Below are a list of websites which contain info on cancer therapies. This list is by no means complete, but if you click on the first two, you’ll get to a wealth of information and other links. I provide you with this list as a starting point for you to conduct your own research into alternatives if you ever need to - for yourself or for someone else.

1. http://www.datadepo.com/cancercure/references.htm - Alternative Cancer Therapies references - with links to various other web sites + books & articles listed + products one can buy (even lists Rife Machine!).

2. http://www.cancure.org/About_us.htm - The Cancer Cure Foundation - info on different types of cancers & therapies + referrals.

3. The National Institutes of Health’s critiques of alternative approaches to curing cancer can be found at http://rex.nci.nih.gov/INFO_CANCER/Cancer_facts/ For example, a critique of Dr. Harold Manner’s approach is at http://rex.nci.nih.gov/INFO_CANCER/Cancer_facts/Section9/FS9_4.html

4. The National Institutes of Health (NIH)’s National Cancer Institute is at http://rex.nci.nih.gov

A few specific examples of alternative cancer therapies are found at:

5. http://www.gerson.org/ - The Gerson Institute , based upon the work of German physician Max Gerson, whose many case studies of cancer patients and their response to his therapies are chronicled in his book: “A Cancer Therapy”. Gerson therapy has been successful at treating degenerative diseases including type II diabetes, heart disease, kidney failure, TB, chronic fatigue, mercury poisoning, arthritis, chronic hepatitis C, and numerous types of cancer including breast, prostate, colon, cervical, bone, and skin cancers (melanomas), plus Hodgkins Lymphoma - even spreading types of cancer. The therapy consists of a very special diet high in freshly-made carrot/apple and green-leaf juices (special juicers which preserve all enzymes are required), all organic and vegetarian, plus nutritional supplements and a detoxification program, the latter which aids the body in eliminating diseased tissue. For this therapy to work, patients must be able to eat, drink and eliminate normally.

6. http://www.drday.com/ - Dr. Lorraine Day’s website tells you about her personal battle with cancer - you can even click to see a photo of the large tumor she healed herself of. Dr. Day has developed her own 10- step cancer cure program, which of course, she now markets through her videotapes. However, she offers much free advice through her open letter to cancer patients on her website. She has a very God-oriented approach - some find her Christian / bible-quoting approaches offensive. What is interesting about Dr. Day is that for 15 years she was on the faculty of the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine as an Associate Professor and Vice Chairman of the Department of Orthopedic Surgery. She was also Chief of Orthopedic Surgery at San Francisco General Hospital prior to her own bout with cancer. She tells about how as a practicing M.D., she had informed a number of patients of their cancer treatment options - surgery, radiation or chemotherapy - but that when she herself got an aggressive form of cancer, suddenly these options didn’t seem appealing to her. She did, ultimately, concede to have surgery, but she refused radiate and chemo, recognizing how damaging these were to the body. She initially tried a lot of vitamins and supplements, but when her cancer grew back with a vengeance, she realized this was not enough and opted instead in a dietary approach which included freshly juicing and ingesting up to 15 pounds of carrots daily for awhile (she says her complexion turned orange!).

7. http://www.hoxsey.com/ - this website gives links to online info on the Hoxsey therapies. Harry Hoxsey’s great-great-grandfather put one of his horses out to pasture to die when he discovered it had tumors. To his surprise, after several weeks of grazing in one particular area of the pasture, the horse began to heal! Wisely, he observed what the horse had been eating and began to experiment with these plants and attempted to treat other animals with them. His methods were successful and passed down through the generations in the family. Harry Hoxsey’s father was the first to try to administer the herbal tonics and salves to humans - again, with great success. The Hoxsey Cancer Clinics sprung up around the U.S. when Harry Hoxsey inherited the formulas. After many legal battles, the AMA and FDA was at last successful in shutting down all of the Hoxsey clinics (purely on the technicality of insufficient labelling as required by interstate trade laws) and Harry Hoxsey had to move his clinic to Tijuana, Mexico, where people still flocked for treatment. The Hoxsey treatments consist of dietary changes, a strong belief that one can and will get better, and the herbal tonic plus - in cases where the tumor is visible - an external salve. The Hoxsey treatments work best on cancers in which the tumors are visible on the surface. Harry Hoxsey himself developed prostate cancer late in life and found that the herbal tonic alone did not work. He chose to have surgery, took his own herbal tonic and lived cancer-free another 7 years before dying of heart failure.

Note that the AMA (American Medical Association) did confirm that the external salve used by Hoxsey is extremely effective and can “cure” surface cancers (skin cancers, cancers that have generated open wounds or tumors visible on the surface). Investigation of the herbal tonic reveals that it contains plants (medicinal herbs and weeds) containing many anti-cancer compounds, according to botanists.

The investigation of the effectiveness of these alternative treatments is in its infancy. Many complications exist. For example, one scientific review of the effectiveness of the Hoxsey treatments simply asked, of those who were treated and able to be located again, how many were still alive 5 years after the treatment? While only a small percentage could be located, a smaller percentage of that was still alive (~15%). Yet no qualifications are given to be able to determine the effectiveness of the treatment: what was the age of the deceased? of the surviving? What forms of cancer are the Hoxsey therapies best at healing? What forms of cancer did they have? Had they formerly received conventional treatment? (Many do). What was the cause of death? In the case of the Hoxsey clinics, it was very hard for them to offer evidence regarding the nature of the cancers they treated because AMA-licensed physicians refused to disclose medical records of patients to the clinic.

