story for you, I’ll start with the basics. My name is Leslie Parrilla, I’m 38 years old, and I was diagnosed with, Stage II Breast Cancer when I was 36, so this was December. It was originally, considered contained, it was DCIS, and I found it one day after work, when I was laying on the couch and doing a self-exam, really just kind of relieving stress from the day, because I’d always have problems, uh, just with, just with like cystic breasts.
So I found a lump one day, and I knew, I pretty much knew what it was, because it just had you just intuitively sometimes know certain things and that was one thing in life that I just knew. I knew, it just felt bad. It just felt like something bad, i don’t want to call it evil, but whatever you want to call it, I knew. I was already trying to avoid that Friday, I couldn’t do anything, because, you know, the doctor’s offices were closed, so on Monday morning I was on UCLA’s doorstep. When they told me I needed to have a lumpectomy, and, radiation, I said no. And for 8 months, I tried to find something, and the reason I said no, was because my grandmother, when she was probably in her 40s, had cervical cancer, and got rid of it, through, she was diagnosed with City of Hope in LA, she got rid of it through juicing. Uh, and herbs, and, you know, and my mom and her would always tell us, you know, how it happened, and I knew what she did, and I knew there was a way.
She did that hoxy treatment, H-O-X-Y, that treatment. Where she did all the herbs, and the juicing, and the cleansing. And I tried all these things, but I was panicked, and going from one thing to another, for 8 months. And so in those 8 months, I didn’t find anything that worked and it grew from 2 ½ cm. to 8 cm. And, uh, so it had more - it had tripled in size. And, I was panicked! And I realized I need to put more effort into researching in this. , and I’m a journalist by trade, so I was working full time, and spent more time working than I did really trying to dig into research online and finding answers. So I finally found, orginally I found Cryosurgery - where they freeze it, and freeze cells. And that led me to, because mine was too big for the one doctor in Detroit couldn’t really wasn’t interested in treating me at this point. He said if I could try to shrink it, to come back to him.
Then I found the opposite end of reading which is heat , that led me to hyperthermia. This was all online, just Googling stuff online and just from on research to clinic, to another clinic, to another study. to see what was, to see what other alternatives were out there. There’s no one page you can go to, one site, about there, there are sites, mllions of sites of alternatives. But you don’t know whether to believe these stories or not. You know, I mean I tried everything, I was ordering stuff from Canada. One day I drove 7 hours near Sacramento to see this guy this chiropractor who my friend swears cures people and I know he has those things but he uses lasers and it didn’t work for me. It didn’t work for me. So you panicked, I don’t know who to believe. There’s so much out there that you don’t know what to believe and what not to believe in.
What I did is I went to Valley Cancer Institute, called them, because they had hyperthermia and they would take my insurance which is Blue Cross CPO and I talked to the, I saw the testimonials online. It was a cheesy website, but I talked to one woman who had breast cancer treatment more than 10 years ago and she was still cancer-free. And she was very genuine. And she would talk to anyone just like I will today, I’ll do what she is doing back then. I’ll talk to anyone at anytime, you know for however long about what I did because for me this works, and so I did hyperthermia. It’s just heat to ultrasound, not invasive, it’s 45 minutes, you know, on 2 spots, just trying to surround the tumor, and then you, I did low dose radiation. I wasn’t happy about the radiation, but mine was aggressive, it was hurt 2 positive, it was estrogen positive, the younger you are, typically the more aggressive breast cancer is and mine was clearly aggressive. It was growing.
Immediately after I had the biopsy way back in December of 09, it has just taken off after that. which is just I also think it contributed to it spreading. Because evidence clearly shows when you stick a needle in there let plenty of it out, there are tracks or trails that lead, it spreads the cancer when it comes out with the needle. And, anyway, but now I know that there are things you can do to kind of minimize that alternative with things you can do. they don’t tell you anything, but I’m looking at your questions here. You want me to tell you you know, what happened to change my course of action to alternative and it really was my grandmother, it was my grandmother, I saw first-hand that she did it, and I knew I could do it if she could do it and we have the same will. It runs in our family. you asked me did you find help in your soul searching? , I was in a bad place when I was diagnosed with cancer.
