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This another very entertaining and informative video testimonial of a Breast Cancer Survival patient. Again this patient did not wanted to go through the "very rough time my mother went with chemotherapy and radiation", "I was looking for a low dose radiation treatment, when I found Valley Cancer Institute..."

Hyperthermia in combination with low radiation dose is on of the best breast cancer alternatives available. Hyperthermia is a gentle heat therapy recognized world wide by its efficacy and very low and temporary side effects, or no side effects at all.

The following is the transcription of the above video interview:

CDC:        Marilyn, nice to have you here.  

MT:          Thank you.  Glad to be here. 

CDC:        You look very happy today. 

MT:          Oh, I am so excited.  I am going home. 

CDC:        Oh, you are going home! 

MT:          Yes. 

CDC:        All right.  This is very good news for us, too.  And why are you going home now? 

MT:         Because the doctors released me and they said that all my tests came back cancer free.  So I’m back to my 100% good self. 

CDC:        I wanted to ask you some questions, like when you were diagnosed, what did you feel, or when did you realize that you had a health concern? 

MT:          Well, in July, I was just kind of taking a shower and realized that I hadn’t had -- hadn’t examined myself in a while.  And so I did, and I felt a really big lump in my right breast.  So immediately -- this was on a Saturday and the following Monday I called my doctor and the ball started rolling from there. 

CDC:        And what did your doctors tell you? 

MT:          I did some tests and they came back saying that it was positive with cancer.  Malignant -- I’m sorry, I don’t know the name of it. 

CDC:        That’s okay.  And what options did they give you? 

MT:          Chemotherapy, surgery and high dose radiation.  And I didn’t want any of those. 

CDC:        But you didn’t want it from the beginning? 

MT:          Correct. 

CDC:        All right. 

MT:          I didn’t know any other options out there.  I was really just shocked that I even had it, because I have three older sisters and I thought out of all of us, it wouldn’t be me.  But apparently, being the baby, I did get it.  My mother does have cancer and she did through the chemo and radiation and surgery.  And she’s had a very, very rough time of it.  So I just kind of started looking for alternative things and came up with VCI. 

CDC:        How did you find us? 

MT:          How did I find you?  Well, I was looking into the high dose C and low dose radiation, and I knew that the low dose radiation was what I wanted, which is what VCI does. And came across a lady that helps you with insurance and was talking to her and she recommended VCI to me.  And I was real excited.  And that same day she gave me Nash’s number and I called and from there it just -- I looked on the Internet under VCI.  I checked into it.  I went to my husband, gave him all the reports and everything.  The next thing I knew, I was on the plane out here. 

CDC:        All right.  And how long was the treatment, for you? 

MT:          I’ve been here about five months. 

CDC:        Five months? 

MT:          Mmm-hmm. 

CDC:        Even though it was a long journey, was it worth it? 

MT:          Oh, definitely worth it.  I was concerned about the apartment, where I was going to live and whatever.  

MT:          I was concerned about where I was to live, and VCI provided the apartment.  And so I’m paying rent and stayed over there.  It’s a really nice apartment.  Not luxurious but, you know, it’s adequate.  It helps you.  And actually it’s cheaper to come here and rent the apartment than it would have to stay home and drive to my treatments there.  So I was excited about that and it’s been a very wonderful experience.  The people here are just wonderful.  And they helped me along and of course they tease me about my Texas accent, but, okay, you Californians have accents, too.  So when I came, I started the treatments right away.  I had some preliminary tests done and that’s about it. 

CDC:        Very good.  And did you have any side effects? 

MT:          A little bit.  Just losing a little bit of hair, but I knew I was going to.  Not anything really drastic.  I didn’t get sick.  I didn’t get nauseated.  I didn’t have any of the bowel syndromes.  So every once in a while, I would have a headache, but that’s because I forgot to drink my water.  So as long as I get my water down and do my walking and eating properly, I was great. 

CDC:        And was the treatment itself uncomfortable or at least manageable? 

MT:          Oh, no, not uncomfortable at all.  You just lay down on the table and let them heat whatever part of the body you needed.  And you just have a little nap.  The radiation took, what, 10 minutes or less and that’s it.  Minimum hour and a half to two hours and you’re out of here.  

CDC:        And besides hyperthermia, did you do anything else, like any special diet? 

MT:          Not really.  I’ve always been a healthy eater, so I -- you all recommended no dairy, a little bit of meat.  So I cut that out.  And the cheese, cutting out that cheese was very hard.  So I didn’t really do any special diet except for the exercise and the water.  Oh, I did do a high vitamin C with it, but that’s about it. (Eating more Raw Food is a very good option too to fight cancer)

CDC:        All right.  So how would you describe, if you had to talk to someone else, how would you describe your experience at the Valley Cancer Institute? 

MT:          Oh, I would try to convince them 100% to come here.  It’s just awesome, because you don’t have to go through the surgery, you know, all the sickness, the hair loss, the nausea.  And just to be able to enjoy it, and relax, have your treatment, go party.  Oh, and, you know, sightsee, go to the beach, do whatever you want.  Your two hours once a day for the Monday through Friday and you’ve got to the weekends to yourself and just enjoy yourself.  It’s been really relaxing.   

