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"My Journey" by Cassandra Hi… my name is Cassandra... In June of 2006 I was diagnosed with a stage III malignant breast cancer, and by September it had spread to four of my lymph nodes. To make matters worse, the tumor had an aggressiveness score of 8 out of 9 on the BRS scale, and tested negative for all three of the major hormone receptors (ER, PR, and HER-2) - meaning I was dealing with an extremely aggressive cancer that was spreading fast, and at the same time my treatment options were severely limited.
Since then, I have endured 12 rounds of chemotherapy as well as surgery. When it came time to operate, there was only one 8mm tumor left - and I had started with five of them, two of which were over 5cm in size! I owe my success to the many alternative therapies I used to both augment the chemo, as well as help the body deal with its side-effects. Therapies which were neither recommended to me by my doctor, nor paid for by my insurance.
Going through an experience such as this tends to turn you into an activist. In researching my disease and also my road to healing, I have found many things appallingly wrong with how cancer is researched and treated, as well as how people are educated about its prevention. It is now my wish to assist others in finding a better way.
my personal progress…
My First Rife Session
Last Sunday I took some time out to try out the new device and started with a detox program that ran for about 40 minutes. I sat there all anxious and as it was running thru various frequencies. I took notes on the frequencies that I felt either a headache, sometimes itching of my wrist, knee or lower back. After reviewing the frequencies that I reacted to, it came out that two of them refer to breast cancer.
I was on one hand shocked, but on the other hand impressed with how accurate this machine could be. Another frequency that I had a reaction to is associated with toxification from heavy drugs ,which in my case would be all the chemotherapy that I was getting. During the chemotherapy my wrist and ankles, knees and lower back were hurting so bad that I had troubles getting up or carrying my weight (only 117 pounds anyway) around. The frequency 3176 was making me itch exactly on those parts that were harmed thru the chemo. I am currently doing research into getting my bone stability back because I am really afraid of getting later in life anything like arthritis or any other bone problems as a result of the chemo.
After the treatment session on Sunday was over, I woke up on Monday with a major headache and felt like I was having a flu. My sinus was clumped, my head felt like a watermelon dropped on it and my muscles were hurting. I was reacting to the session on Sunday. I have heard the term healing crisis and always was and am afraid of it. A healing crises is were you get first worse before you get better. I guess the toxins released in my body were now dead floating bacterias, paracites, fungi and other garbage that now needed to come out. I drank tons of alkaline ionized water, took some time off to relax and on Wednesday (2 days later), I already felt much better. What’s to say MUCH better. It realy makes a difference to have all that crap out of your body. I started my Yoga and stretching and with every stretch I felt energized and today on Friday I feel absolutely great. There is a little bit of a headache left and I have taken a break before doing my next Rife Session so my body has time to get rid of the toxins. I can not wait to do my next session!
If I Had Only Known Then…
“It’s cancer, and it’s malignant.” The commercials on the radio are right… you do not hear very much after that. I vaguely remember asking the doctor how positive she was about her results, I remember crying, and I remember my husband helping me walk back to the car, reassuring me that we would face this together. The doctor told me the next year of my life would not be the same… in truth, I don’t think I will ever be the same.
In June of 2006, I was diagnosed with a stage III malignant breast cancer, and by September it had spread to four of my lymph nodes. To make matters worse, the tumor had an aggressiveness score of 8 out of 9 on the BRS scale, and tested negative for all three of the major hormone receptors (estrogen, progesterone, and HER-2) - meaning I was dealing with an extremely aggressive cancer that was spreading fast, and at the same time my treatment options were severely limited.
Since then, I have endured 12 rounds of chemotherapy, as well as surgery. When it came time to operate, there was only one 8mm tumor left - and I had started with five of them, two of which were over 5cm in size! The pathology report from the surrounding tissue removed during the surgery came back totally “clean”. My oncologist called these results “terrific” for someone with a normal cancer. But for one so aggressive and wide-spread as mine was, he said they are simply “astounding”. And, yet, when I bring up the herbs and alternative therapies I used, he simply rolls his eyes.
Going through an experience such as this tends to turn you into an activist. In researching my disease and also my road to healing, I have found many things appallingly wrong with how cancer is researched and treated, as well as how people are educated about its prevention.
