Hope4cancer - new success.
Old Bill
It is a story of success for a small boy who visited the Hope4cancer
clinic in Mexico.
[QUOTE]
"Flintshire boy amazes doctors
Feb 7 2009 by Madeleine Brindley, Western Mail
WITH 11 tumours spread throughout his body, Connah Broom was told by doctors
there was nothing more they could do to fight his cancer.
But almost two years later, after his grandparents started treating the
brave seven-year-old, 10 of those tumours are shrinking.
The Broom family turned to alternative therapies for help, including a form
of Mexican light therapy, reiki and an organic diet, in a bid to beat the
neuroblastoma, which had ravaged Connah's small body for years.
Doctors have been amazed by Connah's improved health and energy, admitting
something "beyond the knowledge of modern medicine" is keeping him alive.
Diagnosed with neuroblastoma three years ago, Connah - who lives with his
27-year-old father Chris, who works as a chef, and grandparents Debbie and
Jim in Gronant, Flintshire - had tumours stretching from his neck, through
his chest and stomach and in his left leg.
Mrs Broom, 53, said: "They told us Connah had 11 tumours which were at the
most advanced and aggressive stage. It was like a bolt out of the blue."
Connah underwent two courses of chemotherapy over a seven-month period until
March 2007. Just months later experts at Liverpool's Alder Hey Hospital said
surgery was not possible.
"A doctor told us to take Connah home and enjoy our time with him because it
was our honeymoon period," Mrs Broom said. "We were never given a time
period, but it was intimated it would not be very long."
Connah was given the option of treatment with a new drug called Topotekan,
but there was just a 50% chance he would survive the treatment and only a
20% chance it would kill the cancer.
Instead the family started a worldwide search for alternative therapies to
help Connah.
Mrs Broom said: "When Connah was undergoing chemotherapy, we did some
internet research and decided an organic diet and filtering all his water
would help reduce the harmful toxins.
"Once we did this Connah stopped becoming ill. We found keeping his mind on
other things helped, so we kept him busy with reading, writing, puzzles and
energetic games."
The family set up an appeal fund and 56-year-old grandfather Jim went back
to work for an oil company to raise money for Connah's medical needs and to
pay for Sono Photo-Dynamic therapy (SPDT), at the Hope4Cancer Institute in
Tijuana, Mexico.
Mrs Broom said: "This type of therapy harks back to old remedies and
traditional ways of fighting cancer. It has been researched since 1903 but
has never been taken on by mainstream medicine."
The therapy uses a chemical, or photosensitising agent - in Connah's case a
capsule containing algae - which attaches itself to cancer cells.
Under certain light and sound wavelengths, the agent is activated and
creates a powerful oxidant to attack and kill the cancer.
Mr and Mrs Broom have built their own SPDT equipment at home - it resembles
a sunbed - and Connah now undergoes a two-and-a-half hour session every
evening, followed by 15 minutes in a full-body sauna to sweat out any
toxins.
Mrs Broom added: "I'm sure keeping a positive attitude helps.
"Connah has never had chance to think about being ill or seen us looking
down or upset. We've always kept him busy, rather than treating him like a
sick child who needs a lot of rest.
"He's full of energy and is just like any other boy his age."
Dr Eamon Jessop, Connah's GP, said: "There are still many things in medicine
we don't yet know or understand. Looking at Connah and seeing the healthy,
lively boy he is now, is something we can't explain. With the extent of
tumours he has, we would not expect him to be doing this well.
"When it was decided two years ago that his tumours were inoperable, we
would have expected just a short time before he became very ill. But
sometimes unexplainable things can happen that we have to call a miracle."."
[ END QUOTE]
This is a wonderful story of recovery when everything that mainstream
had to offer had failed. The boy had been doomed to die.
Old Bill
J
I don't see evidence of cure. You must have missed when Steph explained that
shrinkage does not equate to less tumor mass. PDT is useful for small surface
tumors or precancerous lesions. Accessibility would be an issue. It's also
uselful for palliation.
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http://www.bccancer.bc.ca/HPI/CancerManagementGuidelines/Lung/6ManagementPolicies/641NonSmallCellLungCancer/16EndobronchialTherapy.htm
>
http://www.cancerhelp.org.uk/help/default.asp?page=4516
It's also sometimes used for recurrences of head and nick cancers (previously
treated with RT).
Neuroblastomas are quirky.
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http://www.cancer.org/docroot/CRI/content/CRI_2_4_1X_What_is_neuroblastoma_31.asp
>
Neuroblastomas can behave strangely. Sometimes the cells die without any cause
and the tumor disappears. Tumor disappearance is much more common in very young
infants than in older children. Another behavior that is unusual for childhood
tumors is that the cells sometimes mature spontaneously into normal ganglion
cells and stop dividing. This causes the tumor to become a ganglioneuroma (see
below).
Other autonomic nervous system tumors
Not all childhood autonomic nervous system tumors are malignant (cancerous).
