October 11th was the 4th annual conference on LDN in Los Angeles.
There were about 80 to 120 attendees mostly consisting of
medical professionals & LDN users or people otherwise interested in LDN. Mainly from Los Angeles area attended but we spoke to Canada ( Toronto), Turkey, Colorado, and some from East Coast. Of course our group Hong Kong and Phoenix.
I noticed much more interest in cancer this year and more
attendees with cancer and many questions about cancer and LDN. Some physicians treating patients with cancer with LDN attended and asked questions.
One physician who is adding LDN with chemotherapy to his
patients finds his patients tolerate chemo better and do much better.
Most who are doing chemo to add LDN along with their treatment. A
walk in……a young man with adrenal cancer who just heard about LDN was getting all the information he could and even got a doctor’s
name and was suppose to call and get his LDN on Monday. His current
treatment with chemo is not working well for him.
Met one lady from Turkey who has stage 4 Melanoma ( delightful
lady) and she has been on LDN for 7 months and doing great. She has 18 tumors and did a cyberknife to her brain earlier this year
successfully. She looked wonderful and we discussed our mutual
cancer and how we are doing with LDN. She attended with her husband and her mother.
Dr. David Gluck opened the conference with current LDN news and
ongoing trials. He mentioned new books coming soon to be published
about LDN and all the efforts from this small group getting more
and more attention.
The reports and talks varied from Ph’D microbiologist( chemical
analysis of LDN and how LDN possibly works) to MD’s to
pharmacist’s Dr. Skip’s talk which is always enjoyable and informative with studies conducted by his students on LDN.
Dr. McCandless discussed her on going work with Mali Africa HIV
trials with pictures of the group she is working with in Mali.I
noticed that every speaker touched someone in the audience who was
looking for help. Since her work is with autism some parents there
were looking for help for their children with either autism or
crohns.
A doctor from Scotland, Tom Gilhooly was extemely interesting to
hear his endeavors to get a trial going in UK. He spoke with great
interest and humor. He announced that their will be a “First ever”
LDN conference in Europe April 25th, 2009. I was thinking to put
that on my calendar and try to attend. I will be in UK.
Dr.Burt Berkson spoke with his slides about actual cases for
Pancreatic cancer and some other patients, noting while they did
their course of LDN and stayed on LDN did quite well. Some have
been with stage 4 pancreatic cancer for 4-5 years now and doing very
well.
Although some patients thinking they didn’t need LDN anymore, went
back to their oncologists and stopped LDN after achieving remission
only to be told to have more chemo by the oncologist. All of these
patients have died in a short time off of LDN and more chemo. It
was striking to see those who stayed on LDN and those who thought
they were fine and stopped.
Met many wonderful people who have emailed with support to us over
the past year and they are even more wonderful in person. I would
encourage anyone taking LDN to try to attend one LDN conference.
It is most rewarding.
Cyndi Lentz has posted photos to facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2009013&l=37cf8&id=1125766174
Dee