I hate to alarm you, but almost everyone’s body has tumors – it is the job of the immune system to deal with them before they turn into cancer. Various factors can interfere with the immune system’s ability to do this. We are all aware of “risk factors” such as environmental toxins, genetics, stress - these are “triggers”, but have little to do with how fast the cancer grows or spreads. That has more do with the environment we create for it within our bodies. Things that have a direct impact on our immune system, such as alkaline vs. acidic diet, alkaline water, sleep, meditation, mood, and the energy we choose to both send out and also surround ourselves with. These are little things, but from my experience very important ones. Things that (unlike, say, genetics) are very much within our own power to change.
Cancer preys on “victims” – but if one is willing to be proactive, they can not only beat back the cancer they are fighting, but also prevent it from recurring.
pH balance is a biggie. Cancers (as do most infectious, chronic, and degenerative “dis-eases”) absolutely thrive in acidic environments, and unfortunately most things we do to and put into our bodies help to create one. The food companies won’t tell you this – additives are a multi-billion-dollar industry. There are very promising studies now, both from Johns Hopkins University, and from Dr. Tullio Simoncini in Rome involving injecting highly alkaline substances such as cesium and sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) into tumors, and rapidly shrinking them by upsetting their pH balance. And while it’s true that one cannot eat entirely alkaline (acid is the by-product of cellular metabolism), we can certainly take steps to make sure our diets are in balance. We can also compensate by drinking alkalized, ionized water.
Water ionizers have been used in clinics in Japan and Korea for over 30 years, but are only just now starting to make their way into the Western world. When the liver and kidneys are over-loaded (as they often are with today’s lifestyle), the body does some interesting tricks to get rid of the excess acid. It robs the bones of calcium. It robs the thyroid and other glands of iodine and interferes with their hormone production. It surrounds the acid with cholesterol and deposits it inside capillary walls. It surrounds it with body fat and stores deposits safely away from organs (in areas such as the thighs and butt). Is this all starting to sound familiar?
Then there’s vitamin B17, otherwise known as laetrile. I’m not surprised you haven’t heard of it. It is found in millet, grasses, bitter almonds, and in the highest concentrations inside of apricot seeds. Things that hardly appear in today’s modern diets. A faulty and poorly-researched FDA report in 1958 condemned laetrile for having cyanide, but failed to mention that the cyanide is bonded as part of the molecule, and not freely-available (until it contacts an enzyme found only inside of cancer cells, that is). When I mentioned this to my mother, she recalled fondly of eating the apricots with the apricot seeds on her family farm as a child.
In those days, nearly 1 in 50 had cancer – today the number is almost 1 in 3.
There are also a variety of herbs and supplements which can be used. Kaishore Guggul and Shilajit are Ayervedic remedies from Nepal that are very good in both making the chemotherapy more effective, and also in supporting the immune system through its ravages. A Native American remedy is Paw Paw, which in recent clinical studies has shown great success in preventing the formation of MDR cells (how cancers eventually become immune to chemotherapy). Curcumin (found in turmeric root, which gives Indian food its yellow color) can stop pre-cancerous cells from developing further. IP-6 shows great promise for breast and colon cancers. Citrus pectin prevents metastasis (when the cancer spreads to other places in the body), and vitamin C can slow its growth. AHCC, astralagus, and Sheng Fa will all help build the immune system back up, and maintain white and red blood cell counts. And if you’re on chemotherapy, be sure to pamper your liver with lots of milk thistle.
The tools for combating cancer need not be exotic, or expensive. And, yet, how does “modern medicine” deal with cancer? We use radiation and inject poisons into our bodies, which kill more of our immune system than they do of the cancer. An immune system which is supposed to be fighting the cancer. And we use surgery to cut out the tumors (rather than searching for their root causes); in the process damaging the body’s nerves, lymphatic system, and disrupting the energy flow of the meridians (all systems involved in helping the body detox, heal, and restore delicate balance).
No… if I had known then what I know now, my treatment plan would have been altogether different.
But my doctors didn’t exactly go out of their way to tell me, and in fact did their best to talk me out of any alternative treatment I brought up. I am not surprised. I found out that treating the average cancer patient today costs $300,000 to $400,000.
Is it any wonder there is greater interest in treating the disease, than in curing it?
http://www.getalchemy.com/cass/the-cassandra-fund
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