Don’t Touch My Prostate!

A Man’s Guide To Curing Prostate Cancer — No Scalpels, Radiation or Side E!ects!

by Lee Euler With Susan Clark ‘Don’t Touch My Prostate!’ A Man’s Guide to Curing Prostate Cancer — No Scalpels, Radiation or Side E!ects! By Lee Euler With Susan Clark

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~ i ~ About the Authors

Lee Euler has written about alternative health for 17 years. His books and articles have been read by millions. He’s written for publications edited by Dr. David Williams, Dr. Julian Whitaker, Dr. William Campbell Douglass, Dr. Mark Stengler, Health Sciences Institute and others. He’s the editor and publisher of several reports on alternative cancer treatments, including German Cancer Breakthrough by Andrew Scholberg, Cancer Breakthrough USA by Frank Cousineau with Andrew Scholberg, and Natural Cancer Remedies !at Work by Dr. Morton Walker.

Susan Clark is a freelance writer who has spent the last ten years writing about health and nutrition. She’s written for publications edited by Dr. Jonathan Wright, Dr. Julian Whitaker, Dr. David Steenblock, Dr. Al Sears, and many others. Before that, she spent nearly a decade researching health news and current events for leading news organizations across the country including KTLA-TV in Los Angeles where she won 3 Golden Mic awards, and her work was nominated for an Emmy.

~ ii ~ Table Of Contents

Chapter One Prostate Cancer: To Treat Or Not to Treat? "e Surprising Facts about “Watchful Waiting” ...... page 1

Chapter Two Prostate Cancer Treatment No. 1 Dr. Douglas Brodie’s Immune-Boosting "erapy ...... page 5

Chapter Three Prostate Cancer Treatment No. 2 Advanced Prostate Cancer Disappears with a “Japanese Secret” for Long Life! "e Healing Power of Macrobiotics ...... page 13

Chapter Four Prostate Cancer Treatment No. 3 "e Amazing Non-Toxic Liquid that Killed Virtually 100% of Cancer Cells Within 48 Hours at the National Cancer Institute! ...... page 18

Chapter Five Prostate Cancer Treatment No. 4 Flood Your Body with Oxygen and Cancer Cells Will Die On Contact: "e Budwig Protocol ...... page 22

Chapter Six Prostate Cancer Treatment No. 5 Cutting-Edge Sound Treatment Melts Away Early Prostate Cancer! High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound — HIFU ...... page 26

~ iii ~ Chapter Seven Early Detection of Prostate Cancer "e Problem with PSAs and the Test "at’s Working Better ...... page 32

Chapter Eight Diagnosing Prostate Cancer "e Biggest Problem with “the Gold Standard”— Ultrasound and Biopsy ...... page 37

Chapter Nine The Hidden Dangers of Conventional Prostate Cancer Treatments "e Truth about Prostatectomy, Radiation and Hormone "erapy… ...... page 41

Chapter Ten Why So Much Prostate and Breast Cancer? "e Truth about a “Hidden” Epidemic! ...... page 47

~ iv ~ Chapter One Prostate Cancer: To Treat Or Not to Treat?

"e Surprising Facts about “Watchful Waiting”

here’s a saying that doctors around the of research suggests many men today have world have repeated for decades: If you “microscopic” amounts of cancer in their prostates live long enough, you’ll get cancer. It’s not and don’t even know it. "at’s because the cancer Ta pleasant thought, but it’s true. And surprisingly, never grows enough to be a real problem.2 it’s even truer for MEN than for women! For example, in a study published in the Researchers estimate that prostate cancer will journal Age and Ageing, coroners autopsied attack ONE OUT OF EVERY SIX MEN. And the men of all ages who died from causes other than disease strikes far earlier than you’d ever imagine. cancer. Researchers now believe up to 20 percent of When they examined the men’s prostates, they men over 50 already have prostate cancer. And found cancer cells in ALMOST ALL OF THEM. the older you get, the greater your danger. By But the cancer was so small it didn’t cause any age 70, the number of men with prostate cancer real problems for the men’s health. In fact, most DOUBLES to 40 percent, and by 85, it soars to 60 of them probably didn’t even know they had percent!1 prostate cancer!3 It’s a scary thought, isn’t it? Well, don’t worry just yet. The truth about treating early prostate cancer You can live your whole life with Now, please don’t misunderstand me: I’m not SURVWDWHFDQFHUtPDQ\PHQGR saying prostate cancer is “no big deal.” Prostate "ough prostate cancer can be very serious, cancer is a terrible disease that takes many it’s far from a death sentence. Prostate cancer di!erent forms. And in its most aggressive form, is unique among cancers. Unlike breast, colon, prostate cancer can quickly drain the life out of lung or even brain cancer, it’s RARELY detected you, like a vampire in a horror movie. during one’s life — at least, historically speaking, But the point I want to make is that as medical before the current mania for cancer tests. technology becomes more precise and as earlier You see, many men with prostate cancer live detection of prostate cancer becomes possible, out full, active lives with the disease and then men need to be clear on a very important medical die of something else altogether! In fact, a wealth truth: 2 Harwood, Rowan. Review: Should we screen for prostate cancer? Oxford Journals. Age and Ageing. 1994. 23. 164-168. 1 Harwood, Rowan. Review: Should we screen for prostate cancer? Oxford Journals. Age and Ageing. 1994. 23. 164-168. 3 Harwood, Rowan. Review: Should we screen for prostate cancer? Oxford Journals. Age and Ageing. 1994. 23. 164-168. ~ 1 ~ Being diagnosed with early prostate cancer And those untreated men survived at an 85 might not be as serious as many conventional PERCENT HIGHER RATE than those who got doctors believe. hormones or submitted to castration for their 5 Early prostate cancer doesn’t necessarily tumors. warrant aggressive treatment - or ANY treatment "at’s right, men who had no treatment at at all, as far as that goes. "e facts have clearly all for their prostate cancer LIVED LONGER shown that the disease can take so long to than those who received standard, conventional develop that for many men it’ll never pose a treatments! serious threat to their health. But “no treatment” doesn’t mean going about your daily business and pretending you don’t *HWWLQJ12WUHDWPHQWLVpBETTERq have prostate cancer. You see, in these studies, WKDQFKHPRUDGLDWLRQRUHYHQ patients used a virtually forgotten technique VXUJHU\ called “watchful waiting.”

Dr. Willet Whitmore, the father of urologic p:DWFKIXOZDLWLQJqeZKDWGRHVLW oncology, was one of the #rst to make this PHDQH[DFWO\" discovery. He’s well-known for saying, “For a patient with prostate cancer, if treatment for cure is Watchful waiting is the regular monitoring of necessary, is it possible? If possible, is it necessary?” your prostate tumor to see whether it’s growing, When it comes to conventional treatment for and, if so, how quickly. Doctors and patients prostate cancer, a wealth of research suggests that use this information to determine whether your the answer to Dr. Whitmore’s question is a solid tumor will threaten your health or will never be a “no.” problem. In a shocking 1992 study of 223 prostate "ough “watchful waiting” clearly is e!ective cancer patients, researchers found that getting for many men, conventional medicine rarely no treatment was actually BETTER than any recommends it. standard chemotherapy, radiation or surgical An article in the Journal of the American procedure! "e results were so groundbreaking, Geriatrics Society said more than 90 percent of they were published in the mainstream Journal all doctors who recommend surgery NEVER tell 4 of the American Medical Association. Later, a their patients that watchful waiting is an option.6 second alarming study reported similar results. Why? In many cases the reason is money. SHUFHQWOLYHGORQJHUE\refusing Cancer is an industry. And “watchful waiting” FRQYHQWLRQDOWUHDWPHQW makes no money for conventional doctors or their hospitals. In fact, doctors and hospitals In this second study, wrote researchers in the probably fear they could LOSE MONEY if a Journal of the National Cancer Institute, men who “watchful waiting” patient went on to get prostate received no treatment for their prostate cancer cancer, then #led a malpractice lawsuit against survived at an 81 PERCENT HIGHER RATE them. than those who underwent radiation therapy. 5 Newscha!er, Craig J., et al. Causes of death in elderly prostate cancer patients and in a comparison nonprostate cancer 4 Johansson JE, Adami HO, Andersson SO, Bergström cohort. Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 92, April 19, R, Holmberg L, Krusemo UB. High 10-year survival rate in 2000, pp. 613- 21 patients with early, untreated prostatic cancer. JAMA. 1992 Apr 6 Fowler FJ Jr. Prostate conditions, treatment decisions, and 22-29;267(16):2191-6. patient preferences. J Am Geriatr Soc. 1995 Sep;43(9):1058-60. No abstract available. ~ 2 ~ So it’s no wonder that doctors are grossly over- 50 chance that, in 2019 or later, he will be spared treating many prostate cancer patients with risky death from a cancer that would otherwise have treatments for tumors that might never put the killed him. And there is a 49 in 50 chance that he patients’ health or their lives in any real danger! will have been treated unnecessarily for a cancer 9 Many of these doctors may believe they’re that was never a threat to his life.” doing the right thing – heaven knows why, given But what makes this cycle of overtreatment the evidence to the contrary – but it’s a plain fact even more upsetting is that conventional prostate that the “right thing” as they see it lines their cancer treatment breaks the Number One law of pockets with cash. medicine: Do no harm. Tragically, countless men are su!ering the 0RUHWKDQRQHPLOOLRQPHQDUH pain and terrible discomfort of surgery, the long- EHLQJGDQJHURXVO\pRYHUWUHDWHGqIRU term dangers of radiation treatment, and the loss SURVWDWHFDQFHU of precious quality of life — not to mention the emotional stress and the #nancial costs! A study published in September, 2009, in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute shows Conventional treatments are taking men’s just how bad the prostate cancer overtreatment prostates and leaving them with bladder problem has become.7 problems, erectile dysfunction and bowel urgency. In many cases, they’re WORSE OFF a"er "e study revealed that routine “prostate- treatment than they were before! speci#c antigen” (PSA) screening for prostate cancer has caused more than one million Safe alternatives for treating early American men to be diagnosed with a prostate andDGYDQFHGSURVWDWHFDQFHUV tumor and get treatment for it, when it might never have caused them a single problem! "e alarming research that’s being published A recent online Health Alert from today is why I believe that getting the word out Newsmax.com quotes the lead author of the about safe, alternative treatments for prostate study, Dr. H. Gilbert Welch, as saying, “!ese are cancer is more important today than ever before men who could not be helped by treatment because in medical history. their cancer was not destined to cause them Let’s face it, when you KNOW you have cancer 8 symptoms or death.” in your prostate, you want to get it out. And fast. Even if “watchful waiting” is a valid choice for You have up to a 49 in 50 chance of you, it won’t help your peace of mind to know being overtreated! you have cancer slowly growing in your prostate!

Dr. Peter Bach of Sloan-Kettering told the New But now, while you “watchfully wait” to see York Times that if a man has a PSA test today, whether your tumor will grow and become a “It leads to a biopsy that reveals he has prostate threat, you can also start taking very simple steps cancer, and he is treated for it. !ere is a one in to cure the cancer on your own, with no horrible risks. I’ll show you how in the next few chapters. And that’s not all… 7 Welch HG, Albertsen PC. Prostate cancer diagnosis and treatment a$er the introduction of prostate-speci#c Should the worst happen and your tumor antigen screening: 1986-2005. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2009 Oct starts growing swi$ly, or your cancer is already 7;101(19):1325-9. Epub 2009 Aug 31. 8 “Prostate Screening: More Harm "an Good?” NewsMax 9 Kolata, Gina (2009) “Review of prostate cancer screening, Health. 2009. Prostate Test Found to Save Few Lives” !e New York Times ~ 3 ~ advanced, you’ll also discover some extremely Why? Because the federal Food and Drug powerful alternatives that can help you get rid of Administration (FDA) forbids conventional your cancer without surgery, radiation or, God doctors to use “alternatives” to treat cancer. Your forbid, castration. state’s medical board can yank your doctor’s "e dismal reality facing breast and prostate license if they #nd out he or she has been cancer patients today in conventional medicine breaking “the rules.” Your doctor can even go to is what inspired me to write this Special Report, jail for prescribing what he or she believes is the because someone must tell you that treating best treatment, and several brave doctors have prostate cancer doesn’t have to be this way! In actually done so. many cases, men can keep their prostates! So when it comes to #nding the best "at’s right, prostate cancer can be cured alternative treatment for your cancer, you’re safely, permanently and without needless on your own. su!ering and dis#gurement — even a$er Fortunately, several excellent books on conventional doctors have given up all hope! alternative cancer treatments are available. But even they fail to tell you which treatments are On the coming pages you’ll discover life saving highly successful against prostate cancer, in both alternative treatments. Best of all, you’ll see the early and the advanced stages. that their success is based not just on anecdotal evidence but on years of clinical use and scienti#c "at’s why I’ve compiled this Special Report: study. As a guide to help anyone who’s facing prostate cancer. In some cases, the alternative treatments you’ll discover have undergone rigorously In the pages ahead, you’ll discover some of the controlled, FDA-approved clinical studies that leading-edge alternative treatments with high the government never releases to you or the success rates in curing prostate cancer. And I’ll news media! tell you exactly where to get these treatments and use them, on your own or with expert help. In other words, these alternative treatments "at includes giving you the names and contact are the real deal. "ey can give you and your information of the alternative doctors who treat loved ones hope not only for survival, but for prostate cancer patients. a healthy, high-quality life a$er cancer! A$er all, isn’t that what it’s all about? So let’s get started! Tragically, for most Americans, #nding out about these exceptional alternative treatments has been extremely di%cult.

:K\\RXZRQoWKHDUDERXWWKHVH IMPORTANT: Please note that I don’t pro#t DOWHUQDWLYHVIURP\RXUGRFWRU in any way from the treatments outlined in this Report. Nor do I have any #nancial connection Even the most well-intentioned doctor won’t whatever to the doctors on whom I report. A$er tell you about these amazing treatments that spending 17 years writing about health issues are stopping, slowing and even curing prostate and #nding out that alternative treatments cancer. In fact, he or she can’t tell you about cure countless people of prostate cancer, from them! early stage to “hopeless” stage-four cancers, I wanted to write this Report to get the life-saving information into your hands.

