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From:	Jennifer Tow, IBCLC (jennifer.vegsource.com)
Subject:	Re: Stage 4 Ovarian Cancer
Date:	November 19, 2005 at 9:24 pm PST

In Reply to: Re: Stage 4 Ovarian Cancer posted by Rebecca Gillespie on November 16, 2005 at 9:41 am:

A close friend of my MIL has been working with Dr. Day and has
successfully overcome breast cancer without any allopathic drugs.
Her family was completely against her, but she has won them over
with her success. OTOH, stage4 ovarian cancer is one of the most
fatal of all cancers (my mother died of it 4 years ago) and fear may
drive your friend to make choices she may not be intially inclined
to make.

I researched ovarian cancer extensively when my mother was ill
and can tell you that while there is compelling information about
recoveries from all kinds of cancer at all stages, it is very difficult
for most people to make the kind of paradigm shift required to
trust their bodies in such a dire place. We are all motivated and
inspired by different things. Some people need a competent
holistic practitioner, some need information, some support--it is
hard to know what she will need. So many things can facilitate the
body's ability to heal--nutrition, herbs, homeopathy, meditation,
bodywork--all of them, b/c in the end they are just tools and the
mind is the real key.

Greg Andeson's book "The 22 Non-Negotiable Laws of Wellness" is
an amazing tale of someone at stage4 metastsis (lung cancer) with
only weeks to live who is alive 20 years later. There are many
survival books and stories, many treatments (Ingdrid Naiman's
website has some wonderful products) and many lies told in the
name of medicine that are really, IMO fear-based ways of selling
drugs and the oncology machine. It is a daunting task to research
cancer--I spent many hours over a 2-year period doing so--and
even more so for someone feeling the urgency of her own
mortality.

Offer what you can, but know that cancer is a powerful agent of
fear and she will have to choose her own path. My mother chose
only drugs and surgery and could see no reason to have done
otherwise. My FIL (diagnosed with cancer at the same time as my
mom and died 5 weeks later) chose the drugs and surgery AND
holistic medicine and had a far better quality of life than my
mother. In the end, his regret was that he had done the drugs at all
and not trusted the holistic approach fully. Everyone's path is
different--you have to trust her to find hers.
Jennifer

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