Just to say the word cure is apparently sacrilegious. There is no cure for cancer, we all know that. “They” have told us so. We can “shrink the tumor.” We can “respond.” We can be “in remission.” We can grab a few extra months of life … except that the destruction done to the body in most cases does not warrant the extra breaths the patient is allowed. (And it is labored breath at that.)
But …
Dare I say it? Yes.
There are doctors out there who are curing cancer!
I am speaking of people who are getting well. People who are living long, productive lives. People diagnosed with stage IV cancers, people who chose another way and avoided the degradation of chemical poisoning and mutilation.
I had heard about these doctors at the medical conferences I attend: conferences on cutting-edge, antiaging medicines, for Western-trained medical doctors who are fed up and disillusioned with the medical system. And I’ve had the privilege to interview these doctors, professionals who courageously speak of their disillusionment with the present template of “standard of care” (or “cover your butt”) medicine. They are concerned that our current system is not working and that people are on too many drugs and not getting well.
These are pioneers, doctors who have figured out how to knock out cancer. As a result they have been attacked, sued, called frauds, ridiculed, and ostracized for having the audacity to think outside the box. Thank God for courageous people.
With an epidemic at hand and the poor results we are observing with the use of chemotherapy, you owe it to yourself to at least be aware that other protocols exist.
There is a choice. But when you are diagnosed with cancer, you won’t hear about “another way.” Instead, “standard of care” is always the same: surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, and harsh aftercare drugs. You rarely hear about the logic of combining “standard of care” with alternative treatments so that they might complement each other. (I know this firsthand.)
Everyone knows the damaging consequences of chemo (what I call poison therapy) but it’s rare to consider complementing it with IV nutrients or vitamin C, an area Dr. Linus Pauling so eloquently researched.
If you do suggest to your doctor that you have heard of doctors who are having success without drugs, you may be brushed aside as unrealistic and foolish. Some traditional doctors may even dismiss these other protocols as crazy and wacky. But I ask you: What is crazier than pumping a body full of poison? And then there’s usually six weeks of radiation. But wait … isn’t it radiation that gives us cancer?
You have a choice. A choice! Again, what you choose is not my business, but you need to know that there are those who are approaching this nasty, killer disease in a different way. My goal in writing this book is to introduce you to those who are healing, curing, building up, and replacing what is missing, as another way.
By 2010, cancer will be the leading killer in the world!
So it’s likely it could be you.
If you ever find yourself in this horribly frightening position (and I hope you won’t), you will be glad you know about these proud, determined, and cutting-edge Western doctors. They are having success. Not with everyone. That is the tragedy of cancer. Diet, lifestyle habits, and time of diagnosis contribute greatly to whether or not a patient will live. Not all cancer patients are lucky enough to catch it in time, but enough people are getting well for these doctors to know they are on the right track.
None of these doctors has a 100 percent success rate, so to expect a miracle would be too simplistic. Each protocol requires collaboration with the patient. In all cases, nutrition must be taken seriously, even held as sacred.
The important information to walk away with from this book is that cancer is mostly preventable, manageable, and sometimes curable, but it is up to us individually to make the effort. To continue the present poor, nonnutritious, chemicalized diets will surely put you on the other side of wellness.
I am not a doctor or a scientist; I am merely a filter for these Western-trained doctors and scientists. I am a passionate layperson; I write on behalf of us.
A number of the doctors interviewed for this book have experienced firsthand the horrors of what happens when you go against the mainstream medical establishment, but they’ve fought and won, all with one purpose in mind: to heal. They provide us with needed choice, creative medicine, and an opportunity to take care of our bodies and our health in supportive, nontoxic ways.
First, you’ll read an interview I did with Ralph Moss, Ph.D., who has written extensively on our failing medical system, in particular with regard to cancer. He is the author of many books, including Questioning Chemotherapy. He has some horrifying insights into why the medical system is in this state.
At the forefront of treatment and at the center of this book are Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski, Dr. Nicholas Gonzalez, and Dr. James Forsythe. I’ve interviewed many of their patients, who all claim that unorthodox treatments by these doctors have saved their lives. Throughout this book you will hear from many of the patients of these doctors. These are people who are living with excellent health and great quality of life. Many have chosen to forgo chemical poisoning and instead take advantage of the life’s work of these doctors.