~ 4 ~ Chapter Two 3URVWDWH&DQFHU7UHDWPHQW1R

Dr. Douglas Brodie’s Immune-Boosting "erapy

eter R. was 67 when his doctor told him PSA began to drop, slowly at #rst, and then it he had prostate cancer so advanced it plummeted. would do no good to operate. Peter’s Eighteen months later, Peter’s PSA had PPSA level was 17 TIMES HIGHER than normal dropped an astounding 70 points to a healthy 1.0. — a frightening 71.4 (under 4 is considered His “terminal” prostate cancer had VANISHED! “normal”). And his recovery was no &uke. Two years later — Stunned, the former police detective got a and #ve years since his diagnosis — Peter is still second, a third and even a fourth opinion. One healthy as a horse, and his PSA is a stable 00.1. doctor said he might live three years. Another So what is Dr. Brodie’s secret? !e immune told him he could “cut o! his testicles” to try and system. stop the cancer’s advance. But all four doctors agreed that Peter’s prostate cancer was terminal. Dr. Brodie, like many other alternative cancer pioneers, believes cancer develops in your body “!ey wanted to bury me,” Peter later told because your immune system is weak. Sacramento news reporter Melinda Welsh.10 But instead of getting ready for the end, Peter During more than 30 years of #ghting cancer, used his detective skills to gather information he discovered a dozen natural compounds that on alternative treatments and interview prostate work together to power up your immune system cancer patients who’d tried them. to SAFELY KILL PROSTATE CANCER — and many other cancers, including breast cancer. He learned about an amazing clinic in Reno, Nevada, where a doctor named Douglas Brodie 'U%URGLHoVLPPXQHEXLOGLQJ was curing cancer WITHOUT surgery, radiation prostate cancer protocol or chemotherapy. And for the #rst time, Peter felt there was real hope. Dr. Brodie treated prostate cancer patients such as Peter with a daily IV (intravenous) 3HWHUoV36$QRVHGLYHGWR infusion of powerful antioxidant nutrients, minerals, enzymes, glandulars and other natural One month later Peter was on Dr. Brodie’s compounds to repair their immune systems and natural anti-cancer program. His hopelessly high #ght the cancers. Peter spent two weeks at Dr. Brodie’s facility, the Reno Integrative Medical 10 Welsh, Melinda (2002) “Forbidden Medicine Cancer patients from Sacramento are seeking an alternative, holistic ap- Clinic, undergoing daily immune-strengthening proach to building up the body and beating cancer. Too bad it’s infusions such as these. outlawed in California.” California: NewsReview.com ~ 5 ~ While there, Peter also learned how to eat infection, known as prostatitis. Both are very the right foods and avoid the wrong foods. Dr. common in men over 50. Brodie put him on a diet HIGH in vegetables "e late Emil Sayegh, M.D., got wonderful that are rich in bene#cial phytochemicals. "ese results using colon hydrotherapy with men phytochemicals build your immune system and su!ering from BPH or prostatitis. For more than #ght cancer. "ese vegetables included broccoli, 15 years he reported how colon hydrotherapy cabbage, cauli%ower and Brussels sprouts. could solve frequent and painful urination in When Peter got home, he also started taking his male patients. When Dr. Walker interviewed a “home-care” regimen of oral vitamins and Dr. Sayegh for his article on hydrotherapy, he supplements. explained: “Cleaning the colon markedly assists the 'HWR[LI\\RXUERG\ZLWKFRORQ functioning of the pathological male bladder and K\GURWKHUDS\ prostate organs. Colon hydrotherapy given to involved men at two-week intervals for three times Dr. Brodie also uses detoxi#cation techniques to start and then maintained every four weeks to cleanse away immune-sapping toxins that have for an unlimited period does solve prostatitis and built up in his patients’ systems over the years. benign prostatic hyperplasia. From my #les, I can His method of choice is colon hydrotherapy, in o$er up several hundred case studies which testify which a professional hydrotherapist cleanses the to that fact.” 12 patient’s colon with water. “I have found over the years that cancer patients /HDUQWRFRQWUROWKHpFDQFHU who are not doing well usually are toxic and not SHUVRQDOLW\q being cleansed. !ey certainly are in need of colon hydrotherapy,” Dr. Brodie revealed in Dr. Morton Dr. Brodie also arms his cancer patients with Walker’s article, “Value of Colon Hydrotherapy valuable stress-relieving techniques. Veri#ed by Medical Professionals Prescribing It.” “Most people who develop cancer are susceptible “I do recommend that most of my cancer to stress,” reported Dr. Brodie at the annual patients take colon hydrotherapy or ‘colonic Cancer Control Society Convention in Pasadena, irrigations,’ because they o"en improve by having California, in 1992. Dr. Brodie described what he such treatment. Liver cancer in particular shows calls the “cancer personality.” bene#t from colon hydrotherapy, but any internal “I believe that cancer begins from long-standing tumors show e$ectual change, too,” Dr. Brodie abuse of the psyche. By and large, cancer patients added. “It’s better than an enema, which is merely exhibit very similar con%icts, and these give rise to a lower bowel cleanse, as opposed to a colonic, 11 a well-de#ned cancer personality,” said Dr. Brodie which is a thorough cleanse of the entire bowel.” in a 2002 issue of !e Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients.13 5HOLHYHV%3+DQGSURVWDWLWLVWRR "e characteristics of this “cancer personality” Colon hydrotherapy helps men in other ways as well: It can relieve prostate enlargement, called 12 Walker, Morton D.P.M. (2000) “Value of Colon Hydrother- apy Veri#ed by Medical Professionals Prescribing It,” Townsend benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), and prostate Letter for Doctors and Patients. 13 Walker, Morton D.P.M. (2002) “Pro#le of the holistic cancer 11 Walker, Morton D.P.M. (2000) “Value of Colon Hydrother- therapist W. Douglas Brodie, M.D., H.M.D — Medical Journalist apy Veri#ed by Medical Professionals Prescribing It,” Townsend Report of Innovative Biologics,” Townsend Letter for Doctors and Letter for Doctors and Patients. Patients. ~ 6 ~ include being a “worrier.” And someone who I can tell you this much: there’s very good o$en puts other people’s needs before themselves evidence that stress and depression damage your — “people pleasers,” they’re o$en called. "ese immune system and as we’ve seen, your immune people are also dutiful, responsible, hard-working system is your most important weapon against and usually of above-average intelligence. "ey cancer. o$en internalize emotions and hold on to feelings of anger or resentment. ,QWUDYHQRXV ,9 LQIXVLRQVDQGLQVXOLQ In fact, Dr. Brodie says the link between SRWHQWLDWHGK\SRJO\FHPLFWKHUDS\ cancer and emotional stress is so strong that (IPHT) he’s seen the onset of detectable cancer in many patients two years a$er a traumatic life event.14 One of the most important elements of Dr. But there’s good news. You can cope with the Brodie’s immune-boosting protocol is the daily cancer personality by altering your behavior and intravenous infusions of powerful antioxidant “reclaiming your power of healing”. Dr. Brodie nutrients, minerals, enzymes, glandulars and other recommends: natural compounds. "ese infusions can include: t
Eliminating “toxic” negative emotions and t
the powerful antioxidant vitamins A and C replacing them with positive ones t
minerals such as potassium and magnesium t
Having faith in God or a higher power t
digestive enzymes and CoQ10 t
Relieving yourself of too many obligations t
glandular supplements such as thymus (from and responsibilities — reduce your stress the thymus gland) t
Being open and honest. Talk with others t
shark cartilage about the problems, con&icts or burdens you t
germanium may feel 15 t
Laetrile By doing each of these things, advocates believe you’re taking back control from stress Of course, each of these supplements is and negative emotions and eliminating their available at your local health food store (except dangerous power over your health. for Laetrile). But please note: Taking the supplements orally may help your immune "e connection between a person’s mental function, but they WILL NOT kill all of your state and cancer is another area that remains prostate cancer. controversial. I’m sure plenty of people who are happy and ful#lled get cancer anyway. I don’t Why? Because these supplements’ e!ects on believe happiness or a positive attitude will cure your immune system are only powerful enough cancer all by themselves, and I’m sure Dr. Brodie to kill cancer when you take them intravenously. never said such a thing. Attitude is one part of a When you do that, they bypass your digestive multi-pronged program to defeat cancer. Why tract and go straight into your bloodstream, not be happy and positive? enhancing their e!ects. And they become MORE 14 Walker, Morton D.P.M. (2002) “Pro#le of the holistic cancer POWERFUL still when Dr. Brodie infuses sugar therapist W. Douglas Brodie, M.D., H.M.D — Medical Journalist into the supplement solution. Report of Innovative Biologics,” Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients. 15 Walker, Morton D.P.M. (2002) “Pro#le of the holistic cancer therapist W. Douglas Brodie, M.D., H.M.D — Medical Journalist Report of Innovative Biologics,” Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients. ~ 7 ~ 7KHFDQFHUNLOOLQJVHFUHWRIVXJDUt S.17 was exposed to high levels of the toxic \HVsugar jungle defoliant Agent Orange while serving in Vietnam. Years a$er surviving his tour of duty, Cancer cells love to eat sugar. And that’s an John watched seven men from his platoon die of important reason why Dr. Brodie’s treatment is so cancer probably caused by Agent Orange. e$ective against even “terminal” prostate cancer. In 2002, he thought it was his turn. “!e cancer cells open their membranes in Doctors told him a biopsy of his prostate response to a metabolic need for sugar as food had con#rmed that cancer was growing out of by the insulin’s producing a drop in blood sugar,” control. "e results showed 10 OUT OF THE 12 explained Dr. Brodie to Dr. Morton Walker in TISSUE SAMPLES WERE CANCEROUS. !e Townsend Letter for Doctors in 2002. As the cancer cell opens itself to “suck up” larger “I was advised that even with surgery and amounts of food, it also sucks up “healing radiation, I would need a miracle to survive,” John substances which cancer cells don’t like.” "is recalls. therapy is called insulin-potentiated hypoglycemic Fortunately, he heard about the Reno therapy or (IPHT). 16 Integrative Medical Center. John went for a IPHT does to untouchable prostate cancer consultation and decided to try Dr. Brodie’s cells what kryptonite does to Superman-it makes immune-boosting anti-cancer protocol. A$er them weak and virtually powerless. In layman’s 18 months, the tumor in John’s prostate was terms, here’s how IPHT works: You’re injected shrinking. Four years later he’s healthy, with NO with insulin, which opens up “insulin receptors” SYMPTOMS of prostate cancer! or sugar receptors that cover cancer cells. When these receptors are open, cancer cells are 'U%URGLHFKDUJHGZLWKFULPLQDO automatically hungry for more sugar. IHORQLHVIRUVDYLQJOLYHV A$er you’re given this insulin, you’re fed sugar "e natural compounds such as shark along with cancer #ghting antioxidants and cartilage, Laetrile and germanium that are part compounds. Cancer cells absorb the sugar and of Dr. Brodie’s protocol are being used in clinics cancer #ghters like drought stricken land absorbs elsewhere in the world to defeat cancer. But water in a rain shower. when doctors in the USA use them, they o$en From the reports I’ve seen, IPHT can face criminal prosecution. And Dr. Brodie is no dramatically increase the strength of virtually any exception. cancer treatment — natural or conventional. It On three separate occasions, government works by getting more of the cancer #ghting drug o%cials in California targeted him. And in the or natural compound into cancer cells. 1970s, the Board of Medical Quality Assurance charged him with 23 felonies.18 9LHWQDPYHWoVpWHUPLQDOqSURVWDWH What were these felony charges for? Turns FDQFHUGLVDSSHDUV out they were for alleged “over-prescriptions” of Like thousands of young Americans, John 17 John, Case Study, Reno Integrative Medical Center, www. renointegrativemedicalcenter.com 16 Walker, Morton D.P.M. (2002) “Pro#le of the holistic cancer 18 Welsh, Melinda (2002) “Forbidden Medicine Cancer therapist W. Douglas Brodie, M.D., H.M.D — Medical Journalist patients from Sacramento are seeking an alternative, holistic ap- Report of Innovative Biologics,” Townsend Letter for Doctors and proach to building up the body and beating cancer. Too bad it’s Patients. outlawed in California.” California: NewsReview.com ~ 8 ~ prescription drugs. "is included painkillers for Ask a conventional doctor about Laetrile, shark a young man who su!ered excruciating pain a$er cartilage and germanium and he or she will call having both legs amputated at the hip and both these treatments “shams” and the doctors who arms amputated at the forearm due to Buerger’s use them “quacks.” disease. But clearly, they haven’t looked at the research. “It was widely known that these attacks on my license were because of my use of Laetrile and /DHWULOHVWXG\SHUFHQWRI [my] unorthodox approach to the treatment of 7(50,1$/ cancer patients are still cancer,” Dr. Brodie explained to Sacramento news DOLYHDQGZHOO reporter Melinda Welsh.19 Case studies from doctors who use Laetrile ,QIDFW'U%URGLHOHDUQHGWKH\ZHUH (or amygdalin, as it’s sometimes called), show JRLQJWRDUUHVWKLPIURPUHDGLQJ this natural compound is MOST EFFECTIVE DERXWLWLQWKHQHZVSDSHU against cancers of the prostate, breast, lung, liver and brain, and lymphoma. Many of these doctors Imagine opening up your daily newspaper say Laetrile gives their patients a better chance of and #nding out you’re going to be arrested! "at’s survival. Clinical studies back them up. exactly what happened to Dr. Brodie! He had no One of the most impressive studies was done idea they were coming a$er him till he read an by P.E. Binzel, M.D. article in the paper saying he’d been criminally charged — even though he’d been served with For 17 years, Dr. Binzel followed 108 cancer NO WARRANT or any other noti#cation! patients with metastatic cancer (cancer that has spread, and usually has a poor prognosis). Later, in court, the medical board admitted th it had erred in calling Dr. Brodie’s prescriptions In the study’s 17 year, 61 patients — MORE “felonies.” "e court fully exonerated him that THAN HALF — were still alive. And nearly half time, and he was cleared again when they came of those had survived 5 to18 years and counting a$er him a couple of years later. a$er taking Laetrile as part of a nutritional cancer-#ghting program. But when California authorities sought to charge Dr. Brodie a THIRD time, he knew they’d "ese numbers are amazing. Even more keep hounding him with trumped-up charges as amazing, nearly all these patients had already long as he kept practicing alternative medicine. been failed by surgery, radiation or chemo. In the late 1970s, he moved his clinic to Nevada, When they entered Dr. Binzel’s practice, all were which lets doctors practice some forms of expected to die, yet an incredible 55 PERCENT alternative medicine. SURVIVED!20 Not surprisingly, a short time later the state of &RQWDLQVSRZHUIXOFDQFHUILJKWLQJ% California made it a felony for a physician to treat cancer with anything other than chemotherapy, YLWDPLQV radiation and surgery! "e scienti#c research also suggests why Laws such as these are one reason many Laetrile is a powerful cancer #ghter. Studies show conventional doctors shun alternative treatments. it contains powerful cancer-#ghting nitrilosides 19 Welsh, Melinda (2002) “Forbidden Medicine Cancer (vitamin B-17). Laetrile itself is completely patients from Sacramento are seeking an alternative, holistic ap- proach to building up the body and beating cancer. Too bad it’s 20 Binzel, P.E., (1994) Alive and Well. California: American outlawed in California.” California: NewsReview.com Media ~ 9 ~ natural and is found in several nuts and seeds, “In our study, intravenous amygdalin was including apricot seeds. found to be free of clinical toxicity and no cyanide Interestingly, doctors studying primitive could be detected in the blood... In summation, tribes in Africa, South America, Australia and the administration of amygdalin according to other places found that their diets were FULL the dosages and schedules we employed seems to of nitriloside-rich foods. Many of these doctors, be free of signi#cant side e$ects. !is conclusion including the legendary Albert Schweitzer, M.D., appears to be validated by early observations in theorized that their diets were a key reason phase II study of 44 Mayo Clinic patients receiving there were no recorded cancers among these intravenous amygdalin therapy and 37 receiving populations. oral therapy who have not experienced any symptomatic toxic reaction.”22 [Emphasis added] In Dr. Schweitzer’s preface to A. Berglas’s book Cancer: Cause and Cure, he wrote: But even Dr. Moertal’s own research wasn’t enough to overcome his anti-Laetrile bias. He “On my arrival in Gabon [Africa] in 1913, I concluded the report with the statement: “A was astonished to encounter no cases of cancer. I de#nite hazard of cyanide toxic reaction must be saw none among the natives two hundred miles assumed…” from the coast....”21 "e native diet was #lled with millet and grains rich in nitrilosides. Well, you know what people say when you “assume” something? You make an “a-s-s” out of Incredibly, the National Institutes of Health “u” and “m-e”! and the FDA insist that Laetrile does NOTHING to help cancer patients and is actually dangerous. "e point is, research shows Laetrile is both safe and very e$ective when used correctly. &DQFHUILJKWLQJ/DHWULOHpEDQQHGqE\ But as cancer expert and radio commentator WKH)'$DVDpSRLVRQq Bill Henderson o$en tells the cancer patients he coaches, Laetrile is not “a do-it-yourself "e FDA banned Laetrile in the 1980s a$er operation.” You should use it ONLY under a allegations that the natural cyanide inside Laetrile quali#ed doctor’s supervision. could poison patients. 6WXG\VKRZVVKDUNFDUWLODJHILJKWV Does Uncle Sam have solid research to back pWHUPLQDOqFDQFHUtUHVXOWVLJQRUHG this up? No. In fact, repeated studies in both animals and humans have shown that when Researchers have done several medical studies used properly, Laetrile is COMPLETELY NON' and hundreds of case studies on shark cartilage, TOXIC and free of side e!ects. Half a dozen but the most amazing research comes from alternative doctors, including Dr. Brodie, have William Lane, Ph.D., the founder of Lane Labs. reported no toxicity a$er using Laetrile with their cancer patients for decades. In the wonderful book Cancer-Free, Bill Henderson tells the incredible story of Dr. Lane Ironically, a conventional medical doctor who and Charles Simone, M.D. "ese two doctors sought to prove Laetrile dangerous ended up conducted a study that used shark cartilage on providing more evidence for its high degree of 29 “non-responsive” terminal cancer patients in safety. In his 1981 study published in the Journal Cuba in 1992.23 of the American Medical Association, Dr. Charles Moertal wrote: 22 Moertal, C. et al. (1981) A pharmacologic and toxicological study of Amygdalin JAMA 245:591-94. 21 Berglas, A. Caassn (1957) Cause and Cure. Paris: Pasteur 23 Henderson, Bill (2008) Cancer-Free (!ird Edition) Book- Institute. locker, Inc. ~ 10 ~ Five of these patients had prostate cancer, Alternatives in Cancer !erapy by Dr. Ross six had breast cancer, and the remaining 18 had Pelton, “Organic germanium restores the normal other cancers. But ALL 29 had failed to respond function of T-cells, B-lymphocytes, natural to ANY conventional treatment. "ey were killer-cell activity, and the numbers of antibody- bedridden and expected to die within months. forming cells... Organic germanium has unique But a$er treatment with shark cartilage, an physiological activities without any signi#cant side astounding 48 PERCENT – NEARLY HALF – e$ects.”26 were alive and well almost three years later. Dr. Pelton also reports on two separate studies As Bill Henderson reported in his book, that show organic germanium stimulates the Drs. Simone and Lane concluded that the shark production of gamma-interferon in both animals cartilage stimulated the “rapid growth of #brin and humans with no side e!ects or toxicity. tissue (healthy tissue) replacing and encapsulating 24 Plus, a number of human cancer trials, mainly the cancer cells.” in Japan, have found that organic germanium As Dr. Lane recounted in a 1995 article IMPROVED SURVIVAL TIME in several kinds in Alternative & Complementary !erapies of cancers. — A Bimonthly Publication for Health Care In one study, patients’ immune response Practitioners, although news media outlets and general health improved — even AFTER such as “60 Minutes” with Mike Wallace were they received chemotherapy and/or radiation. interested in the story, “!e National Institutes Remember, chemo and radiation DESTROY of Health (NIH), on the other hand, surprisingly, your immune function, but with germanium, the never took the time to hear the whole presentation, patients’ immune systems stayed strong! see the slides, talk to me, or talk to the interested doctors.”25 "is is worth repeating: You can use germanium WITH conventional cancer *HUPDQLXP7KHQDWXUDOpLQWHUIHURQq treatment to improve your immune system. "is ULJKWXQGHU%LJ3KDUPDoVQRVH can help ANYONE with cancer!

