[quote=ChristineB]
If its not too much trouble to check back here yearly with an update, it would be appreciated. Wishing your husband continued good health. [/quote]

You can count on it, Christine, and thank you. With our lifestyle changes, and knowing that we ALL have opportunistic cancer cells awaiting a compromised immune system, I realize that futures can be iffy for any of us. Interesting to contemplate that we ALL have cancer cells in us, isn't it?

So, if I'm trained in art, I'm not going to know much about auto mechanics, am I? That allegory is to explain why I believe oncologists cannot give me the total picture, since their training doesn't include nutrition, or anything outside of their medical training/specialty. And they don't have permission to give me alternatives.

Interesting that Dr. Budwig was nominated for SEVEN Nobel prizes, but her fifty-year research has not flowed into the public mainstream until the Internet. If there WERE a cancer "cure" (I call it healing), wouldn't one think that the money and power in the insurance/pharmaceutical and HMOs would do everything possible to suppress it, debunk it and decry it as charlatan? Nobody makes money on cottage cheese and flax seed oil and supplements, because they cannot patent it. Bill Henderson makes next to nothing in having that book which accumulates the alternative treatments out there.

Yes, what has happened to my beloved (rads and chemo might have weakened the tumors, true) is all positive, without the side-effects of the total treatment prescribed by the HMO. Would it have worked without the chemo-1/rad-13? I don't know. I do know that our choice and when we chose it DID work. Will it work forever? I also don't know that. But I do know that for now, I have my husband intact, healthy beyond belief, and we are optimistic for his and our future together as we continue to eat raw, supplement ourselves and respect the medical community only for what they can do, knowing that taking control of our medical lives is the best decision we ever made.

I'm so tired of the pill-dispensing medical system we have in the U.S., who are either pushing us into pharmaceutical reliance, or denying us treatment because of cost issues. They treat symptoms, never addressing the underlying causes except in rare cases. I've talked to doctors outside their practice who say that they cannot prescribe protocols outside of what the AMA, ACS and the over-riding insurance guidelines specify because if they do, they end up losing their license to practice! Off the record, doctor friends in the medical community have told me that while they work in the environments that pay their way, they are not permitted to prescribe anything unless it is tied to their sponsors'"approved treatments".

Ah, never mind. I've said what I needed to say, and I know here that I'm not preaching to the choir. If I offended anyone, I'm sorry. I have a dear friend who is going through the complete chemo/surgery/rad/chemo, who is afraid to "not listen to her doctor". And another friend lost her husband while she appealed a treatment that could have saved him. It HAD been approved by her doctor, but one of the insurance people who is paid to save the HMO money denied it when it came up to the insurance level. By the time she got through the insurance appeal and the treatment was approved, he was too weak for the surgery and died soon after, never getting the treatment. Sorry if that frustration comes through here.

I wish you all well, and hope that everyone with any cancer will take control of their options.