Trip to Tijuana Mexico change my outlook forever

Thank you for your feedback.  I apologize if I was rude in my messages -- I'm getting another PET on Monday -- the one a month ago glowed like an Xmas tree around my liver but the cancer markers were normal and nothing showed in the CT or MRI.  I'm a wee bit stressed.  I apologize for any disrespect I have shown in my snippy messages.  But no excuse to take it out on people only trying to help.

Your information does make one think twice.  The only person I 100% trust is my sister.  Before I do anything I bounce it off her (she's a physician, but a good one, a bit of a rebel) -- I know she gives me the best info and lets me decide on things.  What's good about her is that she's in Canada and isn't tied to the purse-strings of any insurance or pharma companies.  And a doc that prefers a natural path to a chemical one, or in combination, depending on the circumstances.  Loves to grill the pharma reps.  Yeah, it is hard to know what to do -- but I feel that I get the best info from her. 

Reminds me of a story -- when she used to deliver babies, she had an intern in her delivery room.  He said he was looking forward to practicing his stitching.  She promptly tossed him out -- she told him as long as it is in the best interest of the baby and mom, everything goes natural, no one practices on her patients.  She loved being assisted by nurses who were also trained mid-wives - they knew the best hands-on, natural ways of helping the moms and babies.

I guess I just wanted you to know that so far my sister is my best resource.  I'm smart, but slogging through the data sends my mind spinning.  However, I will go through all the articles and reports you have provided over the weekend.  It will help me stay sedentary as told to be for the PET.

Thank you again ladies, again, sorry for my snippiness.

Warmest regards,

Elizabeth

LVI -- lymphovascular invasion.  I guess I should change my signature file so it says that.

konokat:

If you do have liver mets, check out radiofrequency ablation.  It is a minimally invasive procedure which is effective against liver mets.  Don't know where you live but I know they used to do it at Rhode Island Hospital and another hospital in Mississippi.  I found it when I was helping my own sister who had lung cancer.  I had researched the 5-yr. survival rate and found for her lung cancer, that it was only 5% so I knew that whatver the drs. were doing wasn't working. The RFA was fairly new and her oncologist would not even look at the paper I tried to give him.  Unfortunately for her, she went the chemo/rad/surgery/chemo again route, had a hellish year and passed away.  We did end up going to RI Hospital to check out the RFA but it was months too late.  My cousin's father-in-law who was told he had 9 mos. to live, did the RFA for lung cancer and lived for several years with good quality.  I wish my sister had trusted me because I had done hours, days and weeks of research to come up with that but she did not want to know anything.  I am not a dr. though so I can see why you would trust your sister.  I have bc now and want to know everything. Anyways, sorry for rambling, but I know they do it for liver mets, hopefully you will find that reassuring.

Peeps 

Konakat...Can I come to? LOL  I hope you girl's get your trip plan and think of us while you are face to face  a beautiful lionesses or tiger...hopefully not eating any gazelles. I know they have to eat...but I don't want to watch either.

Also check with your insurance about RFA. My insurance will not cover this treatment or cyberknife because they are not proven treatments..... But I would go for it if you can.!

Flalady

Let me clear up what I said konakat...It's not approved for bc to the liver mets.  It is approved for other kinds of liver cancer.  BC to live is a whole different kind of disease and that is where the insurance companies are coming from.  Yes! it sucks.

Flalady

nat-ur-al,

What have you looked into as a preventive?

I was the director of the Cancer Patient Interface and was involved in the evaluation of some of the Mexican cancer clinics.  Cutting to the chase; We found that overall outcomes were about the same as US treatment centers.  The big difference was the holistic atmosphere in these Mexican clinics.  They addressed the disease as well as nutritional, physical and spritual needs.

I was amazed at the compassion the the clinic's staff. The experience at these Mexican clinics is far superior to anything I had seen in the US.  I always said, if I was terminal with cancer, I would not hesitate to go to a Mexican clinic. I felt that the Contreas Oasis of Hope was one of the best.  

RE: The Angeles Functional Oncology Programme at the Angeles Health International Hospital (Tijuana, Mexico)

STAY AWAY from this Mickey Mouse, hocus pocus, utter joke of a hospital!! This place uses ‘alternative cancer treatments’ but the problem is they simply don’t work!! The whole thing is a scam and will cost you around $35,000. You will see lots of ‘survivor stories’ littered online including videos on youtube and, although I wouldn’t go as far as to call these people ‘stooges’, it is highly questionable as to whether any of these individuals had cancer at all in the first place.

When you first make contact, you will receive an Email from a lady called Marla Manhart who will dazzle you with her knowledge of specialist cancer treatment hospitals which are available in Mexico and the techniques that they can offer such as hyperthermia, cell
vaccines, ozone therapy, T-Cells and a number of others – all of which are painless, non-invasive and offer no side effects!! It all sounds simply too good to be true and, as we discovered, this is precisely the case.

You will then receive a telephone call from Dr. Perez who is equally convincing, he will talk with you for around an hour or so and, to be fair, he will advise you that he is unable to cure cancer but in the next breath will also offer you remission rates of 90% for 5 years and 85% for 10 years!! Yeah right, as we found out this is absolute rubbish; 5-10 days would be a more accurate prognosis.

I agree that their ‘functional oncology’ approach is indeed how cancer will be treated in the future i.e. to firstly build the immune system and then teach it how to attack cancer cells but the thing is they can’t actually do this!! They just say that they can!!

Please do not go anywhere near this place, the only treatments that work are the conventional ones – chemotherapy, radiotherapy and surgery.  If your local hospital has advised that these treatments can no longer be administered then seek a second opinion at a private hospital, the chances are they will be able to help with further conventional treatment.

I know someone who 30 years after surgery is ned on the gerson therapy (self administered & so with variations) the surgery came about after the lung cancer began to hemmhorage

Thanks for the Great information!

KJB, may I very respectfully suggest that there is no cancer tx that is 100% effective for everyone? Many many people die of cancer and the only difference is that when people die of cancer after conventional tx, or even b/c of it, no one blames the tx as ineffective. My aunt did everything she was "supposed" to and got burned from the inside out from the chemo and died from side effects of the chemo, but not one person blamed the tx. However, I guarantee that if I die from cancer after doing all holistic, that's all you'll hear at the funeral is how I could've been saved, though I actually had a poor prognosis.

Also, I followed up on your link and it's a blog, on a mainly Christian oriented page. I'm a Christian too but this bothered me: "While, by the grace of God and through the practice of scientific medicine in accordance with the Dominion Mandate of Genesis 1, rates of death from cancer are gradually declining, it is still a horrible disease. (By the way, you can invest in Eventide's Healthcare and Life Sciences Mutual Fund if you want to own companies that are developing cures for horrible diseases like cancer and also, probably, earn a great rate of return!"

And by your initials on here and the name of the writer of the blog, I get the impression that you are one and the same. What you say may very well be true but I'm less inclined to believe it after checking out your blog post.

THank you for posting this.  A lot of these treatments have been in use in Europe for many years with good success. Germany in particular. I do not know anything about the clinics, however the Moss Report sorts the wheat from the chaff in terms of clinics that are ethical and those that are money makers.

Coffee enemas work as they trigger the liver to dump toxins in to the waste system and you need a healthy liver for a healthy immune system.  A toxic laden liver means that your body is a more cáncer friendly environment...........drinking coffee does not have the same effect on the liver.

there is one in china now & also hyperthermia in the philippines. Haven't checked the costs yet.