Germanium is a trace mineral that some ,WoVDOVRFXULQJEUHDVWFRORQHYHQ healers have used since the 1960s to treat cancer OXQJFDQFHU and other degenerative diseases by enhancing people’s immune systems. Speci#cally, it boosts Besides working very well in advanced the all-important tumor-#ghting compound or aggressive prostate cancers, Dr. Brodie’s called interferon and your natural killer cells. immune-boosting therapy is also successfully treating three other kinds of cancers. Patients Ironically, Big Pharma has been trying report being COMPLETELY CURED of colon, to create drugs that boost your interferon kidney and breast cancers. You can read many for decades now, but they’re always laden testimonials from former patients on the Reno with dangerous side e!ects. Meanwhile, safe Integrative Medical Center’s Web site listed at the germanium has been available the entire time! end of this chapter. According to a study published in the Journal "e most astonishing testimonial is from a of Interferon Research and quoted in the book man named Joe who was diagnosed with lung 24 Henderson, Bill (2008) Cancer-Free (!ird Edition) Book- cancer — a cancer that’s particularly hard to treat locker, Inc. 25 Henderson, Bill (2008) Cancer-Free (!ird Edition) Book- 26 Pelton, Ross, R.Ph. Overholser, Lee (1994) Alternatives in locker, Inc. Cancer !erapy. New York: Fireside. ~ 11 ~ with conventional medicine. For more information: A$er Joe underwent immune-boosting therapy at the clinic, his lung cancer disappeared! Reno Integrative Medical Center Joe writes: 6110 Plumas Street, Suite B Reno, NV 89519 “Today, I am free of cancer, without the trauma Tel: 775-829-1009 of chemotherapy or radiation. My energy and Toll-free phone: 800-994-1009 stamina have returned to that of a 40-year-old 27 Fax: 775-829-9330 man, (not bad for a 71-year-old!)” E-mail: [email protected] Of course, conventional medicine continues Web site: www.renointegrativemedicalcenter.com to dismiss these recoveries as “spontaneous remissions.” But Dr. Brodie knows better. To #nd a certi#ed colon hydrotherapist near you, “My main objective over the past two decades contact: has been to #nd those natural substances that most e$ectively enhance the immune system in its battle International Association for Colon against cancer,” he said in Dr. Morton Walker’s Hydrotherapy book, Natural Cancer Remedies. “When these Post O%ce Box 461285 substances are part of a comprehensive cancer San Antonio, TX 78246-1285 treatment plan...the chances of beating cancer are Tel: 210-366-2888 markedly improved.”28 Fax: 210-366-2999 In 2005, sadly, Dr. Brodie passed away at 80 E-mail IACT at homeo%[email protected] from a blood infection. But his clinic continues to Web site: http://www.i-act.org/IACTSearch.HTM treat cancer patients using the Brodie immune- boosting protocol, under the leadership of Robert Eslinger, D.O., H.M.D. Dr. Eslinger has been in clinical practice for over 30 years. In November, 2008, Governor Jim Gibbons of Nevada appointed him to the state’s Board of Homeopathic Medical Examiners.

27 Joe, Case Study, Reno Integrative Medical Center, www. renointegrativemedicalcenter.com 28 Walker, Morton D.P.M. (2005) Natural Cancer Remedies !at Work Wonders. California: Finn Communications. ~ 12 ~ Chapter Three 3URVWDWH&DQFHU7UHDWPHQW1R

Advanced Prostate Cancer Disappears with a “Japanese Secret” for Long Life! "e Healing Power of Macrobiotics

Tony Sattilaro was an a$er his father’s funeral when he saw two young anesthesiologist and the men hitchhiking along the highway. He needed President of Methodist Hospital the company, so he decided to pick them up. Dr.in Philadelphia. During a routine chest X-ray, the technician discovered a mass in Tony’s chest. +RZKLWFKKLNHUVVDYHG7RQ\ZLWKD It was cancer. More biopsies were done. Doctors p-DSDQHVH6HFUHWqIRUORQJOLIH found cancer in his sternum, skull and spine, before they #nally found the source of it: his Tony told the hitchhikers his sad story, but prostate.29 they o!ered him no sympathy at all! Instead, they told him bluntly that his cancer DID NOT Tony was shocked. He was only 46! It seems have to be a death sentence! By following an old he’d fallen victim to an aggressive form of Japanese eating secret for long life, they said, he prostate cancer that strikes younger men. It had could make the prostate cancer go away. spread throughout his body, and now doctors were saying NOTHING could be done to save Of course, Tony didn’t believe a word of what him. these two young hippies were saying. A$er all, he was a doctor! But he listened anyway. 7RQ\oVSURVWDWHFDQFHUNHSW "e two went on and on about how food can VSUHDGLQJ heal your body by restoring a healthy balance of energy. "ey told him they’d learned WHICH Within weeks, the cancer invaded new bones foods can heal you at a school for macrobiotic and Tony was doubled over with pain. He needed cooking. "en they asked him for his address narcotic painkillers just to get through the day. so they could send him everything he needed To make matters worse, his father was losing his to know. "e doctor in Tony couldn’t resist, own battle against lung cancer. And soon, Tony thinking “I’ve got to see this,” so he agreed. received the tragic news that his father had died. A couple of weeks had passed when Tony His father’s death was a turning point for Tony, received a book on macrobiotic eating. Intrigued but not in the way you might expect. by a doctor’s endorsement he found inside, he As Neal Barnard recalls in his book Foods that went to a local macrobiotic center and began Fight Pain, Tony was driving back to Philadelphia eating the diet himself.

29 Barnard, Neal D. (1998) Foods !at Fight Pain: Revolution- ary New Strategies for Maximum Pain Relief. New York: Random House ~ 13 ~ 7KUHHZHHNVODWHU7RQ\oV and environment.31 H[FUXFLDWLQJERQHSDLQZDVJRQH In the article “"e Macrobiotic Diet As Treatment for Cancer: Review of the Evidence,” In just 21 days, Tony was feeling so much Joellyn Horowitz, M.D., and Mitsuo Tomita, better that he threw away his painkillers. With M.D., break down the modern macrobiotic eating renewed conviction, he continued the diet. Soon plan into food groups: his energy returned and he felt healthier than he had in a long time. He kept waiting for the other t
whole cereal grains (40-60 percent of diet), shoe to drop, but it never did. including brown rice, barley, millet, oats, wheat, corn, rye and buckwheat; and other One year later, Tony returned to his doctor for less-common grains and products made from a bone scan. "e results were astonishing: "ere them, such as noodles, bread and pasta was NO SIGN of cancer in his skull, his sternum, his spine, his prostate or ANYWHERE ELSE IN t
vegetables (20-30 percent of diet), including HIS BODY! smaller amounts of raw or pickled vegetables — preferably locally grown and prepared in a Nearly 10 years later, Tony was STILL cancer- variety of ways free. He’d le$ Philadelphia for Florida, where he spent his time writing about the relationship t
beans (5-10 percent of diet), such as azuki, between food and health. He even wrote about chickpeas or lentils; other bean products, his own experience in the book Recalled by Life: such as tofu, tempeh or natto !e Story of My Recovery from Cancer. t
regular consumption of sea vegetables, such as nori, wakame, kombu, and hiziki — :KDWLVmacrobiotics? cooked either with beans or as separate dishes

"e word “macrobiotic” is a Greek word that t
foods such as fruit, white #sh, seeds and nuts means “long life.” "e macrobiotic diet was — to be eaten a few times per week or less developed in the 1920s by George Ohsawa, a o$en. Japanese philosopher who taught that simplicity in diet was the key to good health. Ohsawa +RZORQJGR,VWD\RQWKLVHDWLQJ believed that by eating certain foods and avoiding plan? others, you could cure yourself of cancer and many other serious illnesses.30 Drs. Horowitz and Tomita note that for people with cancer, the macrobiotic dietary restrictions "e macrobiotic diet resembles a traditional might be absolute for a period of time, till some Asian diet. It consists mainly of whole grains and recovery has occurred. vegetables. For instance, on a macrobiotic diet you’ll eat Miso soup, brown rice, lentils, and “sea "ey also recount several case studies in which vegetables” such as nori and kelp. Sugar, fat, meat people avoided ALL animal foods and fruit, and dairy products are o! limits. then reintroduced them to their diet. Again, it depends on your situation. Today’s best-known macrobiotic proponent is Michio Kushi. He pioneered the tailoring Interestingly, many macrobiotic “counselors” of Ohsawa’s diet to meet individual needs, who help people use the eating plan to #ght a depending on age, gender, activity level, health variety of illnesses — including cancer — believe

31 Horowitz, Joellyn M.D., Tomita, Mitsuo, M.D. (2002) "e Macrobiotic Diet as Treatment for Cancer: Review of the Evi- 30 American Cancer Society, www.cancer.org dence. Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Vol. 6, No. 4. ~ 14 ~ some people must stay on it permanently. "e Tulane student also found similar results For example, in his book Foods that Fight Pain, in pancreatic cancer patients. "e macrobiotic Neal Barnard suggests that Dr. Tony Sattilaro’s group survived FOUR TIMES LONGER than the decision to stop eating macrobiotically caused control group. his cancer to return, which then caused his death But conventional researchers were quick to in 1989. Barnard writes, “I would not see why he point out that the Tulane research didn’t take would want to do this [stop the macrobiotic diet]. place in a truly controlled environment. "ey say A cancer that has been e$ectively suppressed is not “other factors” might’ve in&uenced survival in the same as a cancer that is totally gone.” 32 both groups of cancer patients. Regardless, there Clearly, Barnard believes the macrobiotic are many reports of the macrobiotic diet healing diet is not a cure but a suppressive therapy. And cancer of several di$erent kinds — especially many doctors who use nutrition — whether prostate cancer. macrobiotics or other diets — in their #ght "e Prostate Cancer Research Institute and Dr. against cancer, believe the patient must ALWAYS Mark Scholz published the case study of "omas stay with elements of the diet in order to Mueller, a 45-year-old Los Angeles attorney. A$er maintain complete remission. Others might being diagnosed with prostate cancer, "omas disagree. refused surgery and all of the side e!ect-laden treatments his conventional doctors prescribed. 7XODQH8QLYHUVLW\VWXG\$GYDQFHG Instead, he tried a macrobiotic diet and exercise. prostate cancer patients live THREE In just three months, his PSA had dropped from 7,0(6/21*(5 4.0 to 1.5 ng/ml.34

A graduate student at Tulane University did p$7HDPq79DFWRUIUHHRISURVWDWH a study to see how well the macrobiotic eating FDQFHU\HDUVODWHU plan healed prostate cancer. He examined the records of nine patients who’d seen a macrobiotic Do you remember actor Dirk Benedict counselor for prostate cancer between 1980 and from the TV show “"e A-Team?” He played 1984. Templeton “Faceman” Peck, the suave, well- dressed member of the team. He was shocked to discover that advanced prostate cancer patients who followed a When Dirk was in his early 30s and at the macrobiotic diet survived THREE TIMES height of his career, doctors diagnosed him as LONGER. "e men who ate macrobiotically lived having an aggressive form of prostate cancer. As an incredible 19 years — nearly two decades — he recalls in his book, Confessions of a Kamikaze compared to only six years for men who didn’t Cowboy, doctors wanted to castrate him — follow the diet.33 "at’s an extra 13 years in which imagine that happening to “Faceman!” Not likely. these men were able to enjoy their lives and their Well, Dirk thought the exact same thing. But loved ones. And just as important, there were what else could he do? absolutely no side e!ects to damage their quality Fortunately, he was a close friend of the of life. famous actress Gloria Swanson. Besides being 32 Barnard, Neal D. (1998) Foods !at Fight Pain: Revolution- a Hollywood beauty, she was a legendary ary New Strategies for Maximum Pain Relief. New York: Random proponent of the macrobiotic eating plan. Gloria House. told Dirk to go “macrobiotic” and to quit eating 33 Carter JP, Saxe GP, Newbold V, Peres CE, Campeau RJ, 34 Scholz, Mark M.D. Blum, Ralph (2006) “Can Diet Really Bernal- Green L. Hypothesis: dietary management may improve Control Prostate Cancer?” PCRI Insights, February. vol. 9 survival from nutritionally linked cancers based on analysis of representative cases. J Am Coll Nutr 1993 Jun;12(3):209-26. ~ 15 ~ meat, poultry, eggs, dairy and sugar.35 7KHOHJHQGDU\'U'HDQ2UQLVK He immediately went on a macrobiotic diet ZDWFKHGFDQFHUSDWLHQWVo36$V of whole grains, beans and vegetables. Seven GHFOLQH months later, he was well — the aggressive prostate cancer WAS GONE. Even Dr. Dean Ornish, who’s famous for developing the diet that promotes a healthy heart, Now 64, Dirk is the father of two sons. And now believes diet can ALSO treat prostate cancer he’s continued working as an actor and director e!ectively. in TV and #lm. In the September, 2005, issue of !e Journal of As prostate expert Roger Mason put it so aptly Urology, he published the results of his study on in his book !e Natural Prostate Cure, Dirk is diet and lifestyle in 93 prostate cancer patients. 38 happy and healthy, but “if he had listened to the doctors, he would have died many years ago as a Dr. Ornish gave half of the men a vegetarian, sexless eunuch in diapers, without testicles.” 36 non-dairy diet similar to the macrobiotic diet. He also gave them supplements of antioxidants such Roger Mason is another ardent proponent of as lycopene, selenium and vitamin E. "en he the macrobiotic diet for men with ANY kind of prescribed moderate aerobic exercise and stress prostate problem. As he writes in Chapter Eight management. "e other half of the men went of his book, !e Natural Prostate Cure: untreated. “!e most important thing in curing prostate, At the end of one year, the PSAs of the diet- or any other cancer, is to change your diet and and-lifestyle group had dropped an average of 4 lifestyle and stop eating fats, oils, dairy, poultry, percent, or 0.25 ng/ml, while the PSAs of the non- eggs, red meat, sugar and other sweeteners treated group increased an average of 6 percent, or (even honey and maple syrup), tropical foods, 0.38 ng/ml. hydrogenated oils, preservatives, chemicals, co$ee, cigarettes, prescription drugs, and alcohol. Even more telling were Ornish’s lab results. He put blood from both groups of men in a Petri “A diet based on whole grains, beans, most dish with prostate cancer cell lines. "e blood vegetables, some local fruit, and small amounts of from the untreated men caused the cancer cells to seafood (if you are compatible with it), is the way grow EIGHT TIMES FASTER than did the blood to cure yourself and get well… from the diet-and-lifestyle men! “All long-lived people eat a diet based on whole grains, beans, vegetables, local fruits and very little, Macrobiotics as a prostate cancer if any, meat or dairy products. !ey also eat very pSUHYHQWDWLYHq low-calorie meals with a fat intake of about 15 percent, generally.” 37 [Emphasis added] Eating macrobiotically might also help you You can read more about Roger’s speci#c diet PREVENT prostate cancer. "ere’s signi#cant for prostate problems in his book, !e Natural research in humans and animals showing that Prostate Cure. many of the foods in the modern macrobiotic diet are powerful cancer #ghters. 35 Benedict, Dirk (1991) Confessions of a Kamikaze Cowboy. For instance, several studies comparing Dirk Benedict women who eat vegetarian meals with those who 36 Mason, Roger (2000) !e Natural Prostate Cure: A Practical Guide To Using Diet And Supplements. Roger Mason 38 Ornish, Dean, et al: Intensive lifestyle changes may a!ect 37 Mason, Roger (2000) !e Natural Prostate Cure: A Practical the progression of prostate cancer. !e Journal of Urology Vol. Guide To Using Diet And Supplements. Roger Mason. 174:1065, 2005. ~ 16 ~ eat traditional western meals show that estrogen more help, you can go to a macrobiotic center or metabolism is IMPROVED in the vegetarian #nd a macrobiotic counselor to help you cra$ a group. "is reduces the risk of hormone- macrobiotic diet that suits your speci#c needs. dependent cancers such as breast and prostate cancer.39 Even the American Institute for Cancer Research and the World Cancer Research Fund For more information: have reported that eating MORE vegetables To #nd a macrobiotic counselor or center near and fruit could save MILLIONS of people from you, contact: getting cancer. In 1997 the two organizations found that simply by improving daily vegetable Kushi Institute and fruit consumption from 250g to 400g, an 198 Leland Road estimated 20 PERCENT FEWER PEOPLE would Becket, MA 01223 be diagnosed with cancer annually.40 Tel: 1-800-975-8744 Fax: 413-623-8827 Macrobiotics is clearly good cancer Web site: http://www.kushiinstitute.org prevention. It’s also shown to treat both early E-mail: [email protected] and advanced prostate cancers. Best of all, it’s a diet so you can combine it with other alternative "e George Ohsawa Macrobiotic Foundation treatments, even with radiation and surgery Web site: http://www.ohsawamacrobiotics.com should you choose. Here’s a vital point: You don’t Here you can order many macrobiotic books need to go to a doctor to take advantage of the dealing with cancer, including: healing power of macrobiotic food. "ere are many books and resources available to help you Macrobiotic Approach to Cancer — Michio Kushi; get started on a macrobiotic diet. If you want 1991; 177 pp.; $13.95. Expanded edition of this health best-seller that aims to prevent and control 39 Goldin BR, et al. E!ect of diet on excretion of estrogens in cancer. pre- and postmenopausal women. Cancer Res 1981 Sep;41(9 Pt 2):3771-3. My Beautiful Life: How I Conquered Cancer Goldin BR, et al. Estrogen excretion patterns and plasma levels in vegetarian and omnivorous women. N Engl J Med 1982 Dec Naturally — Mina Dobic; 2007; 178 pp.; $15.95. 16;307(25):1542-7. A personal story of insight, courage, and healing "omas HV, et al. Endogenous estrogen and postmenopausal from Los Angeles’s most expert macrobiotic breast cancer: a quantitative review. Cancer Causes Control 1997 health consultant. Nov;8(6):922-8. Key TJ, et al. A prospective study of urinary oestrogen excretion Recovery from Cancer — Elaine Nussman; 2004; and breast cancer risk. Br J Cancer 1996 Jun;73 (12):1615-9. Adlercreutz H, et al. Determination of urinary lignans and phy- 178 pp.; $14.95. toestrogen metabolites, potential antiestrogens and anticarcino- gens, in urine of women on various habitual diets. J Basic Macrobiotic Cooking, Revised Edition — Steroid Biochem 1986 Nov;25(5B):791-7. Julia Ferré; 2007; 288 pp.; $17.95. Adlercreutz H, et al. E!ect of dietary components, including lig- nans and phytoestrogens, on enterohepatic circulation and liver To read excerpts from Dirk Benedict’s book, metabolism of estrogens and on sex hormone binding globulin Confessions of a Kamikaze Cowboy, or to buy (SHBG). J Steroid Biochem 1987;27(4-6):1135-44. Ingram D, et al. Case-control study of phyto-oestrogens and a copy, log onto his Web site: http://www. breast cancer. Lancet 1997 Oct 4;350 (9083):990-4. dirkbenedictcentral.com. 40 World Cancer Research Fund [and] American Institute for Cancer Research. Food, nutrition, and the prevention of cancer: To get Roger Mason’s !e Natural Prostate Cure a global perspective. Washington (DC): American Institute for or Zen Macrobiotics for Americans, visit his Web Cancer Research; 1997. site: www.youngagain.com. ~ 17 ~ Chapter Four 3URVWDWH&DQFHU7UHDWPHQW1R