I really think I had a horrible diet, all sugar, all caffeine, all processed, all the time. I think that, and the stress of the job that I hated, it was a newspaper that I, it was the worst newspaper that I ever worked for in my entire, you know, 12 years of reporting. , I had gotten out of a relationship and cancer was the best thing, and I think God knew that it was the only thing that was going to take me out of this place of being you know mildly depressed and you know, not appreciating things and not cherishing life, and I cherish life now. Every day, it makes me cry because every day is a blessing. And I forgot how to see life that way. and cancer made me see it again. And, I am, you know, now million times healthier.
Organic, and juicing, I’m not a fiend about it. But I, I definitely, I didn’t drink water before, I hated it. But I definitely, and, you know, in my body is so much better now. An when I was trying juicing, it’s one of those alternatives, just before I found hyperthermia, it got rid of a, I had a chronic sore throat for 4 years that they wanted to cut my tonsils out. Which I didn’t allow them to do, and the juicing in 6 days got rid of it. After 4 years! I was so mad that that’s all it took! Nobody told me that. Because, you know, traditionally, conventional doctors they don’t, they have like 4 hours of nutrition in medical school. It’s disgusting, really. Because you’re cheating people by not knowing this whole other realm of medicine. It is medicine. you know, food is medicine. , let’s see, and you said, what am I using today, what is my secret? You know, just health, health and exercise. And, I’m getting screened every 3 months with an MRI with contrast to make sure the cancer hasn’t returned.
So this first year, you know, I’ll always be careful. But this first year, and I’m doing my 2nd scan in a couple of weeks, but really just health. But I mean my whole outlook has changed, so that’s key. You said how would you encourage someone else who has just received the prognosis that you would want to keep doing? I would tell that person - there are alternatives out there.
It’s not surgery and chemo and radiation are not the only answers to cancer. They’re not! They’re just not! There are way too many people including myself, including my own grandmother, including friends who I met along the way, during my search, who did alternatives. Now, I don’t think every alternative will work for every type of cancer. I don’t. , this one does work on a lot of cancers, except for blood cancer like leukemia doesn’t work on those. But, I think there are a million other ways that you just have to find those ways. And it’s tough! And I really want to get on board with creating some kind of, you know, bringing alternatives into the conventional system. It’s just pathetic, but I would tell the person - don’t panic, cancer has developed in the body for years before we usually find it. You know, 2 days, 2 weeks, 2 months, is really not going to make a whole heck of a lot of difference.
LP
Why Alternative Cancer Treatments Are So Effective
Posted by: admin in Alternative Cancer Resources, alternative cancer treatment on March 18th, 2009
Why Alternative Cancer Treatments Are So Effective
Tanya Harter Pierce, M.A., MFCC
Author of OUTSMART YOUR CANCER:
Alternative Non-Toxic Treatments That Work
With so many people discovering that conventional medicine cannot offer them a long-term cure, more and more are turning to alternative approaches. And with good reason. Too many cancer patients have seen someone they know suffer through, or have themselves gone through mutilating surgery and nauseating chemotherapy over and over again, until they are eventually told by their doctor, “There is nothing more we can do for you.” These people are realizing that though toxic treatments can sometimes knock tumors down quickly the cancer rarely goes away completely. They are seeing that the promise of long-term recovery through conventional methods is often false hope, and they decide to seek the real possibility of a complete recovery in the world of alternative medicine.
But in order to be open to alternative medicine for something as scary as cancer, one has to get over the hurdle of at least two common misconceptions first. Before researching and writing my book, Outsmart Your Cancer, I fell prey to these misconceptions as well, until I discovered the truth.
Misconceptions about Alternatives for Cancer
Let’s look at the two most common misconceptions people have about alternative cancer treatments.
Misconception #1: Alternative treatments for cancer are unscientific
and are being promoted by quacks.
This is actually a laughable misconception, because nothing could be further from the truth. Sure, you need to do your homework and look into any approach you are considering to make sure it is a legitimate one. But in doing so, you will find time-tested alternative methods that are legitimate and have BETTER track records for curing cancer than conventional medicine ever had. Most alternative approaches were developed by brilliant physicians, chemists, physicists, and other types of scientists and have clear scientific principles they are based upon. Others were borrowed from time-tested herbal traditions. These approaches have been proven to work better than conventional medicine through clinical use. So, “unscientific” and “quackery” are terms that do not apply to alternative cancer treatments.
Misconception #2: Alternative cancer treatments simply involve eating
organic food, juicing, and taking lots of supplements
from one’s local health food store to boost a person’s
immune system.
