On Nov. 6, 2012 I had a CAT scan that showed I had cancer in lymph nodes between my lungs. The oncologist said radiation wouldn't help, but recommended chemotherapy. However I had no chemo, because I worried about its possibly very damaging side effects. Also, it seemed illogical to me to damage the functioning of my immune system with chemo when I would need it to fight the cancer. On November 17, on Ralph Cole's recommendation, to cure myself of the cancer, I began drinking the juice of five pounds of carrots daily. Ten days later, on November 27 a PET scan confirmed the earlier CAT scan, and showed that I had cancer between my lungs, with many "spots" and two tumorous lymph nodes which, according to the radiologist's report, were "rapidly growing" and "avid for sugar." However, that scan also showed that the tumors were only the same size as they had been on November 6, not bigger. This was surprising to me, but the oncologist said it could be because of the lack of precision in scans. On January 7, the next CAT scan showed no growth of the cancer at all, and some shrinkage of the tumors. A March 14 CAT then showed further shrinkage of the swollen lymph nodes between the lungs--they had returned to the normal size of healthy nodes. The results of a July 30 scan, the next and last scan I've had, showed "no evidence of cancer."
Between November and August 1, I received no radiation therapy or chemotherapy, and made no major life changes except this one: I drank the juice of five pounds of carrots almost every day. This was Ralph Cole's advice to me, which I believe has saved my life. In addition, I have felt great and in superb health (except for some worry) during the entire time of my treatment. I believe this can work for many others and potentially save many thousands or millions of lives. Carrots have been found to contain the powerful anti-cancer chemicals falcarinol and falcarindiol, which are natural to them, and which they use to defend themselves from natural enemies. It turns out that that same chemicals (and possibly another, luteolin) is able to defend us from our enemies, too.
Ralph Cole saw visible shrinkage of his skin tumors only a couple days after starting carrot juice. He and I believe that there was growth of my own tumors between November 6 to November 17, when I started the carrots; and in the following ten days to November 27. shrinkage of that growth reversing the size of the tumors back to what they were on November 6. Depending on the type of tumor, someone who tries carrots could expect to see results in a very few weeks.
Below is my story.
I was diagnosed at the beginning of June, 2012, with colon cancer and had surgery immediately to remove a tumor that had penetrated the muscle in the upper right abdomen. Also my gall bladder was removed because I had many gallstones.
Before the cancer diagnosis I had been very anemic for several months and had had acute pain in the abdomen. I was so weak that I slept all the time and felt absolutely joyless. I was given a blood transfusion during surgery, which improved my hemoglobin.
I'm now, on March 18, 2013, 69 years old. I was diagnosed at the beginning of June, 2012, with colon cancer and had surgery immediately to remove a tumor that had penetrated the muscle in the upper right abdomen. Also my gall bladder was removed because I had many gallstones.
Before the cancer diagnosis I had been very anemic for several months and had had acute pain in the abdomen. I was so weak that I slept all the time and felt absolutely joyless. I was given a blood transfusion during surgery, which improved my hemoglobin. The surgeon and the oncologist proposed chemotherapy although they said that with the type of tumor I had (Deficient DNA mismatch repair colon cancer), it wouldn’t necessarily work. Right after surgery I said, Yes, I would do the proposed 6 months of chemo with infusions every three weeks. The proposal came with a mention of the major secondary effects of the chemo, but with the implied tone of “Yes, it can be tough for some people, but not everyone, and we think you’re brave enough to take it.” The bad possible side effects weren’t dwelt on. I figured as most people do, that I would be brave and rallied to the challenge.
Ideally, the surgeon and oncologist said, I should start the chemo in July; but because the surgical wound got infected and had to be cleaned out, leaving a fist-sized hole in the abdomen, the start of chemo was delayed to September, so my body would have a chance to build the new cells that early chemo would have attacked.. Meantime I started reading about all the possible chemo side effects—including anemia, and peripheral neuropathy (excrutiating inflamed hands and feet which in 27% of the 80% with that symptom, continued to be inflamed even years after the chemo was over). I couldn’t bear the thought of being anemic again. and losing all my joy in life. And I’m a writer who earns my living by typing. How would I write if I couldn’t touch a keyboard? I decided that without evidence of metastasis, I was not willing to undergo chemo and to return to being the miserable weak numb anemic person I’d been before the surgery.
I searched the internet for natural substances that would prevent a return of the cancer and settled on boswellia, and principally beet powder. The abdominal wound closed up. I felt great and couldn’t imagine I was still ill. Then in November 2012, I had my six-month checkup PET scan.
