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    Say No to Radiation and Conventional Chemo Winning My Battle Against Stage 2 Breast Cancer
    Say No to Radiation and Conventional Chemo Winning My Battle Against Stage 2 Breast Cancer
    Say No to Radiation and Conventional Chemo Winning My Battle Against Stage 2 Breast Cancer
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    Say No to Radiation and Conventional Chemo Winning My Battle Against Stage 2 Breast Cancer

    By Diana Warren

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    Internationally acclaimed integrative medical oncologist James W. Forsythe, M.D., H.M.D., has praised Diana Warren for courage and tenacity in her arduous battle against Stage II breast cancer. Doctor Forsythe insists that “Diana deserves kudos from people around the world, for refusing to subject her body to unnecessary standard chemo and radiation that allopathic oncologists kept trying to require her to endure.” Featured in many hot-selling books written by others including media personality Suzanne Somers, and also the author of many successful books himself, Doctor Forsythe has hailed Diana for her dogged determination amid a non-stop quest to find effective natural, non-toxic treatments as her health deteriorated, while also hunting for an experienced doctor licensed to avoid high-dose poisonous options. “I strongly recommend that everyone who suffers from cancer read Diana’s compelling tale,” Doctor Forsythe said. “Today, Diana is playing a formidable role in helping to lead the way as a true champion in a quest to inform the public of the urgent need to avoid toxic treatments when feasible in certain circumstances, and how to find acceptable natural remedies—plus the importance of avoiding ‘standard-of-care’ chemo and radiation when under the care and guidance of a qualified, licensed medical professional.” After reading many hundreds of books on cancer, Doctor Forsythe hails Diana’s publication as being “by far among the best from the viewpoint of a person who never attended medical school. Readers undoubtedly will benefit when learning of the exceptional example Diana has set for us all.”

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    PublisherDiana Warren
    Release dateNov 17, 2013
    ISBN9781310746369
    Say No to Radiation and Conventional Chemo Winning My Battle Against Stage 2 Breast Cancer
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    Diana Warren

    Diana Warren lives in Maui, HI. The ocean foam cools her feet when she and her husband, Sam, walk the beach. They spent many years designing and building custom homes and remodeling in WA State and built their home in Kihei. Diana’s grandchildren urged her to write the story she recited every Christmas Season. Joe and Hot Chocolate Charley became familiar names in the family. This story that simmered on the back burner for so many years is finally in print. Enjoy! Mackenzie (Kenzie) Weiland was born in Spokane, WA, and fell in love with the fantastic creatures around her. She combined her passion for ecology with drawing and painting, winning a state art championship in high school. Kenzie previously published several watercolor animal images as a college student. Having recently graduated college, she now does campus ministry and creates whimsical watercolor illustrations whenever possible. She aspires to use her artistic talents to glorify God and effectuate stories that magnify Him.

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      Say No to Radiation and Conventional Chemo Winning My Battle Against Stage 2 Breast Cancer - Diana Warren

      Say No To Radiation and Conventional Chemo Winning My Battle Against Stage 2 Breast Cancer

      Diana Warren

      Copyright 2013 Diana Warren

      Smashwords Edition

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like o share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

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      Table of Contents

      Dedication

      Foreword: Dr. James W. Forsythe

      Get a Second Opinion: Jamie Beardsley

      Part I: My Own Path

      Chapter 1: A Long-Standing Mistrust

      Chapter 2: Ever-Changing

      Chapter 3: Our First Nightmare

      Chapter 4: My Turn

      Chapter 5: The Battle Begins

      Chapter 6: No to Chemo

      Chapter 7: The Godsend, or What Suzanne Somers Sent

      Chapter 8: Supplements, the Soldiers of Battle

      Chapter 9: Ken Stops Cuddling

      Part II: Alternatives and Health Maintenance

      Chapter 1: You Are What You Eat

      Chapter 2: DCA and Haelan 951

      Chapter 3: IPT Chemo and the Greek Blood Test

      My Investigated Supplements

      Dedication

      To Jamie Beardsley, my devoted, loving daughter and personal angel; to Dr. Edward O. Torino; Dr. John Matrisciano; and Dr. James W. Forsythe. There are no words to thank you all for what you’ve done for Jamie and I over the past years. Your actions were valiant.

      Foreword

      James W. Forsythe, M.D., H.M.D.

      Diana Warren’s breakthrough book, Say No to Radiation and Conventional Chemo: Winning my Battle Against Stage 2 Breast Cancer delivers to breast cancer patients throughout the United States, as well as other cancer patients who are facing the ordeals of being diagnosed with this often deadly disease, from the perspective of a wise and proactive patient herself, with emphasis on taking control and being skeptical about conventional medicine. She steps out of the box to find the best tailor-made treatments available without falling into the complacency of treatment protocols offered by conventional medicine.

      Breast cancer in the United States occurs in one out of eight women and is the second leading cause of death after lung cancer in the year 2013, surpassing 50,000 deaths per year. Diana’s journey through conventional breast cancer cookbook programs is well chronicled, and the underlying angst that she relates is vividly portrayed in her account.

      My input comes from being an integrative oncologist who has practiced conventional oncology alone for twenty of my forty years in medical practice. After graduating in the top twenty percent of my class at the University of California at San Francisco (at the time, one of the top five medical schools in the country), I have had experience as an army pathologist, as an emergency room physician, Internal Medicine-certified specialist, a geriatric physician with certification as director of more than six extended care facilities in Northern Nevada, a hospice director, an instructor of medicine at the University of California at San Francisco, and an associate professor at the University of Nevada, Reno, Medical School. In addition, I’m a board certified homeopathic physician, an author of more than 12 books, and numerous chapters relating to various aspects of medicine, cancer care and cancer politics.

