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The Truth About Cancer no matter what your age is. I decided that all the approaches we had taken before obviously weren’t working. Something had to change. Something had to be different this time. I didn’t want to insult my oncologist at the time but I did tell her I’m going to get multiple opinions. And she encouraged me to do so. So I seeked out five other specialists, five other oncologists, many in the local area. Some even at the Mayo Clinic. Every single oncologist agreed that this was terminal cancer. They all agreed that I would never be cancer free and that I had less than a year to live. No one ever wants to hear that you have a timeline put on your life especially not at 31-years-old. So at this time my family and I began searching frantically. We decided we were going to search for any information we could find that anyone has tried, any usual treatments, anything that is out of the norm, even holistic, we looked everywhere to decide what I wanted to do. At this time my only options were to begin a new round of a much more invasive chemo that was much more difficult to take than my first two rounds of chemo. I also no longer had a port-o-cath at this time. It had been removed due to the blood clots. So the chemo had to go straight into my veins. I really wanted to consider is this how I wanted to go. Is this is how I wanted to try to fight a battle this time. I decided to put off the chemo as we did more research on our own. I figured I was losing some time but I myself didn’t feel like time was my biggest enemy at the moment. I felt like we had been going about my treatment the entirely wrong way. So as my family and I were doing research we came across many ads for cancer cures, we came across much information that worked for some people. The same thing didn’t work for other people. We really didn’t know which way to turn. We didn’t know what to take. We didn’t know what to believe. One thing we did all do is read the book, Cancer Free by Bill Henderson, which describes the battle that he went through with his wife doing here cancer treatments. And it also is a very informal book of how to find supplements, how to find other ways of treating your cancer even in conjunction with treatment, with chemotherapy. It gives an entire listing of supplements that people have tried and found effective in their cancer treatments. I knew at this time that there was no way I could afford all of these supplements. I had a limited amount of time. I didn’t have the ability to try all of these supplements in combination with my chemotherapy. Some of them would interfere with chemo treatments, some wouldn’t. But before I started chemo I decided to focus on one supplement in the book and order it to begin that supplement before I even began chemo treatments. That supplement was called Beta-1-3D Glucan. You take it very easily. For me in my case I take two pills every morning when I wake up and I wait a half an hour before I eat breakfast or any food. If you happen to wake up in the middle of the night you can The Quest for The Cures Page 186

Episode 6: What Would Doc Do take your dosage then so as soon as you wake up you can eat and there’s no wait. Some people take more based on their weight. For myself I stuck with two pills every morning. I didn’t have any idea if this supplement was helping me at all in the beginning. There wasn’t necessarily a way to measure it. What I did know is since I had put off my chemo treatments at the time I was still having blood tests done and the blood test, the CEA blood test count numbers were showing that it was dropping even without chemo treatments. This was unexplained by my oncologist. She had no idea why this number would drop before I had even began chemo treatments. We still went on to the chemo rounds. I was doing an IV chemo in conjunction with a pill chemo. This process was very, very difficult. I was having reactions. I was going into the hospital. The reaction was from the chemo. My body had been through enough. It had decided that it was no longer going to tolerate the chemo. I was having an allergic reaction to the IV chemo. So I was taken off the IV and I stayed on the pill version of the chemo only. Beta glucan was the only supplement I was taking out of the normal realm of supplements. And we couldn’t necessarily relate that it was due to the dropping numbers, the dropping CEA blood number counts but we didn’t know what the cause was for it before I began the chemo treatments. Once I stopped the IV chemo treatments and I continued taking betaglucan the numbers still continued to drop even though I was not on a chemo that should remove cancer. So we decided to do a PET scan after just six weeks of the IV chemo since I could no longer tolerate it. The scan came back showing no signs of cancer. This was remarkable. It was truly amazing. We had no idea how six oncologists could tell me you will never be cancer free again. You will not survive this. And yet with just six weeks on an IV chemo that my body couldn’t even tolerate I was somehow cancer free. This was glorious news, news that we celebrated and celebrated. But I was told at the same time that I need to stay on the chemo pill even though this chemo pill I was on was not made to work alone. It was made to work in conjunction with an IV chemo and there was no evidence scientifically that it would take away cancer or control cancer. So I stayed on this pill but I did have to drop my dosages over time. It was becoming too strong for me so I ended up on a very extremely low dosage of this pill. I stayed on this chemo pill for four years until my doctors decided that there was no longer any evidence that the pill had anything to do with my cancer not returning. To this day they cannot explain what happened to my cancer, where it went, or why it is still gone. They have no idea why I am cancer free at this point. The one consistent item during all this time, during the last four and a half years The Quest for The Cures Page 187