An example of how the “Five year survival” statistics can be misleading: Ray Slaveski (Tania’s father’s uncle), was successful in his 80’s, at using megadoses of vitamins and a macrobiotic diet to shrink a grapefruit- sized tumor to almost nothing. By the time the doctors administered radiation therapy, they were shocked to find that Uncle Ray’s tumor was smaller than the size of a walnut! They administered radiation therapy anyway, and he continued with his vitamin and diet regimen. He was pronounced free of lung cancer. Unfortunately, he died within 5 years from emphysema (years of smoking caught up with him). Thus, the “five-year- survival” test for cancer can be misleading. Age and other medical conditions can be complicating factors in determining the successfulness of alternative therapies in treating cancer.

Ken Ausubel has documented the Hoxsey story in an award-winning film, “Hoxsey: How Healing Becomes a Crime” (1987) and in his follow-up book, When Healing Becomes a Crime.

A few other approaches worthy of mention:

Raw foods/Green Juice therapies - Here in central PA, we have three people who trained under herbalist Evelyn Snook. Evelyn developed terminal cancer in her 30’s, but her physician knew that although conventional medicine had no answers for her, he knew of some herbal approaches that she was receptive to trying. As she could not retain food or absorb nutrients and was losing weight rapidly, her physician “fed” her green juices rectally. The theory here is that the walls of the colon are thin, and the chemical composition of chlorophyll differs from that of heme in our red blood cells by one element - chlorophyll has magnesium and heme has iron. This chemical similarity apparently allows nutrients from green juices to enter the blood stream. Evelyn recovered (it did take time and she had the help and support of her family) and went on to learn more about the plants that saved her life. (She lived into her 90’s). Jennifer Tucker in central Pennsylvania is one of the women who trained under Evelyn and is available for herbal consultations. If you contact her, she will talk with you first to get a sense of whether or not she feels she can help you and then will set up a time to meet for an herbal consultation.

Contemporary with Evelyn Snook was Ann Wigmore (who similarly used “eating the weeds” to cure herself of gangrene in her late teens, and later used green juices to cure herself of cancer), who founded the Hippocrates Institute. Grace Lafever, who with her husband, founded Sonnenwald Foods in York, PA, was also good friends with Evelyn and Ann. Grace is still alive, well and spunky in her old age, and Sonnenwald has grown into a huge natural products store at which many special programs are given in health and healing. If you ask Grace to what she attributes her good health and longevity, she replies, “I eat the weeds!”. The Hoxsey herbal tonic is made from “weeds” - many weeds have healing properties, as most books on herbal medicine reveal. It is helpful to consult with those who have worked with these plants, however. Fresh plant juices from plants grown in a chemical-free environment are best. For cancer therapies, herbs in capsules from health food stores are generally not effective enough.

Pharmacological Treatment - Dr. Virginia Livingston of the Livingston-Wheeler Clinic in San Diego developed a vaccine against an organism called Progenitor cryptocides. According to Dr. Livingston, if the immune system is weakened through poor diet, the consumption of “infected” foods, or old age, this microbe can gain a foothold and initiate cancer cell growth. She reports a 92% “cure” rate with her vaccine used in combination with a special dietary and vitamin regimen. Links to her approach are provided in the first two websites listed in this document.

Trance Surgery - There are some people, such as Brazilian Joao Teixeira da Faria (known more commonly as “Joao de Deus” or “John of God”), who cure a whole host of ailments in people in a way that has been investigated but not understood by modern science. You might call it a “spiritual” approach. Here at Penn State, we just had a team of 5 researchers return from visiting and studying Joao. Professor Rustum Roy set this up in part so that we can create an educational videotape to use instructively in our integrative medicine classes. Here’s how this method works: You have to have (a) a very strong desire to heal, (b) a willingness to examine your self and soul and make any necessary changes to become a better person (more loving, forgiving, kind, etc. both to yourself and to others), and (c) faith that God or Jesus or whatever higher being you believe in can help you.

You enter the clinic in a long line of people who are all seeking treatment. Those seeking treatment enter a trance-like state that is not understood (it is not hypnosis as has been verified by monitoring brainwaves). The man, Joao, himself has no medical training and has no memory of what happens as he works because he effectively allows “entities” who have medical training, to work through him. You can opt for physical or “psychic” surgery. In the former, Joao will actually cut you open and remove the problem (you don’t need to tell him what is wrong - the entities that work through him know). No anaesthesia is used, no instruments are sterilized, no blood spurts out during surgery, no one appears to be in pain during surgery, and there are no incidents of infection as a result of this surgery - even though some involve extensive removal of tumors (we have video footage of such things). After surgery, you are led to a “recovery” room which may be for a few minutes, hours, or overnight, depending on the nature of the condition.

If you opt for psychic surgery, the entities “operate” on you without cutting you open. One of the women on the team that Prof. Roy sent down submitted herself for treatment of a gallbladder problem. Sarah Smith is a nurse practitioner who is also trained in acupuncture. Sarah reports that she could feel the entities operating on her during her stay there and even felt internal “stitches” afterwards and during the healing process. Joao will often request that patients return to their doctors at home and get scanned to verify that there are stitches and internal scar tissue as a result of the psychic surgery although no incisions were ever made in the skin.

Herbal and dietary “prescriptions” often follow treatment at the clinic. Joao is not allowed to accept payment for his work. The clinic operates on donations - mostly from the many people who have been cured over the years. Joao will also address spiritual-level causes of illness and things you must change in yourself in order to heal. An excellent book on the work of Joao and some of the cases of people he helped is The Miracle Man: The Life Story of Joao De Deus , by Robert Pellegrino-Estrich. It is available through book stores or www.amazon.com.

Joao’s clinic, located in Abadiania in Brazil. Offhand, I do not have the address for the clinic, but you can contact Prof. Rustum Roy at Penn State University, (814) 865-3421.