October 2022 – CANCER STORY

Breast Cancer: Part 3. After Chemotherapy She Opted for CA Care Therapy

Part 1: Disaster – twenty months after surgery!

Part 2: Chemotherapy rescued her.

Part 3: After chemotherapy she opted for ca care therapy.

On 15 September 2022, we received an email from Lucy asking for help. Although Lucy’s metastases seemed to have gone away, Lucy had many problems (see table below). That means she is not out of the woods yet.

To be fair, before Lucy was started on our therapy, I asked Lucy to take note of the following:

1. NO CURE FOR CANCER. Most patients who come to us have already undergone medical treatments – surgery, radiation or chemo. Do these cure them? If you come here expecting me to cure you, know that I too cannot cure your cancer. From my experience, NO one on earth can cure any cancer. After some years, the cancer comes back again! But if you want me to help you – to give you another option, to have a better quality of life — may be it is possible. But it all depend on you. Because your health is your responsibility. Are you willing to help yourself? Are you willing to change your lifestyle, your diet, etc.?

2. OUR HERBS ARE BAD-TASTING, AND HAVE AWFUL SMELL. Besides the bad taste and smell, you need to boil the herbs a few times a day — that’s a lot of work! You need to take two, three or four types of teas each day.

3. YOU MUST TAKE CARE OF YOUR DIET – YOU CANNOT EAT ANYTHING YOU LIKE. You cannot eat anything that walks – meaning, no meat, no egg, no milk, etc. Don’t take sugar. Cancer feeds on sugar. Don’t eat oily or fried food, table salt.

4. TRY OUR THERAPY FOR TWO TO FOUR WEEKS. May be during the first 2 weeks on our therapy, you may suffer more pain, feel more tired, etc. That’s healing crisis. Don’t stop. Hopefully after 3 to 4 weeks you may feel better. If you don’t feel better after a month on our therapy — i.e., the herbs are not helping you in anyway — then stop following our therapy. Please ask someone else to help you. If you feel better, continue with our therapy.

Above all these, let me say this: You must believe in what we do. If you think that our therapy is not scientific, not proven or just hocus pocus, then there is no reason for you to see us.

Lucy understood the above fully well and decided to try our therapy. This is what happened after one month on our therapy.

I asked Lucy to give a score of 0 to 10 for all her problems, 0 = very serious condition, and 10 = no problem or excellent condition.

As a summary, Lucy wrote:

Dear Dr. Chris,

Overall, there is much improvement. Thank you and heartfelt gratitude.

After taking the herbs for one month:

Yes, the Pain tea helps my backache and knees. Feeling good today while working

The Pain tea helps reduce the pain in the chest, knees, neck and backache.

I can sleep better at night, wake up 5 a.m. or 6 a.m.

I feel less tired.

I can breathe better now.

No more constipation, smooth bowel movement.

Block nose slightly better (I had it after chemo).

There are still some lingering problems:

The upper arm swelling has reduced but not the lower arm, maybe 5%.

There are some spots on both thighs, acne-like on the left ear and one on the buttock.

The numbness on the left thumb and fingers – no improvement. But there is a slight improvement of the right fingers and both toes. The numbness is after the chemotherapy. After the 3rd chemo, the numbness started gradually and also the swelling. And by the end of the 5th chemo, the whole body swelled up but the oncologist didn’t attend to these problems. Even now, my lower body feels slightly heavy but bearable.

I noticed there is pain/ache on the knees and back after taking certain food like dhalls, beans.

An Important Decision To Make

Chris: After taking the herbs for one month, do you want to continue with the herbs?

Lucy: Yes, the herbs are really effective and I want to continue with them for another month. Thankful I got to know your therapy.

Comments

1. Our herbs are not magic. Getting well after following our therapy for a month does not mean much. But the improvements of one’s health do indicate that our ways of healing cancer is real and effective.

Our experiences have shown that even after 5, 10 or 20 years the cancer can still come back. Sad but true. Therefore I tell patients to continue doing what they are doing that makes them better or well. It makes no sense for them to stop our therapy and go back to their old ways of lives – lives that make them sick in the first place.

