Hi James,
It sounds like your mom is responding pretty well to the treatments, however this is a very difficult treatment for anyone… let alone a 70 year old woman. I know because I went through it myself. If you are interested in learning about many successful alternative treatments that can help her both DURING and after her conventional treatments, I do have a suggestion for you. I’ve recently watched and purchased a video series called “The Truth About Cancer”. I highly recommend this series. This series is loaded with simple and easy things that can be done to beat cancer. I was particularly impressed by the number of people on the video who were told there was nothing else that could be done for them and they should just go home or into hospice care, yet they are not only alive today, but thriving. Some had pancreatic, lung, ovarian and other deadly late stage cancers. I was surprised by how many things they recommend that I have been doing for years now. It only reaffirms for me that I have been on the right track when it comes to curing cancer. This series can be found easily online by searching “The Truth About Cancer”. I believe you will find many things you can implement right now to help you mom. Please stay in touch and let me know how your mom is doing. I look forward to hearing more from you. Until then, I am holding your mom and your family in my highest thoughts of love and healing.

I will email you so we can speak on a personal level.

Hi Jane,
It’s very difficult hearing how much you’ve gone through in such a short time. You are one very strong woman. You are the first person I’ve talked with who has had this type of recurrence. I am thinking that you might have a better chance of meeting another woman in a similar situation as yourself if you join a private group online. The group I am thinking of is on Facebook and it’s called The Sisterhood of Ovarian Cancer Survivors. If you go to their FB page and leave a short message about what you are going through with a request to join, they will approve you as a member and from there you can be part of this group. I love this group because there are hundreds of women from all over the world who are dealing with ovarian cancer, recurrences and similar challenges with the spread to other areas of the body. I wish I could be more helpful, but I’m thinking this group may be able to provide the kind of support you need right now. Please stay in touch and let me know if you learn any more on this. Until then, I will keep you in my highest thoughts of love, healing and prayer.

I got diagnosed on May 2013 with Stage 4 ovarian cancer. Has surgery and chemo. I was in remission for 7 months until they found one large brain met. Had it surgically removed, went back on chemo and 6 months later(now) they found 2 tiny brain mets. Had them radiated and then a pet scan showed one lymph node as suspicious so I am going back on chemo. Do you know of anyone else with brain mets. I know it is very uncommon. Read your book and it was very inspiring. So happy you are doing so well! I don’t know how I could be sick because I feel so good.

Hi Jeff,
Thank you for contacting me. The news of your daughter touches my heart in so many ways. I too had late stage including the removal of part of my colon, the upper part of my rectum and my ureter had to be rebuilt and re-implanted back into my bladder, not to mention, extensive lymph node removal. So I do understand what your beautiful daughter must be going through. First of all, it sounds like she is taking charge by doing all those very important things you mentioned, from avoiding GMOs to taking Frankincense. Others may not understand her choices, but I sure do.

Her resistance to Platinum drugs is not unusual. I’ve heard many others have this resistance. When you tell me about the push to put her on Avastin, which has a chance of bowel perforation, it is truly frustrating. I have never taken Avastin nor was I offered it. It probably wasn’t around when I went through my treatments in 2000 and the recurrence in 2002. When I had my recurrence in my neck and pancreas, I was being pushed to repeat the same horrible chemo blasts I had barely tolerated the first time. It is so hard to take a stand, but I did. I went to several other oncologists to find some alternative. Most had nothing new to offer except adding more drugs to supposedly relieve the side effects, but I wasn’t comfortable with that either. I finally did find an oncologist with a different way of handling the treatments.

I wish I had a clear alternative to suggest, but I am not a doctor, only a survivor who followed her instincts and took a stand for what I believed was best for me. Let’s face it, the doctors can only treat our illness, it’s up to us to heal ourselves and our disease. I believe your daughter should be the one to make this difficult decision and take a stand for what she believes is best for her in her situation. Consult other doctors, talk to others who are in a similar situation.

There is a great website I joined that your daughter can join too. It is a closed site only for those with ovarian cancer. There are women from all over the world on this site and many are faced with the same decision about Avastin as your daughter. The discussions are honest and truthful and the women speak openly about treatments that work and the treatments they regret agreeing to. The site is the “sisterhood of ovarian cancer survivors”. Please check this out as questions asked here are answered by many (and I mean a lot!) of women going through the same thing. I truly hope this helps in some way.

Again thank you contacting me. I hope to hear more from you about your daughter’s progress. Until then, I will hold your daughter and your entire family in my highest thoughts of love, healing and prayer.
Chris

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