The boy with 11 tumours who was sent home to die... and survives after grandparents' alternative the

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Worthwhile reading the whole thing

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1136870/The-boy-11-tumours-sent-home-die--survives-grandparents-alternative-therapy-treatments.html

After he developed an aggressive form of childhood cancer in 2006, Connah Broom's body came under relentless attack from the disease.

Eleven tumours spread from his neck to his knees and his case appeared hopeless.

In 2007, doctors told his family there was nothing more they could do. They said they should take him home to enjoy his final months.

But Connah's family refused to give up hope. His grandparents began treating him with alternative therapies and, remarkably, he survived.

Latest scans on Connah, now aged seven, show that ten of his 11 tumours are shrinking, have no blood flow and may be dead.

[davsand]

1. Wow. Hits home with me.

My MIL is dealing with cancer right now in her liver and bile duct. They have been working with an oncologist and she's starting something like her third or fourth round of chemo with a discussion now of maybe adding radiation as well. When we were down there to visit last time, my FIL told me her doc told her she'll be in chemo for the rest of her life.

I asked them if they'd ever considered alternative therapies. They both looked at me like I was from Neptune.

I see her getting weaker with every round of chemo and it makes me sad to see her suffer--especially when I feel there may be other things to try that will maybe help her. I know that if it was me (or even worse--my kid) I'd sure sure be looking at ALL the options.



Laura

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2. .........

:hug:

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3. Sometimes alternatives work.

I know these doctors. I have not been treated for cancer, and I don't know anyone who has had this treatment, but they give sodium ascorbate IVs for cancer:

http://www.infusionclinic.com/infusions-ascorbic.html

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

4. W. D. Kelly

is a doctor who uses digestive enzymes to treat cancer patients. The idea is to take the enzymes on an empty stomach. The enzymes, having no food to digest, go into the bloodstream and eat away the shell that surrounds cancer cells, making it so one's own immune system can combat them and get rid of them. He's got a book out and a website where you can find out more, but I don't have the url.

Edited to add the url for Dr. Kelly's online book,"One Answer to Cancer"

http://www.drkelley.com/

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5. Some people use enzymes for clogged arteries

Same principle, I suppose.

[juno jones]

7. There is a similar enzyme treatment for candida.

It seems to work on the same principle, you take it at night on an empty stomach.

[northernlights]

6. I've successfully treated shingles

with herbs from my garden. No cure, but drove it into remission. The mint family is known to have anti-herpes properties. I also have had success with certain homeopathics.

And I've been treated successfully with cranio-sacral therapy, and Jake's back was successfully fixed with chiropractic last fall.

That said, you have to be *very* careful looking into alternative therapies, especially around devastating diseases such as cancer. There are many, many people out there ready to to take advantage of people in a vulnerable state. I suspect in the article in the original post that it's probably a case of spontaneous remission, or, as someone else posted, healing as a result of the great love of his family.

I just looked at the W.D. Kelly website. If I remember correctly, DDS refers to a doctor of dentistry, so he's not a medical doctor seeing cancer patients. I'm sorry, but I was stunned by the misinformation in there. And while I agree that pharmaceutical companies and surgical organizations often put their own well being ahead of patients, the basic science and the facts we know about biochemistry, genetics, etc. are pretty well proven.

Cancer is not a metabolic disease in the sense that he's talking about, although depending on the organs involved, it can involve metabolism. It is a *genetic* disease and occurs as a result of mutations in genes that alter the cell's life or metabolic cycle. For example, the so-called "oncogenes" that you sometimes may see referred to are actually cell-growth regulatory genes. There are 2 of them: one stimulates cells to divides and the other tells cells to stop dividing. If the first gene can mutate in a way that it ramps up and stimulates out of control cell division. The second can mutate in a way that it fails to stop cell division. As I recall, very aggressive cancers occur when both cells mutate -- cell division is ramped up and nothing turns off the process.

Cancer cells don't have a "shell" around them. The reason our immune system doesn't attack them is because our first level immune response is generalised to recognize "self" and "non-self" by the outside of whatever it runs into. Cancer cells appear as "self" in their outer membranes, so the immune system isn't triggered to attack them.

This is the same reason that traditional western medicine has such a hard time dealing with cancer. Any chemical that attacks the cancer cell also attacks normal cells. The so-called "side effects" of "chemotherapy" are the reaction of healthy cells being poisoned, just hopefully not as much as the cancer cells.

The pancreas does not secrete digestive enzymes into the stomach, it secretes them into the end of the duodenum, part of the small intestine. It doesn't secrete them when there is no food -- chyme (partially digested food) in the duodenum stimulates the release of a hormone into the bloodstream that stimulates the pancreas to release digestive enzymes. And there is no secretion called "pancreatin." The digestive enzymes are pancreatic amylase, pancreatic lipase, two nucleases, and several proteolytic enzymes that break down proteins. Enzymes aren't absorbed into the bloodstream. Enzymes are very large protein molecules -- too large to be absorbed.