My sister was diagnosed with Cervical Cancer. Please Help!

[PDMagnusen]

I found out yesterday that my sister was diagnosed with Cervical Cancer. She is 35 years old. I think she is planning to move forward with the standard medical treatment *chemo*, but she is open to working with me to change her dietary habits. Does anyone know of anyone who has experience with a raw food detox / healing diet that I could recommend for her while she is going through her treatment? I know that eating raw foods for someone with cancer is different as their bodies are weaker, so I hesitate just to put her on a standard raw diet like I am on. I hear there are some restrictions, but I am not sur what they are. I have no idea what to do, but I want to help her as much as I can. I believe in the power of raw food and their ability to heal. Any suggestions or links to resources would be greatly appreciated. Thanks so much in advance.

Priscilla

[Svadhyaya]

I am too new to give advice, but I will certainly say a prayer for your sister.
Although cervical cancer is considered very treatable, it's still a horribly frightening diagnosis.

God bless you.

[free]

I can't help with the diet, but I'll definately say a prayer for your sister.

[Funky Beets]

HI,

The book is called "Eydie Mae: How I Conquered Cancer Naturally". There is a special at Optimum Health Institute store for $1 a book. So you have no excuse not to buy the book. Oh, and Optimum health Institute of San Diego is one of the best place to go for that kind of illness. Here is the number: 619-464-3346 and the website is http://www.optimumhealth.org/optimumhealth/

Anyways,

God Bless.

[Veganforlife]

Priscilla - also check out Dr. Ruth Heidrich. She had cancer, beat it through alternative treatments and is a triathalon and marathon runner. I think her book is something like five bucks. She's also EXTREMELY good at returning e-mails.
www.ruthheidrich.com
I'm saying a prayer and sending energies to your sister, you, and your family!

[Xanadu]

She needs to be taking a huge amount of folic acid and juicing 2 quarts of carrot juice daily. Also she should go off dairy, sugar, caffiene, anything artificial or chemicalized, colored, artificially flavored, antibiotic treated, hormone treated. Dr. Atkin's Vita-Nutrients book has a lot of nutrient info for her and read this: http://www.thenutritionreporter.com/CoenzymeQ10.html

There are so many sites now on the internet with options for treating cancer naturally. Here's another site, a good reason to be raw: http://www.thecureforheartdisease.com/owen/CancerCure.htm

I could send you something new everyday for practically a lifetime, like this: http://www.detoxsmart.com/

You should perhaps communicate with the Doctor at this website: http://www.health-science-report.com/ I imagine he will have some good advice. Also go to askwaltstollmd.com and ask for advice there. Also curezone.com

Hope this helps.

[Xanadu]

Sorry I forgot to add that the late Dr. John Lee often saw complete regression of cervical cancer from adding folic acid, and vitamin A (carrot juice) or capsules (also uh, internally) to the diet. You should check out his books on amazon.com You can often get used books in perfect condition there too. According to Dr. Richard Schulze he has seen women have thier cancers fall right out of them using his methods. Scary but wonderful. I don't sell anything by the way but have been studying alternative methods to fight cancer for years because of various relatives having it.

[Nini]

What about sending her some DVDs by Dr. Lorraine Day? She was/is a medical doctor that cured her own breast cancer naturally. All cancer can be treated the same way. I know this raw diet has cured me of one kind and am improving with what I have now.

Blessings and Peace,
Nini

[Gosia]

Some useful links:
http://www.current.tv/studio/media/3309912?cpg=vmmA&video=LIVING++FOODS
http://www.hacres.com/testimonies/testimonies.asp?catid=1
http://www.healthfullivingintl.org/articles/cancer-hygienic.html

There are many more. If you do search on this forum, you will find posts with about 20 or more links on the topic of cancer.

Sincerely,
Gosia

[Pierre]

I found this on the Vita-Mix site: http://www.vitamix.com/household/health/healing.html

[Lay-Lay]

Things that may help to research:

www.livingfoodsinstitute.com

Ann wigmore

Raw healing retreats

Brenda Cobb

I personally would buy her Alissa's book and DVD's and encourage her to look into raw as part of her treatment.