2. Learn from the experiences of others. Breast cancer is the number one cancer we have seen. And we are happy to say that over the years, many patients benefited from our therapy – i.e., the change of diet, change of lifestyle and the taking of herbs. Go to our website: http://www.CancerCareMalaysia.com to learn more.

Let me share with you some of the wonderful healings we have seen.

3. Go for effective therapy. Be aware of “fake” claims. Hear what some of these experts say.

Breast Cancer: Part 2. Chemotherapy rescued her!

Part 1: Disaster – twenty months after surgery!

Part 2: Chemotherapy rescued her.

Part 3: After chemotherapy she opted for CA Care Therapy.

Due to the massive metastasis as shown in the PET scan done on 10 December 2021, Lucy had no choice but to proceed with chemotherapy. Indeed the cancer had spread extensively.

Lucy wrote:

1. On 11 December 2021, I received the 1st cycle of chemotherapy. The regimen used was: Daxotel (taxotere), Endoxan (cyclophosphamide) and Herceptin.

2. My naturopath doctor advised that my diet needs to include fish, meat, melon, veggies, sea salt, brown sugar, good oil!

3. On 31 December 2021, I had the 2nd cycle of chemo.

4. On 21 January 2022, I had the 3rd cycle of chemo.

5. On 11 February 2022, I had the 4th cycle of chemo.

6. On 4 March 2022, I had the 5th cycle of chemo. I suffered water retention.

7. On 25 March 2022, I had the last or 6th cycle of chemo. Water retention was more serious.

8. PET scan on 14 April 2022 showed good response indeed.

Comments

1. Amazing results of chemotherapy. Compare these three pictures –

Left: After surgery Lucy was on alternative therapy, refusing to undergo chemotherapy. The result was extensive metatastasis (middle). Right: Lucy has no choice but to go for chemotherapy. The outcome of 6 cycles of chemotherapy was just fantastic! In my 25 + years dealing with cancer patients, I have never seen such a great outcome of chemotherapy. Salute the oncologist! You rescued her!

In fact, the results were so unbelievable that one is tempted to ask if it is for real and not a fake? My answer is NO, detailed study of the PET scan results below are real! Study the images carefully – those before and after chemotherapy.

The one lesson I learnt is that while chemotherapy had earned bad reputation there are times that chemo did help and can save your life. So let us be open minded. There is no one rule for treating cancer.

2. Is Lucy cured of her cancer? Even though PET scan showed complete response to the treatment, does it mean Lucy is cured? Unfortunately, the answer is NO. The cancer may come back after a period of time.

Below is the blood test results over a period of time. It is indeed most baffling. Even when she was diagnosed with breast cancer her CEA and CA15.3 (these are the normal tumour markers for breast cancer) still remained within normal range. When Lucy suffered extensive metastasis her CA15.3 reading was also normal while CEA went up to 8.3 (normal value is 5.0).

After 6 cycles of chemotherapy her CEA went down to less than 0.5 and CA15.3 dropped to 10.8. But 3 months later, in July 2022, the CEA had increased to 2.5, while CA15.3 dropped further to 9.2.

Indeed readings like these are mind-boggling.

3. More treatments needed. Since no one can predict if the cancer can recur or not, as a precaution the oncologist said Lucy will have to undergo treatment with Herceptin for life! This treatment is going to cost a tidy sum of money!

Nancy said, Since I have used up all my medical insurance I declined further treatment from him.

The oncologist (from the private hospital) then referred Nancy to the government cancer hospital for further treatment due to this financial constrain.

Nancy wrote:

1. On 19 April 2022, I was started on an oral drug Letrozole. This was prescribed by the oncologist from the government hospital.

2. On 9 May 2022, the doctor in the government hospital said the use of Herceptin is optional. If I wish to use it I need to buy from the pharmacy. It costs RM1,500 per dose.

3. On 2 June 2022, I was started on Zometa for bone metastasis. It costs cost RM200 per dose every 3 months.

4. On 25 August 2022, I had the second dose of Zometa. My next appointment is in November 2022.

Breast Cancer: Part 1. Disaster – twenty months after surgery!