Many oncologists recommend chemotherapy for almost any type of cancer, with a faith that is unshaken by the almost constant failure.
–Albert Braverman, M.D.
Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski’s work consists of replacing antineoplastons, a peptide that according to him is missing in cancer patients. These small peptides produced by the liver control cell multiplication. Dr. Burzynski found that in the absence of sufficient amounts of these internal controls, cancer develops. His theory is that if this peptide is replaced, cancer is knocked out. And in many, many cases his patients have recovered. He has been treating patients for over thirty years.
Now, when they recover, when they are well, happy, healthy, and strong … is this “cured”? From my perspective, the word cure seems appropriate for those who do respond and show no evidence of cancer for years afterward. But when I interviewed Dr. Burzynski, he was reluctant to make that claim: “I don’t give false hope; I don’t want anyone to have any illusions. Everything we claim is right on the films.” Yet when I spoke to his “cured” patients, they were eager to say they no longer had cancer.
To keep things fair, Dr. Burzynski has never done X-rays or CT scans himself. His patients undergo scans and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) at centers near their homes and then bring the results to Houston.
Dr. Burzynski’s work evokes much controversy. For years the Texas Medical Board tried to take away his medical license, and when the big guys, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), tried to put him in jail, Dr. Burzynski had several things going for him. His patients were passionate in his defense and were absolutely devoted to him.
Dr. Burzynski’s longtime advocate, Richard Jaffe, is a nationally recognized health care attorney. He has written the book Galileo’s Lawyer, which is an insider’s look into the alternative health world with Dr. Burzynski as his main inspiration:
The Medical Board Hearing lasted several days. The patients were powerful. They just got up and told their stories.
All of them had terminal cancer with very short life expectancies. They all found their way to the Burzynski clinic, and they were all disease free, some for many years. A number of them were still on maintenance treatment and, as could be expected, they were very concerned about continued access to Burzynski and the medicine. Many of the patients were small children with brain tumors.
The Kunnaris were one of the families who came to Austin to testify (read their testimony). They live in upper Minnesota. They were not rich and could not afford to fly down, especially since they would have to take all four of their young children with them. So they all piled into their big station wagon and drove twenty-four hours straight through to Texas, Jack and MaryAnn switching driving every few hours. They put a bunch of sleeping bags in the back for the kids because showing up for Dr. Burzynski, the doctor who had saved their son from a terminal brain tumor, was so important.
This is typical of the passion patients display for Dr. Burzynski.
The same thing occurred when the FDA tried to put Dr. Burzynski in jail.
There were two trials. At the beginning of each trial hundreds of people came out showing their support. Two-thirds of them were patients and the rest were families. They couldn’t even fit all the media into the courtroom because there was so much interest. I asked Jaffe what those days were like. He told me, “In my twenty-five years of practicing as a health care attorney, I have never seen a physician who has been subjected to the unrelenting government persecution that Dr. Burzynski faced. Early on, the FDA tried and failed to obtain an injunction stopping him from treating his terminally ill cancer patients. Between 1985 and 1995, Burzynski was investigated by four federal grand juries. The first three refused to indict him; the fourth did. Fortunately, the gods were smiling on us. We won the case and Dr. Burzynski was acquitted on all charges after two federal criminal trials…. Congress held several hearings on FDA abuse in which the Burzynski persecution was front and center. Eventually, Congress forced the FDA to allow him to continue to treat all of his patients and begin clinical trials. Throughout those dark days the clinic’s doors never closed, due largely to Burzynski’s courage, the extraordinary efforts of many of his successfully treated terminally ill patients, and maybe some pretty fair legal work.”
According to Jaffe and Dr. Burzynski himself, another absolutely critical factor in the success against the FDA was the support and friendship of Dr. Julian Whitaker (who has written the foreword to this book). After Dr. Burzynski was indicted, Julian visited the Burzynski clinic and became convinced that patients were being cured of terminal cancer. Julian became a tireless advocate for Dr. Burzynski. He repeatedly wrote articles and editorials about Burzynski in his massively popular newsletter.
Dr. Whitaker helped stop rumors that the clinic was out of business, and many new patients found their way to Dr. Burzynski because of him. This helped keep the clinic’s doors open.