Wrong again! To the contrary, most alternative cancer therapies are unique, sophisticated approaches that can NOT be purchased from a local store, and involve much more than simply boosting the immune system. In fact, the best alternative cancer treatments do not rely on boosting the immune system at all! This common misconception is a very damaging one because people with late-stage cancer or large tumors will think that alternative therapies couldn’t possibly be strong enough to work for them, so they feel they must do whatever conventional treatment their oncologist suggests.
Outsmarting Cancer
If the best alternative methods for cancer don’t rely on the body’s immune system to get the job done, then how do these approaches get rid of cancer? They do it by targeting the common characteristics of all cancer cells or tumors that are different from normal health cells. This is what I call outsmarting cancer.
Some brief examples of this are the following. The Protocel liquid formula targets the anaerobic cell respiration of cancer cells to starve them of their energy until they fall apart. Poly-MVA, another liquid formula, also focuses on the anaerobic aspect of cancer cells, but targets them in a different way than Protocel to make them die off. Cesium High pH Therapy targets the fact that cancer cells are more acidic than normal cells and alkalizes them to death from “the inside out.” The Flaxseed Oil and Cottage Cheese dietary approach targets the integrity of the cancer cell membrane to heal and normalize the cell in a variety of ways. Dr. Kelly’s Metabolic Enzyme Therapy targets and eats away the protein coating around cancer cells that protects them from the body’s immune system. Intravenous Laetrile floods the body with a natural compound that selectively poisons cancer cells to death but leaves normal cells unharmed. Dr. Burzynski’s Antineoplaston Therapy floods the body with particular types of short-chain peptides that are able to enter cancer cells and affect their genetic functioning to the point where the cancer cells either revert back to normal or they die off. And, as Dr. James Bicher of the Valley Cancer Institute in California explains, Hyperthermia heats up malignant tumors to a temperature that kills them because cancerous tissues have a less effective cooling mechanism than normal healthy tissue and they can’t take the heat. (For more information about Hyperthermia, go to www.vci.org.)
These are just some brief examples of how alternative cancer treatments work. But they are by no means all of the approaches available today. There are even more fascinating alternative treatments with different targeting mechanisms explained in detail in my book and in other excellent books on the market. But the one common key to the effectiveness of all of them lies in their ability to outsmart cancer by effectively targeting those characteristics that are common to all cancer cells and tumors, yet not common to normal healthy cells. This is why alternative treatments are referred to as “non-toxic” because they don’t harm normal healthy cells of the body.
The Key to Effectiveness Make the Treatment Non-Toxic
I know, I know. You’re probably thinking, “Now wait a minute. Don’t treatments HAVE to be highly toxic to kill cancer?” NO. In fact, using a toxic cancer treatment (meaning one that is also toxic to your normal healthy cells) is generally the least effective way to cure a person of cancer! Most people don’t realize, for instance, that toxic chemotherapy drugs are only effective at curing about 2 to 3 percent of all cancer cases. The truth is, the few real cures that do result from conventional methods are often due to surgery alone. (A non-toxic, approach.) But surgery can only be curative when a person’s cancer has been caught very early and has not spread or metastasized past its starting point. Unfortunately, about 75 percent of the people diagnosed with cancer in the U.S. already have metastasized cancer when they are first diagnosed. This means that, for at least three-fourths of all cancer patients, surgery is not ever a curative option.
The problem with conventional medicine for cancer is that it is committed to using toxic treatments because these are the only ones the cancer industry can patent and make excessive profits from. But this paradigm has always been the wrong paradigm for cancer. Chemotherapy for cancer was first developed back in the early 1940s from something called “nitrogen mustard,” a poisonous chemical warfare agent. It never worked well at curing patients in the 1940s, it never worked well during the following decades, and it still does not work well now! This is because treatments that are toxic not only to cancer but also to the patient’s body cannot be administered continuously enough to get rid of all the cancer. In other words, treatments such as chemotherapy and high-dose radiation are so damaging to the patient’s body that continuous administration on a daily basis would also kill the patient! Thus, toxic approaches must always be administered with fairly long breaks in the treatment to allow the patient’s body to recover from the treatment.
The Catch-22 is that, while the patient is recovering from the toxic treatment, so are the cancer cells! In fact, growing and multiplying fast is exactly what cancer cells do best. Moreover, toxic treatments damage a person’s immune system and vital organs so much that they often make it easier for the cancer cells to multiply and spread in-between treatments.