Lucy (not her real name) was 58 years old when she noticed redness on her left breast. She also felt a lump in her left breast. Lucy went to a government hospital for consultation. An ultrasound confirmed the presence of an irregular, 2.6 x 3.6 x 3.2 cm lesion at 10 to 11 o’clock of her left breast. There were few enlarged axillary nodes. Subsequently a biopsy confirmed it was an invasive carcinoma – no special type.

On 13 July 2019, Lucy underwent a mastectomy of her left breast at a private hospital. Some lymph nodes were also removed.

Histopathology confirmed an infiltrating ductal carcinoma, grade 3 with ductal carcinoma in situ – high nuclear grade. Fifteen of the 17 lymph nodes showed malignancy. The cancer is staged as pT2N3Mx and is ER positive, PR negative and e-ERB-2 = 2+.

X-ray of the chest showed normal mediastinum and the rest of the lung fields were clear. No rib lesion was seen.

The total cost of the mastectomy at this private hospital was RM14,999.70

Let Lucy tell the remaining part of her story in her own words.

1. Initially I refused to go for chemotherapy.

1. On 23 July 2019, on the recommendation of my Dharma teacher, I consulted Dr. N, a naturopath.

Dr. N did mention about me doing 3 cycles of chemotherapy. He also advised me:
To take baking soda with brown sugar.
To take tumeric powder and whey protein.
To avoid soya, egg yolk, fresh mushroom, almond.
To take chia seed, nuts, buckwheat, millet, steamed beetroot, green veggies, 1 part brown rice + 3 parts white rice, marmite, beans, lentils.

2. On 8 August 2019, I consulted an oncologist at a private hospital in Kuala Lumpur. A PET scan was done. The results indicated:

Low grade FDG uptake seen at the post-operative inflammatory changes at left anterior chest wall. No hypermetabolic nodal or distant metastasis.

The oncologist advised me to do 6 cycles of chemotherapy. I told the oncologist that I wanted to seek a second opinion. The oncologist said: You will die if you do not proceed with chemo!

3. On 9 August 2019, I went back to Dr. N, the naturopathic doctor to discuss the PET scan results. I told Dr. N I was not keen to do chemotherapy. My late mum died after radiotherapy for her lung cancer. Dr. N advised me to continue taking baking soda and tumeric.

4. On 21 August 2019. An ultrasound of breast showed normal results – no solid nodule, no cyst, no calcifications and no lymph nodes infection.

5. On 29 August 2019. I went to consult the doctor at the private hospital where I had my surgery. The doctor in charge of my case refused to see me after I told him that I am not keen to do chemotherapy.

2. I was started on an oral drug – tamoxifen.

6. On 20 February 2020. a doctor at the cancer hospital started me on tamoxifen.

7. On 21 February 2020. I went to my naturopath doctor to seek his advice.

Dr. N advised me:

To take tamoxifen for only 1 year.
To take supplements: super leutin, izumia, fish oil, vit D3, calcium.

8. On 15 December 2020, I found a lump on my neck. I consulted my naturopath doctor again.

9. In February 2021, I stopped going to the cancer hospital and stopped taking tamoxifen due to Covid-19 lockdown.

10. In May 2021. After consulting a dietian, I started taking supplements such as: Bio Rex, Nona, organic spirulina, curcumix, Biovision, Bio organmix, probiotics, Vit. C.

3. Problems – muscle ache and swollen arm.

11. On 30 August 2021. I had 1st dose of Pfizer Covid-19 vaccination.

12. In September 2021.

I had muscle pain and swelling of the left arm and shoulder.
I had a fall in the bathroom. X-ray showed no fracture.
I was advised to go for physiotherapy.

13. On 20 September 2021, I had the 2nd Covid-19 vaccination.

14. On 29 September 2021, I consulted my naturopath doctor (Dr. N) regarding:

The swelling of my arm. I was advised to take water chestnut for water retention.
For the difficulty lifting up my arm and nagging pain on the shoulder blade, I was told to wear a tight band.
My breathing was a bit difficult.

15. In October 2021:

I went to seek the help of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) sinseh and did acupuncture and cupping.
I went to seek the help of another TCM sinseh.
Then I went to seek the help of TCM sinseh in a private hospital in Kuala Lumpur.