Dr. Whitaker also asked his subscribers to help pay for Dr. Burzynski’s defense and did they ever! As many as ten thousand of his faithful subscribers sent in donations. Through Health & Healing, Dr. Julian Whitaker singlehandedly raised many hundreds of thousands of dollars, in amounts of ten, twenty-five, and fifty dollars, for Dr. Burzynski’s defense. Without Dr. Whitaker’s efforts, the Burzynski clinic might not have survived the government attacks.
In the end, Dr. Burzynski fought the United States government and won!
Another maverick is Dr. Nicholas Gonzalez, who resides in Manhattan and treats patients with all types of cancers. He offers an aggressive nutritional program for the treatment of advanced cancer as well as for a variety of other serious illnesses ranging from chronic fatigue to multiple sclerosis, and it is working. Dr. Gonzalez’s patients also have a reverence for him and his protocol, and one after another shared their stories of success with me. But the long, healthy lives they are living is the greatest testimony. His patients swear by his therapy. They are its living proof.
Whatever the underlying problem, his therapy involves three basic components: individualized diet, individualized supplementation, and intensive detoxification. The diets prescribed can range from a vegetarian raw food approach to a red-meat one; it all depends on the person’s needs and type. The supplement programs are varied, and involve vitamins, minerals, and trace elements in various forms and various doses as well as glandular and enzyme products. Each of these individualized programs is chosen to meet a particular need for each patient. Much in the way that bioidentical hormones are individualized for each person, there is no “one program fits all.” And this is why it works.
Dr. Gonzalez is best known for his work with advanced cancer. He believes that diet, vitamins, minerals, and trace elements help improve tissue and organ deficiencies but that it is the pancreatic enzymes that target and kill cancer cells. The detoxification routines help the body neutralize and excrete the multitude of waste products produced during routine metabolism; in the case of his cancer patients, this results in tumor lysis, meaning the cellular destruction needed to kill cancer that occurs with chemo (sometimes) and enzymes (frequently).
Dr. James Forsythe is a remarkable man. Trained as a traditional oncologist, he soon became dismayed and depressed as a result of the poor outcomes of his cancer patients on the “standard of care” treatments. Over twenty years ago, he became interested in combining conventional and alternative medicines. He was the only oncologist in his area who would treat patients who were under the care of an alternative-medicine physician. He couldn’t help noticing that the patients who were integrating conventional treatments with alternative therapies were doing better. They had fewer side effects, and their quality of life was far superior. This convinced him that conventional medicine was lacking in terms of keeping patients’ immune systems stimulated.
He began to study alternative medicine, and in 1995 he received his homeopathy certificate. His protocol for cancer patients emphasizes good nutrition as a core requirement; a balanced lifestyle that includes exercise, rest, sleep, and emotional harmony; detoxification; and treatments that ensure that the organs and other body systems work efficiently. His patients are getting well, and you will read about them in Knockout. But you wouldn’t be reading about him had the federal government succeeded in discrediting him.
It is hard to imagine that on February 16, 2005, the government tried to close his office, put him in prison, and ruin his reputation because he prescribed human growth hormone to a government shill posing as a patient. Dressed in black flak jackets and with guns drawn, several federal agents prepared to knock down the door of his home with a battering ram, demanding to know if he kept guns in the house. He was treated like a criminal rather than one of America’s most respected doctors; he was ordered to kneel and a gun was pushed to his forehead. He became the first and only physician in the United States ever to be charged with prescribing HGH to patients for off-label use as an antiaging treatment. Federal agents and prosecutors trashed his pristine reputation and tried to portray him in the news media as a sleazy doctor who employed questionable techniques. After his false arrest it took fourteen months for his acquittal, but after just a few hours of deliberation, the jury reached its innocent verdict following what some Nevada journalists hailed as the “trial of the century” for the state.
In Part III, you will hear from Dr. Russell Blaylock, renowned neuroscientist and oncologist, who will open your eyes to the importance of nutrition relative to cancer protection and prevention. Every doctor in this book stresses the importance of nutrition. Dr. Blaylock claims it is the food we are eating that is killing us: processed foods, foods in bags and boxes, foods with unpronounceable names, irradiated foods, genetically modified foods, foods sprayed with pesticides, foods containing glutamates such as MSG.
Our houses are loaded with chemicals: we spray with poisons, we use products that create household toxins, and cities dump fluoride into our drinking water. What are we thinking? The human body was never meant to process this onslaught of chemicals. With this chemical and environmental attack, how can we expect to remain cancer free? But Dr. Blaylock understands much about prevention and gives us the tools to avoid getting the disease in the first place.