Killing Cockroaches With Cannons
The following analogy is a crude but accurate way of describing conventional toxic methods and why they rarely bring about long-term cancer cures. Let’s say you live in a house completely infested with cockroaches. The bugs are hiding in the walls and beneath the floors. (The bugs are your cancer cells and the house is your body in this analogy.) Using a toxic treatment is like trying to kill the cockroaches with cannons. Sure, you could blast away at one or two of the most infested walls and kill a lot of cockroaches all at once. You could even rebuild those walls and it would appear for a while that all the bugs are gone. (Remission.) But there would still be small nests and colonies of roaches in other walls or under the floor that you can’t see. And these would eventually breed new bugs that would spread throughout the house again. Soon, you’re seeing the bugs scurry across the kitchen floor once more. Basically, you’d have to blast the entire house to smithereens in order to kill all the cockroaches, and then of course you would no longer have a house! (Or a body!)
Sadly, toxic treatments are the cause of the deadly roller coaster called “treatment-remission-treatment-remission . . . ” that so many cancer patients go through with conventional treatment until their bodies eventually just give up and die. This roller coaster is so common that our society almost accepts it as normal when an oncologist finally says, “There is nothing more we can do for you,” after putting the patient through extreme pain and discomfort for months or years. What is really happening here is that the cancer was never completely gone when the person was pronounced in remission. The clinical signs of cancer may have been gone, but scans and other diagnostic tests cannot see every microscopic cancer cell. So, some cancer cells were left standing and ready to grow back again just like the cockroaches under the floor.
All of this explains why, even after about 70 years of conventional cancer treatment and research, we are currently facing the horrendous situation where one out of every four deaths in America is due to cancer.
Don’t Ride the Deadly Roller-Coaster
The good news is that more and more people are avoiding the deadly roller coaster of conventional cancer treatments and, instead, are choosing alternative non-toxic treatments that do NOT involve cannon-like approaches. They can AVOID the remission-recurrence-remission-recurrence roller coaster by choosing one of many alternative non-toxic approaches that do not damage the house not even one plank or window pane. And because these approaches are non-toxic, a person can use them continuously for as long as they need to in order to get rid of every last cancer cell.
Many alternative cancer treatments are self-administered approaches that are used at home 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. These allow for the most regular continual treatment. For those patients using alternative approaches which are not self-administered at home, such as those that involve doctor-administered intravenous treatments or the use of highly technical and expensive machines such as with hyperthermia, the patient is still getting the benefit of their treatment being non-toxic and therefore allowing for long-term use over time while not causing damage to their body. And, with so many home-administered alternative approaches to choose from, many patients will use doctor-administered non-toxic approaches to put them into remission (the point where diagnostics tests can’t see any more cancer and all clinical signs of cancer are gone), and then continue their own treatment at home with one of the daily self-administered approaches available to make sure they get every last cancer cell.
Thus, the reason that alternative cancer treatments are so effective and are better at bringing about long-term cures than conventional methods is because the treatment itself does not damage a person’s body and can therefore be used in a more effective way without prolonged breaks in the treatment that allow the cancer cells to grow back. With conventional medicine, the goal is to bring a person into remission. But this doesn’t mean the person is cured. With alternative medicine, the goal is to get rid of every last cancer cell over time while while keeping the person healthy and strong so that he or she can achieve a truly cancer-free state and live a normal life again!
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For more information about alternative treatments,
or the book OUTSMART YOUR CANCER,
go to: www.OutsmartYourCancer.com
Why is Hyperthermia a better alternative to conventional medicine?
Posted by: admin in Hyperthermia on December 10th, 2008
Hyperthermia : A Successful Cancer Treatment Program
Based on Results Observed at the Valley Cancer Institute
12099 West Washington Blvd, Suite 304
Los Angeles, California 90066
A Successful Cancer Treatment Program
by Dale G. Jones, Ph.D.
Failure of Conventional Medicine: Conventional medicine does not have any method for successfully treating cancer. Expensive chemotherapy drugs are well known to severely damage the immune system. The majority of oncologists would never agree to submit themselves to the ravages of chemotherapy. Surgery also damages the immune system, and in many cases can cause the cancer to spread rapidly in the body. It is very common that after surgery, the cancerreturns in another, worse form.
Everyone Has Cancer: Few medical doctors would be willing to volunteer the information that on average, every human being with a healthy immune system is rejecting about 1000 cancer cells each day. Whenever the immunesystem is weakened, for any number of reasons (such as emotional stress, high sugar diet, lack of exercise, exposureto toxic chemicals, etc.), one of these cancer cells can escape undetected and can then grow into a tumor. A healthy immune system is therefore the only long term “cure” for cancer.