[berrymarymac]

I really have no advise to give you, but your sister and family will be in my prayers!

[greeninlosangeles]

The Living foods lifestyle by Brenda Cobb- she cured her breat and cervical cancers. Mostly she used wheatgrass juice in big amounts and raw soup with no sweet fruits for the first half year very strictly. She also did and still does two enemas a day.

[PDMagnusen]

Thanks so much, everyone! I am definitely putting her on a raw foods diet, I just want to make sure I am providing her with the most effective and safe information. I will look into all of the resources you guys have listed here. Thanks again. :)

[spicyfull]

Any book by Ann Wigmore.......

[chilove]

Hello there,

If it were my loved one, I'd try to talk her out of chemo and have her do a supervised fast and then follow a simple, high fruit, low fat diet.

Here is a link to a great clinic in Hawaii:

http://www.mindyourbody.info/index.html

All the best,

Audrey
www.rawhealing.com

[alex]

In 1971, The U.S. congress declares the War on Cancer. Thirty years later the death rate remains unchanged!! These statistics apply to the standard cancer treatments, the only ones officially approved: surgery, radiation and chemo. None of these address the cause of the cancer which is lifestyle, most probably, nutrition.

Please check out:

Cancer Proof Your Body by Ross Horne

The pH Miracle by Robert O. Young (It is known that cancer can not survive in an alkaline environment, which is Dr. Young's whole theory - that we are too acid)

I very much agree with the person who suggested the juicing although I would stick to vegetables exculing carrots and beets - too high in sugar!



Killer cancer treatment: How toxic chemotherapy kills both cancer cells and cancer patients

Posted Oct 25, 2005 PT by Dani Veracity

"If cancer specialists were to admit publicly that chemotherapy is of limited usefulness and is often dangerous, the public might demand a radical change in direction—possibly toward unorthodox and nontoxic methods, and toward cancer prevention. ...The use of chemotherapy is even advocated by those members of the establishment who realize how ineffective and dangerous it can be." - Ralph W. Moss, author, The Cancer Industry

Imagine that you own a house that is absolutely perfect and beautiful with all the necessities, except that it has some rodents inside. When you call the exterminators, they tell you that they won't be able to target just the rodents, as these rodents are of an especially stealthy breed. They tell you they're just going to set off a series of explosions in your house that may kill the rodents. They warn you, "Oh yeah, it may destroy some of your house in the process, but, hey, you want those rodents out of your house, right?" There's probably no way you would allow that; instead, you would do some research and find other, more specific and less generally destructive ways of getting rid of the rodents.

The allegorical exterminators' logic makes no sense; yet, it's the same logic that doctors who prescribe chemotherapy follow. Like the exterminators' explosions, chemotherapy doesn't exclusively target cancer cells; it also harms your good cells, destroying some of your body – your "house" – in the process. As a result, many chemotherapy patients lose their hair, develop immune deficiencies, lose weight and vomit. Chemotherapy poisons your body as a whole in an attempt to kill the cancer cells before the "treatment" brings your body to an unrecoverable state.

As Gary Null and James Feast write, "(After chemotherapy,) the hope is the cancer is going to be totally dead and you are only half dead and recover." Unfortunately, some people are more than "half dead" after chemotherapy and remain damaged for the rest of their lives, no matter how long or how short that life may be. They never realize that according to many alternative health practitioners, there are safer ways of combating many types of cancer.

Former chemotherapy patient Anne explains in Michio Kushi's and Alex Jack's book, The Cancer Prevention Diet: "My mind rebelled at the thought of another six months of that poison. On several occasions, the doctor couldn't perform chemotherapy treatments on me because my white blood cell count was dangerously low. I promised my body I would not undergo any further chemotherapy treatments."

