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20 months on LDN

Administrator — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 04:32:40 +0000

Well I have beat all expectations of 4-9 months survival. I have
been on LDN now for 20 months and doing fine with lungs metastases.

Good news from friend in UK with Multiple myeloma who has been on
chemo for a couple sessions and ” taking LDN” also. He has suddenly
improved and they are stopping his chemo as bloodwork is so good.

Doctors are surprised by his sudden wellness but family emailed me
to say that LDN is doing the trick. He hasn’t told doctors he is on
LDN so they are perplexed why suddenly he is so much better.

I had wished he started LDN sooner ( I told him about it months ago)
but he was hesitant and listened to the doctor’s plan of conventional
treatment ( which there is no cure for multiple myeloma). At least he
is on LDN now and doing well. Just talked to family members and they
were all celebrating last night at this miraculous turn around.

I have found two more doctors in my area who will prescribe LDN now
so making in roads on that front. Although I was “turned away” by
many I contacted initially as Naltrexone “wouldn’t do me any good”
they said. ( I have been on it for almost 2 years with stage 4B cancer)

But persistance pays off when you keep the push to educate these
doctors about LDN,some will listen.

I will be attending this year’s LDN conference in Los Angeles October 11 2008. Hope to show the medical community one example of the life saving benfits LDN has to offer.

Dee
http://www.ldn4cancer.com

LDN and Complementary Treatments

Administrator — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:08:27 +0000

Had a meeting on June 21st to review my scans and progress with the Doctor who performed the RFA of one tumor in my lung on Feb 13th. Successful ablation and I have scans pre and post RFA with images of the needles going into the tumor and the result after blasting.This new doctor is a medical oncologist but unusual in that he believes in alternative therapies (even though he uses the conventional slash/burn techniques also). His patients are almost exclusively cancer stricken and he’s very expert reading CT Scan data.He made a comment on the 21st that my tumors in the scans have shown an unusual characteristic. They’re all showing calcifications around them. I asked what that means and he said the tumors have dead cells around them (calcified cells show a bright white on the scan) and something is making them ill.

He attributes that to the treatments I’ve been doing (LDN, Artemix, Paw Paw Reg-Cell ®. He organized a 1 month post-op scan for July 21st and we’ll see the status of the ablation site at that time.

I have been continously on LDN since Feb 12, 2007 and added both (simultaneously) Artemisinin (Artemix) and Paw Paw since June 14th (following day after the RFA).

My thinking is the RFA caused significant disruption to one side of my lungs. After the RFA of the largest tumor, the existing cancer nodules in that lung and on the opposite lung lobe might undergo some stresses from the operation, giving the LDN and the other treatments an easier target (unmask the tumors? ).

I had previously added Artemix to my treatment for 2 months from January to February 2008. In the case of Artemix, the stomach loses it’s ability to absorb the drug, so cannot stay on continously for too long. Going off for a short time restores the absorption level so can restart the treatment.

<>Artemix works on the principle that active cancer cells require substantially more iron than normal cells to function. Once Artemix enters the cancer cell it interacts with the high concentration of iron in the cell, creating free radicals which induce apoptosis in the cancer cells (published report from NIH).

Paw Paw works on a different mechanism from Artemisinin so I think the two are complementary. Cancer cells also require large amounts of glucose (that’s how PET scans work using radioactive glucose injected into the bloodstream) which is converted to the energy required by the cancer cell to grow (called adenosine tryphosphate or ATP) . Cancer cells require 10-17 times the ATP that a normal cell needs to thrive.

Paw Paw contains naturally occurring Acetogenins (link to a published report) – a substance which reduces ATP production in cells. For normal cells reducing the ATP energy slightly isn’t detrimental to the cell, but for cancer cells which need 10-17 times as much ATP as a norml cell, the reduction in energy conversion can be fatal.

Both Artemix and Paw Paw have been developed and researched by Drs. and PH.Ds with commercially available versions of both drugs (Artemix and Paw Paw Cell-Reg) holding patent protection. However they’re not expensive since derived from natural plants, don’t require prescriptions and can be ordered over the internet.

When cells are under distress the bodies innate immune system may be better able to recognize the defective cells. If your immune system is destroyed (which happens when you undergo chemotherapy), even if the cancer tumors reduce in size somewhat, if they’re not completely destroyed, they will return with a vengeance since the ones which survived have adapted to that chemo substance and become drug resistant.

Within this week, I’ve received further evidence (besides my own results) of the benefits of the LDN-Artemisinin-Paw Paw (LDN-AP) combination against other cancers.

On June 9th, I had a meeting organized by my GP, to meet with a man (70+ years old) diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer which had metastasized to his thigh, lower skull, neck and spine. His oncologist had told him there was nothing further they could do. He had been on steroids and chemotherapy for over 1 year but was no longer responding to the “treatment”.

At the meeting I brought with me 30 day supplies each of LDN (4.5mg), Artemix, and Paw Paw which he started taking on June 10th even as he was still on steriods and being slowly withdrawn from that treatment.