"e Amazing Non-Toxic Liquid that Killed Virtually 100% of Cancer Cells Within 48 Hours at the National Cancer Institute!

he power of this next alternative (prostate removal surgery). He felt he was in very cancer treatment is simply astonishing, good hands since the operation was performed especially when you consider how simple by one of the country’s foremost prostate doctors Tand safe it is to use on your own, at home. at Stanford University Medical Center. A$er his You see, this treatment doesn’t require prostate was removed, Herb was relieved the dramatically changing your diet, or taking several cancer was gone for good. di!erent supplements. "is treatment is nothing Unfortunately, 13 years a$er the radical more than one amazing liquid that’s so easy and operation, Herb’s prostate cancer returned. And safe you can give it to a baby, yet it’s such a potent it came back with a vengeance. His PSA shot up cancer killer that the author of one best-selling to 135 and he felt pain throughout his body. It’s book on alternative cancer treatments believes it’s no wonder, his PET scan showed, as he put it, the very best cancer treatment available. “widespread bone metastases in my spine, ribs, Tanya Harter Pierce, author of Outsmart Your pelvis and right femur.” Cancer, admitted, “I could #nd more complete Herb refused conventional chemotherapy and recoveries from cancer with this treatment called radiation o!ered at Stanford. Instead, he decided Protocel® than I could #nd on any other cancer to seek treatment at an alternative cancer clinic in treatment.” the U.S. "e treatment was natural but expensive Even more exciting, a good number of these (and it wasn’t covered by his health insurance). recoveries are from prostate cancer. And these Still, Herb was certain that treating the cancer recoveries aren’t just from early prostate cancer naturally was the only way he could survive. either, but advanced cases where aggressive Six months later, Herb had a second PET scan. cancer has spread throughout the body. One of For some reason, the treatment that worked for the most impressive late-stage recoveries is the other types of cancer didn’t do a thing against story of Herb N. Herb’s prostate cancer. "e cancer had progressed even more! "e scan showed “signi#cant +HUEWKRXJKWKHZKLSSHGSURVWDWH increases” in the number of metastases. Herb FDQFHUEXWWKHQLWFDPHEDFN was disappointed, but not ready to give up. He had recently read Tanya Harter Pierce’s Like many men diagnosed with prostate book Outsmart Your Cancer and decided to try cancer, Herb41 underwent a radical prostatectomy Protocel®. 41 Harter Pierce, Tanya, M.A., MFCC (2009) Outsmart Your Cancer (2nd Edition). Nevada: "oughtworks Publishing ~ 18 ~ 5HFXUUHQWPHWDVWDVL]HGFDQFHU Two, when you discovered Dr. Brodie’s insulin YDQLVKHV treatment. Now I want to tell you another important fact about cancer and sugar. Herb began taking Protocel® at home on his "e scientist who discovered what di!erent own. Within two weeks, he reported that his pain cells “eat” was Otto Warburg, a German cellular had diminished and he no longer needed pain biologist who was born in 1883. "e discovery killing drugs. He also felt more energetic than he was the breakthrough of his life! In 1931, had in months! Warburg won the Nobel Prize! Five years later, A$er six months on Protocel®, Herb had another scientist using Warburg’s award-winning another PET scan. "is time, the results were research into cellular behavior developed fantastic. "ey read “Marked improvement on the Protocel’s® unique cancer killing formula. previous pattern of widespread [bone] metastatic Jim Sheridan, who was once a researcher at disease. No new bone lesions are seen and the the Detroit Cancer Institute, discovered this previous have nearly resolved.” amazing formula in his home laboratory. Here’s Another scan ten months later revealed the how it works: Protocel® simply blocks cells’ ability news Herb and his family had been waiting for: to feed on sugar. Cancer cells literally starve to !ere was no evidence of cancer. death!

ProtocelŠ7KHIRUPXODEDVHGRQ $PHULFDQ&DQFHU6RFLHW\GHUDLOVVDIH DUHPDUNDEOH1REHO3UL]HZLQQLQJ FDQFHUILJKWLQJEUHDNWKURXJK GLVFRYHU\ Jim Sheridan was getting amazing results using A$er reviewing reports, it appears to me that Protocel® to treat mice with cancer. His studies Protocel® is entirely unique among alternative con#rmed Protocel® cured cancer in up to 80 cancer treatments. And not just for its simplicity. PERCENT of mice without any side e!ects. Soon, "ere are two more important reasons. First of other scientists were interested. Everyone agreed all, Protocel® does not rely on any herbs, vitamins there was enough solid research to begin clinical or minerals for anti-cancer activity. Second trials in humans. And that’s when the proverbial and most surprising, Protocel® does not rely on roof came down. boosting the immune system to kill cancer cells. When the American Cancer Society heard the What does Protocel® do? Something that’s even news, they blocked the clinical program. A few more e$ective for many patients who have been months later, Jim Sheridan was suspiciously #red failed by other treatments. from the Detroit Institute of Cancer Research and all of his research on Protocel® was reportedly Protocel® is a non-toxic liquid that targets burned! cancer cells biologically, forcing them to shut down, die and disintegrate, according to research You have to wonder, why on earth would the published in Outsmart Your Cancer. Best of American Cancer Society (ACS) do such a thing? all, the research shows it leaves healthy cells Was it pressure by the cancer industry? Fear unharmed. that Protocel’s® success would turn conventional cancer treatment upside down? Probably. Because "e simplest explanation for Protocel’s® the only statement the American Cancer Society cancer-killing success is that cancer cells grow would make is that they did not approve of the by eating sugar while healthy cells eat oxygen. program because “Jim Sheridan had not proved You may recall this idea from earlier, in Chapter

~ 19 ~ that he owned the idea.”42 (Clearly, a ridiculous Today, #ve years later, Albert’s PSA is stable. reason. And if there was such an omission, it He still has his prostate and the cancer is gone. could easily be righted with further investigation His great results have been proven by his doctor into Jim Sheridan’s research.) with PSA tests, CT and bone scans, blood work and an MRI. 7KHQWKH1DWLRQDO&DQFHU,QVWLWXWH H[DPLQHG3URWRFHOŠ with astonishing $ODQoVSURVWDWHFDQFHULVJRQHWRR UHVXOWV Alan’s prostate cancer was also con#rmed by 44 Even though clinical studies never moved a needle biopsy. However, the biopsy caused forward, all hope was not lost. Studies of a serious infection that made Alan severely ill. Protocel® in cancer cell lines would eventually It took him weeks to recover and reinforced his occur years later, at the Natural Cancer Institute inclination to avoid conventional treatments. (NCI) in 1990. "e results were remarkable… Instead he took Protocel® at home to #ght his prostate tumor. NCI researchers found Protocel® killed virtually 100% of cancer cells within 48 hours. "e One year a$er he started taking Protocel, researchers tested lung cancer cells, melanoma tests revealed he was cancer-free. His PSA has cells, colon cancer cells and ovarian cancer cells. dropped from 11.1 to 2.5 and all diagnostic tests Yet, despite Protocel’s® success, the National indicate “no clinical signs” of cancer.

Cancer Institute has never moved forward with Š additional research of any kind. +RZWRWDNH3URWRFHO for prostate cancer It’s important to note that while prostate cancer cells were not among those tested in Protocel appears e!ective in both advanced the National Cancer Institute study, there have and early prostate cancers. As with most been numerous reports of cures from patients alternative therapies, the earlier you begin with prostate cancer. "ose reports also include treatment the higher your chances of success. patients who never had surgery, radiation or chemotherapy for their prostate cancer and are "ere are two di!erent Protocel® formulas, cancer-free to this day! Patients like Albert… Protocel® Formula 50 and Protocel® Formula 23. Each formula works better for certain kinds of $OEHUWoVSURVWDWHFDQFHUGLVDSSHDUV cancer. For prostate cancer, Protocel® Formula 23 is recommended. It is readily available today and When Albert was 68 years old he was costs about $110 a bottle for a month and a half’s diagnosed with prostate cancer, con#rmed by supply. a needle biopsy and #ve or six prostate tissue Protocel® Formula 23 is very easy to take, and 43 samples. Luckily, Albert already knew about very little is required. Regular dosing instructions Protocel®. He refused surgery, radiation and any are generally between ¼ and ½ a teaspoon. "is other conventional treatment for his cancer. His dose is taken #ve times a day with each dose doctors thought he was nuts to treat his cancer at spaced out over a 24 hour period. home, by himself! "e idea, says Tanya Harter Pierce, is never to go more than six hours between any two 42 Harter Pierce, Tanya, M.A., MFCC (2009) Outsmart Your Cancer (2nd Edition). Nevada: "oughtworks Publishing doses so you block cancer cells from getting any 43 Harter Pierce, Tanya, M.A., MFCC (2009) Outsmart Your 44 Harter Pierce, Tanya, M.A., MFCC (2009) Outsmart Your Cancer (2nd Edition). Nevada: "oughtworks Publishing. Cancer (2nd Edition). Nevada: "oughtworks Publishing. ~ 20 ~ nourishment. For example, you could take the Something else to consider: While many formula at 7 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 4 p.m., 8:30 p.m., patients who report success with Protocel® do not and 2 a.m. (yes, you have to set an alarm and change their diets substantially, if I was battling wake up for that middle of the night dose!) prostate cancer I would increase my intake of vegetables and fruit and decrease my intake of ,PSRUWDQW3URWRFHOŠ is not meat and dairy products to help my body #ght FRPSDWLEOHZLWKRWKHUQDWXUDO the disease. WUHDWPHQWV

As you can see, taking Protocel® is relatively simple. However, the formula’s biological e!ects on cancer cells are quite complex. "erefore, For more information: Protocel® should not be taken with any other natural treatments, not even ordinary vitamins Tanya Harter Pierce’s book, Outsmart Your and minerals in a multi-vitamin! Cancer, is considered the de#nitive guide to using In her book, Outsmart Your Cancer, Tanya Protocel® to treat cancer. It is recommended Harter Pierce provides a long list of therapies to by Jim Sheridan’s family and licensed Protocel® avoid while using Protocel®. Among the most distributors. I strongly encourage picking up common: Vitamin C, Vitamin E, Selenium, Fish a copy should you choose to take Protocel® Oil, CoQ10, and Ginseng. Essentially, you don’t for your prostate cancer. You can purchase a want to take anything “extra” while you’re taking copy for $26.95 from our website: http://www. Protocel®. cancerdefeated.com/OYC/. It’s also important, says Tanya, to drink plenty Protocel® is sold through licensed distributors of water (at least a half gallon a day) and stay in the United States and internationally. For U.S. regular, using laxatives if necessary. Both will purchases contact: help your body process and eliminate dead Vitamin Depot cancer cells. Tel: 330-634-0008 Editorial note: A$er reading the available Web: www.yourvitamindepot.com research on Protocel® and hearing from men For questions ask for Dr. Kimberly Cassidy who have taken Protocel® for prostate cancer and (Doctor of Naturopathy) other cancers, I’ve come to the conclusion that Protocel® works very well for certain men and not Renewal and Wellness, LLC very well for others. Tel: 888-581-4442 Web: http://www.webnd.com From what I’ve learned, if Protocel® is going to work to cure your prostate cancer then it will For international purchases contact: work relatively quickly — within a matter of Go-Global Health Marketing, Inc. months. You can get regular diagnostic testing Customer Service a$er starting Protocel® or any other treatment to email: [email protected] monitor your progress. Also, I discovered that Web: www.Protocelglobal.com many men with prostate cancer have reported an increase in their PSA a$er they begin taking Protocel®. "is is believed to be a “healing crisis” and results from cancer cells quickly dying o!.

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Flood Your Body with Oxygen and Cancer Cells Will Die On Contact: "e Budwig Protocol

hen “Bill” (not his real name) was overhauling your diet — you just add two “foods” diagnosed with prostate cancer, he you can get at any natural health food store. learned it had spread outside his Wprostate and into his spine. Sadly, Bill’s doctors 7KHLQFUHGLEOHFDQFHUNLOOLQJSRZHU told him his disease was so advanced that he RIIOD[VHHGRLODQGFRWWDJHFKHHVH should get his a!airs in order and prepare for the end. But Bill’s wife refused to give up hope and "at’s right, &axseed oil and cottage cheese! began investigating alternative treatments. "at combination might not get your taste buds’ attention, but it certainly gets the attention of She learned about a simple nutritional cancer cells. "is unique combination of foods protocol developed by a German biochemist that has the natural power to KILL THEM! has worked wonders for probably thousands of prostate cancer patients. And she persuaded Bill German biochemist Dr. Johanna Budwig45 was to try it. Lo and behold, he started feeling better the #rst to discover this, a$er noticing that people every day. with chronic illnesses such as cancer and arthritis have very low levels of omega-3 fatty acids in ,QVL[PRQWKV%LOOoVpKRSHOHVVq their blood. SURVWDWHFDQFHUZDVJRQH Around 1951, she found a simple way to reintroduce these fats into the bloodstream. She Bill went back to his doctor’s o%ce six months discovered that the human body easily absorbs later. "e doctor couldn’t believe he was still the omega-3 fats and protein naturally present in alive, much less looking so good! "e doctor &axseed oil and cottage cheese. What happened immediately examined Bill’s prostate and put next was amazing: him through all the ordinary diagnostic tests for cancer. EVERY SINGLE TEST CAME BACK &DQFHUFHOOVIHOODSDUWDQGGLHG NEGATIVE! "at’s right, the advanced prostate cancer that had spread throughout Bill’s body had Dr. Budwig noticed that the omega-3 fats simply vanished. and protein from &axseed oil and cottage cheese Bill is still cancer-free, three years and easily reached cancer cells, &ooding them with counting. He’s such a believer in this nutritional oxygen, which attacks them. "e result? Cancer protocol that he uses it every day to make sure the cells simply fell apart and died. It’s a process cancer doesn’t come back. "ank goodness this protocol is easy to stick with. It doesn’t require 45 “"e Story and Studies of Johanna Budwig,” www.budwig- &ax.com ~ 22 ~ called “oxidation.” )UDQNoV36$GURSVSRLQWVLQ Modern medicine has known about the power GD\V of oxidation since the 1930’s. "at’s when science #rst discovered that oxidation can make normal From this naturopath I also discovered cells healthier and wipe out cancer cells. “Frank” (not his real name), who was 75 when he learned his PSA was almost as high as his age — a But Dr. Budwig is one of only a few doctors horri#c 73. He decided to try the &axseed-oil- who’ve actually taken advantage of this simple and-cottage-cheese cure. process to cure cancer! And her brilliant discoveries haven’t gone unnoticed: She’s been For the next three months he used it every nominated for the Nobel Prize seven times. day, while also eating mostly raw fruits and vegetables. At the end of three months, Frank’s Of course, conventional medicine still laughs PSA had dropped to an unbelievable 13 — a 60- o! her simple cancer cure as sheer quackery. But point drop in just 90 days! patients who’ve tried it are happily getting the last laugh! Many of them have gotten incredible "ere are many more stories of prostate cancer results in just days or weeks when NOTHING recoveries like Bill’s, David’s and Frank’s. One of ELSE worked to stop their cancers — especially the most famous is Cli! Beckwith’s. According prostate cancer. to a web site Cli! began, he lived an active life with advanced prostate cancer for an incredible 17 'DYLGoVDGYDQFHGSURVWDWHFDQFHU years a$er doctors said he’d die. GLVDSSHDUV Cli! always maintained that the Budwig Protocol saved his life. He was such an advocate In my research I uncovered several reports that he started making audio tapes, and from a German naturopath who has set up a Web eventually launched his web site to help other Site to inform others on the Budwig Protocol.46 men discover the &axseed-oil-and-cottage-cheese "at’s where I learned about “Bill” and also treatment. “David” (not his real name). David was stricken Sadly, Cli! passed away in April, 2007, nearly with advanced prostate cancer. He was in terrible two decades a$er his “hopeless” diagnosis. His pain, a common symptom for men in the late family has kept his web site intact to help other stages of the disease. Even worse, his doctors men struggling with prostate cancer. You can could no longer help him. All he could do was #nd it at http://www.beckwithfamily.com. "ere, lie on the couch and su$er. His daughter could you’ll discover other testimonials from men hardly stand it. who had prostate cancer and used the Budwig She’d heard about the &axseed oil and started Protocol to send it into remission. giving it to him. In a few weeks, this once-dying Besides numerous prostate cancer patients, man was out driving his truck again. He was many renowned cancer experts also believe in the feeling worlds better. He was even calling his curative powers of the Budwig Protocol. friends to report his amazing recovery with this strange natural treatment. 1DWXUDOKHDOWK0'SUDLVHVWKH %XGZLJ3URWRFROIRUFDQFHU