I was very nervous about this. The oncologist ran behind schedule and I sat in the waiting room with my boyfriend and sister, for two hours with nobody telling me when she would see me. I heartily recommend to anybody who goes for one of these appointments to find out how far behind the oncologist will be and if he or she is late, leave your cell phone number with the receptionist and go take a walk or have a coffee somewhere and only return when you are called back. Everybody involved in treatment may be very nice, but the cancer care system as a whole is not designed with the comfort or emotional needs of patients considered.
Once I did see the oncologist, I got a horrible shock: the cancer had metastasized. I had two tumors between the lungs, each about an inch long, and many new cancerous “spots.” The oncologist concluded that in June the cancer had already metastasized but that the metastasis had been too small to be detectable.
I was devastated and very sad, especially because of the very rapid growth of the cancer—from undetectable to one-inch tumors in only six months. The oncologist confirmed that this was a very aggressive cancer-- stage 4 and incurable by chemotherapy. She said I probably would feel the first symptoms start in six months to a year, she said. Chemo, though not a cure, might delay the start of symptoms to twenty months. I also talked to the surgeon who'd removed the initial big colon tumor in June. When I asked, he said that without chemo, my life expectancy was two to three years. Doing the math, I figured that the first six months of life of the twenty I might gain by doing chemo, I’d be sick from the chemo itself—and I might not even recover from the chemo sickness before going on to be sick from the cancer.
I told the oncologist that I didn't want to start chemo in November, but wanted to wait and see until the next scan in January. She said that that was a reasonable choice.
I figured the chemo might be worse than the disease. I’d seen chemo kill three friends very quickly. Right after the November bad news, I had returned to scouring the internet and came upon Ralph Cole’s posting about how he had cured his cancer by drinking the juice of 5 pounds of carrots daily. The post gave his phone number. I called him. He seemed a very level-headed person with no profit motive—no claims that for sure the carrot juice would work, no appeals to buy any particular juicer from him. He was clearly not on a campaign to build his own ego or to corner the world carrot market. I quit the beet juice but went on taking the same vitamins that had already failed to stop the cancer. I bought an Omega juicer and started juicing the 5 pounds of carrots immediately. It takes about a half hour to 45 minutes to clean and cut up the carrots, juice them and clean the juicer afterward. Both the Omega and Champion juicers are extremely easy to clean. I’ve heard that the centrifugal juicers are much more of a nuisance to get carrot particles out of the works.
Ralph had told me that it didn’t matter to use organic carrots, ordinary carrots were good enough, so that’s what I used. He said he drank all the juice, about five cups, immediately. I tried that, but it caused me diarrhea. I thought so much juice at once was not getting digested, so I switched to drinking the juice a cup or two at a time during the day, refrigerating the part I drank later in a sealed jar.
In early January I tried to add Low Dose Naltrexon to my regimen, but the pills made me extremely dizzy, so I gave it up after five days. Others say the dizziness passes by increasing the dose slowly, but I was tired of walking like a drunk and having the world lurch around me.
On January 9, 2013, I had a new CAT scan. Amazingly, the cancer had not grown: there were no new spots and the two tumors appeared to be slightly smaller. I thought the carrots were working!
A week later, I went to Guatemala from Oregon, where I used a Champion juicer. This seemed better than the Omega juicer because it ground the carrots finer and I thought they digested better. A Mayan friend suggested I buy carrots with unwilted tops still on them, to be sure I was getting the freshest carrots, so I did that. (The carrots were weighed after the tops were removed.) In February, I also added a special nanoparticle turmeric (Longvida) and a specially processed broccoli (Activamune) to my regimen.
I had a new CAT scan in Guatemala March 14, 2013. It showed that there was no new cancer, and that the two tumors were slightly smaller than they had been in January. The Guatemalan oncologist pressed me about whether I intended to do chemotherapy, and I said not at this point. He said he respected my decision, and in fact “at the bottom of his heart” agreed with it, that having seen so much damage from chemotherapy, he believed if he had cancer, he would decline it.
In my case, it may be that the turmeric and broccoli capsules are helping, or anyhow are good for my general health. However, I am sure that (besides prayers and healing meditations of friends) the carrots have made the difference.
Ralph suggested that I eliminate sugar from my diet. But I am fairly self-indulgent and didn’t do that. I probably have a small dessert every day. I also eat meat, didn’t increase my salad consumption, didn’t start chomping down shitaki mushrooms as another friend advised. I wouldn’t advise anybody else to skip possible improvements in diet. Do as I say, not as I do! Personally, I didn’t want to make those possibly healthful changes unless it became clear that carrots weren’t enough. So far, it seems that carrots alone are curing me. I have no symptoms of cancer and feel very good. More important to me than getting rid of the tumors, is having the growth of the cancer stopped. So long as it doesn’t grow, it will not cause me any problem. I hope that in a matter of months or years, it will be gone entirely.