Just received an email on July 8th, from his daughter, about some wonderful news. He had a full body PET scan on July 7th, and this is excerpted from her email to me:

“We saw Dr S today, and the scan results are almost unbelievable. We are so relieved, to say the least. Compared to Feb scan, all Dad’s bone metastases has been resolved (4 sites in total, his thigh, lower skull, neck, and spine). 10 out of 13 (I think) Lymphnode sites have also been resolved. Only 1 has worsened mildly, and the other remains largely the same. We found one small new lynphnode site, and there has been increased activity in the prostate (although not in size). But, lungs, liver etc appears to be fine.“

I’ve asked her to send me the scan results and I’ll post them to my web site later, as further evidence that the LDN-AP protocol appears to work.
Dee

One Year Milestone

Administrator — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 16:20:49 +0000

February 3rd, 2008 marks 12 months after getting the CT scan results confirming metastasis of my cervical cancer to my lungs (stage 4B). At that time my oncologist gave me 4-9 months survival even with chemotherapy (palliative only), and advised me to get my affairs in order. My cervical cancer is not responsive to any known conventional chemotherapy agents and metastatic cancer is a certain death sentance.

Not having any conventional treatment hopes, I went unconventional, since the unknown (unconventional, “unproven” treatments per FDA) is preferable to the known (FDA approved chemotherapy for metastatic cervical cancer guaranteed not to work) and started LDN 4.5 mg nightly on Feb 12, 2007.

From my latest CT scan (Jan 15, 2008), LDN has slowed the Doubling Time of the largest identified CA lung nodule to 225 days (when calculated from previous scan) versus the rate on Feb 3, 2007 of 33 days.

If the Doubling Time had remained unchanged (cancerous nodule doubling in size every 33 days), then the oncologist’s calculation of 9 months would have been accurate as largest nodule would have been near 9 cm in size by Nov 1st 2007, and conventionally accepted as the point where death will occur.

With the extra time that LDN has given me, my objective is to try out different complementary regimens, which will not conflict with LDN (the immune system modulator) and try to target the cancer cells more directly. LDN has proven, in my case, it’s ability to control the growth rate of my cancer so LDN will be the foundation on which I will add other treatments.

The first treatment I added to my daily LDN regimen was a high pH supplement. On Nov 13th, I started taking Cesium Chloride (CsCl) orally, approximately 6 grams per day, ingesting 96 grams total over a 30 day period (finished on Dec 13, 2007).

I waited 30 days and on January 15, 2008 started on the Artemisinin (ART) protocol as recommended by Dr. Singh, one of the early promoters of ART and a complementary treatment that Dr. Bihari had also tried when he was still practicing.

For my lung cancer, ART sounds like a more targeted protocol than CsCl because ART enters the bloodstream and cells which are high in iron content (characteristics of cancer cells) are the ones which will attract the ART, leaving normal cells more or less untouched. ART has been demonstrated as being toxic to some cancer cell lines (cervical is in the list) but as with other treatments (e.g. toxic chemo), getting the cancer cells to identify themselves is the holy grail.

My ART treatment is currently underway and I will know if there is any benefit at the next CT scan planned for April 2008.

Dee

LDN and High pH Therapy

Administrator — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 15:20:10 +0000

My last CT scan on November 1st shows the tumors growing very slowly, but not yet completely stopped. However that may also be due to the resolution of the low dose CT scan since changes were less than 2 mm for the largest nodule (now estimated at 2.5 cm from previous 2.3 cm). Some obvious errors in the radiologists report doesn’t give me a high confidence level that the CT interpretation was rigorous.

So I’m doing my own personal clinical trial on some of the alternative treatments espoused on the net which I think will be complementary with LDN to try an enhance the effectiveness of LDN.
LDN boosts the immune system while the complementary treatments will target the cancer cells more directly.

This LDN-centric approach is not something I’ve read about on the net and has a logical basis:

The complementary treatment targets the cancer cells and put them into distress
The LDN boosted immune system can more easily identify the distressed cancer cells and destroy them using the immune systems arsenal of biological weapons.

The first complementary treatment I’ve decided to try is the high Alkaline protocol. I’ve selected Cesium Choloride (CsCl) as the Alkaline mineral to supplement my diet.

There’s much written about CsCl on the net and in a nutshell it penetrates cancer cells causing them to undergo apoptosis by raising the cancer cells pH from an acid level (due to a cancer cells anerobic nature) to a high alkaline (pH level. Normal cells can thrive in a high alkaline environment so are unaffected, but cancer cells cannot survive.

In the cancer cells distressed state, the LDN boosted immune system may be able to find the distressed cells more easily (normally cancer cells evade the immune system by clever “cloaking” mechanisms)
My first complementary protocol which I started on November 13th, is Cesium Chloride. I started taking 6 grams per day (orally 3 grams, twice daily) leveling off to3 grams per day (1.5 grams twice daily) 2 weeks into the protocol, with appropriate Potassium and vitamin supplements.

I will complete this protocol by December 8th, after taking a total of 90 grams CsCl. Will then go on Christmas holiday and on return in January have a CT scan to measure the effectiveness of the CsCl complementary treatment.

An effective treatment will be evidenced by a reduction in the nodule sizes from the November 1st scan.

My next complementary treament is already lined up in January when I will try an Artemisinin protocol which should complement my LDN. More on that later.

Dee