Cancer Treatment Decisions
You might be asking... What Are My Cancer Treatment Options And Decisions To Be Made? Options range from traditional treatments to alternative. Traditional are things that carry a patent and a very high cost; while, alternatives are considered natural, unable to be patented, not usually paid for by traditional insurance, but the cost for the treatments are normally within the reach of the average working person. I realize you will have limited energy, but as much as possible, you absolutely must get involved in your treatment decisions! It's your body; it's your life. What you decide will not only affect you, but your loved ones. Chemo Side Effects My personal experience went something like this: I spent most of my days in bed resting and sleeping. The deadly chemo side effects were wearing me out. I had almost no energy.
I have mentioned several books Jim and I read in our search because oncology was treating me with chemotherapy only. We were searching very hard. Where Are Alternative Cancer Treatments Offered? My choises seemed to come down to: If I wanted Alternative Cancer Treatments, with non-invasive, natural treatments, I would have to do some traveling, regardless of where in the world that was. Second Opinion To Chemotherapy Please take the time to get a second opinion before you have damaging high-doses of chemotherapy. When I desired a second opinion for treatment, Dr. H, my oncologist, was required to stay within guidelines of his network and the guidelines of my HMO. He checked, and he could only refer me to UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles and not the City of Hope (where I desired to go) because The City of Hope was not in the network. I declined UCLA after doing some research. Chemotherapy Side Effects Eating was getting very difficult after my second chemotherapy. I was losing weight very fast now, and needed intervention above what I was able to do for myself in my diet and supplements. Even the smell of food in the house made me nauseous. Katie, a nurse and friend from our church, cooked most of our meals. All we needed to do was heat them at mealtime. Perhaps ten days after my second chemotherapy round, Jim made a big discovery. (In fact, this page was almost named: “Jim’s Big Discovery,” because our treatment decisions were all pretty-much up to him now. I could do very little other than listen to what he read me.) He knew I needed some real help, and I wasn’t getting it from oncology. Are Chemo Treatments Worse Than The Disease? They were for me; I definately felt like the chemotherapy treatments were worse than the disease. I had blisters all in my mouth, throat, and on top of my head. The top of my head also broke out in pimples between the blisters. Chemo almost killed me. According to statistics, only about 3% of chemotherapy patients actually survive beyond 5-years. That's terrible stats! My husband's big discovery... 
Armed with information he found in Kevin Trudeau’s books, Jim and his secretary, Adrianne, researched the website associated with a special clinic that treated cancer with non-invasive treatments.
He was also furnished the phone number. Wow! To say that was an important phone call is an understatement! Jim called and spoke with the office manager at the clinic. The manager told Jim that the doctor ran three clinics world-wide and was a very busy man, but he would be in the clinic the next day. The manager asked if Jim wanted to set an appointment with the doctor for me. Without asking me, Jim told him “Yes,” and took down directions and all the detailed information he would need for the next day. Then, Jim tactfully brought the information to me. Weakness After Chemo I was quite weak. I had to have help with everthing I did. I was in bed resting because I was very weak when Jim made that initial call to the clinic. Jim knew I needed help to the bathroom, and he came to assist me. On the way, we passed our huge mirror in our master bath. Jim asked me to look at myself in the mirror. I did, and didn’t like what I saw. How Cancer Patients Look What I saw in my mirror was a person who:
As I looked at myself in the mirror, Jim told me about the website, the clinic, his phone call with the office manager, and the appointment the next day. It all sounded good to me and much, much better than the view I saw in the mirror. We looked at the website together, I read where Jim had found the information in Kevin Trudeau’s book, and told Jim I was ready to make the trip.
Praise God, some treatment decisions come easy. 
I was really ready!
I was like a track sprinter at the starting line. For the past couple of weeks, Jim had been reading to me out of the books and articles he had brought home and found online. I love it when Jim reads to me because (to me) his voice is soothing and loving. I listened closely because the subject matter was so important. Life, Death, And Cancer At this point, making cancer treatment decisions was literally “Life and Death.” My life or my death! Cancer Tests And Records: The clinic needed us to gather all tests and records before coming. To accomplish that before the appointment, Jim spent all that afternoon running around gathering up my medical records for the clinic while Katie stayed with me. It wasn’t an easy job because Jim had to go to at least three or four places. He did a pretty good job because it appeared he came back with almost all of my records and tests. I didn’t ask how he did it or how much it cost him; all that was important at that time was that we had them to take to the clinic the next day. Time To Reconsider Our cancer treatment decisions pointed to going to a clinic to meet with a doctor about alternative cancer treatments. So, that evening I pondered my decision and all the unknowns that came along with it. I had to let that sink in for a while. I was going to meet with a doctor my husband had read about in a book! I thought and wondered what my brother and sisters would think and say about my cancer treatment decisions. What's In Store For The Future? Having alternative cancer treatments, this was a new one for me; so was being a cancer patient. You tend to go through a lot of "firsts". Jim and I had no idea what was in store for us, nor did we have any idea what the cost of this would be. There were more questions than answers spinning in my mind. We got the best night’s sleep we could with all the unknowns hanging over our heads. 
The clinic was only a few hours drive from our home.