Unlike some natural substances, as far as I've read, carrots are perfectly compatible with orthodox treatment. Probably some cancers are so advanced that carrots alone can't stop them. I believe, but will never know, that if I'd declined surgery for my initial colon tumor in June 2012, even with carrots, I'd be dead by now. On the other hand, if an oncologist tells someone in apparent good health that it's "not very risky" to delay starting chemo or radiation for a few weeks, I'd advise taking that time to try the carrots. (The carrots, by the way, never turned me orange and have been great for my complexion.) I would recommend trying the five pounds of carrots daily to anyone with cancer. Even if it doesn’t help, it can do no harm.
I will update this post if I have anything new to report, positive or negative. ###
Ann Cameron posted the following update via email on 5/24/2013:
Ralph, I discovered the date I started the carrots--Nov. 17. Maybe you could post this as an update of my experience:
I have found that drinking 5 lbs. of carrots as juice is effective at stopping cancer. On June 6, 2012, I had surgery for a newly diagnosed colon cancer and felt better and better from that date. On November 6, 2012, I got a shock: a CT scan showed I had a presumed metastasis-- two small, but very rapidly growing tumors, each about an inch long by 1/4 inch diameter, between my lungs, plus spots and swollen lymph nodules. I read a letter on the internet by Ralph Cole, saying that drinking carrot juice had eliminated ten small squamous cell cancers he suffered from. Ready to try anything, on November 17, I started drinking the juice from five pounds of carrots daily.
Eleven days later, on November 27 a PET scan showed the previously rapidly growing tumors had not grown. I decided against having any of the recommended chemotherapy and had no other treatments or life changes beyond the carrot consumption. A CT scan January 7, 2013 showed no growth of the cancer, some shrinkage of the tumors, and fewer swollen lymph nodes. A CT scan at the end of March 2013 showed no growth of the cancer, no new cancer, no swollen lymph nodes at all, and further shrinkage of the tumors.
To put a time line on my progress: The PET of November 27 showed the two tumors in lung lymph nodes as rapidly growing, but no larger than they had been in the CAT scan of November 9. The next CAT scan of January 9 showed no growth in the tumors, in fact, slight shrinkage, and no new cancer. In eight weeks the cancer had stopped growing!
A scan in Guatemala at the end of March showed that the two formerly tumorous lymph nodes had shrunk to normal size. All lymph nodes and nodules in my lungs were now entirely normal, "no evidence of pulmonary adenopathy." The next scan, on July 30, 2013 showed "no evidence of cancer." Nowhere in my body. It was gone. I've scheduled my next scan for a year from this last one.
I believe that a person like me, a person still in generally good health, might safely put off chemotherapy for several weeks to see if carrots alone can arrest the growth of the cancer. If the carrots show results, one might continue to postpone chemotherapy as long as the carrots continue to arrest the cancer, and, one hopes, eventually eliminate it entirely. It would be ideal, of course, if one's oncologist would confirm, as mine did, that delaying chemotherapy a few weeks would not greatly increase one's risk of continued metastasis.
An acquaintance about my age (69) had colon cancer surgery at the same time I did, followed by a course of chemotherapy. His chemo treatment concluded several months ago. His daughter says that he is unhappy because he has no energy now. He's very tired, finds that foods don't taste or smell right, and can't enjoy exercise or eating. Some people go through chemotherapy fairly easily. Many, like him, do not. Cancer has risks. So does chemotherapy, including the development of secondary cancers, since the chemo chemicals themselves are carcinogens.
The effective ingredient in the carrots is falcarinol, which is being studied in England by Dr. Kirsten Brandt and her assistants at the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne. In her research, lab rats given a carcinogen and then carrots, in an amount that would equal a human dosage of a pound and a half, developed one third less tumors than the control rats with normal rat chow. So it makes sense to me that five pounds of carrots juiced daily, a human dose close to three times higher than that used in the rat research, might stop cancer altogether, as it has for Ralph Cole, the creator of the cancerisover.org website.