What If Cancer Starts to Form? What happens if cancer starts to get a foothold in an otherwise healthy body? In this situation, there is hope for a total cure. A relatively simple treatment program has been developed and refined since1984, and is not only FDA approved, but also is paid by most health insurance programs. This program has documented total remission of many types of early stage cancer in 80% to 9Qo/o of cases, with continued cancer-free existence based on 5-year follow-up evaluations. The method is so gentle that for early stage cases, there are no adverse sideeffects. For more difficult advanced stage cases, there have also been a large number of remissions including deep tissue tumors such as lung, liver, ovarian as well as colon cancer.
What is This Treatment Program? The treatment program is called hyperthermia. It consists of gentle treatments that continue 5 days per week typically for l0 to 12 weeks, and generally about 2 or 3 hours per day. Normal activity cancontinue during the program during the remainder of each day, since the treatments do not cause any adverse sideeffects. Figure 1 on the next page, describes how the hyperthermia treatment program works to eliminate cancercells.
How is Heating the Affected Area Accomplished? The affected area is heated either using microwaves or ultrasound waves which are applied externally over the affected area of the body. For example, a microwave oven operates at a frequency of about 3000 mega hertz and penetrates food to a depth of about I inch. To heat human tissue in the affected are4-a very small microwave generator (about 4×4 inches in size) is placed over the affected area, and operates at lower frequencies of about 600 to 900 megahertz, which enables penetration and heating to a depth of about 3 or 4 inches. As shown in Figure 2 on the next page, water molecules are not symmetrical. Therefore, in the presence of microwaves, water molecules rotate back and forth very rapidly, causing heat buildup due to friction from the back and forth rotation.
How Much Heating is Required? Cancer cells typically die between 107 F and 111 F, depending on exposure time and other factors. Cancer cells do not like oxygen, do not like high pH (alkaline) conditions, but love sugar and low pH (acid conditions). Very thin thermocouples are taped to the surface of the skin over the affected area, and are used to monitor the temperature over time which is induced by the microwave machine. The affected area is typically heated to between 114 F and 120 F. This degree of heating is normally not uncomfortable, and if there is any discomfort, the heating is adjusted downwards.
Why Have Heating Treatments Every Day? Experience has shown that the positive effects of heating the affected area (including increased oxygen supply) lasts for about 24 hours. Therefore, the best results have been obtained when the treatments continue 5 days per week.
What is the Purpose of Low Dose Radiation? Low dose radiation is provided to the affected area either before or after the heat treatment and also continues 5 days per week. Radiation dosages typically start about 180 centiGrays (cGy) per day, and then after a few weeks, the radiation dosages are gradually reduced as the treatment progresses, and after 10 or 12 weeks, the radiation dosages are down to about 30 or 50 cGy per day. The total radiation dose after 10 or 12 weeks adds up to about 5000 or 7000 cGy, but given over a long period of time. Conventional medicine generally provides much higher levels of radiation given over a much shorter period of time, which has been found to be much less effective for successful treatment of cancer. These low dose radiation treatments serve several purposes:
1. to kill the cancer cells that survive hyperthermia heat treatments because they get the benefit of cooling from adjacent healthy tissue.
2. to kill cancer cells that try to migrate to adjacent areas, such as adjacent lymph glands.
3. to kill cancer cells in areas that might have been missed by the hyperthermia heat treatments.
What if the Cancer is Located in Deep Tissue? For cancer located in deep tissue, another method, called ultrasound, is used. The ultrasound machine operates at even lower frequencies, about 1 to 3 megahertz, and penetrates deeper, up to about 4 to 6 inches into the body. The ultrasound is applied using a water-filled membrane that is placed over the affected area, but this time, the membrane touches the surface of the skin. There are several different sizes of ultrasound applicators, some reaching deeper than others.
Does the Cancer Tumor Shrink? After several weeks, the tumor is seen to shrink in size and eventually to disappear completely. Patients are encouraged to drink lots of water to assist in flushing away through the kidneys any toxins released as the cancer cells die.
How is a Successful Outcome Determined? Complete remission of the cancer is verified by laboratory testing, using PET scans, CT scans, MRI scans and blood testing for cancer markers, etc. When these tests validate that the cancer has been eradicated, the treatments are completed. Followup testing normally continues until the patient remains cancer free for 5 years following completion of the treatment program.