Burton Goldberg is a researcher and seeker of truth. He has devoted his life to finding the cause of cancer and promoting integrated protocols to wipe out cancer. His work in nutrition and alternative medicine is unmatched: in fact, he funded and oversaw the writing of the bible on alternative medicine.
Dr. Jonathan Wright is another of the pioneers you’ll meet here. His understanding of the hormonal system is mind-boggling. He was the first doctor to introduce bioidentical hormones to the United States over twenty years ago.
Now, what do bioidentical hormones have to do with a book about doctors curing cancer? Just about everything. You will be blown away when you read his explanations of the cancer-protective nature of natural hormones. When you consider that most women develop cancer when they go into hormonal decline, I believe you will be more than interested to read that proper replacement in the right ratios will protect you from getting cancer.
Much like Dr. Burzynski’s theories on genetic switches that you’ll be reading about later, hormones are also genetic switches. Hormones work because they regulate the activity of the genes. Estrogens work because they activate certain genes and silence others. If you don’t have hormonal balance, you will speed up cancer development, but regulating hormonal balance can control cancer while restoring quality of life.
Dr. Julie Taguchi, a conventional oncologist, conducted a study of fifty-five women who refused traditional chemotherapy and radiation and instead chose to treat their cancer by using bioidentical hormones and nutrition. Today all fifty-five women are five, six, seven, and nine years out. I am one of those women. You will be fascinated by what she has to say.
What if you could wear a little, inexpensive nanotechnology patch daily that constantly detoxed your body of cancer-causing free radicals? Wouldn’t you like such a simple and healthy edge against toxicity? David Schmidt of LifeWave has created such a device.
Dr. Michael Galitzer has realized we can prevent getting cancer by utilizing natural strategies, energy medicine, nutrition, and nondrug therapies.
Dr. Stephen Sinatra teaches the power of the mind with regard to healing. If you believe that you can get well, that is the power. And that power of belief might just heal you from cancer or other serious disease.
Cristiana Paul, M.S., my personal nutritionist, lays out a supplementation regimen for cancer protection and discusses the importance of antioxidants in fighting free radicals in the body that can lead to cancer. Supplementation is a must in today’s toxic world, and she will lead you through this mysterious and little-understood nutritional science.
If you feel more comfortable with traditional approaches to cancer treatment, you must read the interview with Bill Faloon from the Life Extension Foundation before you start treatment or have surgery. There is invaluable information there that will improve its effectiveness—and potentially your outcome.
Each of these doctors has patients who agreed to speak with me—and their stories are incredible. Their testimony is very hopeful and inspiring.
Because these doctors are often muzzled by the FDA and the pharmaceutical companies, you most likely would not hear of them if not for this book. So I asked the doctors to explain their protocols and how they came to this thinking.
You are going to be fascinated. But most important of all, you are going to be made aware that there are doctors out there who are in this for the love of good medicine. There is very little money to be made in the world of alternative medicine. Insurance stubbornly refuses to cover the costs, and in good conscience these doctors cannot charge much. But these doctors love their work.
In my opinion, the worst job in this country is to be an oncologist. It is a job that requires delivering devastatingly bad news to patients on a daily basis. In my book Ageless, I recounted how my oncologist said something so very poignant to me: “I dream of the day when I no longer have to poison people.” I think that says it all, yet it is precisely this disease and the exorbitant chemotherapy charges that keep our hospitals afloat and our insurance premiums high. Most hospitals require the ongoing use of toxic, conventional therapies to keep their doors open, such are the huge profits. And chemotherapy is often administered in oncologists’ offices, bringing in profitable revenue.
You the patient, like me, need to know the realities, and that there are other ways to approach what is now an epidemic.
In Part III of this book we will teach you how to live your life to prevent getting cancer. It is preventable, even in this toxic soup we all live in. Each doctor interviewed verified this statement.
We can win the fight over cancer, and we can get well even if we are given this deadly diagnosis.
There is lifesaving information in this book. From the bottom of my heart, I pass it on to you in hopes that you never need the information. But if you do, remember that out there, with the real pioneers, there is another way. And you have a choice.
But let’s understand how we got here in the first place. What went wrong?