Miracle 6 months after diagnosis

You must have had a biopsy on your tumor. What kind of cancer was it ILC, IDC? Was your CT scan a breast MRI? I am very intrigued and curious about CBD oil. I have a Japanese friend diagnosed with a brain tumor but fortunately not cancerous. She did have surgery and prognosis was ok not great but she started with alternative treatments specifically reducing acidity and impurities in her drinking water and changed her diet and she is doing really well.

For me my weight, diet and exercise were all pretty good. Nothing specifically to change but I was under extreme emotion distress mostly from my husband. I think addressing this has helped me and I hope it has a role in preventing the return of my cancer.

Anyone care to comment about CBD? Any reasons to avoid it. I am not a real supplement taker but I am curious about CBD.

Anecdotal miracle cures do not impress me. Positive thinking has been a real burden to cancer patients and has been clinically proven to be not helpful with or without a cure. Spontaneous remissions do happen. Denigrating the hard years of training, scientific research, personal sacrifices to help fight this disease doesn't impress me either. Doubt and fear in the hearts and minds of cancer patients is normal and acceptable; everyone finds a way of coping with it and it isn't a matter of "not letting". It is a matter of learning coping skills. This often comes through various types of support systems. If you are NED, I am happy for you but there are many thousands of women popping pills, taking infusions, going on diets, going towards organics, changing religions/becoming more religious, trying to remain positive and following their gut feelings and they still die, often enriching hucksters and snake oil salesmen by the dozens. What has proven to reduce cancer deaths is conventional, well-researched treatments. Some cultures have absolute belief that voodoo cures or curses, but I wouldn't recommend it. I hope you remain NED from now on. From PubMed "Spontaneous cancer remission is a rare phenomenon in which a cancer is reduced or disappears without treatment [1], [2]. In breast cancer, a healing phenomenon has been reported where intraductal lesions are completely replaced by fibrous components. In one study, this healing phenomenon was confirmed in 7% of specimens obtained during breast cancer surgeries, suggesting that spontaneous breast cancer healing might occur more frequently than expected [3]." In short, you may be one of the 7% and had nothing to do with anything else. Interestingly, the woman they described had the biopsy and that is where it began.

purplehair, I live in Renton wa. There is a place, a cannabis dispensary, near valley medical center. I will check it out.

I appreciate that you shared your story. I think it is very important to allow others to share their journey. I have recently read some wonderful articles about flaxseed broccoli Sprouts and mushrooms. May I ask if you Incorporated any of those into your diet as you were trying to recover.

Also because you shared your heritage I am very curious if you were a vegan before diagnosis or afterwards.

I have read some wonderful effects also a fasting with a vegan diet to shrink tumors have you read anything about that or participated in anything of that nature?

I so appreciate your willingness to put yourself out there and I hope that you will disregard criticism of others. It is your life and your journey and you're allowed to do it your way.

Purplehair, thank you for sharing your experience. Myself, I went through all treatments, but, if my kids would have been older, I would have tried my own thing, as you do.

Please note that my conscience tells me to encourage you to look for conventional treatment. Cancer, be it suppressed by conventional treatment or spontaneous remission, can always come back. Coming back rates for spontaneous remission are very high as compared to those of cancer treated by conventional treatments. That's a part not often discussed in spontaneous remission literature.

Personally, I think that even conventional treatments work prety much similarly as spontaneous remission: they trigger a response of the immune system. For instance, surgery to remove cancer is common practice, but I think that surgery in any other part of the body will have pretty much the same effect on cancer. Surgery is major trauma, activates the immune system, which can then clear up cancer wherever it is.

So, at the end of the day the question is how can one awaken his/her immune system. Losing weight requires fasting, which is a method well known to achieve this, as described by "Longevity diet book". Exercise, among others, produces zillion microinjuries which requires repair, so once again, the immune system is activated. Same with acupuncture.

One thing I disagree with is that your "positiveness" has anything to do with spontaneous remission. I think it is the other way around. Only people with your set of mind persist in following the path that you are taking. That's why this is a common characteristic. But this trait won't help you to cure yourself. Lots of of us who are taking conventional route are just like you, upbeat and sure they've got the "beast", albeit using a different "weapon". Unfortunately studies have shown that mental state doesn't really make a difference. Depressed, miserable people get cured at the same rate as positive ones.

In any case, thank you for documenting your process. I think cancer can be treated by other methods along with conventional treatment and we need to learn as much as possible from people like you.

But, to be at peace with my conscience, I have to end up with a recommendation for looking into conventional treatment.

practiced a lot of mindful meditation through my treatment I'm not sure that I totally believe it would have cured me there definitely is a pharmacology element to all of this. The lymph node is really worrisome because the lymph system flow through your entire body and when combined with a tumor that has vascular blood flow science beliefs this is the primary pathway tumors become mestatic. I am very much a fan of mindful mediation and enlightenment. While I don't entirely agree with your approach there are elements to it that are worth your time. Ironically I have one friend who took the path that you did because she had mestatic cancer. she eventually passed away but she lived far longer than the doctors would have ever predicted. Doctors gave her 5 months and she made it over 6 years. I also have two friends who have passed away from breast cancer following the traditional treatment and it was heartbreaking to watch two very young friends die within 5 years. For myself I went the traditional route double mastectomy chemotherapy the works. But I wish I had known about the dietary element and the meditation element sooner it would have changed how I approached my active treatment and it certainly has changed how I have approached survivorship. I personally believe that once cancer is big enough to see on a mammogram or with diagnostic means the cells are more than likely all the way through our bodies. I am hoping that by following this regiment I am helping my body get rid anything that might still be in there and kill any tiny cancer cells before they can take off in the future. for myself I am truly hoping that chemotherapy killed anything that was left after surgery but this is a nasty disease and we all have to fight it the way that we see best.