The nice thing about trying the carrots for cancer is that it's inexpensive. It takes only a juicer and carrots. At least in Ralph's and my experience, carrots start to work immediately. In two or three weeks the change should be visible in scan, as a stopping of growth of the cancer, or shrinkage. Even if carrots don't help, they will still do no harm. They don't damage the immune system, cause "brain fog" or temporary or long term illness. They don't bankrupt the cancer patient. ###
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The following is a summarized version of Ann's story, translated into Spanish. The English original can be found at ChrisBeatCancer.com . We extend our appreciation to Rita Wirkala, PhD (
http://ritawirkalawriting.blogspot.com/ ) of the University of Washington for providing the translation, and to her, Ann Cameron, and Chris Wark for making it available to CancerIsOver.org .
Zanahorias y cáncer
Me atrevo a asegurar que después de esta estupenda experiencia personal, las zanahorias pueden curar el cáncer - y rápidamente, sin quimioterapia, radiación, u otros cambios en la dieta.
Aquí está la historia de mi increíble experiencia:
2012
Habiendo sido diagnosticada con cáncer de colon, me operaron el 6 de junio para extraer el tumor. Me prescribieron luego un tratamiento de quimioterapia, que rechacé. Me sentí mejor por un tiempo, pero seis meses más tarde, el 6 de noviembre, un nuevo TC Scan mostró una sospecha de metástasis en los pulmones.
Quedé muy angustiada. Leí todo lo que pude encontrar en Internet sobre las alternativas a la quimioterapia y la radiación (fuera la lista de 20 substancias que mi esposo había intentado durante seis meses, antes de morir de cáncer de pulmón en 2005.)
Di con una carta en el Internet de una persona en California, Ralph Cole, (que ahora tiene la página web CancerIsOver.org) donde decía que beber el jugo de cinco libras de zanahorias diariamente le había eliminado pequeños cánceres de células escamosas en el cuello, y que tenía información de otras personas a las cuales el tratamiento de zanahoria les había ayudado con una gran variedad de tipos de cáncer. Ralph era muy detallado en la descripción de su propia experiencia, y no vendía nada, ni le interesaba promocionarse.
El 17 de noviembre empecé a beber el jugo en la cantidad que Ralph recomendaba.
Tres semanas más tarde, el 27 de noviembre, un nuevo análisis (PET SCAN) confirmó la presencia de "puntos", nódulos linfáticos inflamados, y dos pequeños tumores en los ganglios linfáticos entre los pulmones, de una pulgada de largo y un cuarto de pulgada de diámetro, cada uno. Esto era evidencia de metástasis en los pulmones y un cáncer en la fase 4.
Más tarde me enteré de que el cirujano de cáncer de colon pensó que el cáncer en los pulmones no estaba relacionado con el cáncer de colon, sino que fue un desarrollo independiente. Su razonamiento era que el cáncer de colon, incluso metástasis, crece lento, y los dos tumores del pulmón fueron creciendo rápidamente.
El oncólogo dijo que la radiación no me ayudaría. Me recomendó la quimioterapia para retrasar mi muerte y aseguró que sin ese tratamiento tendría probablemente sólo dos o tres años de vida.
Esta vez también rechace la quimio, la radiación o cualquier otro tratamiento. Continué con la zanahoria, y otros vicios dietéticos como carne y helado (no es que este recomendad el helado para el cáncer, sólo quiero hacer hincapié en que el jugo de zanahoria fue el único cambio que hice en mi vida, además de aceptar con gratitud "buena energía" y oraciones de la familia e invocando la sabiduría y ayuda de Quien esté en el Más Allá.
2013
El 7 de enero, después de ocho semanas de jugo de zanahoria (un litro o litro y medio al día) hice otro análisis de tomografía computarizada. No mostró crecimiento del cáncer, sino por el contrario: una cierta contracción de los tumores, y un menor número de ganglios linfáticos hinchados. En tan sólo ocho semanas, el crecimiento de los tumores se había detenido, el mismo período de tiempo que le llevó a Ralph eliminar sus tumores.
Durante los siguientes seis meses, hasta el final de julio de 2013, seguí el tratamiento a pie juntillas, excepto por tres o cuatro días al mes, cuando tenía que viajar..
El CAT SCAN a finales de marzo no mostró crecimiento del cáncer ni nuevos nódulos, sino la contracción de los tumores.
El CAT SCAN de 30 de julio 2013 no mostró ninguna evidencia de cáncer! Y los ganglios linfáticos habían vuelto a su tamaño normal. Por primera vez le dije a mi oncóloga sobre el mi tratamiento que yo había seguido (cosa que no hice antes por temor a su escepticismo).