CDC:        I’m happy to hear that.  Anything else you would like to add?  To say? 

MT:          Oh, man, if they could come, anybody who has cancer, I know you all treat any and everything.  And mine was right breast cancer.  And I’m 100% cured.  It was Stage 3 when I came and it was a 4.5 centimeter mass.  And it is now less than 1 centimeter.  It’s dead.  And I know that over time it will dissolve and go away, the lump.  But if you could come, that would be great. 

CDC:        I thank you so much for the opportunity of talking to you. 

MT:          Thank you.  I enjoyed it. 

CDC:         Thank you

 


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One patient's result. These pictures were taken before and after the alternative Breast Cancer treatment with Hyperthermia, combined with low radiation dose. Alternative cancer treatment, alternative breast cancer treatment, alternative prostate cancer treatment.

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THERMORADIOTHERAPY IN BREAST CANCER – THE

TREATMENT OF LOCALIZED INFLAMMATORY

RECURRENCE

Bicher, H., M. D.; Wolfstein, R., M. D.;

Keen, T., M. N.; Carter, S., Ph. D.

Valley Cancer Institute, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A

Thermoradiotherapy is well established as a primary or adjunct treatment of mammary adenocarcinoma. Results in our series since 1984, encompassing 151 treated patients show a 90% response rate of which 71% are complete responses. However, when local treatment is done in the face of disseminated disease, the response rate is markedly reduced. Response rate increases with the number of hyperthermia treatments.Breast Cancer treatment Microwave machine - picture

Localized inflammatory breast cancer, usually extending from the affected breast or mastectomy site to the chest wall is a rapidly lymphatic spreading form for cancer, usually resistant to radiation or chemotherapy, and prone to rapid dissemination.

This presentation reports on a phase 1 clinical trial involving 79 fields in 19 patients. Each field received 2000-4000cGy of external beam bolused radiation combined with 25 or more hyperthermia treatments given within one hour of the radiation.

Response rate was gratifying. 91% of the fields responded to the combined treatment, with complete disappearance of the inflammatory process in 81% of the treated areas. There was only one recurrence in the areas of complete response while areas that responded partially showed regrowth within 3 months of treatment. Side effects were minimal, in the form of 6 first degree superficial burns. There was no correlation between the response rate and the radiation dose.

These preliminary results show that thermoradiotherapy should be considered as a treatment modality for inflammatory breast cancer.

 ESHO, Verona Italy, May 30th – June 2nd , 2001.


A METHOD OF CURATIVE THERMORADIOTHERAPY
IN SUPERFICIAL TUMORS, BREAST, HEAD AND NECK AND PROSTATE

JAMES I. BICHER, M.D. and RALPH S. WOLFSTEIN, M.D.

Valley Cancer Institute, Los Angeles, California U.S.A.

Objectives: Hyperthermia increases the response of malignant tumors to radiation therapy in experimental animals and clinical treatment. In our experience, first in re-treatment of previously radiated fields that necessitated the use of low dose radiation fractions as adjunct to the heat treatments, and then progressively "de novo" and eventually with curative intent, treatment protocols have been devised and tested that yield positive preliminary data showing superior tumor response rates and less side effects when compared with historical controls at our institute. Based on these results and an increasing world literature we undertook to treat with curative intent superficial heatable tumors of the breast, prostate and head neck regions in patients that had refused conventional cancer therapy.Breast Cancer Treatment Ultrasound machine - picture

Methods: The hyperthermia part of the protocol extends the number of heat treatments to correspond to the number of radiation-fractions. The number of hyperthermia treatments therefore varies from 25-50 per course for each treated field. The radiation protocol consists of progressively decreasing daily doses of radiation therapy. Typically the treatment is started at a daily dose of 180 cGy gradually reduced to 100 cGy protracting a typical radiation therapy treatment course from 5000 cGy in five weeks to 5000 cGy given in over eight weeks; or 7000 cGy in seven weeks to 7000 cGy in 14 weeks. According to the ELLIS TDF formula, this results in a 15% or 25% reduction of the effective radiation dose. The total dose is adapted to the clinical situation. To this effect, the use of objective end result parameters is introduced, including MRI, MR Spectroscopy, PET Scanning and Tumor Marker levels. Treatment is continued until these parameters revert to normal. Forty breast patients, 27 head and neck and 18 prostate patients were treated with a follow up period of two to five years. All patients were early stage (less than III).

Results: Breast patients showed an 82% complete response rate, head and neck patients 88% complete response rate and prostate patients 93% complete response rate. Projected 5 year survival rates were 80% for breast patients, 88% for head and neck, and 87% for prostate patients.

Conclusion: Protracted hyperfractionation of daily thermoradiotherapy

1 Decreases the radiation dose by 15 to 25%;

2 Decreases the side effects of radiation therapy;

3 Allows treating to effect using objective end point parameters (tumor markers, PET scans, MRI, etc.);

4 Accomplishes a high percentage of complete responses in superficial tumors;

5 Accomplishes a high 5-year survival rate in the 80-90% range in early superficial tumors;

Presented in the  XXVIII International Clinical Hyperthermia Society ICHS annual Meeting, Mumbai, India, January 4-5, 2007


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