16. On 25 November 2021, I went to seek the help of a physiotherapist and had massage.

17. On 9 December 2021, I consulted a medical doctor in a private hospital in my hometown. He then referred me to an oncologist of a private hospital in Kuala Lumpur.

4. The cancer had spread extensively.

18. Results blood test and PET scan at the private hospital in Kuala Lumpur were:

Blood test – CEA = 8.3 (above normal).
PET scan showed local recurrence at left chest well, with metastases to regional and distinct lymph nodes, subcutaneous nodules, lung, peritoneum and bones. There is minimal pericardial effusion, metastases cannot be excluded.

Lessons We Can Learn From This Case

1. Have your cancerous lump in your breast removed!

Lucy did the right thing. She had a mastectomy to remove the cancerous lump in her left breast. Some ladies came to see me insisting not wanting to remove their cancerous breast. If the lump is not removed, most likely it will grow bigger and eventually burst. This creates more problems. Some patients have the mistaken belief that herbs, vitamins or whatever supplements can make the cancer go away! That is wrong. In most cases, I would insist that they go for surgery first before following our therapy.

2. Surgery does not cure your breast cancer.

After surgery, histopathology confirmed no metastasis, but 15 of the 17 lymph nodes showed tumour involvement. This means the cancer had already spread to the lymph nodes. Later a PET scan showed “inflammatory changes” in the chest wall but there was no metastasis. From the medical point of view, Lucy needs to undergo at least 6 cycles of chemotherapy. That’s the standard protocol.

3. Chemo or alternative therapy – this is a gamble you need to take.

When Lucy refused to undergo chemo, the oncologist said: You will die if you do not proceed with chemo! Another oncologist refused to see Lucy after knowing that Lucy was not keen on chemotherapy. I must say to a certain degree, these 2 doctors were right! Why?

Don’t try to be too smart, the cancer was still there even if you had done surgery. If you don’t do chemo , you will die! Doctors believe that – don’t blame them. That is what they were taught in medical school.

If you don’t want to do chemo, why did you go and ask the oncologist for advice in the first place?

On the other hand, I would say that Lucy needed to be better understood. She was in a dilemma. How could she reconcile the fact that her mother died while receiving treatment for her lung cancer? What if chemotherapy would kill her too? This is a reality which helpless patients face. Lucy is not alone, I have many patients who are like her. Let me give two examples.

One lady refused to undergo chemotherapy after her mastectomy. I asked her why. Some years ago, her son died after receiving the 4th cycles of chemo for his lymphoma.

Another lady also refused to do chemotherapy for her cancer because earlier on her husband died after receiving his 6th chemo treatment. As the needle was pulled out of his arm, his heart stopped beating.

If Lucy did not want chemo, then what other options are there for her?

Unfortunately, Lucy had to take a gamble with alternative therapies – some therapies could be beneficial while many others are outright dangerous. So, to all patients, I say this: If you wish to take this route, make sure that you know what you are doing. I know this is a hard call indeed. Don’t just believe anybody who claims that he/she can “cure” your cancer.

As demonstrated by the outcome of this case, Lucy had taken the wrong path. Twenty months after doing what she thought was the right things to do, Lucy’s cancer spread like wild fire. There were metastases to regional and distinct lymph nodes, subcutaneous nodules, lung, peritoneum and bones (see the pictures above).

I may say I could not believe what I saw in the PET scan – it was a terrible disaster indeed. Lucy had committed a tragic mistake.

The Tumour Shrunk but The Patient Died

Documenting His 21-Day Chemo Experience

On 25 March 2022, I received this email.

Doctor, I need your help. My 15-year-old son has lymphoma, 4th stage. Diagnosed last year October (2021). I did NOT send him for chemo or radio in hospital. None at all.

Currently he is taking some anti-cancer products. Initially it worked. But in the past two months, my son’s condition had worsened.

His face was swollen, starting 3 months ago.
There are a lot of tumors in the mouth.
The gums are swollen and painful.
His teeth are loose, and he can’t bite food.
He can only swallow liquid food for two months.
These few days his right eye started to swell.
His ears can’t hear clearly.

I am from Penang Island. My son is now at home. Please advise me, what should I do to help him.

I told the patient’s mother the best option to take care of the swelling is to go for chemotherapy. She flatly refused.