      Here are some examples of the many reactions I personally have witnessed directly from my patients in circumstances akin to what Diana describes in her tell-all ordeal with breast cancer. Once the word cancer is mentioned, patients often feel blinded and deafened by the word itself, and after anything is discussed beyond that point, it simply becomes a blur and is not absorbed. The cliché I was a deer in the headlights is commonly stated by patients and refers to the fact that they feel immobilized and can barely walk, think, or talk. They often describe being numb and immobile. Multiple emotions come rushing forward. These emotions may be anger, confusion, fear, self-pity, feeling cheated, denial, overwhelming worry about other family members and their reactions, and the need to confide in close friends, as well as struggle to soak in the stigma of having a potentially fatal disease and what it all means. In regards to their professions, their retirement plans, their monetary resources and their general lifestyle, everything is on the table in terms of uncertainty. The feeling of hopelessness soon enters the emotional drama in regards to their marriage; being unable to see their children grow up, graduate, and achieve their professional goals; to see their grandchildren; and to contribute to their family’s well being.

      In those few minutes, hours, days, and weeks following their diagnosis, patients will experience physical symptoms such as dry mouth, rapid heartbeat, overwhelming fatigue, and decreased energy. In searching for educational resources, there is a feeling of mental gridlock with too much information available in magazines, medical books, and on the Internet. Support groups and other victims’ personal accounts and recommendations are also sought after but seldom satisfy all of their needs.

      Sometimes overwhelming panic and anxiety occur, causing insomnia, tremors, and an inability to organize thoughts.

      Often times the attending oncologist or radiation therapist will amplify these conditions by telling the patient to get ready for becoming weak for further surgery, the beginning of radiation therapy and chemotherapy – either given concomitantly with the radiation therapy or to follow with radiation therapy. Then on top of all this, the patient has to hear of all the adverse reactions to the three major treatments. With surgery, it is the possibility of anesthetic complications and hospital-borne infections. With radiation therapy, it is the collateral damage to nearby organs such as the heart, lungs or skin. With chemotherapy, it runs the gambit from chemo brain to hair loss, nausea, vomiting, skin rashes, anorexia, cytopenias, infections, extreme organ damage, and even death.

      Diana outlines all of these decisions in a very personal and poignant manner in order to help others undergoing the same trauma, and she brings it home in a very personal way. The major goal of this book is her skepticism with conventional medicine and distrust of the system, which, after one-hundred-billion dollars in taxpayer monies over a forty-year period, has given us essentially a defeat on the war on cancer, as declared by the Nixon Administration in the early 1970s. By their own literature alone, Stage IV cancers after a five-year period of chemotherapy, both in this country and in Australia, can only achieve a 2.1 to 2.3 percent survival rate, respectively.

      Diana was able to sift through the conventional dogma and decided to look for cutting-edge answers. To do this, she sought out second opinions from Integrative Oncology, a new and recognized field and subspecialty of standard Oncology. She was able to obtain a positive opinion after studying genetic chemo-sensitivity testing and its value, which is often followed by insulin-potentiated therapy, which is low-dose and nontoxic. These modalities for the first time in a cancer patient’s treatment protocol provide a blueprint to ensure a predictable high remission rate and takes the guess work and unpredictability out of the decision making. The follow-up treatment with insulin-potentiated therapy markedly reduces the high averse toxicity rate and sequelae that occur ever too frequently. Even death, if it occurs after the first course of full-dose chemotherapy, presents no liability for the oncologist or radiologist or surgeon as they are simply doing cookbook protocol treatments authorized by the National Cancer Institute.

      Instead of buying into the recommendations given by her conventional oncologist, which would at best be a guessing game as to which toxic drugs to take and for how long, without truly knowing if any of the two or three drugs given to her would actually work to kill her cancer cells and stem cells, Diana instead chose genetic testing, which gives certainty to the decisions made in regard to the drugs used. Also, conventional medicine would more than likely want her to have radiation therapy after completing a four to six month course of chemotherapy. At that point, what are they treating? Are they treating normal breast tissue because tumor markers are normal? MRI scans, ultrasounds, and mammography studies are normal. So, in most cases they are treating normal breast tissue, but they are covering themselves with a large dose of radiation therapy, which only is going to impact their immune system in a negative way.

      Therefore, in all of these decisions, Diana has made the right choice, and kudos to her for her courage in doing so.

      This book is a must read for all newly diagnosed cancer patients and their families, and it is a courageous attempt by a single individual to record her trials and tribulations in making the decision she has made.

      Get a Second Opinion

      Jamie Beardsley

      This is the story of my mother and her journey to healing. A prescription of conjugated estrogen tablets was given to her years ago and now the medication derived from the urine of pregnant mares had caught up with her. The label should have read, Helps now, but may cause something bad later! I know in my heart that those pills caused this cancer. She has always been into health and read everything there was on the subject. Smart, wise and knowledgeable are just some of her wonderful traits. This story begins when some discomfort came off and on in one side of her breast. Also really strange, every day and night my mom’s cat curled up right next to her feet, almost as if the pet were trying to heal its owner. To say the least, I thought that was interesting.

      Mother decided to see a doctor in Las Vegas. But he just said, We’ll keep an eye on it. Guided by her feelings, she questioned him and then decided to call another physician in California, Edward Terino, whom I consider one of the world’s best doctors. She trusted him following a friendship of many years. He recommended that she visit Doctor John Matrciano. So it begins.

      When my mother makes up her mind about something she becomes like an unstoppable freight train. Thank God, because of this characteristic mom played a pivotal role in eventually saving herself, determined from the start to get this horrible thing—the tumor—out of her as soon as possible. So, the day after speaking with Dr. John Matriciano, she drove to Thousand Oaks, California, to

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