Question:
A good girl friend of ours was told, that she had a carcinom in her throat.She fears the result of an operation (no longer able to breath through noseor mouth, no longer able to speak). She puts her hopes into a cancertreatment along the lines of Rudolf Breuss, which tries to hunger thecancer. Does anybody have any experience with this type of treatment?

Answer: I heard about it when doing research a year ago for my sister who hascancer . I read a book (in Czech) written by a person who cured himselfusing this method.Here wrote a day-to-day diary about his fast.

There is not much information about ithere in the US, I think it comes from Germany or Switzerland.

Your friend should first decide if she wants to use alternative therapyor not. If she decides for alternative therapy, Breuss may work.I think it's very difficult to choose the right therapy because youdon't havereliable statistics on alternative medicine, so you don't know if it'sbetter.

One therapy I've seen to work is wheatgrass-based (Ann Wigmore's booksdescribe it).It's based on nutrition, excercise and spirituality, all of them equallyimportant.

I've been to Optimum Health Institute with my sister and talked to a fewpeoplewho cured themselves from cancer using Ann Wigmore's wheatgreass therapy(www.optimumehealth.org). Since the institute doesn't claim to curecancer, theydon't keep statistics. Their patients are maybe only 1/3 cancerpatients, there are many people who just come to recharge or relax (mycase as well).

I looked at statistics (survival rates) from American Cancer Associationand to me they indicate that the more classical therapy you use, thesmaller the chances of survival:so I am inclined to believe in alternative therapies.

I just looked again today at a site with breast cancer statistics:http://canceronline.wiley.com/ncdb98/index.htmlhttp://canceronline.wiley.com/ncdb98/articles/v83n6p1262.tables.html#t5The second url (bottom table) shows that adding radiotherapy andchemotherapy (is systemic chemo?)decreases patient's chance of survival.

Like you, I also went through the process of trying to select usefulinformation from theInternet. After doing follow up on recommendations frompeople on this websites, a good rule was to disregard those whosemessages have lines of hatred in them. For some reason, some people tendto protect their view, whether it's preference for alternative ormainstream methods, with hateful comments to any opposing opinions. Ifyou throw out those, you'll have less work sorting out information.