Review by Yeong Sek Yee & Khadijah Shaari

At the 3^rd Malaysian International Conference on Holistic Healing for Cancer organized by Cansurvive Centre Malaysia (www.cansurvive.org.my) in October 2013, we met an Australian lady who introduced us to the above book written by an Australian cancer survivor, Barry Thomson. The book, for some strange reason is only available from the publisher in Queensland or from the author (www.defeatcancertwice.com).

In April 2003, Barry Thomson, a businessman, was diagnosed with two primary concurrent melanomas. This meant that he had two separate deadly melanomas, each with the potential to spread and develop secondary melanoma. Basically, this doubled his chances of dying from melanoma cancer. His own family doctor twice advised his wife to “sell your business and do anything that you have ever wanted to do.” Clearly he believed that his two melanomas would prove to be terminal. His only chance to beat melanoma was to find his own cure or he would surely die.

Barry was also told by a leading oncologist, that no treatment was available as chemotherapy and radiation are ineffective against melanoma. Barry was grateful to this HONEST oncologist who made him realize that he had to seek healing utilizing natural therapies.

Barry admits that, in 2003 he had (and still have) no medical background or training as he started a frantic search for information that would show him how to use natural therapies to become free of melanoma. His own extensive research, plus information from numerous books by cancer survivors and others, enabled him to compile a cancer fighting regimen which helped him to defeat his melanomas.

This resulted in his first book, “Join Our Escape from Death Row-Cancer Jail” which was publish in late 2007. (Website: www.cancerjailescape.com).

In June 2008, Barry had to battle terminal cancer for a second time. He was diagnosed with bowel cancer (also known as colon cancer) which totally blocked his large bowel. He underwent successful surgery to remove the tumour but, due to twists in the small bowel preventing intake of food, he underwent a second emergency surgery twelve days later. Extremely ill, he spent four nights in Intensive Care and was lucky to survive. He spent a total of 33 nights in hospital.

In March 2009, Barry had a third major surgery to rebuild his stomach and repair an incisional hernia and abdominal muscle separation. Subsequently, Dr. Matthew Carmody, his surgeon, told him that “100% definitely” he had cancer cells in his lymph system. He strongly recommended six months of chemotherapy for a “27% better chance of beating the cancer.” Barry declined and decided to use his experience in overcoming his melanomas in 2003 to eliminate the bowel cancer cells.

Colonoscopies in May 2010 and July 2012 showed NO POLYPS and NO CANCER. In July 2012 Dr. Carmody told Barry “Forget bowel cancer. You have certainly beaten it. See me again in six years for the sole purpose of checking for polyps with a colonoscopy.” It is now more than five years since his original diagnosis of bowel cancer.

After defeating melanoma and bowel cancer, Barry continued his research to find more and more effective natural cancer attackers. He gained a wealth of new and superb cancer-fighting information. In 2010, he felt it would be appropriate to write a second book to share this additional knowledge he had acquired with people fighting cancer.

It is not the intention of this review to discuss  all the natural healing methods that Barry Thomson used to heal his melanomas and bowel cancer except to mention that some of the modalities that he used included hyperthermia, the Gerson therapy, Cantron, the Dr Johanna Budwig Cancer protocol, hydrogen peroxide, Cansema for skin cancer and proper nutrition. The book also lists other natural healing methods that Barry has researched and found useful such as far-infrared saunas, herbal teas, probiotics, juicing, wheatgrass and other sprouts, getting rid of parasites, etc

We do not intend to discuss the merits or demerits of Barry’s healing methods except suffice to mention that when one is diagnosed with cancer (any form of cancer), one has a wide choice of healing methods. The usual so –called “scientifically tested” protocols of chemotherapy and radiation, etc is just one of the many methods to heal cancer. You certainly do have choices just like Barry Thomson and many others.

Do read and investigate further first before you jump into the bandwagon (of conventional cancer treatments). As Barry said…”the true facts of the situation are that, while still in total shock over their cancer diagnosis, patients are very quickly rushed into chemotherapy and/or radiation treatments”

If you would like to read/research further on the other healing modalities for cancer other than chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy or together with chemotherapy and radiotherapy, we recommend that you check out the following books:

• AN ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE GUIDE TO CANCER by Dr John Diamond, MD and Dr Lee Cowden, MD with Burton Goldberg. This is a very comprehensive text which tells that cancer can be reversed using clinically proven Complementary and Alternative therapies. NB: The authors also wrote CANCER DIAGNOSIS: WHAT TO DO NEXT which explains clinically proven, safe and nontoxic treatments.
• THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO CANCER by Lise Alschuler, ND, FABNO and Karolyn A. Gazella…..An Integrative Approach to Prevention, Treatment , and Healing.
• FIGHTING CANCER– A NONTOXIC APPROACH TO TREATMENT by Dr Robert Gorter, MD, PhD and Erik Pepper, PhD
• CANCER THERAPY by Ralph Moss, PhD…The Independent Consumer’s Guide to Nontoxic Treatment.
• OUTSMART YOUR CANCER by Tanya Harter Pierce…Alternative Non-Toxic Treatments That Work.
• KNOCKOUT by Suzanne Somers…Interviews with Doctors Who are Curing Cancer.
• LIFE OVER CANCER by Dr Keith Block, MD…read about the Block Center Program for Integrative Cancer Treatment
• DEFEAT CANCER by Connie Strasheim…15 Doctors of Integrative and Naturopathic Medicine Tell You How.
• COMPLEMENTARY AND INTERGRATIVE MEDICINE IN CANCER CARE AND PREVENTION by Dr Marc Micozzi, MD, PhD…Foundations and Evidence-Based Interventions.
• INTEGRATIVE ONCOLOGY by Dr Donald Abrams and Andrew Weil
• ALTERNATIVE TREATMENT FOR CANCER by Ping–Chung Leung and Harry Fong…Annals of Traditional Chinese Medicine Vol. 3
• HERBAL MEDICINE, HEALING AND CANCER by Donald R. Yance…A Comprehensive Program for Prevention and Treatment.
• MANAGEMENT OF CANCER WITH CHINESE MEDICINE by Li Peiwan
• INTEGRATING CONVENTIONAL AND CHINESE MEDICINE IN CANCER CARE A CLINICAL GUIDE by Tai Lahans
• SUPPORTIVE CANCER CARE WITH CHINESE MEDICINE by William C.S.Cho.

There are a lot more books and websites on complementary/integrative cancer treatments but doctors will invariably brush this aside as “quackery,” “unproven, unscientific,” etc. and they will definitely not recommend you to read them.

If you have been diagnosed with cancer and standing at a big T-junction and not knowing whether to turn left or right, we recommend that you read the following two new books by Dr Chris Teo, the founder of The Ca Care Therapy…visit www.cacare.com

  CANCER: WHAT NOW?

 CANCER: IS THERE ANOTHER OPTION?

Both books will give you an idea of a holistic, herbal option that you may not know about.