Probably getting worse - but there is hope we can make it get better instead

Sometimes the body does indeed appear to expel cancers, especially through the breasts - however, I do not believe that is what is happening with your mother.  If she has been fighting cancer holistically or allopathically for two years and it is still there and she is having the symptoms you have described, then the fight certainly has not been won, and even appears to be slowly being lost.

This is only guesswork on my part, but what I think may have happened is that your mother has done enough good things to slow the cancer down, killing and retarding some of it, but the cancer she has been fighting has gained too strong of a foothold and is proving stronger than what she has been doing to fight it.

The good news is that in addition to your mother still being alive and willing and able to continue to fight, she has not let her immune system and major organs be damaged beyond repair by chemo or radiation - and that in itself is a very big plus to me.

You are going to no doubt get a lot of suggestions here at CureZone, and many of them good ones.  There are a lot of caring people here and quite a few of them know about fighting cancer outside mainstream methods.  Sometimes though, a person can be swamped with suggestions and it is important to choose a protocol where all of the elements work together to beat the cancer without having too many items that work against one another or too many items that do essentially the same thing and end up having a dangerous additive effect.

So far, I have not seen any bad suggestions, in fact, most of what I have seen I like.  I also like some of the things you mentioned that your mother has been doing, such as the pau de arco, cleanses, ahcc and graviola.  That combination, while not the strongest I would use, is nevertheless pretty potent and would, in my opinion, beat a great many cancers.  In your mother's case though, it appears to not be strong enough and the cancer has gained too strong of a foothold to hope that only continuing the same will be enough to ultimately rid her of the cancer and prevent it's return.

I do not presume to say that I know more or know better than many  of the others here, but I do know what has been successful up to 90 percent or more of the time with those who have followed my recommendations, such as the hundreds of members of my Yahoo Oleandersoup healthgroup who have followed the recommendations in my books, articles and messages and who by and large have also taken an extract of oleander.

At any rate, since I have been asked to respond to your plea, I will gladly do so and offer the best information about what I know works for fighting cancer by reposting the following article, as revised for this post:

A Natural Anti-Cancer Protocol

by Tony Isaacs
author of Cancer's Natural Enemy

Western medicine treats the body as a collection of parts instead of as a synergistic organism.  When it comes to treating broken bones and injured body parts, mainstream Western medicine is unequaled.  When this same approach is used to treat illness and disease - fixing or repairing the parts where the symptoms of underlying illnesses manifest themselves, modern medicine fails miserably 

In the instance of cancer, instead of addressing the causes of cancer - toxins and a weakened immune system -  we see instead treatments that either slash, burn or poison away the tumors and cancer cells, which further weakens an immune system cancer has already defeated and only worsens the conditions that led to cancer to begin with.

As a result, the way is paved for the return of the cancer or the introduction of another cancer or serious condition.  Even worse, the road to further illness is often made easier due to the damage to the immune system and major organs caused by the treatment of the symptom.

Nature, on the other hand, gives us an array of tools to beat cancer and the underlying causes that lead to cancer, including foods, vitamins, minerals, supplements and lifestyle choices.  Here is a suggested protocol based on what we know about cancer and its causes and what nature and lifestyle choices have to offer:

• As soon as possible, cleanse your body to get rid of built up toxins like heavy metals and pesticides, as well as the undigested food, fecal matter and gallstones that build up in the body by cleansing your colon and liver and by chelation to rid the body of heavy metals.  Such contaminations are breeding grounds for, and causes of, disease and illness.  A toxic and unclean body weakens the body's immune system that should be your first line of defense.  Plus, once cleansed, the body is much more receptive to the good measures you take to rebuild your immune system and fight disease.
• Cleanse your environment to the greatest extent possible and eliminate bad habits.  In an ideal world, you would move to the country where there was plenty of fresh air and sunshine and less stress.  In the real world you may not find that possible, so eliminate common toxins in your household, workplace and other places you spend time.
•  If you have mercury amalgam fillings in your teeth, have them replaced.  In many instances, this step alone has led to elimination of cancer.
• Immediately eliminate bad habits and begin building build good ones so that you will make sure that you no longer have habits that weaken your immune system and that you will be able to build your body to fight and conquer illness.   A sedentary lifestyle with a poor diet, lack of pure water, sunshine and fresh air, and constant exposure to toxins will in time lead to bad health conditions.  Remember, bad health habits are open invitations for illness and disease to enter your body.
• Begin and maintain a healthy immune-boosting and cancer fighting diet.  A good balanced diet, pure water, fresh air, sunshine and exercise are some of the essentials.  You will find that a good diet does not have to be a bad tasting diet – far from it!  However, it should be noted that the very best and most healthy diet is one that is close to the diet our ancestors evolved to utilize:  lots of fresh and uncooked vegetables, fruits, nuts, roots and tubers, and fish and meat uncontaminated by growth hormones, artificial fertilizers or pesticides – and little or no grain or dairy products.  It should be noted that of all the foods, essentially only raw vegetables and fruits contribute to an alkaline pH.
• Rebuild and strengthen the body's natural immune system.  It is very likely that a weakened immune system contributed to your illness in the first place.  It is absolutely certain that a rebuilt and strengthened immune system will help you beat your illness and keep it at bay.  Again, good diet, nutrition and habits are all important – they lay the foundation for a strong and healthy immune system.  However, they are not enough by themselves.  You should build a good foundation and then make your body a healthy fortress against disease and illness.  Quite simply, disease and illness hate healthy hosts.  The stronger your immune system is, the harder it is for disease to survive and grow.   And, to be the very strongest you can be, you need extra measures in the form of supplements as well as the healthiest foods.  An oleander extract very much like you get when you make oleander soup was tested in Europe in 1986 - 87 and found to have six times the immune stimulating activity of the most powerful immune stimulators known to man.
• Cleanse, restore and protect the liver before, during and after your anti-cancer and disease battle.  Cancer cannot develop unless the liver is impaired to begin with.  Plus, an effective cancer fighting regimen will result in the release of a cascade of toxins that are released when cancer cells die.  Such a release can overwhelm an already impaired liver and can even be fatal if measures are not taken to protect and regenerate the liver.  Some of the very best anti-oxidants to used to protect  and regenerate the liver are the ones used in the Berkson Clinical Study:  Milk Thistle (silymarin), alpha lipoic acid and selenium.
• Maintain an alkaline pH and get plenty of oxygen to the cellular level. Cancer cannot survive in the presence of an alkaline cellular pH level, nor can it survive in the presence of highly oxygenated cells. Dr. Johanna Budwig of Germany has shown that for proper cellular utilization of oxygen to take place, our diets must contain adequate amounts of unsaturated fatty acids.
• Make sure you have plenty of iodine, potassium, vitamin C, magnesium and Vitamin D.  All have been proven to be essential in beating and avoiding cancer.  As mentioned above, cancer cells have lost the ability to be shut off by the body in what is called cellular apoptosis. These cancerous cells simply become abnormal and outlive the other cells in their normal cell life/replacement cycle and end up crowding out a territory over time. Iodine goes in and both does away with the surrounding cyst where cancer has set up residence and then also goes in and allows the specific shut down of the individual cells that are abnormal, diseased, or beset w/ pathogens to make room for new cells.
•  Drink plenty of pure water and get plenty of fresh air and sunshine.  Water is essential for all healthy life; however, regular tap water contains trace amounts of hundreds to thousands of pesticides, carcinogens and other industrial pollutants.  For that reason, the author recommends only the purest drinking water, such as reverse osmosis filtered water.  Don't overdo the sunshine, but sunshine is essential to the production of vitamin D, and, strange as it may sound, has been found to be essential in warding off melanoma as well as other cancers.
• Exercise in moderation.   Regular exercise does not have to be grueling, but it is essential. Exercise stimulates the immune system, stimulates the production of natural human growth hormone, stimulates the production of hormones and pheromones that make us happier and healthier, and simply leads to a longer and happier life period.  Innumerable studies have demonstrated the overall health benefits of exercise and the negative effects of a sedentary lifestyle lacking in exercise.  It is not a coincidence that studies have shown up that those who exercise only a few hours each week have up to 50% less chance of developing many different kinds of cancer.
• The next element of beating your disease and keeping it at bay is to go on the attack.  As a matter of fact, all of the elements of the this anti-cancer and disease protocol are elements of attack, because they make the body strong and inhospitable to disease.  What I am talking about here is more than just making the body inhospitable to your disease – I am talking about going on the attack and wiping it out!  In the case of cancer, there are many very potent anti-cancer supplements. such as the ones listed above and several others.

• One such supplement, named OPC (not to be confused with the European anti-oxidant of the same name), based on a remedy I have researched and written about , has been used for the past three years in South Africa to treat HIV and cancer.  Of well over 400 HIV patients, all are still alive and well with their symptoms either reversed or stabilized.  Of approximately 100 cancer patients, some in very late stages, 90 are alive and well and either cancer free or with their cancers in remission and tumors shrinking.  Of the remaining 10, eight did not survive (5 were in their very final days and could not hold down the supplement and another three succumbed to organ failure as a likely result of prior traditional Western treatment via chemo) and two stopped taking the supplement, went back to their old lifestyles and had their cancer return (they are now back on the supplement and a healthier lifestyle).  Compare that with the results of any mainstream medicine or treatment!
•  Perhaps the supreme cancer destroyer I have found is Inositol/IP6, such as is found in the product Cell Forte.  A one to two month intensive regimen is best.  According to several users I have spoken with, it seems to just melt away tumors in a very short time period, and works well to normalize the PSA readings in prostate cancer sufferers. One caution - Inositol/IP6 may deplete minerals and/or interfere with mineral absorption, especially calcium and magnesium.  Be sure to get plenty of Calcium and Magnesium (a good thing to do anyway) and take a good mineral supplement, preferably plant derived minerals (a second good thing to do anyway).   Also, I believe that it is good to only take a maintenance dose most of the time and to take occasional breaks from the maintenance dose of up to one month.  No more than  one or two yearly intensive regimens is recommended.
• Colloidal Silver is another must in my opinion - it has been shown to be deadly to single cell organisms and pathogens.  The caution with Colloidal Silver is that it is not specific and you need to supplement with pro-biotics (yet another good thing to do anyway - especially after cleanses).
• Colloidal Gold - helps the actions of colloidal silver and other cancer fighters by encapsulating cancer cells while the other items carry the fight to the cancer inside the cells.
• Make sure that you get plenty of the often overlooked trace elements.  Good sources of plant derived trace elements are widely available.
• Some of the so-called zapper machines have had wonderful results.  I am a little leary of the Clark zappers, which I think have been misused at times and are less effective than those of Beck, Rife and the improved zapper of CureZone member Parazapper.
  

