Hi,  

Well, it has been a very busy month, to say the least.  I last sent information out on 9/10, and we did not have a diagnosis.  The radiologist decided it was safe enough to attempt a CT-guided needle biopsy; they got a good sample and the resulting diagnosis was non-small cell lung cancer.  This was good news/bad news again.  The good news was that we had a firm diagnosis so we could more effectively treat the cancer; another bit of good news was that non-small cell is not as aggressive as small-cell.  The bad news is that it is not as responsive to chemo as small-cell.  Therefore, we were going to have to do many adjunctive treatments to the targeted low-dose chemo (IPT).  So, before we even went for his first IPT treatment, Dad was doing the anti-cancer diet that I told you about in the last email; he added Red Clover Stilingua (an herbal anti-cancer), Artemisinin (a Chinese herbal chemo and chemo booster), and a digestive enzyme that reduces inflammation (cancer loves fungal, viral, and inflammation).  I also talked to him at length about exercise and the involvement of the mind and the need to think positively and get rid of negative emotions.  This was hard for him to do in his current state, but he tried.  He was still too weak to walk the dog or exert himself much physically.  The closest IPT doctor was in  Dallas, 3 hours away, so we knew we would be staying up there overnight at the very least.  The question was how to accomplish this with a tight budget.  While I was trying to figure this out (and despairing that we could manage it), one of my oldest and best friends, Janet, offered to let us stay with her.  This was literally a gift from God.  In fact, we all look upon Janet as our Angel.  She has not only made us welcome, but she has helped me accomplish many things during our stay, and she has supported me emotionally.  We know now that we could not have done this without her.   Dad’s first IPT treatment was on 9/20 in Dallas.  The doctor checked Dad’s lungs out and found that the 20% of his right lung that he had had 10 days before was gone – there were no “breath sounds” from the right lung.  This was very upsetting to all of us, naturally.  When we asked this doctor if Dad could get some of his breathing capacity back, he said that anything was possible.  Already this was completely different from the doctor in Austin, who said that he would never get anything back.   

So, on to the treatment.  They took Dad’s vitals, and then hooked him up to an IV and started a saline drip.  We were all surprised when the doctor told Dad to do some visualization, to see the cancer being destroyed and flushed out of the body.  He suggested that Mom and I might want to add prayer.  It was amazing.  Then a small dose of insulin was delivered, based on his body weight, and we waited 45 minutes before delivering the chemo, in order to give the cancer cells time to reach the “therapeutic moment”.  Dad came through the treatment fine, but he was still tired and having trouble breathing after that first treatment.

The next treatment was 9/24, then the third on 9/27.  For the first 2 weeks, he was to go twice per week.  Then it is once per week for the next 6 weeks.  Then they look at the cancer to see how well it is responding to determine how to change the schedule.  Things really began to change for him after the third treatment.  Both Mom and I noticed that he had more energy and more stamina.  I believed that he was breathing better, that there was less wheezing.  The fourth treatment was 10/2, and by then it was apparent to Mom along with me that his breathing was much easier, and that there was no more wheezing.  After the treatment, we asked the doctor to check out his lungs.  The doctor reported that there were “breath sounds in both lungs”.  Wow!

So now we are getting ready for a West Coast Odyssey.  I have to be in  San Diego for the Foundation’s Fifth Annual International Conference, and I cannot leave Mom & Dad at home with nobody to take them to their weekly treatments.  Therefore, they are going with me.  We are leaving the dogs with Janet and taking off after Dad’s fifth treatment next Wednesday.  We will stop in Mesa, Arizona, a city where we all have friends, for the weekend.  It is Dad’s birthday, so he and Mom will be able to celebrate with some friends.  Then on to

   Dad is now actively walking the dog and running errands.  He takes care of his diet and vitamins/herbs by himself (something new, believe me).  He is employing visualization on a regular basis and working on staying positive/dumping negative emotions.  I am so proud of him and what he has done. 

You probably won’t hear from me until we get home, sometime after October 30.  Until then, please keep up the prayers and send good energy our way, and thank you for all of the support you have already given us. 

Love,

 Annie

Hello, everyone,

If you are receiving this email, it is because I put you on the distribution list as someone who is interested in what is going on with my dad.  If you don’t want to receive information this way, just let me know.  This first email will be longer than usual, as I am going to go over a lot of ground. Bear with me, future ones will be shorter.

