Life Beyond Chemotherapy

Are There Alternatives To Chemo?

I'm working with a man with recently diagnosed late-stage pancreatic cancer.  He's a gentle, sanguine man.  He has bright yellow skin due to the tumour causing obstructive liver disease and he has problems with his lymphatic system causing oedema of the legs [which is what I was called to treat] not resolved by diuretic drugs, though his kidneys are unaffected.  He is very thin and weak and fairly elderly.  

In a few days we've managed to impact on leg oedema and his pain levels have improved, allowing him to drop his intake of co-codamol.  

I gave him graphites 30c 3 times daily for 3 days, to be continued once daily if he is taking co-codamol [which is an opiate and can antidote remedies, hence the continued dosing].  He fits the graphites mental/emotional picture nicely and graphites is a remedy indicated for tumours in general ... and it fit his symptoms well.  
Cancers occur predominantly in people with low immune systems so we don't expect to have clear symptoms to guide us.  A weak immune system rarely can maintain continuity to produce clarity for homeopaths to follow.   
Where you see the occasional spontaneous recovery and miracle cure with diet the person is one of the rare high level of health cancer sufferers. 

Although I've been asked to treat his oedema, as a homeopath I'm always looking for a remedy that covers his holistic state, which will lead me more surely to the remedy for his oedema and may make some palliative improvement to his overall condition.  I'm also aware he is waiting for an appointment with the Banerji clinic in India. 

I've been doing a routine literature search on homeopathic treatment of pancreatic cancer. 

This leads me to write my second article about chemotherapy ... or more about what homeopathy has been shown to do in cancer cases in comparison to chemotherapy.  I'm very interested in this subject because for some years [since my mum had cancer and my father-in-law had cancer] I feel a calling to be ready if someone comes to me asking for treatment, or another family member [or myself] have cancer, and I'm not particularly ready.  
Currently, I refer people to the Banerjis in India who have some great outcomes with a homeopathic cancer protocol. People don't have time to wait for a reply from the Banerjis in cases like my current one.

More homeopaths need to step up and offer alternative treatment [although we are legally banned from saying we can treat it, in the UK at least].  As people become more aware that chemo may not be all it is sold to be, they are going to be asking homeopaths for an alternative.  Cancer [like autism, my own specialism] is on the increase. 

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Pancreatic Cancer Homeopathic Research.

I'm interested by pancreatic cancer due to my current work and as it is one of the most aggressive and deadly forms.  It killed my mother-in-law [of whom I was very fond] and I have an extended family member suffering with it too.  

In my literature search I came across this study
https://www.naturalmedicinejournal.com/journal/2011-04/primary-homeopathic-treatment-cancers-pancreas-stomach-gallbladder-and-liver

I wanted to mention their outcomes because they are working with a comparative conventional success rate of 1-2% max in situations similar to the one my patient is in.  

The cancer types considered in this study are among the most intractable and deadly malignancies. Conventional treatment of these conditions, though improving, is still of very limited effectiveness. For instance, in the last decade with the use of the standard first-line therapy gemcitabine, median overall survival for advanced pancreatic adenocarcinoma has increased from 3–4 months to 5–8 months,1 while 5-year survival of the non-resectable form is nearly unchanged at a dismal 1–2%.2,3 Roughly 80% of all pancreatic malignancies are inoperable at diagnosis.4 Therefore, results of this study, which demonstrate a 19–38-fold improvement compared to conventional treatment in five-year survival of non-resectable pancreatic cancer are, to put it mildly, intriguing.

compared to their key findings:

Key Findings
Complete tumor response occurred in 33.33% of those diagnosed with stage III disease and 10.71% of those with stage IV. Partial response occurred in 41.03% and 33.93% respectively.Five-year survival rates were 38.64% (pancreatic), 38.1% (gastric), 37.5% (gallbladder), and 43.75% (liver).

I've ordered the Banerji protocol book.  
I can't keep referring patients to avoid treating them when the clinic I'm referring to is over run, so I need to get up to speed with some of these treatment protocols to add to our standard homeopathy.  

Right now my aim is palliation but the best way to palliate is to shrink a tumour.  It's worth trying.