There is a benign tumor called ganglioneuroma which is made up of of mature
ganglion and nerve sheaths that do not continue to grow.
Ganglioneuroblastoma is a tumor that has both malignant and benign parts. It
contains neuroblasts (immature nerve cells) that can grow and spread abnormally,
as well as areas of more mature tissue that are similar to ganglioneuroma.
Ganglioneuromas are usually removed by surgery and looked at carefully under a
microscope to be certain they do not have areas of ganglioneuroblastoma. If the
final diagnosis is ganglioneuroma, no other treatment is needed. In contrast,
ganglioneuroblastomas are treated the same as neuroblastomas
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroblastoma
A branch of the autonomic nervous system, the SNS is a nerve network that
carries messages from the brain throughout the body and is responsible for the
fight-or-flight response and production of adrenaline or epinephrine. Its solid
tumors, which take the form of a lump or mass, commonly begin in one of the
adrenal glands, though they can also develop in nerve tissues in the neck,
chest, abdomen, or pelvis. Esthesioneuroblastoma, also known as olfactory
neuroblastoma, is believed to arise from the olfactory epithelium and
classification remains controversial. Since it is not a sympathetic nervous
system malignancy it is a distinct clinical entity not to be confused with
neuroblastoma.[3][4]
The cause of neuroblastoma is unknown, though most physicians believe that it is
an accidental cell growth that occurs during normal development of the adrenal
glands.
Neuroblastoma is one of the rare human malignancies known to demonstrate
spontaneous regression from an undifferentiated state to a completely benign
cellular appearance.
* Stage 1: Localized tumor confined to the area of origin.
* Stage 2A: Unilateral tumor with incomplete gross resection; identifiable
ipsilateral and contralateral lymph node negative for tumor.
* Stage 2B: Unilateral tumor with complete or incomplete gross resection;
with ipsilateral lymph node positive for tumor; identifiable contralateral lymph
node negative for tumor.
* Stage 3: Tumor infiltrating across midline with or without regional lymph
node involvement; or unilateral tumor with contralateral lymph node involvement;
or midline tumor with bilateral lymph node involvement.
* Stage 4: Dissemination of tumor to distant lymph nodes, bone marrow, bone,
liver, or other organs except as defined by Stage 4S.
* Stage 4S: Age <1 year old with localized primary tumor as defined in Stage
1 or 2, with dissemination limited to liver, skin, or bone marrow (less than 10
percent of nucleated bone marrow cells are tumors)."
There's really not enough info about the boy to draw any conclusion at all, at
this time.
I think you should stop spamming the clinic. The other testimonials were full
of holes or FOS.
J
Old Bill
"Old Bill" <mat...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:gmkl4s$68e$1...@news.datemas.de...
| The following is a copy of an article in today's Western Mail.
| It is a story of success for a small boy who visited the Hope4cancer
| clinic in Mexico.
|
[edited for brevity]
|
| [QUOTE]
|
|
| "Flintshire boy amazes doctors
| Feb 7 2009 by Madeleine Brindley, Western Mail
|
| WITH 11 tumours spread throughout his body, Connah Broom was told by
doctors
| there was nothing more they could do to fight his cancer.
|
| But almost two years later, after his grandparents started treating the
| brave seven-year-old, 10 of those tumours are shrinking.
|
| The Broom family turned to alternative therapies for help, including a
form
| of Mexican light therapy, reiki and an organic diet, in a bid to beat the
| neuroblastoma, which had ravaged Connah's small body for years.
|
| Doctors have been amazed by Connah's improved health and energy, admitting
| something "beyond the knowledge of modern medicine" is keeping him alive.
|
| Diagnosed with neuroblastoma three years ago, Connah - who lives with his
| 27-year-old father Chris, who works as a chef, and grandparents Debbie and
| Jim in Gronant, Flintshire - had tumours stretching from his neck, through
| his chest and stomach and in his left leg.
|
| Mrs Broom, 53, said: "They told us Connah had 11 tumours which were at the
| This is a wonderful story of recovery when everything that mainstream
| had to offer had failed. The boy had been doomed to die.
|
| Old Bill
|
|
|This is not spam, and I shall not be drawn into a tug o' war yes it is
no it isn't.It is a typical 'J' ploy to digress and divert into
irrelevancies,
thus distracting readers from the main topic,
which she is now attempting to do by means of a new thread.
Nobody mentioned the word "cure" until 'J' came along; she is arguing
against non-existent claims -- "Tilting at Windmills".
Last month we had another query about the Hope4cancer clinic, and
the author was told by 'J'
"Some people face reality and some chase after false hope."
So what is the relevance of this fact? Well,
we know that Connah's grandfather researched the internet to find
some help for Connah: supposing he had come to this newsgroup
and received this sort of reply from 'J':
Where would that boy be now if Grandad had followed J's "guidance" ?
Old Bill