My father started experiencing difficulty breathing and markedly increased fatigue around April 1^st of this year.  Instead of going straight to a pulmonary specialist, he went to his internist, thinking it might be allergy or asthma.  After 3 months of various tests, the internist finally sent him to a cardiologist, assuming it was a problem with Dad’s heart.  By this time, Dad had been getting progressively weaker, and his activities were very restricted.

The cardiologist did his own share of tests, and decided that, since he couldn’t readily find anything, he had to go in and do an angiogram!  Good news was, he found no major heart problems, no blocked heart arteries.  He did find a kidney artery that was slightly blocked, but not enough to cause the problems Dad was having.  His conclusion:  this slight blockage, along with age-related scoliosis, was constricting Dad’s breathing.  So, now, he thought Dad should do another angiogram to relieve the kidney artery blockage.  Well, since Dad had had kidney disease as a child, and due to his advanced age of 85, he decided against this (thanks in large part to advice from me and my sister, Alison).  After some thought, the cardiologist decided that maybe that was not the problem after all, and referred Dad to a pulmonary specialist (finally).  The pulmonary doctor, Dr. Rawlinson, had his own tests to do, and in one of them he found a large mass in the right lung.  He decided that they should do a biopsy through a bronchoscope, otherwise called a bronchoscopy.  He said that he was fairly certain that this was a malignancy, but he needed proof.  By this time, Dad was not driving very much, as he was so weak and tired.  The bronchoscopy was not successful. It showed that the cells were atypical, but not abnormal enough to label them as cancer.  Although Dr. Rawlinson was 99.99% certain that was the problem.  He said that what he had found out during the procedure about the mass: 1) it was under the mucosa instead of through it (evidently a good thing); 2) that the nerve endings that controlled the right diaphragm were dead, so it was no longer in use; 3) that the mass was in the upper right part of the lung, the lower right, and pressing in on the airway (which is why he was having trouble breathing).  He said removing the mass would mean removing the whole right lung, an operation he did not think Dad would survive.  He said Dad was still getting some use out of the right lung.  He recommended a PET scan to determine whether the mass was definitely cancer or not.  He booked the PET scan for the following Friday, the soonest he could get it (really a pretty fast turnaround). Now Dad’s condition was so bad that he could barely walk the dog twice a day, even for ½ block. He was not talking very much, mostly answering in monosyllables.  He was sleeping most of the day, losing weight, no joking around, and NO STORIES!  This is how I knew how sick he had gotten!  Dad always tells stories! 

We got neighbors and church friends to help out walking the dog.  While we waited for the PET scan, I took Dad to an IPT doctor I know in Dallas.  This doctor not only treats cancer with Targeted Low-Dose (IPT), but he also does holistic therapies to help boost the immune system.  Since we did not definitely know it was cancer or what type, we went for the immune-boosters.  Dad got an Ozone therapy and a high-dose Vitamin C therapy.  The Ozone treatment consists of removing a pint of blood, injecting Ozone gas into the bag, rotating the bag for 8 minutes to fully oxygenate the blood (which also kills bacteria, funguses and viruses), and then putting the blood back in.  The blood goes from a viscous reddish-black to a vibrant red!  The high-dose Vitamin C bag also contained magnesium and B12.  Anyway, the treatment started, and Dad started to get some color in his cheeks, and his feet got warm. The next change is he started flirting and joking with the nurse and doctor, and he actually laughed and had some belly-laughs.  And then…he started telling stories!  Yep, Dad was a close proximity of himself again!  It was fabulous to see.  He continued to have more energy for a couple of days, and he says his breathing is better since then.  He also immediately went on the cancer diet from Dr. Patrick Quillin in his book ‘Beating Cancer with Nutrition’.