Episode 6: What Would Doc Do<br />

take your dosage <strong>the</strong>n so as soon as you wake up you can eat and<br />

<strong>the</strong>re’s no wait. Some people take more based on <strong>the</strong>ir weight. For<br />

myself I stuck with two pills every morning. I didn’t have any idea if this<br />

supplement was helping me at all in <strong>the</strong> beginning. There wasn’t<br />

necessarily a way to measure it. What I did know is since I had put off<br />

my chemo treatments at <strong>the</strong> time I was still having blood tests done and<br />

<strong>the</strong> blood test, <strong>the</strong> CEA blood test count numbers were showing that it<br />

was dropping even without chemo treatments. This was unexplained by<br />

my oncologist. She had no idea why this number would drop before I<br />

had even began chemo treatments.<br />

We still went on to <strong>the</strong> chemo rounds. I was doing an IV chemo in<br />

conjunction with a pill chemo. This process was very, very difficult. I was<br />

having reactions. I was going into <strong>the</strong> hospital. The reaction was from<br />

<strong>the</strong> chemo. My body had been through enough. It had decided that it<br />

was no longer going to tolerate <strong>the</strong> chemo. I was having an allergic<br />

reaction to <strong>the</strong> IV chemo. So I was taken off <strong>the</strong> IV and I stayed on <strong>the</strong><br />

pill version of <strong>the</strong> chemo only. Beta glucan was <strong>the</strong> only supplement I<br />

was taking out of <strong>the</strong> normal realm of supplements. And we couldn’t<br />

necessarily relate that it was due to <strong>the</strong> dropping numbers, <strong>the</strong> dropping<br />

CEA blood number counts but we didn’t know what <strong>the</strong> cause was for it<br />

before I began <strong>the</strong> chemo treatments.<br />

Once I stopped <strong>the</strong> IV chemo treatments and I continued taking<br />

betaglucan <strong>the</strong> numbers still continued to drop even though I was not on<br />

a chemo that should remove <strong>cancer</strong>. So we decided to do a PET scan<br />

after just six weeks of <strong>the</strong> IV chemo since I could no longer tolerate it.<br />

The scan came back showing no signs of <strong>cancer</strong>. This was remarkable.<br />

It was truly amazing. We had no idea how six oncologists could tell me<br />

you will never be <strong>cancer</strong> free again. You will not survive this. And yet<br />

with just six weeks on an IV chemo that my body couldn’t even tolerate I<br />

was somehow <strong>cancer</strong> free. This was glorious news, news that we<br />

celebrated and celebrated. But I was told at <strong>the</strong> same time that I need to<br />

stay on <strong>the</strong> chemo pill even though this chemo pill I was on was not<br />

made to work alone. It was made to work in conjunction with an IV<br />

chemo and <strong>the</strong>re was no evidence scientifically that it would take away<br />

<strong>cancer</strong> or control <strong>cancer</strong>.<br />

So I stayed on this pill but I did have to drop my dosages over time. It<br />

was becoming too strong for me so I ended up on a very extremely low<br />

dosage of this pill. I stayed on this chemo pill for four years until my<br />

doctors decided that <strong>the</strong>re was no longer any evidence that <strong>the</strong> pill had<br />

anything to do with my <strong>cancer</strong> not returning. To this day <strong>the</strong>y cannot<br />

explain what happened to my <strong>cancer</strong>, where it went, or why it is still<br />

gone. They have no idea why I am <strong>cancer</strong> free at this point. The one<br />

consistent item during all this time, during <strong>the</strong> last four and a half years<br />

The Quest for The Cures Page 187

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