Our herbs would not be able to cure her son’s lymphoma. However, since she still wanted to try our therapy, I prescribed herbs for two weeks and we shall monitor the progress. If the herbs do not help her son, then he should stop taking our herbs and go to the oncologist for help.

Patient was on our herbs for about 3 months. His problems did not go away.

16 June 2022

7:20 PM. Mother: He wants to go Hospital. Now at General Hospital

Chris: Okay, let him decide. Doctors will chemo him and the lump may reduce in size.

8:23 PM. M: Hopefully, thank you doctor.

17 June 2020

C: What did the doctor say or do?

1:23 PM. M: In hospital, admitted since yesterday. Doctor still checking, most probably do chemo, high dose.

6:46 PM. M: Doctor said lymphoma stage 4. Spread to brain, sinus and lungs. Other parts of body not sure, need further checking.

C: Already long time went to lung. Brain? Something new. Usually he would have headache and even vomit in the morning if brain cancer.

9:36 PM. M: Got vomit once, every day headache. Doctor said spread to brain behind his right eye. He can’t open his eye.

9:52 PM. C: They are not going to start chemo yet?

9:56 PM. M: This Sunday start. Today start oral medicine for chemo – Prednisolone.

18 June 2022 (Saturday)

C: That medicine is a steroid — trying to reduce the swelling

11:29 AM. M: Last night only doctor inform me my son going for chemo tomorrow. 2nd dose will be a week later. They said better stay in the hospital until 2nd shot. . After that he will have chemo every 3 weekly shot.

C: In the ward got many people stay?

11:30 AM. M: Yes, full of chemo patients, all children. This is the children’s cancer ward.

.19 June 2022 (Sunday)

C: How is the chemo? Can he take it? How long it takes to finish the chemo? You know what drugs combination?

3:16 PM. M: Viscristine 20ML /30 minutes.

Mesna 100mg

Cyclophosphermide 100ML/ 1 hour

He feeling numbness – left hand and leg. Chest pain.

Got another chemo injection to his back side.

4:32 PM: Now on drip. Sodium chloride for 24 hours.

20 June 2022 (Monday)

11:19 AM. M: Doctor, 1st chemo normally ok. My friend said normally after 2nd chemo has a lot of side effects. What I should do?

Doctor come over to explain the need to draw the bone marrow blood to check whether brain got cancer or not and mention injection of chemo at back to protect the brain.

C: Good if they allow you to stay in the hospital. In case of emergency, they know what to do.

Is the condition in the hospital okay?

11:55 AM. M: Yes, hospital ok.

21 June 2022 (Tuesday)

C: How is he today? Did you see if the lump gets smaller?

3:12 PM. M: This morning fasting. Doctor injected chemo to his back bone. Now not feeling well.

C: You know what drug they use?

3:49 PM. M: MTX (Methotrexate).

C: Do you see if the swelling is smaller or not?

3:51 PM: M: Got small a bit.

22 June 2022 (Wednesday)

C: Is he doing okay? Any pain anywhere? The chemo helps him or not?

7:08 PM. M: Waist pain, because inject chemo from his back bone. His swelling face – size smaller.

C: What about the inside of his mouth?

7:19 PM. M: Smaller a bit.

C: Can see better, can hear clearly?

7:22 PM. M: Cannot see better, cannot hear clearly.

23 June 2022 (Thursday)

C: How is he today?

4:33 PM. M: Another IT injection.

Swelling face reduced a lot.

He wants to vomit.

Eyes sights still not ok.

Doctor said next week will give higher dose of chemo.

Will be suffering.

24 June 2022 (Friday)

2:56 PM. M: Dr mention later do immunotherapy – Rituximab. Medicine to boost his own immune to fight his cancer cell.

C: What about the lump today — smaller? what about the inside of his mouth?

5:30 PM. M: Small a bit, inside mouth also smaller.

8:43 PM. M: Chemo 5 hours already.

9:11 PM. M: GH doctor said after one month, want to do operation to put chemo pot. Currently cannot operations because my son’s nose blocked, cannot breathe.

C: Chemo ports make it easier for him, but the danger is INFECTION.

9:13 PM. M: Yes, many had infection. Yes, doctor said many died because of infection and fever.