In a 1990 issue of the Townsend Letter for Doctors & Patients, Dr. Dan C. Roehm, M.D., F.A.C.P., an oncologist and former cardiologist, 46 “Budwig Protocol.” www.healingcancernaturally.com ~ 23 ~ raved about the “immediate” curative e!ects of Her protocol calls for using quark (a dairy the Budwig Protocol: food readily available in Europe, but less so “"is diet is far and away the most successful in the USA), cottage cheese or yogurt. Most anti-cancer diet in the world. What she [Dr. Americans use cottage cheese. Choose an Johanna Budwig] has demonstrated to my initial organic, preservative-free brand with one or disbelief, but lately to my complete satisfaction in two percent fat. Mix two-thirds of a cup with six my practice, is: CANCER IS EASILY CURABLE. tablespoons of high-quality &axseed oil (stored in your refrigerator). "is is your daily dose. “!e treatment is dietary/lifestyle, the response is immediate; the cancer cell is weak and If you choose yogurt, Dr. Budwig recommends vulnerable; the precise biochemical breakdown tripling the amount. In other words, you’ve got point was identi#ed by her in 1951 and is to eat two cups of yogurt with six tablespoons of speci#cally correctable, in vitro (test tube) as well &axseed oil. as in vivo (real). I only wish that all my patients "ough some patients say the cottage cheese/ had a PhD in Biochemistry and Quantum Physics oil mixture is an acquired taste, others enjoy it. to enable them to see how with such consummate Many have their cottage cheese and &axseed oil skill this diet was put together. It is a wonder.”47 for breakfast. [Emphasis added] For example, Bill Henderson makes a fruit Another leading advocate of the Budwig smoothie with it every day. If you choose to make Protocol is cancer author and radio commentator a smoothie like he does, make sure you add the Bill Henderson. &axseed oil, blending it only by hand, AFTER Bill has written repeatedly about how he you’ve mixed all the other ingredients in your himself takes &axseed oil and cottage cheese blender. In other words, NEVER blend the oil in every single day to prevent prostate cancer (or the blender! Here’s why: any other cancer) from growing in his body. Dr. Budwig and others report that ANY In his book Cancer-Free, Bill points out that type of heat (even from the blender motor) can when people use it correctly, the Budwig Protocol destroy the &axseed oil’s omega-3 content and has shown a SUCCESS RATE OF 90 PERCENT render it useless. "is is one reason why it’s in clinical research. And this research included imperative that you buy a fresh, high-quality oil patients who’d tried radiation and surgery, and (experts o$en recommend Barleans brand) and their doctors couldn’t help them.48 store it properly in your refrigerator. Editorial note: "e Budwig Protocol does not +RZWRXVHWKH%XGZLJ3URWRFROWKH require changing your diet, other than adding right way the necessary &axseed oil and cottage cheese combination. However, if it were me I would One thing that’s clear in all the articles and adopt elements of proven cancer #ghting diets books I’ve read on the Budwig Protocol is that which include high amounts of fresh vegetables you must use the EXACT ingredients in the and fruits and less meat and dairy products. EXACT WAY that Dr. Budwig recommends in order for the treatment to work.

47 Henderson, Bill (2008) Cancer-Free (!ird Edition) Book- locker, Inc. 48 Henderson, Bill (2008) Cancer-Free (!ird Edition) Book- locker, Inc. ~ 24 ~ For more information: Flax Oil As a True Aid Against Arthritis, Heart Infarction, Cancer and Other Diseases by Dr. Johanna Budwig (available on Amazon)

!e Oil-Protein Diet Cookbook by Dr. Johanna Budwig (available on Amazon) !e Budwig Cancer & Coronary Heart Disease Prevention Diet: !e Revolutionary Diet from Dr. Johanna Budwig, the Woman Who Discovered Omega-3s by Dr. Johanna Budwig (available on Amazon) Online chat group for the Budwig Protocol: [email protected] High-quality &axseed oil is available from Barleans: http://www.barleans.com/ Cli! Beckwith Web site: http://www.beckwithfamily.com

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Cutting-Edge Sound Treatment Melts Away Early Prostate Cancer! High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound — HIFU

any men, when they hear the dreaded German doctors using hyperthermia heat “C-word,” just want to get the regions of the patient’s body where cancer cancer cut out as soon as possible exists to temperatures upwards of 109 degrees M— no matter what. And, of course, plenty of Fahrenheit. But HIFU is much more speci#c. It conventional doctors are willing to tell them that heats ONLY the prostate with pinpoint accuracy, it’s a good idea. "at can be a mistake, in my so doctors can safely use much, much higher view. temperatures, giving cancer an even slimmer Surgery ISN’T necessarily your best option chance of surviving. (see Chapter Nine), but if you decide it is, I’ve got Researchers have found that HIFU kills a much gentler, kinder “surgery” for you. In fact, prostate cancer WITHOUT causing the common some patients don’t consider this breakthrough side e!ects that conventional surgery and surgery at all, but a simple scalpel-less procedure radiation cause, such as impotence and urinary that gets rid of the cancer without getting rid of incontinence. "e reason is that, unlike prostate the prostate! surgery and radiation, the nerves necessary for erection and bladder control are not a!ected "is breakthrough is a new treatment for by HIFU in any way. More on this in a minute, prostate cancer called High-Intensity Focused but #rst I want to tell you what men experience Ultrasound or HIFU (pronounced HIGH-foo). during HIFU. Instead of a scalpel, this treatment uses "e entire HIFU treatment is scalpel-less. It acoustic sound waves to generate thermal (heat) takes about two to three-and-a-half hours, and energy that melts away prostate cancer. Yes, I said is done on an outpatient basis. You will undergo melts: "e acoustic sound waves super-heat the general anesthesia during the procedure and prostate to a whopping 194 degrees Fahrenheit, you’ll need a catheter for a week or so a$er killing prostate cancer cells. treatment. However, most patients usually resume their normal, active lives within two days, How VRXQGNLOOVFDQFHUFHOOV and sometimes sooner. Just ask Gary Crissman. "is treatment is based on the same principle as hyperthermia (heat) treatments. Cancer clinics +,)8LVDSDLQIUHHpEUHH]Hq throughout Germany use those treatments to Gary Crissman was 54 when he was diagnosed treat all sorts of cancers. "e principle is that heat with prostate cancer. Worried that prostate kills cancer cells. surgery would leave him impotent and in diapers

~ 26 ~ for the rest of his life, he opted for HIFU. the university revealed something even more “I didn’t want to have the problem of potentially spectacular: Researchers discovered they could leaking, and I didn’t want to have the problem of treat the WHOLE PROSTATE without damaging the prostate capsule (the membrane that erectile dysfunction,” Gary told a New York Times 51 reporter in 2008.49 Calling the painless procedure surrounds the prostate). a “breeze,” Gary recounted how he “celebrated” "is is a tremendous advantage over getting rid of his prostate cancer that very SAME traditional prostate surgeries that damage the NIGHT with a bu!et dinner at his hotel. prostate membrane. When the membrane is damaged, o$en the nerves necessary for erection p3URFHGXUHLVYHU\HDV\qVD\V*UHJ and the urinary sphincter necessary for bladder control are damaged too. "at’s why so many Another patient named Greg said having men are becoming impotent and incontinent HIFU was much, much easier than any kind a$er conventional prostate treatments! of prostate surgery. He posted a report of his Not only that, urologists say damaging the experience on an online blog: prostate membrane can “spill” cancer cells into “!e procedure is very easy.You can arrive the patient’s bloodstream and spread the disease! the day before the procedure and travel home the “!e ability to treat the prostate with virtually next day if you want. Just four hours a"er the no disruption of the capsule avoids unnecessary procedure, we walked to the marina for dinner. spillage of cancer cells that is common to radical !e day a"er the procedure, my wife and I did a prostatectomy,” says Dr. Ronald Wheeler, a walking tour of [the city], and we probably walked urologist and HIFU practitioner at the Diagnostic three miles. Other than a catheter, you don’t feel Center for Disease in Sarasota, Florida.52 any di$erent a"er the procedure than before, other than relieved… All my functions are normal…I "e 1995 study also found another wonderful have no urinary function issues at all. I have no bene#t. HIFU doesn’t damage the patient’s rectal impotency issues, either.”50 wall. Damaging it can cause fecal incontinence. "is is a tragic and little-known side e!ect of 6RXQGEUHDNWKURXJKGLVFRYHUHGDW conventional IMRT and brachytherapy, with or ,QGLDQD8QLYHUVLW\ without External Beam or Proton Beam. "ese amazing bene#ts of the HIFU approach bear HIFU is a relatively new procedure, but the repeating… breakthrough behind it is more than 50 years old. Research began at Indiana University in 0HQ.HHS7KHLU6H[XDO)XQFWLRQ Bloomington in the 1950’s. "ey studied a %ODGGHUDQG%RZHO&RQWURO special ultrasound device to see if it could deliver enough thermal energy to destroy cancer. Results At #rst it was hard for me to understand showed that it could in fact kill cancer cells. And how HIFU could destroy cancerous prostate the sound treatment was safe and doctors could cells and tissue without at least diminishing repeat it if cancer recurred. sexual function. But then I heard Dr. Wheeler’s explanation (and learned a lot more about male In 1995, a study on modern-day HIFU at 51 HIFU Care Center. www.hifucarecenter.com 49 Saul, Stephanie “Despite Doubts, Cancer "erapy Draws 52 Wheeler, Ronald M.D. (1998-2010) “Sexual Potency Is Patients.” !e New York Times January 18, 2008 Maintained by Design As the Neurovascular Bundles Are 50 Greg, Personal Blog Post. http://www.cancercompass.com/ Mapped out of the Treatment Plan.” Florida: Diagnostic Center messages/Greg1961, Dec 29, 2007 for Disease. ~ 27 ~ anatomy) and it all made sense. percent had PSA levels under 1.0!55[A Gleason "e tissues SURROUNDING your prostate are score is used to evaluate the aggressiveness of what’s important to erectile function and bladder prostate cancer.] control — not the prostate itself. Right outside Japanese researchers performed their own the prostate membrane are nerves necessary to study and concluded that “High-intensity focused achieve erection. "is is also where the urinary ultrasound therapy appears to be a safe and sphincter for bladder control is located. e&cacious minimally invasive therapy for patients 56 According to Dr. Wheeler, surgery and with localized prostate cancer.” radiation can damage these areas but the HIFU “Localized” prostate cancer means prostate procedure is far more precise than any kind of cancer that hasn’t spread. Japanese researchers radiation or surgical treatment — even more found that men with PSA levels under 10 before precise than those brand new robotic surgeries, the procedure had a 94 PERCENT chance of guided by the Da Vinci Robot.® 53 HIFU never surviving at least three years a$er treatment. reaches outside the prostate membrane so these nerves and the urinary sphincter remain +,)8$ZRQGHUIXOQHZRSWLRQIRU untouched.54 early prostate cancer Men have the exact same sexual and bladder "ere are many success stories of men who function a"er HIFU as they had before. "e only appear to have cured their prostate cancers di!erence is that you may have less ejaculatory completely, with no debilitating side e!ects, using &uid. "is is due to cell death within the prostate. HIFU. "e best results are in men with early-stage Regardless, you’ll likely maintain your fertility. prostate cancer. Unfortunately, men who have Dr. Wheeler’s o%ce reports that his patients’ more advanced cases aren’t faring as well. ejaculatory &uids still contain live sperm. Tests they’ve done on the &uid of post-HIFU men in "e same research in Germany and Japan their 70’s have proven it. shows that when the cancer has spread outside the man’s prostate, or he has a higher PSA or &OLQLFDOVWXG\UHVXOWV+,)8VDIHDQG Gleason score, HIFU treatment isn’t as successful. effective Why? Dr. Wheeler reports that as prostate cancer Independent clinical studies performed in advances, calci#ed stones form in your prostate. Germany and Japan reveal that HIFU is a safe "ese stones can “prevent the focused energy from and e$ective treatment for prostate cancer. getting to tissue on the other side” or worse, the In Germany, 146 men with Gleason scores sound energy can be re&ected back toward the of 7 or lower and PSAs of 15 ng/ml or lower were treated with HIFU. Two years later, 93.4 PERCENT HAD NEGATIVE BIOPSIES and 87 55 Blana A, Walter B, Rogenhofer S, Wieland WF. Depart- ment of Urology, University of Regensburg, St. Josef Hospital, 53 Wheeler, Ronald M.D. (1998-2010) “Sexual Potency Is Regensburg, Germany. High-intensity focused ultrasound for Maintained by Design As the Neurovascular Bundles Are the treatment of localized prostate cancer: 5-year experience. Mapped out of the Treatment Plan.” Florida: Diagnostic Center Urology. 2004 Feb;63(2):297-300. for Disease. 56 Uchida T, Shoji S, Nakano M, Hongo S, Nitta M, Murota 54 Wheeler, Ronald M.D. (1998-2010) “Sexual Potency Is A, Nagata Y. Department of Urology, Tokai University Hachioji Maintained by Design As the Neurovascular Bundles Are Hospital, Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan. Transrectal high-intensity fo- Mapped out of the Treatment Plan.” Florida: Diagnostic Center cused ultrasound for the treatment of localized prostate cancer: for Disease. eight-year experience. Int J Urol. 2009 Nov;16(11):881-6. ~ 28 ~ rectal wall.57 In other words, the sound energy is appropriate patients.”59 He recommends HIFU di!used and parts of the prostate never reach the only for men who have: temperature necessary for cancer cells to die. t
early-stage (T1 or T2) prostate cancer "e other interesting part of the story is what t
localized tumors that haven’t spread outside happens when you DO send HIFU’s energy the prostate outside the prostate. Remember, that’s where nerves for erectile function and bladder control t
a Gleason score of six or lower are located. It seems that in some men with more t
a PSA level under 10 ng/ml advanced cancers, HIFU is resulting in the SAME t
a prostate that’s no larger than 40cc in volume side e!ects as traditional prostate therapies such as incontinence and sexual dysfunction! ,V+,)8DORQJWHUPFXUHIRUHDUO\ We might conclude that when HIFU is used prostate cancer? to treat cancer that lies OUTSIDE the prostate capsule, as it o$en does in advanced cases, HIFU is still a very new treatment and much HIFU’s heat destroys healthy tissues right along of the research in prostate cancer patients is little with cancerous ones. From the research it’s clear more than 10 years old, so no long-term cure to me that HIFU may not be for everyone. rates are available. “We must not use the one-size-#ts-all mentality Some experts caution that HIFU may not with HIFU, as o"en times occurs with radical completely cure prostate cancer, because there’ve prostatectomy,” Dr. Wheeler cautions. “As skilled been some cases of recurrence. Dr. Wheeler surgeons, we must be able to accept that all men believes the explanation is simple: Prostate cancer with prostate cancer will not be viable candidates recurs when HIFU isn’t used on “carefully selected” for HIFU for a variety of reasons, and therefore, patients.60 His o%ce reports that when men must encourage them to treat their disease with an are properly quali#ed the cancer DOES NOT alternative.” 58 RETURN. Other experts point to the simplicity of the :KRVKRXOGJHW+,)8tDQGZKR treatment and how you can receive it again and VKRXOGQoW again to safely melt away recurring prostate cancers. In fact, research suggests that some men Dr. "omas Gardner, M.D., agrees with Dr. might need more than one treatment to get rid of Wheeler. Dr. Gardner is a professor of urology their prostate cancer completely. and one of the researchers at Indiana University School Medicine who was involved in FDA &XUUHQW)'$FOLQLFDOWULDOV clinical trials of HIFU. In an interview in Bottom Line’s Daily Health HIFU is currently undergoing two di!erent newsletter, Dr. Gardner says HIFU can be an FDA-approved clinical trials in the USA. "e #rst amazing treatment “in the right hands, among trial is of primary organ-con#ned or localized prostate cancer in 466 men being treated at 24 57 Wheeler, Ronald M.D. (1998-2010) “Why HIFU Fails to di!erent treatment centers. A second trial will Cure Prostate Cancer. Florida: Diagnostic Center for Disease.” Reprinted with permission. 59 “Ultrasound Treatment for Prostate Cancer.” Bottom Line’s: Daily Health News. Tuesday, May 6, 2008. 58 Wheeler, Ronald M.D. (1998-2010) “Sexual Potency Is Maintained by Design As the Neurovascular Bundles Are 60 Wheeler, Ronald M.D. (1998-2010) “Why HIFU Fails to Mapped out of the Treatment Plan.” Florida: Diagnostic Center Cure Prostate Cancer. Florida: Diagnostic Center for Disease.” for Disease. Reprinted with permission. Reprinted with permission. ~ 29 ~ look at men su!ering recurrent prostate cancer With a price tag of $25,000-$30,000, HIFU who’ve already tried conventional external-beam treatment certainly isn’t cheap. And because radiation therapy that didn’t help them. it’s not approved by the FDA, your insurance "ough no results of these trials have been company won’t automatically cover the cost. released, the medical monitor of the trials, Dr. But according to the U.S. HIFU’s Web site, Herbert Lepor, Chairman of Urology at NYU “Several patients have been able to receive School of Medicine, has been quoted as saying, “I full reimbursement from their insurance have personally reviewed the preliminary data and company. People have been successful by #ling observed the Sonablate® 500 [HIFU] in action and I a claim through an independent claims #ling am impressed with this advanced technology.” 61 service. Patients are given a detailed receipt a"er the procedure to assist in #ling and for tax How to get HIFU purposes… You may be able to deduct HIFU as a medical expense on your taxes…”63 Currently, the U.S. Government approves HIFU only for “investigational” use. So to get it in the USA you must enroll in a clinical trial, such For more information: as those being performed by the FDA. Fortunately, U.S. HIFU, the company that owns the Sonablate® 500 HIFU technology, has Watch a 3-D animation of the HIFU procedure 100 treatment centers worldwide, including here: centers in Mexico, Canada, Costa Rica, South http://www.panamhifu.com Africa and the Caribbean. Stephen M. Scionti, M.D. Gary and Greg, whom I mentioned earlier, Minimally Invasive Prostate Cancer Specialist both visited the center in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, Coastal Carolina Urology Group, LLC where Board Certi#ed Urologist Dr. Stephen 8 Hospital Center Boulevard, Suite 150 Scionti regularly travels from his practice in Hilton Head Island, SC 29926 South Carolina to perform the procedure. Toll-free: 866-422-2284 Other Americans such as Richard Brightmire Fax: 843-342-7640 have traveled to the Cancun, Mexico center. He Web site: www.HIFUcarecenter.com told his story on ABC’s “Nightline” in June, 2008. Web site: www.cryocarecenter.com According to the broadcast, four months a$er his HIFU treatment, his PSA had plummeted to zero Ronald Wheeler, M.D. and his quality of life was perfectly “normal.” Urologist and Director of the Diagnostic Center for Disease “I’m doing #ne since the HIFU procedure. 1250 South Tamiami Trail, Suite 101 N Everything is back to normal,” Brightmire said. Sarasota, FL 34239 “For me, I went with the procedure because of Tel: 941-957-0007 the results outside the U.S. that show it to be Toll-free: 877-766-8400 non-invasive and show a lower risk of long-term Fax: 941-957-1033 hospitalization, and a lower risk of incontinence as E-mail: [email protected] well as impotence, especially compared to surgery Web site: http://www.ronaldwheeler.com and other treatments available today.” 62

61 United States HIFU, www.ushifu.com 62 United States HIFU, www.ushifu.com 63 United States HIFU, www.ushifu.com ~ 30 ~ To read more of what Dr. Wheeler says about HIFU, see his article “Sexual Potency is Maintained by Design as the Neurovascular Bundles are Mapped Out of the Treatment Plan” online at http://www.panamhifu.com/why_hifu_ fails.asp#FDA_approval

U. S. HIFU Web site: www.ushifu.com If patients meet the enrollment criteria, they might qualify to enroll in the U.S. HIFU clinical trials. For more information about the clinical trials’ eligibility criteria, call toll-free 1-888-874- 4384.