Anne's account reflects the feelings of all too many cancer patients who have suffered through months of often debilitating chemotherapy. The side effects that chemotherapy patients feel and others see – the extreme nausea and vomiting, the hair loss, the weight loss – are indicative of the intense havoc that chemotherapy is causing within the body. According to the Life Extension Foundation, chemotherapy drugs are "cytotoxic," meaning that "they kill cells that are extremely active." Cancer cells are, of course, extremely active. However, so are the cells of the hair and the immune system, for example, which accounts for chemotherapy's destructive side effects.


Hope this helps


alex

[rawnpawgirl]

I also heard from several resources that coffee enemas were helpful.

My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family.

[PDMagnusen]

Thank you, everyone! This is all great information. I am hoping to be able to talk her out of chemotherapy, but I don't want to put too much pressure on her. My plan is to present her with a bunch of resources and information to read and allow her to make her own decision. Thanks so much.

[Lay-Lay]

very smart approach.

[Cinnamon]

I don't know how I missed this thread! I am reading it with much interest as I just had a Cone Biopsy and D&C done Friday for this very condition. 6 months ago I had an abnormal pap and with my natural routine and waiting it out before I proceeded with anything conventional (I do combine both conventional and nonconventional modalities in my health care plans), my moderate cervical dysplasia had progessed to severe precancer and then CIS (Carcinoma in situ).

So I went ahead with the Cone Biopsy to be certain what I am dealing with, cancer or not. I should have the results back later this week.

My thoughts are with you and your sister right now and she is very lucky to have you for support! The raw lifestyle is the very best as we all know it to be, I am personally doing a lot of green juices and green smoothies each day in addition to other natural methods for treating this.

Still can't believe I missed this thread, I'm currently reading the other threads relating to cancer and treatment options. In my opinion (and this is just me) I would not go the chemo or radiation route, but I did go through with this minor surgery because I want to know what I am dealing with.

My best to you and your sister!

[Sharon in Colorado]

I'm sorry to hear that. That must be scary for her.

I would suggest having her get all refined sugars, animal products and cooked grains out of her diet first, immediately. Maybe with the exception of beans and rice when necessary.

Those 3 foods - refined sugars, animal products and cooked grains are the most acidic. Cancer likes acid.

And then get her juicing at least once a day. That should be doable to her and won't "shock" her system. If she's good with that, then maybe she can gradually get more raw in.

[Cinnamon]

I also wanted to add that cervical cancer has one of the highest cure rates of all types of cancer because it can be caught so early in the progression. Also, it isn't that often that chemo or radiation are suggested as according to conventional medicine, surgical removal is generally the route taken.

I'm just worried about the suggestion of chemo to your sister, in my research this isn't usually the method used. But perhaps there are other concerns that would lead to this being suggested.

Just wishing you and your sister the best, I just keep thinking of you!

[Jewell]

So Sorry to hear about your sister.
My aunt is raw - but she also teaches and helps people cure their cancer with the Gerson Therapy.
I also have a friend who is 55, and she was diagnosed with Lympnoma cancer a few years back. She wasen't given long to live. She then bought the book, The Gerson Therapy and followed it to a T. She is now in remission and cancer free.
I have the book Gerson Therapy and its an amazing book. I follow their advice on taking a coffee enema once every day or two. It is a wonderful way to detoxify your body.
You won't lose anything if you pick up the book and see if its something your sister can follow!

Your in my thoughts

[Tirza]

There are SO many alternative theories to treat cancer. I was in a maze trying to make sense of it myself at first. A person could almost give up on trying to decide what is for them. However, I just kept going through and through it and eventually it distilled down in my brain to some things that seemed right for me. I was willing to give up anything. I was willing to try pretty much anything as long as it was as natural from the source as possible.

I started trying to alkalize and got lists of foods off the Net that are the best for alkalising. I also got lists that were acid-forming and made a resolution to avoid them as much as I possibly could.

I got lists of the foods and nutrients with anti-oxidant properties and started really pumping those. Many on these lists overlap.

