Perhaps some good news and some suggestions

Bill, my suggested protocol has much more than oleander and would likely be successful in most instances without oleander.  HOWEVER, the good news is that those who have problems with oral ingestion of oleander have two other options which will give very good absorption (perhaps significantly better than oral administration) and that is sublingual (under the tongue) or rectal.  Both of those largely bypass the digestive system, especially rectal administration and should result in the oleander being much more tolerable.  Given the kind of  cancer you have I think I would prefer rectal administration or perhaps better still a combination of rectal and sublingual/

I also highly suggest you take a look at Jon Barron's Blood Support Tonic (available from Baseline Nutritionals and which as a great blood cleanser and cancer fitghter which is modeled very closely after fifth generation herbalist Dru Browning's anti cancer tonic (See Browning's Blood Tonic - A Remedy for Cancer and More)

In addition I would say that it would be extremely important to pay attention to keeping the liver cleansed, protected and re-generated.  You can find a section about that in my suggested protocol.

I further suggest considering Essiac Tea.  It is a very good blood and overall body cleanser and the combination of oleander, Essiac and Budwig has had several reports of success.

On a final note, while I am glad to hear that your oncologist is optomistic I will caution that such is often the case with oncologists who talk about response rates and perhaps even survival rates in glowing terms in order to sell someone on the chemo drugs which they buy wholesale and mark up hugely and which makes up the large majority of their income.  Just about any anti-cancer item will have a response initially and survival rates most often refer to 5 year survival and not completely eliminating the cancer, preventing it from ever returniing and affording the patient the opportunity to live out a healthy normal lifespan - which is MY definition of success.

Sorry about the name mix-up.  But given your support for gardening and such, I believe it is also appropriate in the regards I was thinking about.  You obviously love nature - all you need is the pond.  :  )

All the best,

Tony