Jim planned our short road trip and got us there safely. Thomas, a male nurse, met us at the clinic and gave us the full tour around the clinic: the treatment rooms, the kitchen, the patient rooms, the chapel, the indoor swimming pool/spa, gym, and the kitchen. The clinic was very clean and orderly, the staff members were pleasant, and it had a very nice view of the Pacific Ocean. At The Alternative Clinic As we went through the clinic, we noticed patients in regular street clothes; in fact, everyone was in street clothes. That struck us as unusual, so we asked Thomas. He told us that all patients at the clinic wore regular street clothes. It made patients feel more social instead of isolated. Those little hospital gowns with the slit in the back keeps us from being very social, don’t they? Jack Nickelson' Butt Cheeks: Kind of reminds me of the actor Jack Nickelson in the 2003 movie “Something’s Gotta Give” where he had a heart attack and was taken to the hospital. You know the scene with him walking down the hall with his butt cheeks exposed! Go ahead and laugh. That was one of the funniest scenes in the whole movie. 
We finished the tour right on time for our appointment with the doctor.
Neither of us had met the doctor, seen pictures of him, or read any of his books, and certainly had no idea what to expect. We were later to learn the doctor was disappointed we had not heard of him through his own work instead of through Kevin Trudeau’s books. I let the good doctor know we had been fortunate enough not need his services prior to this and that our cancer treatment decisions had led to him. That kind of took some of the sting out of what seemed to be a tense moment. Meeting The Alternative Treatment Doctor The doctor was cordial, friendly, professional, and compassionate. He was caring and soft spoken when we met. At the start of our meeting, he spoke mostly with Jim, as he read through my records. He was pretty good at doing two things at the same time, glancing up just at the correct moment to ask a question or answer Jim. I sat there quietly with my scarf on my bald, chemically burned, blistered head as the doctor completed his search through my records. The magic word I was waiting to hear was if the doctor thought I would make a good candidate for treatment at the clinic. I think I had been holding my breath for about ten minutes when the doctor finished going through my records. Oncology Timeframe: The doctor didn’t seem too interested in the timeframe oncology had verbally given me. I told him I had been given as short as three months, and I was half way through that. Again, the doctor just let that bounce off and said he never made a promise he couldn’t keep. Then, he looked me square in the eye and said, "Peggy Sue, if you became my patient here at the clinic, I'll give you at least a “fifty-fifty chance." I told him I would take it because American oncology gave me “zero chance.” 
Wow! A fifty-fifty chance, which was the best news I had heard in a long time.
I felt like I had it made in the shade. Now, I had some hope that I might live! That was the first real hope anyone had given me. I was thankful my cancer treatment decisions had brought me to this special clinic. The doctor asked if I wanted to stay while my husband returned for my personal things that I would need for a two-week stay. I replied I would rather return home, pack my own bags, and return the next day for admittance. Jim tried to change my decision, but I held firm. Costs For Alternative Cancer Treatments, Are They Affordable? Besides, no one was speaking of how much money we were talking about here, and how we would be paying for my stay. I didn’t know if Jim and I could afford it. We were told the office would work out any and all payment arrangements. We said goodbye to the doctor for then, for we felt we would surely be back tomorrow. The office worked out the payment arrangements with Jim, and I agreed to be back the next day with my bags packed for a two-week stay at the clinic. Alternative treatments are definitely affordable. I asked Jim to call oncology and cancel my next scheduled chemotherapy. It was just a day or two away. I asked Jim to tell them my cancer treatment decisions had changed. He gladly made the call for me. Goodbye Chemotherapy My hopes were up. If this worked, I could say goodbye to Western Medicine's method of chemotherapy treatments. I smiled for the first time in a long time. On the drive home, I slept most of the way as Jim drove us safely home.
Alternative Cancer Treatments That Work!
When I was diagnosed in January 2007, my doctor gave me as short as 3-months to live and rated my cancer somewhere between stage 3 or 4. Without checking any alternatives, I started chemotherapy at my health care provider’s oncology department. I was scheduled for 6-rounds of chemotherapy; each round was a double-bag. During my second infusion, I experienced a deathly reaction to the chemicals and almost died in the treatment chair. That near-death experience was the catalyst that sent me in search of Alternative Cancer Treatments. After weeks of searching, I found a wonderful clinic which was recommended in one of Kevin Trudeau’s books. I devoured the website information and read all the survivor’s testimonials. Then, my husband and I discussed and prayed about the possibilities of me going to the clinic. It was a big decision to go; it shouldn’t have been, but it was. I had butterflies like I have never had them before. Then, together my husband and I made the decision for me to go to the clinic. The treatments were for two-weeks; now they do three-weeks for less money than I paid for my two-weeks. I regained my energy and smile back almost instantly after the treatments began. After returning home, I made an appointment with oncology. He ordered another PET-scan because he couldn’t detect any cancer remaining when he physically examined me. I held my breath for about a week until the results came back…Cancer-Free!! That was three-years ago. I have full faith that you can become the next cancer survivor by going to the clinic. Take your opportunity now and have a FREE CONFIDENTIAL MEDICAL EVALUATION, to discover if you are a good candidate for Alternative Cancer Treatments. Get the clinic name by going to my
Cancer Survivor
page and use the “Clinic Name Request Form” You’ll be so happy you did!!
Peggy Sue Roberts
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