GH said my son need to stay till 4 July 22. Another 10 days.

Today he feel very weak

26 June 2022 (Sunday)

12: PM. M: IT injection to his back. Tomorrow 2 am start fasting. 4 pm 2nd chemo

Yesterday he vomit, stomach pain, can’t eat much

7:39 PM. M: Past 2 days already stomach pain.

The son of my wife’s friend ….kena skin problem. Now doctor also gives MTX

27 June 2022 (Monday)

1:03 PM. M: Fixed PICC line for this afternoon chemo.

C: For first chemo also like that? PICC?

2:35 PM. M: 1st chemo not like this.

Dr said last week they do the check and found the cancer already spread to brain, kidney and lungs (lung got see 2 big lump insid.).

C: Now what drugs are they giving him?

5:10 PM. M: Vincristine -20ml.

Rituximab – 420ml.

Methotrexate – 500ml.

28 June 2022 (Tuesday)

9:43 AM. M: This morning he diarrhea 2 times.

Tired

Swelling smaller — outside and inside. Both sides.

4:15 PM. M: Chemo again Cyclophosphamide – 100ml

Doxorubicin – 50ml.

5:01 PM. M: Doctor said will do IT on Wednesday and Friday. Next week Monday only can go home.

C: Now they give him R-CHOP, normal chemo for lymphoma. R-CHOP stand for R – rituximab. C – cyclophosphamide. H – doxorubicin (hydroxydaunomycin) O – vincristine (oncovin).

8:00 PM. M: Diarrhea, vomit.

C: Anyway, by Monday next week, he can go home already. We see what happen in the next few days.

8:10 PM. M: Thank you Doctor

29 June 2022 (Wednesday)

1:12 PM. M: This morning fasting, on drips, diarrhea nonstop. Now very weak.

Doctor said will do blood test whether the chemo toxic got too high in his body or not.

His urine acid.

2:57 PM. M: Now he has fever.

Just done IV injection.

IV chemo — Methotrexate + cytarabine + hydrocorp

3:30 PM. Ok. No fever already.

His stomach very pain.

8:28 PM. Doctor said he diarrhea because of methotrexate toxicity.

Now inject medicine to reduce the toxicity.

10:24 PM. No lao sai (diarrhoea) already,The rice + red dates water really work. Doctor gave medicine also helps.

C: What you prepared the rice and red dates — brought to the hospital?

10:56 PM. M: My aunty cook.

C: Very good. I hope he is not suffering too much.

10:57 PM. M: Ok, thank you very much

My son’s body feels a bit heaty.

How to prevent vomit?

C: Aya. Fever is a bit difficult. I have tea forAppetite & Fever …also good…but it is a bit messy. How to drink in the hospital? If at home okay.

.30 June 2022 (Thursday)

4:41 PM. M: Now start chemo Cyclophosphamide – 100ml for 1 hour

Today he feeling ok

Doctor said this Monday will do CT scan to compare with the 1st CT scan. His face tumor size reduce 68.7%. His lungs tumor size smaller than that day. Kidney tumor smaller than that day. Blood test results – everything normal. But still need to take bone marrow to check when he ok

C: Very good. We wait and see the CT scan again.

5:25 PM. M: My son sore throat, tonight chemo postponed.

8:57 PM. After chemo with cyclophosphermide – 100ml for 1 hour, had diarrhea nonstop again.

C: Aya, not good. Drink rice water again!

1July 2022 (Friday)

10:04 AM. M: Whole night lao sai (diarrhoea) nonstop till now

C: Hope his lao sai improved?

9:20 PM. M: Nope, very serious.

Today whole day nonstop, and sore throat, ulcer

C: Did you give him the rice water?

9:23 PM. M: Gave. Can’t help.

2 July 2022 (Saturday)

3:34 PM. M: Today every hour lao sai, mouth ulcer

C: The doctor cannot help? What did they say?

6:30 PM. M: Wait for his stool results

C: Has the lau sai improved compared to yesterday?

6:30 PM. M: More serious.

C: I hope he gets over this problem.

11:44 PM. M: Hopefully.

3 July 2022 (Sunday)

12:04 AM. M: Doctor gave him morphine to reduce his pain.