~ 31 ~ Chapter Seven Early Detection of Prostate Cancer

"e Problem with PSAs and the Test "at’s Working Better

octors have recommended the Prostate- doesn’t have prostate cancer. 64 Speci#c Antigen (PSA) test for all men Researchers at the Dana-Farber Cancer 40 and older since 1988. When the test Institute at Harvard Medical School recently Dwas #rst introduced, doctors were thrilled. "ey studied the problem. In a review of years of had high hopes that early detection of prostate research, they documented that 50 percent of cancer would save more lives. ALL MEN with high PSAs don’t have prostate But it’s become clear that the PSA test has a cancer.65 MAJOR drawback: Too many false positives — So what do these men have? Usually, i.e., erroneous test results that say patients have prostatitis. cancer. And men are being put through needless, painful biopsies — sometimes six or more — plus 3URVWDWLWLV2IWHQPLVGLDJQRVHGDV much emotional trauma, when they don’t even prostate cancer have prostate cancer! Urologist Dr. Ronald Wheeler has written 8SWRSHUFHQWRIPHQwithout extensively on the problem of men with high prostate cancer are getting positive PSAs being treated for prostate cancer, when 36$WHVWUHVXOWV in fact they might have a prostate infection or prostatitis. In his article, “PSA: A Barometer to Research proves that having a high or positive Prostate Health or a License to Biopsy,” he writes: PSA test result by no means proves you have “For the most part, we lack the ability to cancer. Many other non-cancerous prostate judge which patients [with high PSAs] are truly conditions can raise your prostate-speci#c at risk [for prostate cancer] and which ones antigen. For example, an enlarged prostate (BPH) are not. My belief is that there is a means to or in&ammation and infection of the prostate di$erentiate patients at risk with an elevated (prostatitis) can send your PSA through the roof. PSA from the group that has little or no risk. In his book Cancer-Free, Bill Henderson Recognition that PSA is driven primarily by reports that up to 70 PERCENT OF MEN prostatitis [in%ammation/infection] will allow for with elevated PSA levels turn out NOT to have prostate cancer (i.e., false positives.) Bill himself 64 Henderson, Bill (2008) Cancer-Free (!ird Edition) Book- has reported that he’s had high PSA levels, but he locker, Inc. 65 Garnick MB."e dilemmas of prostate cancer. Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School Sci Am. 1994 Apr;270(4):72-81. Review. No abstract available. ~ 32 ~ a more conservative approach [in prostate cancer t
vitamin B6 66 treatment].” [Emphasis added] t
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selenium #rst thing to rule out is prostatitis, Dr. Wheeler advises. Your doctor does this with a simple t
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stinging nettle turns out you DO have prostatitis, you’ll certainly breathe a sigh of relief that it’s not cancer. Dr. Wheeler has reported such success with But, adds Dr. Wheeler, you shouldn’t take this nutritional approach that he’s patented a prostatitis lightly. It’s a warning sign of possible formula with these nutrients called Peenuts®. FUTURE cancer. He writes: Several clinical studies have shown wonderful “Prostatitis is also an epidemic disease and results in men with prostatitis and BPH. associated with virtually all cases of prostate Š cancer. To state further, we must recognize 3DWHQWHG3HHQXWV LPSURYHVXULQDU\ that antibiotics have limitations and work V\PSWRPV minimally to ameliorate chronic prostatitis as noted in Campbell’s Urology, the reference text… In one randomized, double-blind, placebo- Physicians must also be willing to decrease the controlled study, Peenuts® “improved ability to number of prescriptions written for antibiotics, decrease the signs and symptoms associated with 68 thereby providing impetus for the use of non- an enlarged prostate or prostatitis.” traditional, complementary alternative treatment More speci#cally, ALL the men in the methodologies.”67 Peenuts® study experienced improved urinary symptoms, such as less frequency, less pain and Treating prostatitis naturally less dribbling. A whopping 69 percent of them improved in either six or seven of the seven Dr. Wheeler believes doctors can treat most categories measured — in other words, most cases of prostatitis without antibiotics, using men’s symptoms improved across the board! By natural nutritional therapies. He recommends the way, these “categories” are based on the IPSS- that patients with prostatitis take a blend of Index or AUA Symptom Index that doctors use to nutritional anti-in&ammatories, immune- diagnose prostate problems. boosters, herbs, vitamins, minerals and But it’s not just one study. In a clinical follow- antioxidants. "e nutrients include: up to the study, more than 300 men got similar t
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66 Wheeler, Ronald M.D. (1998-2010) “PSA — A Barometer of Prostate Health Or a License to Biopsy.” Florida: Diagnostic Center for Disease. Reprinted with permission. 67 Wheeler, Ronald M.D. (1998-2010) “PSA — A Barometer of Prostate Health Or a License to Biopsy.” Florida: Diagnostic Center for Disease. Reprinted with permission. 68 Peenuts®, http://www.peenuts.com/peenuts.asp ~ 33 ~ 3DWHQWHG3HHQXWVŠUHGXFHV men to receive either (1) no screening or (2) LQIODPPDWLRQ screening with the PSA. "en they monitored the men for 10 years. A$er seven years, the U.S. "e PSAs of ALL patients studied improved an researchers made a shocking discovery: "e average of 49 PERCENT! Meanwhile, the EPS, the unscreened group had a death rate 13 PERCENT most sensitive “marker” for prostatitis, showed a LOWER than the screened group! 66 percent drop in white blood cells — a GOOD Almost three years later, a$er they’d followed thing, because it means a drop in in&ammation. most of the men for 10 years, the U.S. researchers Best of all, there were “no side e$ects or drug concluded there was no real reduction in deaths interactions noted during testing or clinical follow- from prostate cancer with PSA screening. up.” 69 In Europe, the men in the study fared little If you want to learn more about Peenuts® or better. the ingredients in the formula, visit the Web site: www.peenuts.com. 36$WHVWVVDYHGRQO\VHYHQOLYHVIRU Here’s something else that’s important to HYHU\PHQVFUHHQHG note: In his articles, Dr. Wheeler calls the PSA “the barometer of prostate health” and NOT a "e PSA-screened groups had a 20 PERCENT diagnostic test for prostate cancer. "e research REDUCTION in death rate. "is sounds shows he’s onto something. Urgent new studies somewhat signi#cant, but when you look at the reveal that when it comes to prostate cancer, the actual numbers, only seven men’s lives were saved PSA test has made little or no di$erence in saving for every 10,000 men screened! men’s lives. Dr. Otis Brawley, the chief medical o%cer of the American Cancer Society, told the New %UDQGQHZVWXGLHVUHYHDO36$WHVWLQJ York Times the studies were “some of the most notVDYLQJOLYHV important studies in the history of men’s health”! Two large, long-term, multi-center studies just And then he drove the #nal nail into the PSA’s published in the New England Journal of Medicine co%n, exclaiming that bene#ts of screening are show the PSA test provides LITTLE IF ANY “modest at best and with a greater downside than 71 reduction in the number of deaths from prostate any other cancer we screen for.” And this from a cancer. "at’s right, the PSA test has made almost mainstream doctor! NO DIFFERENCE at all in saving men’s lives! But there’s another problem with the PSA test And these studies were massive. that conventional doctors aren’t talking about at "e #rst study involved 182,000 men in seven all. European countries.70 "e second was done by the National Cancer Institute on 77,000 men in 36$WHVW MISSES SHUFHQWRUPRUH the USA. RISURVWDWHFDQFHUV In the studies, scientists randomly assigned Ironically, although the PSA appears to be overly sensitive in some cases, in others it’s not 69 Peenuts®, http://www.peenuts.com/peenuts.asp sensitive enough to detect prostate cancer! 70 Schröder FH, et al. Department of Urology , Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, "e Netherlands. In his book Cancer-Free, Bill Henderson Screening and prostate-cancer mortality in a randomized Eu- ropean study. N Engl J Med. 2009 Mar 26;360(13):1320-8. Epub 71 Kolata, Gina (2009) “Review of prostate cancer screening, 2009 Mar 18. Prostate Test Found to Save Few Lives.” !e New York Times ~ 34 ~ reveals an interesting study he came across in Dr. test is overlooked by conventional medicine even Robert Rowen’s Second Opinion newsletter: though it has been around for over three decades! “Researchers followed 9,459 men who had annual PSA tests. Of this group, 2,950 had test )'$DSSURYHGIRUPRUHWKDQ results showing very healthy prostates,” said Dr. \HDUV Rowen. “But when these ‘healthy’ men underwent "e AMAS test #rst received FDA approval biopsies, a whopping 15 percent tested positive for in 1977. And for the next 17 years the test went cancer! Many had high-grade cancer. And the PSA through a rigorous clinical study in 4,278 patients test missed it in all of them! that proved its e!ectiveness. Today the AMAS “And the incidence of false negatives may be test is possibly the MOST ACCURATE WAY to even higher. You see, prostate biopsies are taken test the human body for any type of cancer. by random needle jabs into the gland. No matter Here’s how it works: "e AMAS test analyzes how many sticks are made, there’s no way to know a blood sample for anti-malignin antibodies. Your if cancer lurks outside the needle track. Bottom body naturally produces these in response to line: Don’t rely on PSA to tell you whether or not cancer cells — any kind of cancer cells. you have cancer. Focus instead on other diagnostic tests.”72 "e best part about the AMAS test is that it detects cancer anywhere in your body UP TO 19 I agree with Dr. Rowen and Bill Henderson. If MONTHS before any other conventional medical your PSA is higher than normal and you’ve ruled test! Talk about early detection! out prostatitis, you might want to consider other diagnostic tests for prostate cancer. In fact, there’s "is kind of early detection is especially useful one VERY IMPORTANT test that you’ll never for prostate cancer, which, like breast and many hear about from your conventional doctor. other cancers, can take decades to develop into a tumor that a doctor can feel manually or detect $0$6GHWHFWVSURVWDWHFDQFHU through a PSA test. By that time, the cancer PRQWKVHDUOLHUWKDQ36$WHVW might already have spread and become far more serious and far more di%cult to treat. When you walk into the doctor’s o%ce, they can tell almost anything about your health just by &DQFHUGHWHFWLRQWKDWoVSHUFHQW looking at your blood. "ey can detect viral and DFFXUDWH bacterial infections and monitor your cholesterol levels, blood pressure, and even your liver and "e AMAS test is also far more accurate heart function. than the PSA test. Remember, the PSA detects prostate-speci#c antigen, which your prostate So why not test your blood for cancer? produces as it grows larger. "e PSA test has a Now it’s #nally possible, thanks to a Harvard- cancer speci#city of only 60 percent. trained biochemist and M.D. named Sam But the AMAS tests speci#cally for cancer, Bogoch. and has a cancer speci#city of 95 percent.73 "at Dr. Bogoch spent 20 years studying how means there’s far less chance that you’ll get to detect cancer in people’s blood. And he either a false positive or a false negative result. developed a blood test called the AMAS, or Anti- According to Dr. Bogoch’s research, the AMAS Malignin Antibody in Serum. "is incredible

72 Henderson, Bill (2008) Cancer-Free (!ird Edition) Book- 73 McDonagh, E.W. “Detecting Cancer.” Townsend Letter for locker, Inc. Doctors and Patients (February/March, 1996), 108-110. ~ 35 ~ test is 95 to 99 percent accurate.74 Of course, a positive AMAS test result does not necessarily mean you have prostate cancer. It indicates you have cancer somewhere, but it doesn’t tell you where. However, with a positive AMAS result, you can start boosting your immune system naturally. You can also have other tests to locate the cancer. Surprisingly, the AMAS test isn’t routinely o!ered in doctors o%ces. And that’s not because it’s too expensive: It costs only $165.

For more information:

To get an AMAS test, call Oncolab Inc. and ask for a free testing kit. You take the kit to the doctor’s o%ce for your blood draw, and then your blood is packed in dry ice and sent overnight by FedEx, along with your $165 payment, back to Oncolab for analysis.

Oncolab Inc. 36 "e Fenway Boston, Massachusetts 02215 Toll-free: 1-800-9CA-TEST Tel: 617-536-0850 Fax: 617-536-0657 Web site: www.oncolabinc.com If you’d like to read Dr. Ronald Wheeler’s entire article, “PSA — A Barometer to Prostate Health or a License to Biopsy,” you can #nd it online at: http://www.ronaldwheeler.com/psa.shtml

74 McTaggart, Lynne (1997) !e Cancer Handbook: What’s Re- ally Working. Illinois: Vital Health Publishing. P. 98. ~ 36 ~ Chapter Eight Diagnosing Prostate Cancer