Su respuesta fue que estaba segura de que muchas sustancias naturales que son eficaces contra el cáncer, pero que no pueden ser recomendar a los pacientes debido a la falta de estudios formales y un apoyo estadístico, por lo cual deben ajustarse estrictamente a recomendar la quimioterapia o la radioterapia
En resumen: 10 días después de comenzar mi tratamiento con las zanahorias, no hubo crecimiento del tumor esperado. 8 semanas después, los tumores se encogieron. Cuatro meses después, los ganglios linfáticos de los pulmones habían vuelto a la normalidad. Ocho meses después de comenzar, no había ninguna señal de cáncer en cualquier parte de mi cuerpo. Creo que una persona con cáncer podría posponer radioterapia o quimioterapia dos a o tres semanas para diagmos dos o tres semanas, y si hay hay resultados buenos, seguir solamente con ellas.
El ingrediente clave en las zanahorias es falcarinol, que se ha demostrado eficaz contra el cáncer en experimentos de laboratorio con ratas y ratones realizado en Dinamarca y el Reino Unido. El Dra. Kirsten Brandt y sus colegas en el Reino Unido han retardado el crecimiento de tumores en ratas de laboratorio inyectados con un carcinógeno y luego tratados con una cantidad de zanahorias diario que sería equivalente a una libra y media consumida cada día por un ser humano. Comemos yo y Ralph Cole cinco libras diario--3 veces más que el equivalente dosis en una rata. Espero que Dra. Brandt pueda obtener la tan necesitada ayuda financiera de personas y organizaciones para continuar su trabajo.
Mis mejores deseos a todos para la salud y la felicidad,
Ann Cameron
SPREADING THE WORD IS SAVING LIVES!
A Post Script from Ann Cameron: WORKING WITH THE MIND
I believe carrots cured me, but I did have an imaginative and subjective approach to the cancer as well, which helped me through my days and probably affected my immune system for the better, too. Working with the mind of course is even cheaper than working with carrots!
As my body healed from the June 2012 colon surgery and the infected surgical wound which had left a big hole in my abdomen, I felt better and better. I was feeling all healed and really superb in November up to the time I got the diagnosis of metastasized Stage 4 colon cancer, and received the surgeon's assessment: it was that I only had two to three years to live. I was terribly, overwhelmingly sad. But then, as days passed, I decided not to let the bad news sink in deep to further hurt my body. I determined that I wasn't going to be struck dead through dread, like a victim of voodoo. I would not visualize the cancer as an all-powerful evil enemy that would surely kill me, but as something I could defeat and also learn from. I thanked my body for the many years it had been healthy and had taken care of me, and told it it was beautiful. (Not beautiful in a fashion-magazine sense, but deeply and inwardly beautiful and good, for its work to help me.)
Years before, at a fitness center I used to visit, I'd often overhear one member talking almost proudly to anyone who'd listen, about his health--or rather, his sickness: "My diabetes" he'd say, or "my kidney problem" or "my heart problem." It sounded like his importance as a person came from these conditions that he owned--no different than if he had said "my mansion" or "my Mercedes." I had thought, 'How can he ever get better when these conditions give him his importance in life?' So when I got cancer, I determined not to own it--it could exist, but not as part of "me." I always thought of it as "the" cancer, not "my" cancer. It was in my body, but I wouldn't make it part of my mind.
I read a lot of websites about different natural curative regimes--a tremendous bewildering and dismally complex array--and noticed that most people didn't mention why they wanted to live, just what they'd done to survive. I thought just surviving was not the goal--the essential thing was to focus on the values and loves that made it important to live. I am a children's book author, so creating the books that others have told me inspire and and bring happiness to their children is important to me. Besides that, many friends let me know they valued me and wanted me to live. The agnostics sent "good energy," the religious friends prayed for me. I don't think carrots would've saved me if my friends hadn't wanted me around.
Back in June 2012, just before I had my colon cancer surgery, I had the good fortune to be put in contact with another children's author, who is also a health and healing consultant. Following my colon surgery, I told her that both the oncologist and the surgeon were advising chemotherapy. She said that belief was the biggest determinant of success of a therapy. She hoped I'd do what I deeply felt was right for myself; but added that the statistics on chemotherapy success were misleading: cancer could be seen not as tumors to be removed, but as a miscommunication between cells. From that perspective, restoring communication between the cells, not indiscriminately attacking and burning cells, was the way to cure the cancer. This gave me increased confidence to forego chemotherapy. So did the words of a Finnish friend, who when I said I was considering chemo, told me, "You know the New York Times just had an article about how chemo agents are carcinogens, don't you?" I didn't know. I learned what she said was true. While chemo drugs initially attack fast-growing cells, tumorous and others, years later they can give rise to new cancers.
Anybody wanting more details about my experience is welcome to e-mail me at anncameron2009@hotmail.com .
-Ann Cameron
(Post Script added September 6, 2013)
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