Defeat Cancer (32 page)

Most people in the USA eat the SAD (Standard American Diet), which is comprised of too much animal protein, fats of the wrong kind, and too much sugar.

Until recently, we didn’t provide our cancer patients with many specific dietary recommendations. However, we have always advocated a diet that includes a small, measured amount of clean, (i.e. organic) animal protein and lower amounts of carbohydrates. We now also recommend a protocol called CAAT (Controlled Amino Acid Therapy), which was developed over 40 years ago by a molecular biologist and cancer researcher named A.P. John, Sr. It involves following a very specific high protein, low carbohydrate diet, and taking a certain amino acid formula that has been proven to shut off cancer cell energy production and reproduction. It’s a very exciting addition to our existing treatment plans.

We usually start our patients on what we call the “intensive” protocol, which was originally developed by Dr. Brodie. For this protocol, patients receive intravenous treatments five days a week, for three to six weeks, depending upon the severity of their diseases. They also take a variety of oral supplements. Every protocol is different though, and depends upon patients’ condition, how they respond to treatments and what their lab test results are. Sometimes, we will have them stay here for an extra week or two.

After this, we monitor them on a weekly basis while they continue to get lab tests done with their primary care doctors. We generally recommend that they continue to come to our clinic three days a month, for an additional three months, during which time we also continue to do tests and IVs and monitor their progress. Then, if they are feeling well and improving, we may have them come in for
a total of three days every other month, until we get a CAT or PET scan which shows that their cancers are completely gone. Then, (following the example of Dr. Brodie), I recommend that they come back to the clinic for two or three days, every six months or once a year, to get a tune-up, retested, and to receive IV treatments. They continue on oral supplements in the interim. Dr. Brodie felt that cancer was like a degenerative disease and that once patients were diagnosed with it, they would have to forever pay attention to it, whatever the length of their lives. So even if their tumors were to disappear, they would still have to pay attention to their diet, mental status, and life stressors, while continuing to take supplements. In reality, though, everybody should pay attention to these things.

Providing information on treatment outcomes is difficult. When most people with cancer come to us, they are already at death’s door, and have already had chemotherapy and radiation treatments, so getting them into remission can be difficult. We have the best outcomes with patients who are “treatment virgins” who haven’t had their immune systems destroyed by chemotherapy and radiation. Also, there’s a time and place for surgery, but it’s far less than what conventional oncologists would have their patients believe. Admittedly, I almost gag when I see these “race for the cure” campaigns to raise money for cancer research. I want to tell people, “Don’t you realize where all that fundraiser money goes? It’s for pharmaceutical companies that only want to make money—they aren’t interested in developing remedies that cure people!”

We gauge treatment success according to three factors: increased length of life, improved quality of life, and of course, tumor remission. Yes, everyone wants their tumors to go away, but sometimes, people can live for years and enjoy a decent quality of life, while still having a tumor. So overall, we get very positive results within the confines of the three above-mentioned criteria, roughly 50-60 percent of the time. I wish that it was 100 percent, but we are working towards increasing that percentile. If we consider only
total tumor remission, in which the tumor completely disappears, our success rate is approximately 20-30 percent.

There’s a reference on our website about a study that was done in 2004 on full-dose chemotherapy, which was published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. From 1990-2004, over 150,000 people with all types of cancer were studied, and it was found that only 2.1 percent of them were still alive after five years. All had done full dose chemotherapy. Another study revealed that roughly 30 percent of people who receive full dose chemotherapy die from their treatments, not their tumors. This is something oncologists don’t ever tell their patients.

In my practice, we sometimes define increased length of life as patients surviving two years when their oncologists told them they would survive two months. I think it’s criminal for doctors to tell their patients that they have only three months to live, anyway, because of the power that this suggestion brings to the subconscious mind. Sometimes, when patients come to see me, by the grace of God or our work here at the clinic, their tumors go away after they have been given a terminal diagnosis. And a year later, they will go to their oncologists, who are astonished that they are still alive, and they will say to them, “Do you want to know what helped me?” and their oncologists will often say, “No, don’t tell me. Leave the office.”

I have been doing IPT for seven years, and I see people who are still alive since the time that I started doing this. Sometimes, people die of other causes, too, such as heart attacks. Also, the general success terms that I describe here reflect our outcomes prior to doing Psych-K work. I believe that our survival statistics have probably increased since starting Psych-K.

There are those for whom our treatments don’t work well, and in some cases, I think it’s because subconsciously these people want to die. Some choose to use their cancer tumors as a way to leave a bad relationship, for example. There are all kinds of psychological
issues going on in people that heretofore medicine hasn’t examined in the least, which I think have a lot of bearing upon their diseases, and not just their cancers. When people come here, I tell them that if they think they will be cured as a result of getting a needle plugged into them, then they need to leave and go somewhere else, because healing is a co-participatory process, involving both the patient and practitioner. I tell them that they will get treatment homework, and that they will be graded on their homework. They have to participate in their treatments, or else those treatments will have a far lesser chance of working. People can survive for years and years with a tumor if they live well and do their homework. There is a difference between dying of cancer and dying with cancer.

It’s amazing to me how I can explain all of what I just shared in this chapter to my patients, and they still won’t follow my advice. I think this is self-sabotaging behavior; evidence that they don’t really want to heal. The patients that tend to get well are those that are enthusiastic and do all that I ask of them, and follow all of their treatment guidelines. When I tell them to jump they say, “How high?” This is my greatest challenge as a practitioner: getting patients to understand how important it is for them to participate in their healing process.