"e Biggest Problem with “the Gold Standard”— Ultrasound and Biopsy

conventional medicine, if you have diagnosis is damage to your prostate. And the a high PSA, your doctor might do consequences are far more serious. an ultrasound and then a biopsy to Indetermine whether you have prostate cancer. How prostate biopsies spread cancer Conventional doctors call these tests the “gold standard” in prostate cancer detection. Sadly, this A wealth of research suggests that prostate process is far from being worth its weight in gold! biopsies, like breast cancer biopsies, can “spill” cancer cells and send them spreading throughout According to published research, an your prostate and even your whole body. ultrasound followed by a biopsy has a detection rate of a mere 30 percent. In a study at the University of California at San Diego, Dr. Michael Karin found that prostate In other words, if 10 men with suspected biopsies encourage tissue in%ammation, which prostate cancer underwent an ultrasound and FEEDS CANCER CELLS! In his study, Dr. Karin biopsy, only three prostate cancers would be examined cancerous mouse prostates before and discovered. Why the dismal success rate? "ere a"er prostate biopsies. are two reasons. You discovered the #rst and most important reason in the last chapter: “We have shown that proteins produced by in%ammatory cells,” says Dr. Karin, “Are the REASON No.1: Many of these 10 men NEVER ‘smoking gun’ behind prostate cancer metastasis had prostate cancer in the #rst place! [spreading].”75 REASON No. 2 is even MORE disturbing: I’m Besides spreading prostate cancer, prostate talking about missed cancers. biopsies also INCREASE your risk of infection. "ough experts haven’t clinically studied the issue of missed cancers, many alternative doctors 3DLQIXOSURVWDWHELRSV\GDPDJHVWLQ\ have long believed that the rate of cancers missed SURVWDWHGXFWV during biopsy is signi#cant. "eir belief is based on experience with patients and on simple logic. To understand how a prostate biopsy can You see, biopsies are taken only by random damage your prostate, you need to know what jabs of a small needle. But cancer can be hiding happens during the biopsy procedure. ANYWHERE outside the tiny needle “tracks.” "e doctor sticks a device with a needle up An even bigger problem with conventional through your rectum (not a pleasant experience.) medicine’s “gold standard” for prostate cancer 75 Wheeler, Ronald M.D. (1998-2010) “Dangers of Prostate Biopsies.” Florida: Diagnostic Center for Disease. ~ 37 ~ "e needle is shot through the thin lining that “As I like to tell my patients,” writes Dr. separates your prostate from your colon, and Wheeler in his article “Revolutionary Prostate into the prostate gland. "en your doctor retracts Cancer Diagnostic Scan Avoids Biopsies,” “the it, bringing out a small sample of your prostate di$erence in scan technique is all about the ‘S’ . tissue. He or she might do this multiple times. To restate, the ‘S’ stands for Spectroscopy, or the Many patients say it’s very painful. evaluation of cellular metabolic by-products or Alternative doctors believe that every time a metabolites, including Citrate, Choline, Creatine, needle enters a patient’s prostate, tiny prostate and Polyamines. !e pattern of presentation, ducts su!er damage, then become covered with including ratios of the component metabolites, scar tissue. "is can cause infection and tissue yields a ‘#ngerprint’ or cellular identity that predicts normalcy or lack of normalcy consistent in&ammation — a real danger, especially if you’re 77 already su!ering from prostatitis or BPH!76 with cancer.” In fact, there are reports of some men "ere is no other known test that can su!ering infection, ejaculation and impotency determine the chemical makeup of a tissue mass problems a$er prostate biopsies. "ere are even or tumor — not even the Positron Emitting documented cases of Peyronie’s Disease — an Tomography (PET) scan! In fact, the PET scan awful condition in which a lump causes the o$en can’t reveal whether the prostate tumor is patient’s penis to bend permanently. I don’t know localized or has spread. about you, but I wouldn’t want to risk getting this So it’s no surprise that Dr. Wheeler calls the deformity for the sake of a dubious test. MRS the most “sensitive and speci#c diagnostic "e dangers of biopsy are all the more tragic test available” and the “Ultimate Prostate Scan.” when you realize that it’s now possible to detect And he’s not the only one raving about this new prostate cancer WITHOUT a risky needle biopsy. technology. "e Chairman of Urology and Surgery at 1RZDYDLODEOHp7KHp8OWLPDWH Sloan-Kettering, Peter Scardino, M.D., calls the 3URVWDWH6FDQqtZLWK12QHHGOH MRS “the greatest diagnostic test that we have ever had for prostate cancer.”78 Finally doctors can use cutting-edge technology to detect a prostate tumor without a :KDWKDSSHQVGXULQJDQ05 biopsy. What’s more, they can detect the tumor Spectroscopy test with such accuracy that they can tell whether it’s localized — i.e., it’s within your prostate — or To have an MRS test, you’ll #rst put on a whether it’s spread to surrounding tissue! hospital gown. "en you’ll lie on your back on a Best of all, this high-tech test is safe and moveable examination table. "e table slides into non-invasive. It’s called Magnetic Resonance a large tube surrounded by a circular magnet that Spectroscopy (MRS). takes the magnetic images of your prostate. Your head will be outside the machine. "e MR spectroscopy uses HIGHER magnetic #elds than a traditional MRI does. "ese #elds reveal the chemical makeup of a tissue mass or 77 Wheeler, Ronald M.D. (1998-2010) “Revolutionary Prostate tumor. "e radiologist usually can tell whether Cancer Diagnostic Scan Avoids Biopsies.” Florida: Diagnostic it’s cancerous with the MR spectroscopy alone, Center for Disease. Reprinted with permission. without a biopsy. 78 Wheeler, Ronald M.D. (1998-2010) “Revolutionary Prostate Cancer Diagnostic Scan Avoids Biopsies.” Florida: Diagnostic 76 Wheeler, Ronald M.D. (1998-2010) “Dangers of Prostate Center for Disease. Reprinted with permission. Biopsies.” Florida: Diagnostic Center for Disease. ~ 38 ~ Before the images are taken, a technician very di%cult for doctors to know if and when the will perform a basic digital rectal exam and cancer will grow and spread. But there’s a brand- determine where to place a tiny rectal probe that new test that can help. helps capture the images. "e test lasts about 45 "is simple blood test can tell you whether minutes to an hour. your prostate cancer is inclined to grow, spread MR Spectroscopies are available at diagnostic and become advanced. "e test is for simple centers nationwide, including Dr. Wheeler’s Insulin-like growth factor-1 or IGF-1. "is is center (see the “For more information” section a natural compound found in your body. But at the end of this chapter). An MRS costs about in some men it’s “unbound,” which means the $2,000. Your insurance might cover it depending compound isn’t bound to a protein. "at’s bad on your situation. If your doctor orders the MRS, news. your chances of getting coverage are much better. Brand-new research from Harvard Medical School suggests that unbound IGF-1 is a potent 7KHELJJHVWPLVWDNHGRFWRUVPDNH stimulator of prostate cancer cell growth.79 ZLWKWKHGLJLWDOUHFWDOH[DP In a study of 1,064 men, researchers found that How frequently should you get a digital rectal those with the highest levels of IGF-1 had a FIVE exam? Many doctors recommend that all men TIMES greater danger of developing advanced over 50 get them once a year (starting at 45 if prostate cancer than men with the lowest levels. you’re at high risk for prostate cancer). "ey found that IGF-1 not only stimulates If you’re having prostate symptoms such as tumor growth, but might also promote urinary frequency or urgency, once a year might metastasis (spreading). Most important, the not be o$en enough; you might want to have this Harvard researchers concluded that testing for exam every six months. IGF-1 might “predict the risk of advanced stage prostate cancer years before the cancer is actually You should also have it if you test positive on diagnosed.” the AMAS test or you have a PSA above four. If your PSA is high, you should also ask your doctor "ough your doctor probably isn’t familiar to do a repeat PSA screening. with the IGF-1 test, it’s a simple blood test that any doctor’s o%ce should be able to do on BUT PLEASE REMEMBER THIS: Any time request. If you have early prostate cancer and your doctor does a PSA test, make sure he always you can’t get the test from your doctor, go to any does it BEFORE your digital rectal exam. A diagnostic lab near you and get it on your own. digital exam can raise your PSA — but many doctors don’t tell their patients this!

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79 Chan, June M., et al. Insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) If an MR Spectroscopy or biopsy shows that and IGF binding protein-3 as predictors of advanced-stage pros- you have prostate cancer, the next question is tate cancer. Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 94, July “How serious is it?” 17, 2002, pp. 1099-1106 Chan, June M. Insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) and IGF Unfortunately, if your cancer is in the early binding protein-3 as predictors of advanced- stage prostate can- stages and is still con#ned to your prostate, it’s cer. Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 94, December 18, 2002, pp. 1893-94 ~ 39 ~ For more information:

You can watch a video explanation of an MR Spectroscopy at this Web site: http://mrisusa.com/ If you’d like to read more of Dr. Ronald Wheeler’s article, “Revolutionary Prostate Cancer Diagnostic Scan Avoids Biopsies,” you can #nd it on the Web: http://mrisusa.com/articles_mris_avoids_ biopsies.asp

Ronald Wheeler, M.D. Diagnostic Center for Disease 1250 South Tamiami Trail, Suite 101 N Sarasota, FL 34239 Tel: 941-957-0007 Toll-free: 877-766-8400 Fax: 941-957-1033 E-mail: [email protected] Web site: http://www.ronaldwheeler.com/

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"e Truth about Prostatectomy, Radiation and Hormone "erapy…

onventional medicine’s number one Leading prostate expert Dr. Ronald Wheeler treatment for localized prostate cancer agrees: (cancer in the prostate gland only) is “If 10 men with prostate cancer are lined up and Cradical prostatectomy, or surgical removal of the evaluated, doctors cannot predict accurately who entire prostate gland. Most urologists will tell will be cured and who will fail [with conventional you that radical prostatectomy is a “curative” for treatment] regardless of who presents with the best localized prostate cancer. disease characteristics. In fact, in a recent survey of urologists, 90 “Equally unsettling is that all 10 men must percent recommended a radical prostatectomy for receive the most aggressive and traumatic men with early-stage prostate cancer (speci#cally, 80 treatment [radical prostatectomy] to yield a 60-70 65-year-old men with PSAs under 10 ng/ml). percent success rate at 5 years, regardless of the But before you let a doctor cut out your choice of Operating Physician or Medical Center prostate, there are some very important medical selected for the surgery. facts you must know. “10-year data is another story of limited success and will never be as good as the number 3URVWDWHFWRP\LQFUHDVHV\RXUFKDQFH of successes at 5 years. In e$ect, regardless of our of survival by ONLY 23 PERCENT! surgical skill, the outcome from major surgery is reduced to a guessing game where the outcome "ere’s very little proof that getting a radical always remains in question.” (From Men at Risk, a prostatectomy improves your chances of Rush to Judgment by Dr. Ronald Wheeler.) 82 surviving prostate cancer, much less that it cures the disease. In other words, for many men with prostate cancer it comes back even a$er radical surgery! A study published in the Journal of the What are your chances of su!ering a recurrence? National Cancer Institute in 2000 revealed "e research is shocking… that men who underwent prostate surgery survived their prostate cancers at a rate only 23 $IWHUDSURVWDWHFWRP\XSWR percent higher than the rate for men who did SHUFHQWRIFDQFHUVUHWXUQ ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!81 80 Wheeler, Ronald M.D. (1998-2010) “Men at Risk, a Rush to In his book, Dr. Wheeler reports on shocking Judgment.” Florida: Diagnostic Center for Disease. 81 Newscha!er, Craig J., et al. Causes of death in elderly 82 Wheeler, Ronald M.D. (1998-2010) “Men at Risk, a Rush prostate cancer patients and in a comparison nonprostate cancer to Judgment.” Florida: Diagnostic Center for Disease. Reprinted cohort. Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 92, April 19, with permission. 2000, pp. 613- 21 ~ 41 ~ research suggesting that even 10 years a$er a function, bladder control even bowel control. radical prostatectomy, you face UP TO A 60 In an editorial in a 2004 edition of the Journal PERCENT CHANCE of prostate cancer coming 83 of the National Cancer Institute, leading prostate back! "at’s hardly a cure. cancer experts pointed to growing evidence And it may leave you wondering, how can my showing the “substantial and long-lasting side prostate cancer come back when I no longer have a e!ects from prostate cancer treatment.”85 prostate? Prostate cancer returns in tissues NEAR Worst of all, horrible side e!ects are happening the prostate, or in another part of the body such far more o$en than you’re led to believe. as the bones. Even though it recurs somewhere else it is still called “prostate cancer” because it Researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer started in the prostate. Research Center revealed disturbing results of a study of 1,291 men who’d undergone Why such a dismal success rate for the most radical prostatectomies.86 Eighteen or more common conventional treatment for prostate months a$er the surgeries, an alarming 59.9 cancer? PERCENT complained that they were impotent One reason for the failure of prostate removal and 38.9 PERCENT said they su!ered urinary surgery might be that operating on a cancerous incontinence at least once every single day. prostate causes cancer cells to leak into your Sadly, according to prostate cancer experts at bloodstream, where they can latch onto nearby the University of Texas Medical Center, these side tissues or even onto other organs such as your e!ects o$en don’t improve with time.87 In the case colon, liver or lungs. In other words, prostate of impotence, the problem usually gets worse. surgery MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED PROSTATE CANCER TO SPREAD. In the Texas study, #ve years a$er radical prostatectomies, an astounding 80 PERCENT Research published in !e Lancet in 1995 of men were impotent. Up to 29 PERCENT were indicates a very real danger. Researchers wearing diapers for urinary incontinence and 20 monitored the blood of 14 prostate cancer patients before and a"er prostatectomies. "e 85 Carlos Bermejo, Alan R. Kristal, Steven B. Zeliadt, Scott results were shocking. Ramsey, Ian M. "ompson Localized Prostate Cancer: Qual- ity of Life Meets Whitmore's Legacy A%liations of authors: Before the operations, only three patients had Division of Urology, University of Texas Health Science Center, prostate cells in their bloodstreams. But a$er the San Antonio (CB, IMT); Division of Public Health Sciences, prostatectomies, 12 patients had prostate cells Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA (ARK, 84 SBZ, SR) JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2004 in their blood. It’s clear that surgery releases 96(18):1348-1349; doi:10.1093/jnci/djh282 prostate cells into the blood stream, and if your 86 Stanford JL, Feng Z, Hamilton AS, Gilliland FD, Stephen- prostate is cancerous, some of those cells will be son RA, Eley JW, Albertsen PC, Harlan LC, Potosky AL. Fred too. Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Department of Epide- miology, University of Washington, Seattle 98109-1024, USA. Urinary and sexual function a$er radical prostatectomy for :RUVHFRPPRQVLGHHIIHFWVFDQUXLQ clinically localized prostate cancer: the Prostate Cancer Out- your quality of life comes Study. JAMA. 2000 Jan 19;283(3):354-60. 87 Carlos Bermejo, Alan R. Kristal, Steven B. Zeliadt, Scott One of the biggest drawbacks of radical Ramsey, Ian M. "ompson Localized Prostate Cancer: Qual- prostatectomy is that it can ruin a man’s sexual ity of Life Meets Whitmore's Legacy A%liations of authors: Division of Urology, University of Texas Health Science Center, 83 Wheeler, Ronald M.D. (1998-2010) “Men at Risk, a Rush to San Antonio (CB, IMT); Division of Public Health Sciences, Judgment.” Florida: Diagnostic Center for Disease. Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA (ARK, SBZ, SR) JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2004 84 McTaggart, Lynne (1997) !e Cancer Handbook: What’s 96(18):1348-1349; doi:10.1093/jnci/djh282 Really Working. Illinois: Vital Health Publishing. P. 104. ~ 42 ~ PERCENT su!ered regular bowel urgency — the 5DGLDWLRQLVOLNHIHUWLOL]HUIRUSURVWDWH need to urgently or frequently move your bowels. cancer cells "at’s a great deal of su!ering to go through a$er a painful surgery that might not even cure John Diamond, M.D., and Lee Cowden, M.D., your prostate cancer! have reported on evidence that radiation can fuel the growth of prostate cancer cells. In her Radiation treatments are no better. Many men book Outsmart Your Cancer, Tanya Harter Pierce who undergo prostate radiation fare even worse quotes the two doctors as saying: than those who have surgery! In fact, recent research suggests that radiation INCREASES “Radiation therapy — implanting radiation your chances of dying from prostate cancer. seeds in the prostate gland — routinely given for early signs of prostate cancer, can actually hasten 3URVWDWHUDGLDWLRQLQFUHDVHV\RXU the development of that cancer. Prostate cells can GDQJHURIG\LQJIURPSURVWDWHFDQFHU double in as little as 1.2 months a"er radiation treatment, while unradiated prostate cancer cells E\SHUFHQW may take an average of 4 years to double.” 90 A study done at the famous Johns Hopkins Radiation treatments for cancer not only School of Hygiene and Public Health found don’t improve your chances of surviving prostate that men who underwent radiation therapy had cancer, a growing body of clinical data shows that an 81 PERCENT HIGHER DANGER of dying they also cause NEW, SECONDARY CANCERS. from prostate cancer than men who received no But before I tell you about the alarming 88 treatment. research, you need to understand that doctors "is is no surprise to health experts who’ve commonly use two special kinds of radiation studied medical radiation for decades. John treatments for prostate cancer. Cairns, a professor at the Harvard University School of Public Health, believes radiation is too 7ZRFRPPRQUDGLDWLRQWUHDWPHQWV toxic to cure cancer. for prostate cancer In Options: !e Alternative Cancer !erapy You can get radioactive seeds implanted Book, author Richard Walters quotes John Cairns into your prostate gland in a technique called as saying, “!e majority of cancers cannot be cured brachytherapy. You can also get external by radiation because the dose of X-rays required to beam irradiation. As the name suggests, the kill all the cancer cells would also kill the patient.”89 radiation comes from an external machine that One of the dangers of radiation is that it causes concentrates radiation onto your prostate gland. cancer, especially prostate cancer. "ough these two radiation delivery systems are far more precise than the radiation treatments of 50 years ago, it’s still impossible to con#ne the radiation to your prostate. Surrounding organs and tissues such as your bladder, rectum and 88 Barry, Michael J., et al. Outcomes for men with clinically testicles are still very much exposed to radiation. nonmetastatic prostate carcinoma managed with radical pros- And that’s why research shows that any radiation tatectomy, external beam radiotherapy, or expectant manage- ment: a retrospective analysis. Cancer, Vol. 91, June 15, 2001, pp. to your prostate is dangerous. 2302-14 89 Walters, Richard. (1993) Options: !e Alternative Cancer 90 Harter Pierce, Tanya, M.A., MFCC (2009) Outsmart Your !erapy Book. Pennsylvania: Paragon Press. P. 103-104. Cancer (2nd Edition). Nevada: "oughtworks Publishing. P. 339. ~ 43 ~ Brachytherapy andH[WHUQDOEHDP organs and tissues in your body, doctors o$en UDGLDWLRQFDXVHQHZFDQFHUV recommend a “Total Androgen Blockade”. "is means blocking testosterone, the male “androgen” In a gigantic study published in the journal hormone, from entering your bloodstream where Urology in 2008, researchers at Columbia doctors believe it fuels the growth of prostate University and the Mount Sinai Medical Center cancer. examined the medical records of 243,082 "e hormone therapy that doctors most men who’d received treatment for prostate 91 commonly recommend is an orchiectomy, or cancer between 1988 and 2003. "ey found surgical castration. During the operation, a a “statistically signi#cant” increase in both surgeon removes your testicles (where you make bladder and rectal cancer in men who’d received the bulk of your testosterone), but leaves your external beam radiotherapy or external beam scrotum and penis intact. radiotherapy with brachytherapy. As you can imagine, men su!er many terrible Researchers concluded that men who’d had side e!ects from this painful surgery, including external beam radiotherapy had an 88 PERCENT sterility, loss of sexual desire, impotence, GREATER DANGER of developing bladder intolerable hot &ashes, weight gain, brittle bones cancer and a 26 PERCENT GREATER DANGER and even breast enlargement.92 Not to mention of developing rectal cancer, compared with men the emotional pain! who’d had the whole prostate removed surgically. And now there’s a newer kind of hormone Men who received BOTH external beam therapy called “chemical castration.” In this radiotherapy and brachytherapy ran an 85 approach, doctors inject or surgically implant PERCENT GREATER DANGER of bladder drugs to lower or completely block your body’s cancer and a 21 PERCENT GREATER DANGER ability to produce testosterone. of rectal cancer, compared with men who’d had the whole prostate removed. Many men are choosing this over surgery. And who can blame them. But sadly, chemical "ough these numbers are alarming in and castration’s side e!ects are almost the same as of themselves, they’re really frightening when those of regular castration: loss of sexual desire, you realize they could still climb higher. Most impotence, loss of muscle mass and strength, research on the dangers of radiation looks at intolerable hot &ashes, weight gain, brittle bones a span of 15 to 20 years between exposure and and personality changes.93 cancer. "is study was done within as little as #ve years. "e number of cancers in these patients $EDUHOL[p&KHPLFDOFDVWUDWLRQqGUXJ could skyrocket over the next decade or two – IDVWWUDFNHGE\WKH)'$RQO\WREH and it’s ALREADY 21 percent greater based on the results as of 2008. TXLHWO\\DQNHGRIIWKHPDUNHW