The PET scan went off as scheduled, and we went yesterday to hear the results. It is definitely cancer.  The cancer is a lung cancer, not a metastasis, which is good news.  The cancer is not the size of the whole mass, which is good news. The cancer is about 1/10 of the lung, in the central and upper lobe area, pressing against the airway and narrowing it by about 80%. The doctor felt that the reason the mass showed up white (which usually means cancer), is that the rest of the tissue is just oxygen-starved by the constricted airway.  The cancer is only 3 cm, which is good news as that is a fairly manageable size (the cancer that I had started out at 3.9 cm).  The bad news is that it is constricting his airway, and that Dad is getting about 20% of the use of the right lung and 80% of the left.  It will be very hard to biopsy.  If we can get a biopsy, we want a biopsy, because lung cancer is divided up into 4 or 5 different types, which are then divided up into 2 groups: non-small cell and small-cell.  For each of these 2 types, there are several types of chemos, but for lung cancer in general, there are only 1 or 2 different types of chemos.  So, it would be better to know through biopsy.However, we may not be able to get a biopsy, as the position is precariously close to the main artery and blood vessels.  The doctor is consulting with a radiologist about the safety of a needle biopsy.  If we cannot do that, there are only 2 options: another bronchoscopy to see if he can possibly get a better sample (about 20% chance of success); or a surgical operation (he does not recommend this one, necessarily, as it is still very dangerous and will put Dad in the hospital for at least 4 or 5 days, probably a week).  We all think he is too weak to survive this option.  So if they cannot do a needle biopsy, we will probably take the chance of a bronchoscopy again.  If that still doesn’t show anything, we will treat the lung cancer in a general manner.So, how will Dad treat the cancer?  Well, he has already started with the cancer diet and some anti-cancer supplements, such as ESSIAC tea (3 blood-purifying herbs + an anti-cancer herb), Red Clover Stilingua (a liquid with cancer-killing properties), and an anti-fungal (cancer is known to love fungus and, in fact, there is a doctor out there who believes cancer IS a fungus – he has had phenomenal success with end-stage cancer patients through treating it that way).  Dad has also decided to do the therapy that I chose to treat cancer for myself: Targeted Low-Dose Chemo with Insulin Biological Modifiers (TLDI/IPT).Why IPT?  Why don’t we just head to MD Anderson?  Fair question.  Well, what most people don’t realize is how the cancer is conventionally treated with chemo: they take the patient’s weight and determine the dosage that will hopefully kill the cancer before it kills the patient!  No, I am not kidding.  They have no way to target just cancer cells, so they basically fill your whole body with chemo (which by the way is a poison). It has been proven that conventional chemo and radiation: 1) kill the P53 tumor-suppressor gene, the very gene that you need to fight cancer 2) distort the DNA of your healthy cells, making them pre-cancerous 3) damage the immune system 4) damage vital body organs. In addition, cancer is highly intelligent and will build immunities to the chemo and radiation. Cancer typically comes back (if it is going to) within 6-11 years; so if you have already weakened and damaged the body, and if the cancer is already immune to whatever was used on it before, you are in an uphill battle. It has also been proven that surgery stimulates cancer and weakens the immune system. Researchers in Canada just proved that radiation actually stimulates cancer. A doctor told me in 2002 that there was proof out there that removing the tumor caused metastases. All conventional therapies.

By contrast, IPT was developed in 1930 to target diseased cells (not just cancer) using Insulin.  Diseased cells have more insulin receptors than healthy cells. What this means is that, when you stimulate the diseased cells through the introduction of small doses of insulin, they are receptive to whatever follows: in the case of cancer, they give fractionated doses of chemo. In this way, just the cancer cells get the chemo, not the whole body. I never lost my hair or got sick, and I watched the tumor shrink and disappear.  That is what Dad hopes to do, too. He, and we, have no doubt that conventional treatment would hasten his death.Is IPT an Alternative Treatment?  Alternative Medicine has gotten a bad name, but it is really just another alternative. When the conventional doctor says ‘We have nothing more to offer you.’, that means just what he says: conventional medicine has nothing more to offer you. It is an alien concept to our society that the conventional doctors do not know everything. But, basically, they know what they learned in school and through their practice. Alternative doctors know what they learned in school and what they have discovered since. So, there are many alternatives and alternative doctors out there. I just tell people who are investigating alternatives to ‘do their research’! IPT is actually considered experimental. It has been used successfully on cancer since the 60’s, but there have been no clinical trials to bring it into mainstream conventional medicine. Why? It is a low-dose chemo; this means the drug companies would spend millions to run a clinical trial in order to lose billions of dollars through reduced dosages (this was directly from a drug company exec). We are now working to convince them that they actually stand to gain market share, as most people who do IPT have refused conventional chemo treatment.Back to the main subject…  Dad’s case is trickier than mine, as he is much older and already very weak.  Plus we probably will not be able to do anything but general lung cancer treatment, which will limit the effectiveness.  On the positive side, he is doing other things to support the body and kill cancer. He has decided that what is important to him is quality of life.  He says he ‘will not go whining, and does not want to go gasping for breath’. He is going into this with a very good attitude, and that is incredibly important.  The Mind has such power.Please pray for him. Prayer also has been proven to have incredible power.

Love,

Annie

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