Suzanne Summers had breast cancer and according to all reports, she is cancer-free now. (She was diagnosed in 2001). I would like to know what alternative cancer treatment she received? My sister has breast cancer and we are looking at alternative treatments. Thanks!
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Ms. Summers, who was diagnosed with breast cancer in April 2001, chose a controversial route of treatment that included conventional medicine lumpectomy and radiation therapy, along with a daily injection of Iscador she learned to give herself in the abdomen. The controversy that ensued was not simply over the use of Iscador, but her rejection of chemotherapy, which was widely recommended by her doctors for the type of estrogen-dominant breast cancer she had. I know a lady who gives herself Iscador injections for her lung cancer, she is doing well on it but also received conventional therapy. Good luck to your sister.
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Do not assume that Suzanne Summers' only treatments for her breast cancer were alternative treatments. Almost all of the people claiming to be cured by alternative treatments for serious cancers also had traditional treatment but they choose to give the credit for their cure to only the alternative portion of their treatments because this better fits the scheme of their belief system. The same is true for Lorraine Day who also claims to have been cured of breast cancer with alternative treatments but who had traditional treatment also. No the surgery and radiation didn't cure me. It was this herb that I'm selling for 99 bucks a bottle. If your sister has breast cancer then be aware that her window for curative treatment is limited and the time she wastes avoiding traditional treatment is time that the cancer will be spending dividing and spreading. Please do not waste your sister's window of opportunity chasing magic bullets because there are no miracle cures. Yes, surgery and radiation sucks but it does have a proven track record of success in treating and curing cancer. good luck
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I agree with quijjibored; most people who make claims for miraculous cancer 'cures' have also had conventional treatment but claim - and believe - that it was an alternative treatment they also took that did the trick. This is apparently the case with Suzanne Summers. Please bear in mind that the word 'alternative' in this context means 'unproven'. If a medicine has been tested and proven to work, it is no longer 'alternative medicine' it is just 'medicine'. Wherever there's cancer there are people eager to part desperate people from their cash in exchange for ineffective and sometimes dangerous treatments. If you are tempted by any particular 'alternative', please do a search on http://www.quackwatch.org for some facts before investing money, hope and (most dangerous of all) time in something that will not work and will delay effective treatment. There is no way that Suzanne Summers or any other breast cancer patient can know that they are 'cancer-free' - breast cancer can recur at any time, even years after diagnosis and treatment. Conventional treatment isn't perfect, far from it, but we know - because it has been rigourously tested and proven in double-blind, peer-reviewed clinical trials - that it saves many lives and prolongs many more. No 'alternative' treatment has been tested and proven in this way. I sympathise with your wish to pursue less traumatic alternatives; when I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2003 I was something of an alternatives enthusiast. Nobody was going to give ME chemotherapy! I researched thoroughly and in the space of a month had changed my mind, realising that alternative treatments were not only ineffective but a multi-million pound industry out to take my money. Summers apparently decided against chemo; I know people who have done this and in every case their cancer was low grade and early stage - having looked into it they decided the benefits of chemo in their particular cases were not worth it. This is the sort of information you do not have about Summers' cancer - its stage and grade, how many lymph nodes affected - factors she will have taken into consideration before declining chemo and that her doctors will have taken into consideration before deciding how strongly to recommend chemo. I had stage 3 grade 3 breast cancer, with 13 lymph nodes involved (that's aggressive, late stage and likely to spread). I had surgery, chemo , radiotherapy and hormone therapy. Over four years after diagnosis I am fit and well, with no sign of cancer at my most recent routine check-up. My best wishes to your sister for her treatment
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I was diagnosed with cancer and my oncologist had said that chemotherapy would be the best chance of survival. Chemotheraphy is very difficult, but it saved my life. I did not waste 1 minute trying to find a way around this, if I did, I may not be alive to tell my story. I would hope that I shed some light on this for you. Good luck for your sister.
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