He has fever.

Doctor gave antibiotics.

His white blood cells drop to 0.5.

Doctor gave stronger antibiotics.

12.20 Injected strongest antibiotics.

Inject anti-vomiting drug.

Inject medication to increase white blood cells.

12.45 PM. Give oxygen.

12:52 PM. Blood pressure drop to 77/42.

1:39 PM. Going to ICU, waiting for bed in ICU.

C: Has he gone to the ICU? His condition getting worse?

3:19 PM. M: Yes.

His heart beat too high.

Blood pressure too low.

White blood cells 0.

Every hour diarrhea .That’s why sending to ICU.

C: Okay, better in ICU. If you have a chance to talk to any friendly nurse, ask what they say about this?

3:24 PM. M: They said don’t worry. In ICU 1 nurse taking care 1 patient.

9:27 PM. Just now doctor injected 3 dose to increase his heart beat. His blood pressure suddenly down after diarrhea.

4 July 2022 (Monday)

11:25 AM. M: Last night doctor called to say it is critical. His heart beat stop. Doctor did CPR for nearly 5 minutes. Now still in ICU.

C: Is he recovering? Is he conscious?

7:28 PM. M: Nope. Unconscious.

Need support

His condition very serious.

5 July 2022 (Tuesday)

C: Is he recovering and is conscious?

1:20 PM. M: No.

Diarrhea stopped.

Now he needs oxygen support.

Needs heart medicine support.

Needs blood support.

C: What did the docter/nurse say? Your son can recover or not?

8:21 PM. M: His heart already weaken. No power or unable to contract and expand fully to pump blood to sustain the blood pressure. Currently use medicine to force the heart to pump at high frequency 167/min,. Will try another medicine these few days. Doctor mentioned the only chance is to try.

6 July 2022 (Wednesday)

Is he improving today? better than yesterday?

1:03 PM. M: His eyes turned yellow. His liver got problems already

Doctor said his pulse stopped few days ago course his liver could not function properly.

C: Are they giving him any treatment?

4:20 PM. M: Not yet.

They use nutrition use drip directly to his blood.

Stomach empty.

Unconscious.

Cannot move his hands or legs.

Cannot open his eyes at all.

C: I am sorry. What about the swelling in his face — has it gone smaller?

4:37 PM. M: Yes, smaller.

7 July 2022 (Thursday)

C: How is he today? Any improvement?

4:20 PM. M: Still need all the support. A little bit improvement.

8 July 2022 (Friday)

2:12 PM. M: His internal organ weaken.

Got bleeding.

They added blood.

9 July 2022 (Saturday)

2:44 PM. M: My son passed away at noon today.

C: I am sorry and sad to know this news.

After Mastectomy She Refused Chemotherapy

Her son died after 4 cycles of chemo for his lymphoma

Ani (not her real name) is a 79-year old Indonesia. About 4 years ago she felt a lump in her right breast and did nothing about it. This did not give her any probelm.

In early March 2021, Ani had her first dose of Sinovac vaccine. Suddenly she had pain on and off but she did not consider it as a serious problem. Six months later she had the second dose of Sinovac. She suffered the same pulling effect and the lump grew bigger and became harder. She also had pain in the right arm pit.

In spite of the problem, Ani was still able to do her regular exercise. But she developed more pain. This prompted her to go to a private hospital in Surabaya for check-up. The report of an ultrasonography done on 29 March 2022 stated :

Mass in the right breast, size 7.2 x 6.8 x 4.6 cm.
Highly suspicious for malignancy.
Left breast is within normal feature.
No specific lymphadenopathies in both axilla.
Liver, paraaorta and both supraclavicles are within normal features.

Not satisfied Ani went to a private hospital in Singapore for further consultation. She was asked to do a PET scan and biopsy. She refused.

Ani and her daughter came to a private hospital in Penang on 19 April 2022 (and stayed on until 23 May 2022) and decided to seek treatment here.

Blood test on 20 April 2022:

CEA = 11.0 H

CA 15.3 = 49 H

Full blood picture = Normal with platelet count = 362 (still within range).

Liver function test = Normal.