• Remember, what you avoid can be just as important as what you consume:  Avoid sugar to the greatest extent possible.  Sugar feeds cancer and other illnesses and causes a myriad of other health problems.  Refined sugar is also the number one single cause of health problems in the entire world!  Likewise avoid bread and other items containing bleached white flour, which is essentially empty and harmful calories that convert to sugar once ingested. Other items to avoid include non-fermented soy, pork, MSG, ALL charred foods and foods cooked at high temperature, aluminum and coated cookware, micro-waved food, food in plastic containers and styrofoam.
• The final key to winning your battle is your mental attitude.  Remove as much stress from your life as you can and believe that you are going to win.  Stress and worry accomplish nothing – worse, they are actually allies of illness and disease.  You have surely heard the term "stress, the silent killer"?  It's true!  So you must do whatever it takes to remove stress from your life and make your mental attitude your ally.  Meditate, take yoga, change jobs, retire, go fishing, find a pleasant hobby – do whatever you must to remove stress and have a positive mental outlook.   Just remember, anyone who introduces or keeps worry and stress in your life is neither a friend nor an ally during this fight.  And make no mistake, it is a fight - likely the most important one of your life.   But it is a fight you can and will win.  Think it, believe it and live it.

Some in the field of natural health will tell you that you can beat cancer through diet alone, or through diet and de-toxing.  In many instances that is true, and some of the most effective and popular natural anti-cancer protocols, such as the Budwig Diet, are based on such a premise.

However, in my opinion, the more weapons you have in your natural arsenal, the greater your chances of success will be (so long as none of your weapons work against each other and you do not include too many that do the very same thing and thus may have too much of an additive total effect).  That is why I advocate including one or more of the powerful natural supplements that have been proven to beat cancer and boost the immunes system, and which address what we know about cancer.

Our depleted soils and the introduction of modern industrial toxins and contaminants makes it hard to build a strong enough immune system through diet alone. Our immune systems were not designed to handle the multitude of modern toxins they now face, which is why cancer is largely a modern disease.

As a final note: for those of  you who continue to believe the big lie that the harsh and ineffective options offered by mainstream medicine (and its half century record of broken promises to deliver a cure or significant breakthrough) are superior to nature, I ask:  When did God become a quack?

Note:  To better understand why the above elements are included in the All Natural Anti-Cancer Protocol, please refer to:

Modern Medicine versus Nature in Treating Cancer - Part One

Modern Medicine versus Nature in Treating Cancer - Part Two

For more information about oleander extracts and oleander soup, refer to the series of articles about oleander at:

http://www.tbyil.com/articles.htm

I would also like to add that I believe it would be a very good idea for you to take a look at this recent article by Mike Adams about Juice Feasting:

http://www.newstarget.com/022368.html

I think that such a diet would be an excellent one to use while fighting cancer and serious illness, and a pretty good one to use all of the time if one has the discipline to adhere to an essentially raw and vegan diet.

Again, I am not saying that my advice is the best to be found - but it is advice that I know has worked almost every time when it has been followed, and I know of no other protocol that has enjoyed an equal or higher success rate - if I did, I would be recommending and writing about it!

Two final notes:

The Sutherlandia OPC supplement can be obtained at http://www.sutherlandiaopc.com.  It is made by one of the more esteemed professional members of my Yahoo group and is the subject of a current doctoral thesis on the use of oleander and sutherlandia frutescans (the South Africa Cancer Bush) against HIV and cancer.

Most of the other items can be obtained widely on the internet, but are available at a special 15% discount to CureZone members from CureZone sponsor Utopia Silver (you can see their contact information in the sponsors box when you scroll down to the end of this page and most every other CZ page).  Be sure to use the discount code of LR001 to get the 15% discount on any items not currently on sale.

(Yes, those ARE commercial plugs, but I make them unapologetically since they are for  two companies/individuals I know and trust well.  You will note that I gave no affiliate link and thus the only reward I seek is knowing that your mother receives the help that I believe the items I have included in this message may provide.)

I wish your mother the very best and may she and you both live long, live healthy and live happy!

DQ (Tony Isaacs)