Family and friends can help their loved ones with cancer adhere to their treatment regimens, diet and mental exercises. They can help support them emotionally, and help them find reasons for wanting to heal. If a husband thinks that it’s a nuisance to come to Reno and hang out here while his wife gets treatment, then his attitude won’t help her to get better.

I don’t believe that it’s possible to cure cancer by just taking supplements. Some people would like to do this. There are different therapies which people with cancer can do at home but it’s better for them to do them under a physician’s supervision. Of course, there are therapies like the
Insight CD
, which anyone can order and use without a doctor’s help. People can order natural remedies like laetrile and cesium over the Internet, maintain a good, clean, nutritious diet, and take good, quality supplements on their own. In general, though, following a doctor’s protocol in a clinic, along with doing the aforementioned things, is the best approach to treatment.

Full-dose chemotherapy is by far the most dangerous type of cancer treatment.

The most important thing that I would say to people who are seeking out cancer treatments is, “Don’t just swallow everything that your oncologist tells you!” One of the biggest roadblocks to healing is people not being able to make the leap into thinking, “There must be a better way,” when nobody tells them that there’s a better way. There’s a lot of information on the Internet. I would also say, “Don’t be afraid to do the research, and don’t be just another sheep going into the chemo kitchen.”

Reno Integrative Medical Center

6110 Plumas St. Ste. B

Reno, Nevada 89519

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www.renointegrativemedicalcenter.com

Hufeland Klinik (Clinic), a small family practice, was founded by Wolfgang Woeppel, MD, and his wife Gabriele in 1985, and is still run as such today. Dr. Woeppel worked closely with Joseph Issels, MD, a German oncologist famous for his immunological approach to the treatment of cancer. In 1951, Dr. Issels was the first person to open a hospital in Germany for conventionally incurable cancer patients which specialized in comprehensive immunotherapy. A world-renowned pioneer of integrative medicine, Dr. Issels was also the first physician to integrate conventional and alternative/complementary treatments into a comprehensive treatment program. He became internationally known for his successful treatment outcomes.

Since Dr. Woeppel’s death in July 2006, Gabriele Woeppel and her daughters have run Hufeland Klinik. Hufeland employs four doctors, eight nurses, three massage therapists, a psychologist, and an art therapist, as well as other health care practitioners, who all work together as a team to provide their patients with the best individualized care. They consider each patient to be unique, and seek to combine treatment methods in both conventional and biological
medicine to formulate protocols that are best suited to the individual patient. (Note: German biological medicine is a field which integrates modern medical science with traditional European natural medicine and homeopathy. It also integrates philosophies from Traditional Chinese medicine and Ayurvedic medicine into its disciplines).

Nina Reis, MD, is Hufeland Klinik’s senior physician. She was born in 1957 in Kytmanowo (Russia), and earned her medical degree (MD) in 1980 from the University of Altaisk in Russia, where she specialized in pediatrics and surgery. In 1999, she moved to Bad Mergentheim, Germany, with her two children. During 2000-2004, she worked in the areas of internal medicine and surgery at the Caritas hospital in Bad Mergentheim. In February, 2004, she met Wolfgang Woeppel, MD. Dr. Reis was impressed with Dr. Woeppel’s way of thinking and his successful results with cancer patients, the likes of which she hadn’t seen before in conventional oncology. Because she believes that healing is a holistic process and appreciated Dr. Woeppel’s treatment methods, she started working with him at Hufeland Klinik in 2004.

We see cancer, like most chronic diseases, as the result of disharmony in the body. Its causes are multi-factorial, so the treatment approach at our clinic involves bringing the body back into balance again. Dr. Woeppel, the founder of Hufeland Klinik, believed that chronic and (especially) malignant diseases occur when the metabolism and natural resistance of an organism are negatively altered by various “causal factors.” These causal factors may happen either in the womb or after birth, and include things like genetic abnormalities, microbes, dental and tonsillar foci, abnormal intestinal flora, poor diet, physical and chemical influences in the environment, and other possible factors.

These factors cause complex disorders and weaken the body’s defense mechanisms, organs and systems, and especially the immune system, which is responsible for protection against disease.
In the presence of these causal factors, the body is weakened and cancer cells are able to develop easily, like seeds in well-prepared soil. Since they aren’t met with any resistance, they quickly form tumors that spread out, metastasize, and further weaken the body. Therefore, cancer is simply the outward symptom of an ongoing, serious, generalized chronic disease that has already been present in the body for years. Dr. Woeppel often said, “The tumor is not the disease.” So when a surgeon removes a cancer tumor, he has only eliminated one symptom of the patient’s disease; he hasn’t cured that patient. Whenever patients have had malignant tumors totally removed, they are at an increased risk for developing new tumors or metastases, and should therefore consider immunobiological treatments to prevent this from happening.

Cancer isn’t just about the disorder of a single organ, but is instead always about the expression of a comprehensive disorder of the whole person’s body and soul. Therefore, holistic therapy must address the individual causes which led to cancer in the first place.

Holistic therapy stimulates and supports the body’s self-healing powers. Our clinic’s main aim is to discover the best treatment strategy for each one of our patients and then convey that strategy to them. In this process, we strive to integrate conventional medicine with holistic, biological medicine, in order to discover which proven methods of treatment to apply to each patient.