I should disclose that my husband has a degenerative autoimmune disease that has no cure. The drugs are terrible. I have converted our whole family to the Mcdougall diet to try to help save his life and keep him out of a wheelchair. I wish I wish I wish I had done this when he was first diagnosed 3 years before I was diagnosed with breast cancer. Maybe just maybe my body might have been able to kill the cancer in the crib and I would never have even found this board. Alas I will never know.

If you are interested in exploring nutrition and diet in relation so Cancer here are a few things worth researching and maybe incorporating into your life.

I have read that vegans get far less cancer but they still get cancer. In studies even with humans..... eliminating all animal products slows tumor growth. I've also read that going very low protein is a good idea because protein really likes cancer. In "The China Study" by Campbell is fascinating. You might like reading it . It was a huge epidemiological study over all of China where they tracked certain cancers to diet. Campbell was a nutritional food scientist and through that study he changed his position. Spoiler alert Milk, Animal products and Oils are Bad.

There is a fellow named Victor Longo who is combining that with chemotherapy. He showed this in animal studies that it's significantly reduced a palpable tumor but didn't entirely clear it from the body. There are several studies using a fasting mimicking diet with Chemo in humans that are showing good results.

Even the more Wholefoods doctors who believe that by the time cancer is diagnosed it's already all the way through our bodies still recommend a lumpectomy at the least and removing affected lymph nodes. So it's important for me to give you that information. Personally I do not like tamoxifen but it has very good science that shows it slows the spread of cancer of the breast. I used to have quite bad side effects from it but now that I am on a Whole Foods vegan diet I don't really even notice that I'm on it. Maybe you could talk to your doctor at least to try tamoxifen if you are set against surgery. Personally I didn't think the surgery was the end of the world. I had a very good breast surgeon and recovered quickly. I would do that again in a heartbeat because I feel like getting the tumor out that was feeding the blood supply or the lymph node that was contaminated with the cancer was worth the risk. Chemo is a whole other story I'm not sure if they recommended it to you. For myself I fasted 5 days every day that I was in chemo because back then that was the only option I had based on the longo research. I also meditated I'm trying to keep my life as positive as I could to feed that energy that I do believe helps.

There are some good studies that show

four tablespoons of ground flax a day is beneficial for breast cancer that was in the breast cancer muffin study by John Hopkins

they also did a study with broccoli.sprouts showing that it I s very protective of the breast tissue. Since much of Asian Cuisine has the cruciferous family I would Feast on that.

Mushrooms are pretty critical as well if you'd like to move this thread to the alternative treatment part of the board I'm sure you would get a lot of suggestions and support

While I respect the spiritual journey that you're on trying to heal your body through enough, feeding your body the very best food that will create an environment that would the inhospitable to the cancer is very important for that enlightenment. if you choose dietary intervention go high high green vegetables cruciferous,fruit ( Asian Pears and apples are very good). Eat low-fat especially avoid all animal products and vegetable fat. Get your protein from Greens, Whole Grains and Beans. as far as I know that's the best diet scientifically to Aid in slowing the cancer growth. I have to disclose though that it has not shown to remove a tumor once it's achieved a blood supply.

I truly hope you beat this as I hope everyone on this board no matter their treatment choices beats this awful disease.

Fascinating topic! I've read that yoga and meditation is an excellent way to lengthen the telomeres. These telomeres are shoestring like tips at the end of DNA chromosomes. As we get older, the telomeres shorten and this is why our bodies deteriorate and why older people are more susceptible to diseases like cancer, Alzheimer, cardiovascular disease etc....

Sorry for my ignorance but what is CBD? By the way, Chris Wark did have surgery for his colon cancer but he refused chemotherapy and chose to follow a vegan or raw food diet?

Bosombuddy 1 - CBD oil as in cannabidiol (CBD). It has lots of health benefits!

Yes, Chris had surgery but no chemo or rads. I believe it was stage 3. He started juicing / vegan diet. He is NED now but he was pretty young when we he got cancer. We will have to wait and see. I think I read somewhere his surgery alone for his solid tumor should have given him survival odds of 40 %. It would be different for blood cancers. Who is to say - some people survive with the most minimal odds and some very early stage breast cancer patients do not make it despite all treatment:(  

Wished there was an answer but cancer is complex and not one disease. 

Meow, as someone mentioned earlier, if we could pin cancer on emotions, then happy go lucky little toddlers would never come down with the disease, which, of course, they do.

I've heard of many. Young children with cancer is the entire reason St. Jude's Hospital exists, for example.

https://www.stjude.org/

Peregrinelady wrote: I am confused how you have experienced a "miracle" when you still have 2 cm of cancer in your lymph node.

I wonder about this too. Although if the lymphnode was removed and it was found with micromets i.e. less than 2mm, it would still contain thousands of cancer cells. So how is this a miracle “yet”? And scans have been known to miss malignancies altogether...

Juicing being “healthy" is a myth, let alone a cure for cancer. I mean no disrespect, but if you want to incorporate greens in your diet, eat them.