$GYDQFHGSURVWDWHFDQFHU7KH One of the chemical castration drugs, Abarelix (Plenaxis), was fast-tracked through the FDA FDVWUDWLRQpVROXWLRQq review process in 2001.94 But in 2005, the maker In advanced prostate cancers, such as Stage D 92 WebMd.com and late Stage C cancers that have spread to other 93 Stephan L. Werner, M.D., F.A.C.S. http://www.wmfurology. com/pcahormone.htm. 91 Urology. 2008. Quoted on Wascher, Robert A. MD, FACS. (2008) Health Report: Radiation Treatment of Prostate Cancer 94 Article, Urological Sciences Research Foundation web & Risk of Second Cancers. Dr. Wascher is an oncologic surgeon repository, January 25, 2001. http://www.usrf.org/breakingnews/ and the Director of the Division of Surgical Oncology at Newark bn_010125_abarelix.html Beth Israel Medical Center. www.doctorwascher.com ~ 44 ~ abruptly took the drug o! the market without for all cancers.98 And for prostate cancer it any explanation.95 "ere are no published reports was 0 PERCENT. "at’s right, there were NO on Abarelix’s dangers, other than some severe SURVIVORS WHATSOEVER attributed to allergic reactions. We can only assume the drug’s chemotherapy. maker knows something the rest of us don’t. And "e study tracked 23,242 patients with prostate usually that’s not good news. cancer who underwent chemotherapy. At the Whether these drugs are safe or not, what’s end of #ve years, not one of the 23,242 men was most important for you to understand is still alive. Of course, these were likely late-stage that neither chemical castration nor surgical cancer patients. Still, it’s an astonishing failure. castration can cure your prostate cancer! More research con#rms the dismal statistics. In fact, doctors — even the American Cancer It seems that chemotherapy drugs for prostate Society — admit that years down the road, cancer are not successful. Two large, randomized, prostate cancer cells become “hormone-resistant” phase III clinical trials of the chemotherapy and start growing again. 96 At best, these painful, drug mitoxantrone in advanced prostate cancer misery-causing procedures only buy you some patients between 1996 and 1999 found “no time. evidence of a survival bene#t.”99 However, a third So what happens when castration — surgical of the patients did experience pain-relief. or chemical — fails? Doctors go back to their old Further research on another drug called standby: chemotherapy. docetaxel showed that compared with mitoxantrone, median survival time in advanced &KHPRWKHUDS\=(52VXUYLYRUVRI prostate cancer patients increased by only TWO SURVWDWHFDQFHULQFOLQLFDOVWXG\ TO TWO-AND-A-HALF MONTHS.100 Some men in this study also experienced pain Chemotherapy has long proven a failure in relief as well as improved bowel and urinary treating patients with cancers of the breast, lung, function. Of course, in this study and in the one colon and prostate. In fact, a comprehensive mentioned earlier, some men su!ered the usual review of these cancers done at the Heidelberg sickening side e!ects, including fever, nausea and Tumor Center in Germany found ONLY THREE vomiting from treatment. PERCENT OF ALL PATIENTS got any help from chemotherapy drugs.97 Another study here in the USA found chemo even less e$ective! "e study, published in the journal Clinical Oncology in December, 2004, said chemotherapy has an average #ve-year 98 Morgan G, Ward R, Barton M. "e contribution of cytotox- survival rate of barely more than two percent ic chemotherapy to 5-year survival in adult malignancies. Clin Oncol (R Coll Radiol). 2004 Dec;16(8):549-60. 99 Tannock IF, et al. Chemotherapy with mitoxantrone plus 95 “Hormone (Androgen Deprivation) "erapy.” American prednisone or prednisone alone for symptomatic hormone- re- Cancer Society. www.cancer.org. sistant prostate cancer: A Canadian randomized trial with pal- 96 Article, Urological Sciences Research Foundation web liative endpoint. J Clin Oncol 14:1756-1764, 1996. repository, January 25, 2001. http://www.usrf.org/breakingnews/ Kanto! PW, et al. Hydrocortisone with or without mitoxantrone bn_010125_abarelix.html in hormone-refractory prostate cancer: results of the Cancer and Leukemia Group B 9182 study. J Clin Oncol 17:2506-2513,1999. 97 Diamond, W. John., M.D., W. Lee Cowden, M.D., and Burton Goldberg. An Alternative Medicine De#nitive Guide to 100 Petrylak DP, et al. Docetaxel and estramustine compared Cancer. Tiburon, California: Future Medicine Publishing, Inc., with mitoxantrone and prednisone for advanced refractory 1997. prostate cancer. N Engl J Med 351:1513-1520,2004. ~ 45 ~ &KHPRWKHUDS\IRUSURVWDWH But it doesn’t have to be that way. As you’ve FDQFHUtSDWLHQWVVD\p:K\ERWKHU"q seen in this Special Report, there are many safe, alternative treatments for prostate cancer. "ese "e Prostate Cancer Research Institute (PCRI), treatments will NOT leave you impotent and founded in 1996 by medical oncologists Stephen in diapers, su!ering from weight gain or breast B. Strum and Mark C. Scholz, with support from enlargement, or discovering a second cancer #ve the Daniel Freeman Hospital Foundation in years down the road. Southern California, issued a newsletter in May, But how do you choose the one that’s right 2006, with an article entitled “Chemotherapy for 101 for you? Besides the resources I’ve suggested in Prostate Cancer — Why Bother?” this Special Report, you’ll #nd help in the Bonus "e article quotes an 11-year advanced Reports you received. Turn to the Report entitled prostate cancer survivor and patient advocate Your Prostate Cancer Action Plan for more who attended a prostate cancer support meeting details. where people were discussing this research. "e man said, “I speak to guys with advanced disease every day. !ey read these studies, and they say to me, ‘You’ve gotta be kidding me; if I do chemotherapy I’m going to live 2 to 2 1/2 months longer. Why bother?’” His sentiments were echoed in an editorial by leading prostate cancer experts at the University of Texas Medical Center, who publicly asked, “How many men would accept these risks [of surgery, radiation, chemotherapy] if they knew that o"en, de#nitive treatment will not a$ect the risk of prostate cancer death?” 102 I, for one, would not. But I certainly don’t want to get sick and die of advanced prostate cancer, either. And that fear of sickness and death is the reason why so many men are willing to listen to their doctors and undergo torturous prostate “treatments.” "e prevailing attitude is “Do something – ANYTHING!” Even if the treatment is useless.

101 Guess, Brad PA-C, Executive Director, PCRI “Chemothera- py for Prostate Cancer: ‘Why Bother?’” PCRI Insights, May, 2006, vol. 9 no.2 102 Carlos Bermejo, Alan R. Kristal, Steven B. Zeliadt, Scott Ramsey, Ian M. "ompson Localized Prostate Cancer: Qual- ity of Life Meets Whitmore's Legacy A%liations of authors: Division of Urology, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio (CB, IMT); Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA (ARK, SBZ, SR) JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2004 96(18):1348-1349; doi:10.1093/jnci/djh282 ~ 46 ~ Chapter Ten :K\6R0XFK3URVWDWHDQG%UHDVW&DQFHU"

"e Truth about a “Hidden” Epidemic!

epidemic of cancer is silently Just look at this shocking quote from a study ravaging our nation. If you published by scientists at the U.S. Department of yourself don’t su!er from breast Health and Human Services (HHS) ’way back in Ancancer or prostate cancer during your lifetime, 1993. someone you know or love will. “Experimental evidence reveals that compounds Too much bad stu! going into our bodies, and such as some chlorinated organics, polycyclic not enough good stu!. aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), triazine herbicides, and pharmaceuticals a$ect estrogen "e “bad stu! ” I’m talking about is the production and metabolism and thus function overwhelming number of toxins we get — from as xenoestrogens. Many of these xenoestrogenic chemical pollutants in our food, air and water to compounds also experimentally induce 103 the emotional stress in our daily lives. mammary carcinogenesis (breast cancer)…” "ese toxins sap our immune systems and "e HHS researchers go on to say that “most send our hormones dangerously out of whack. breast cancers” are caused NOT by a woman’s "e end result is breast and prostate cancer. genetic history but by the hormonal changes Here’s why: Toxins trigger an increase in our from the xenoestrogens that toxins in our bodies estrogen levels. "is acts like FERTILIZER for produce EVERY SINGLE DAY! breast and prostate cancers! "at bears repeating: Government scientists "e most dangerous toxins are called have linked the vast majority of breast cancers xenoestrogens (“xeno” means “stranger”). to environmental toxins, not genetics. Xenoestrogens are And here’s even more disturbing proof: "e GRRPLQJXVWRFDQFHU rising number of men with male breast cancer! DQGWKHJRYHUQPHQWNQRZVLW  7KHKLGGHQHSLGHPLFRIPDOHEUHDVW Xenoestrogens are coming from our food, our FDQFHURQDOHDGLQJ86PLOLWDU\EDVH air, our water and even our medicines. "is might "ough male breast cancer is still rare in the be the #rst you’ve ever heard of xenoestrogens, but medical researchers have known about 103 D L Davis, et al. O%ce of the Assistant Secretary for Health, them for decades. What’s more, they’ve linked Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC them to breast and prostate cancer for MORE 20201. Medical hypothesis: xenoestrogens as preventable causes THAN 15 YEARS — even in research by leading of breast cancer. Environ Health Perspective 1993 October; government scientists! 101(5): 372–377 ~ 47 ~ USA, with fewer than 1,900 cases annually, men of estrogen “estrogen dominance.”106A natural who get it o$en have had high exposure to toxins health doctor, he’s reported on several studies that produce xenoestrogens. that show that when prostate cells are exposed One of the most shocking stories of male to estrogen, they grow like crazy and become breast cancer comes from the Marine Corps base cancerous. at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. AT LEAST Other research proves Dr. Tsang’s #ndings. 19 MEN who were stationed or who worked at It includes dozens more studies showing that Camp Lejeune have been diagnosed with the farm workers with the HIGHEST EXPOSURE disease over the last two years, according to a 104 to pesticides and herbicides (which create 2009 article in the Los Angeles Times. xenoestrogens in the body) here in the USA and "ese men are among 1,600 former base other countries su!er the HIGHEST RISK of residents who are suing the federal government, prostate cancer and infertility.107 saying their cancers and other illnesses were But most alarming of all is the clinical caused by drinking base tap water that the evidence taken directly from people’s breast and government knew was tainted with “chlorinated prostate tumors. solvents” as far back as 1980. If you recall, chlorinated solvents are among 6HQGDWXPRUVDPSOHWRDWR[LFRORJLVW the toxins that government researchers know to LQVWHDGRIDQRQFRORJLVWDQG\RXoOO produce cancer-causing xenoestrogens in the GLVFRYHUVRPHWKLQJVKRFNLQJ human body. "e lawsuit suggests a government cover-up that endangered the lives of thousands When toxicologists examine tissue samples of men, women and children! "e lawsuit is from cancerous tumors in people’s breasts or pending. prostates, they o$en #nd abnormally high levels But it’s not just breast cancer that’s a*icting of dangerous chemicals. our brave Marines at Camp Lejeune, either. In his book Cancer Diagnosis: What to Do Next, Dr. Burton Goldberg recounts one such 3URVWDWHFDQFHUUDWHVWRRDUHKLJK story. He explains how a man diagnosed with LQWKHVH0DULQHV prostate cancer had a tissue biopsy sent to a toxicologist. "e toxicologist found unusually One of the “other cancers” the Camp Lejeune high levels of dangerous chemicals, including men su!er from is prostate cancer.105 "is arsenic, DDT and chlordane!108 won’t surprise anyone who’s researched the "e research is beyond alarming. But it raises development of breast and prostate cancer. You the question: If chemicals in our air, our water, see, we now know that prostate cancer is ALSO our food and our medicines are so dangerous, then caused by toxins that produce xenoestrogens and how come ALL of us don’t come down with tumors result in dangerous estrogen buildup in men’s in our prostates or breasts? bodies.

Dr. HingHau Tsang calls this terrible buildup 106 Tsang, HingHau. Dr. Tsang’s Crusade on Nutrition. News- letter #75 - Estrogen Dominance, Natural Progesterone and Men. 104 Zucchino, David (2009) Camp Lejeune Residents Blame Rare Cancer Cluster on "e Water. Los Angeles: Los Angeles 107 Salinger, Lawrence M. (2005) Encyclopedia of White-Collar Times. and Corporate Crime, Volume 1. California: Sage Publications. 105 Byron, Andrea. A Toxic Tale: Water Contamination at 108 Diamond, John W. M.D., Cowden, W. Lee M.D., Goldberg, Camp Lejeune 1 Veterans Today Posted online February 22, Burton (2000) Cancer Diagnosis: What to Do Next. California: 2008. AlternativeMedicine.com. P. 15. ~ 48 ~ A$er examining years of research, I believe And that’s the reason why conventional the answer holds the secret not only of preventing treatments for breast and prostate cancer fail so breast and prostate cancer, but of curing it as well. many patients: they do just the opposite. I believe it makes absolutely no sense to 7KHVLPSOHVHFUHWWROLYLQJIUHHIURP repeatedly attack breast and prostate cancers with SURVWDWHDQGEUHDVWFDQFHU chemotherapy, radiation and drastic surgery. Yet that’s exactly what mainstream doctors want you What is this astonishingly simple secret? An to do! ironclad immune system. When we were young, most of us had it When your immune system is powered ingrained in us that we should never question our up to a high level, your body can rid itself of doctor. Doctors are the experts. "ey know what these xenoestrogens and correct any abnormal to do. We must listen. hormonal changes they cause BEFORE they trigger cancer. "at’s why so many cancer patients never ask why a doctor recommends slicing o! a breast, Only when your immune system is weakened cutting out a prostate, poisoning a tumor with by health problems, poor diet, stress and toxins chemo or burning it with radiation — even do xenoestrogens get the upper hand and cancer though these treatments clearly make cancer takes root. If you strengthen your immune patients SICKER and encourage their cancers to system, you can help your body defeat breast and SPREAD! prostate cancers once and for all! In the book Cancer Diagnosis: What to Do ,WoV\RXUERG\DQGYOUKDYHFRQWURO Next, Dr. Wolfgang Kostler, M.D., is quoted as saying that the reason why conventional I strongly urge you to ask your doctor “why” medicine fails to cure breast cancer is that it when he or she prescribes any treatment. "e focuses solely on removing or shrinking the answer you get should be solid and based on tumor, not on changing “the cancer-prone success with other patients who have your type environment inside the body.” And because of and stage of prostate cancer. And your doctor this fateful mistake, the cancer never goes away should answer any and every question you have. completely.109 If he or she doesn’t, run for the hills! For the last 32 years, Dr. Kostler has helped his I’m reminded of a personal story from patients whip breast cancer by supporting their Timothy Brantley N.D., Ph.D. In his book !e immune systems. "is, Dr. Kostler says, is the Cure: Heal Your Body, Save Your Life, Dr. Brantley ONLY way to keep cancer from either growing or recalls being a young boy who watched breast returning.110 and colon cancer overtake his mother. As you’ve discovered in this Special Report, One day he went with his mom to a doctor’s beating prostate cancer also comes down to appointment. He was sitting quietly nearby, building up your immune system. listening to the M.D. talk, when he felt inspired to ask a question. 109 Diamond, John W. M.D., Cowden, W. Lee M.D., Goldberg, “Doctor,” he said, “why did Mom get cancer?” Burton (2000) Cancer Diagnosis: What to Do Next. California: AlternativeMedicine.com P. 199. His mother apologized immediately for her 110 McTaggart, Lynne (1997) !e Cancer Handbook: What’s Re- outspoken young son. But the future Dr. Brantley ally Working. Illinois: Vital Health Publishing. P. 196. turned to her and said, “Well, don’t you want to know?” ~ 49 ~ "at’s when the M.D. proclaimed irritatingly, “"at’s enough questions, young man.” "e doctor never answered any of his questions. Eventually, Dr. Brantley’s mom passed away from cancer. Even more tragic, she spent the #nal months of her life su!ering terribly from the side e!ects of chemotherapy. Today, Dr. Brantley and many other alternative doctors understand that treatment for cancer doesn’t have to be #lled with pain, su!ering and loss. You can not only treat your prostate cancer or any other cancer safely, you can feel stronger and healthier during the healing process. In this Special Report you’ve seen some of the best and most successful treatments ever discovered for prostate cancer. I’m not going to tell you any treatment is 100% e!ective – nothing’s even close to being that good – but these treatments are so e$ective that they’re slowing, stopping and even curing prostate cancer a$er chemotherapy, radiation and surgery have failed — when doctors shake their heads and tell their patients, “I’m sorry, it’s hopeless.” I hope that you or your loved ones will never need them, but if you do, I hope this Special Report provides the vital information you need to heal safely and successfully. As you’ve seen, you CAN prevent, stop, slow and even cure prostate cancer. I urge you to share the urgent, life-saving information in this Special Report with any relatives or friends who worry about prostate cancer or who are #ghting their own battles against this disease.

Wishing you a cancer-free life always,

Lee Euler

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