Bless your heart Alikat, you are a gem. Are you a member of the Oleander forum?
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/oleandersoup/
If not, please join and you will gain more information to help your friend with along the way.
Even if she opts for the radiation, let her take the oleander soup. Also read Tony's anti cancer protocol. Go to the recipe for Oleander and make sure you tell her the easy way to take it with juice. I use pomegranete juice. You will find this at the end of the article.
I am so glad your friend has an open mind. Cancer is a very scary thing to most people and unfortunately, too many cling to their doctors. Thank you for caring enough to tell her about natural healing.
Hugs,
Luella
"Cardiac glycosides such as digitoxin and ouabain have previously been shown to be selectively cytotoxic to tumor as opposed to normal cells. Moreover, this class of agents has also been shown to act as potent radiosensitizers. In the present study we explored the relative radiosensitization potential of oleandrin, a cardiac glycoside contained within the plant extract known as Anvirzel that recently underwent a Phase I trial as a novel drug for anticancer therapy. The data show that oleandrin produces an enhancement of sensitivity of PC-3 human prostate cells to radiation; at a cell survival of 0.1, the enhancement factor was 1.32. The magnitude of radiosensitization depended on duration of exposure of cells to drug prior to radiation treatment. While a radiosensitizing effect of oleandrin was evident with only 1h of cell exposure to drug, the effect greatly increased with 24h oleandrin pretreatment. Susceptibility of PC-3 cells to oleandrin and radiation-induced apoptosis was dependent on activation of caspase-3. Activation was greatest when cells were exposed simultaneously to oleandrin and radiation. Inhibition of caspase-3 activation with Z-DEVD-FMK abrogated the oleandrin-induced enhancement of radiation response suggesting that both oleandrin and radiation share a caspase-3 dependent mechanism of apoptosis in the PC-3 cell line. "
(Cancer Lett 2002 Nov 28;185(2):145-51 (ISSN: 0304-3835) Nasu S; Milas L; Kawabe S; Raju U; Newman R Department of Experimental Radiation Oncology, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Holcombe Boulevard, Houston, TX 77030-4009, USA.)
It therefore seems that the longer one uses the oleander, the more effective any form of radiation treatment will be. In the case of the breast cancer photos, the oncologist's actual report stated that "..she has had a remarkable response on radiation and homeopathic supplements and she can now be regarded as being in remission". The "homeopathic remedy" she referred to is the oleander mix. I doubt it very much that any oncologist would add a referral to an alternative treatment in a report if they did not consider that it played a major role in the outcome.
Marc