You will find that the medical people are concerned about someone taking anti-oxidants while undergoing chemo as they fear that the cell-protecting properties of the anti-oxidants will interfere with the chemo by protecting the cancer cells from the chemo drugs! That would be serious if so, but I don't believe they have proof for it yet. It is just a concern. Some sites that I saw totally debunk that idea. So I kept on pumping anti-oxidants as fast as I could in order to get my cells stronger. That way, if the did recommend chemo, I would be in good shape going into it, even if I did decide to stop using them while undergoing the treatment. Luckily it didn't come to that as no chemo was recommended, so I am still pumping anti-oxidants HARD. I hope that I will be able to avoid a recurrance.

LOTS of greens. I take green smoothies EVERY day. I use a super powered blender that makes this stuff as smooth as a milk shake. I found a flavour combination that suits me. She will too. Or she may want variety. I actually have 2 different smoothies that I kind of stick to.

One is the Energy Soup one that you see on the Ann Wigmore sites:
Lots of parsley, cilantro, which removes heavy metals from the bloodstream and lots of spinach. Sometimes a bit of carrot or celery or cucumber. The base I usually use is pineapple juice for the flavour which I like, but also for the digestive enzymes in it. Then there is banana and a red apple. It sweetens it up just a little and makes a very refreshing smoothie. A half avocado adds smoothness and lots of trace things. I add lots of other things to this one like green tea powder, wheat grass juice and barley grass juice

This second one is for my "savoury" tooth.
I call it my Raw Borscht:
I put in a couple of raw chopped tomatos, a raw chopped beet, a clove of garlic, juice of half a lemon, 1/4-1/2 tsp. of cayenne pepper, 1/2-1 tsp. tumeric powder, a cup or so of fresh parsley, some fresh dill and 2-3 cups of mixed greens mostly spinach. Since the other ingredients mask the stronger flavoured greens, this is the smoothie that can take kale, collards, dandelion, arugula.... (My delicate little Energy Soup smoothie likes the milder spinach and lettuce greens the best.)
You can also add some nuts to this one if you like to give the "sour creamy" taste that some use in their borscht. Obviously you can add or omit whatever you like or rotate for variety.

According to some, just the addition of a green smoothie daily will do wonders for the health of everyone. Even if they made no other changes. See Victoria Boutenko.

I hear that the oxalic acid in spinach is not activated until cooked. So if it is raw, it is supposed to be okay. But I am not too worried about kidney stones too much at this stage anyway. There are lots of ugly side effects with chemo and other drugs too that are even life-threatening. (Perspective! Perspective!)

Personally, I don't see how they can advise you to avoid foods with anti-oxidant properties. You will see that there are SO MANY foods like that, you would have to go on a **let's see -- :eek: -- Oh, I KNOW, A HOSPITAL DIET !!** to avoid anti-oxidants!!!!!!!!!!! OMG!!! They take you into the hospital to "cure" or "treat" you of these darn degenerative diseases, (brought on MOSTLY by our SAD and lifestyle, and then they feed you the stuff that caused you to be there in the first place!!!! Isn't that called "making sure you have repeat customers"?

One strong hint - Anyone who has a close relative with a diagnosis like this should make sure to keep up their yearly PAP tests, breast exams etc. That is how mine was discovered, after my mom had a bowel blockage and discovery of a tumour.

I look on this diet and lifestyle as the "NEW NORMAL" for me. I will never go back to the old ways of eating and living. I don't ever want to face the horror of hearing that diagnosis again if I can help it. And even if what I am doing doesn't end up preventing a recurrance, it won't be for lack of trying on my part.

Folks, isn't that what all of you are trying to PREVENT? I would say a lot of these so-called cancer treatments should be our standard way of life so we don't GET it in the first place!

[AliCat]

Im too new to give advice as well but I know you will get the info you need here. I hope your sister does well and Im sure with the advice you get she will be fine. I go to acupuncture for chronic back issues but I know my Dr works with cancer patients. something to try maybe? Good luck!!

[PDMagnusen]

Folks, isn't that what all of you are trying to PREVENT? I would say a lot of these so-called cancer treatments should be our standard way of life so we don't GET it in the first place!

I couldn't agree with you more! Thanks again, everyone. This is all good information.