Ultrasound of both breasts indicated:

Right breast lobulated hypoechoic lesion. Features are suggestive of an underlying carcinoma.
Left breast cyst.
Enlarged and lobulated right axillary lymph nodes, suspicious of metastatic lymph nodes.

Mammogram of both breast showed similar results as USG above.

Chest X-ray showed no pulmonary lesion seen.

USG of abdomen showed no focal liver lesion, normal configuration of the other upper abdominal organs.

Biopsy of the right breast lump confirmed an infiltrating ductal carcinoma.

Ani underwent a right mastectomy and stayed in the hospital was 3 days.

The laboratory report indicated:

Invasive carcinoma of no special type (NST).
Tumour measures 4.8 cm in greatest dimension.
One of 17 nodes examined showed tumour deposits.
At least Stage 2B, pT2 pN1a pMx.
Tumour is negative for estrogen receptor, positive for progestrone receptor and negative for c-erbB-2.

The total cost of her medical treatment is this famous private hospital came to about RM20,000. The daughter said they rented an apartment and this cost RM5,000 for their entire stay in Penang.

After the surgery, the surgeon referred Ani to an oncologist in the same hospital. The oncologist asked Ani to do the following:

PET scan.
Bone Marrow biopsy and aspiration.
To take an oral drug.
The oncologist did not mention radiotherapy.

The consultation with the oncologist cost RM300. Ani was not happy with the oncologist. The surgeon then referred Ani to another oncologist in another cancer hospital.

Ani consulted the second oncologist and was told that she had to:

Undergo radiotherapy for 5 weeks – possibly 30 times.
Take an oral drug.

The total cost of the treatment would come to RM20,000 to RM30,000.

Ani refused the suggested treatments. Then one of her sons who lives in Jakarta got to know about CA Care. I then received an email from her daughter below:

Dear Mr. Teo

My name is X. I wrote on behalf of my mother. I would like to make an appointment to see Mr. Teo. Mom has breast cancer and the cancer has been removed already. She just think of cancer treatment using herbs.

We got recommendations from our friends at Jakarta, that Mr. Teo can do therapy using herbs. We haven’t done any chemo yet. We just went to see the oncology doctors to hear what they have to offer. But my mom seems to believe in herbs and she would like to meet you.

Is it possible for Mr. Teo to meet us tomorrow or on Friday.

I had a long chat with Ani and her daughter. Ani presented as a healthy 79-year. She had a bit of pain in site of the surgery. She was able to sleep well and her appetite was good. She could walk normally but felt tired and her back ached if she walked too much.

There are 3 lessons we can learn from Ani’s case.

1. There was a 7.2 x 6.8 x 4.6 cm cm tumour in her breast. She consulted three doctors and all of them indicated it was cancerous. Ani agreed to undergo a surgery to remove the entire right breast. Bravo – that is the right thing to do. Unfortunately not all women are as wise as Ani. Some women preferred to not anything with the cancerous lump until the lump burst! Most of them died due to such “folishness.”

In Ani’s case, she was indeed very fortunate. She had a no special type (NST) cancer! She was able to live with the lump in her breast for about 4 years. She had no problem with it and the cancer did not spread much. Only one of the 17 lymph nodes removed was infected with cancer.

2. After her breast surgery, Ani was firm in not wanting to take any medical drug or undergo radiotherapy or chemotherapy. I was curious why she was so firm in this. Well, we could agree that it may be due to her age – 79 what is there to fight some more?

Did she know anything about chemo or radiotherapy? Yes! The daughter said:

She did know because my brother had undergone chemotherapy for his lymphoma in Singapore. He died after the 4th cycle. My mother saw with her own eyes what happened and how my brother suffered from the treatment. My brother was only 36 years old then. This was indeed a big trauma for my mother – seeing her son passed away. This tragic episode happened in 2011.

3. My next question – I am now treading on a very sensitive issue!

Let us recall again. Ani had a tumour in her breast and she did nothing. For 4 years she was living with it and it did not give her any problem. Then in March 2021 she had her first dose of vaccine. She started to have pulling pain in her arm and this problem got worse after the second dose of vaccine 6 months later. Then according to Ani, she felt the lump grew bigger. This Ani made go to the hospital for help.

Now you know what happened. A logical question to ask is: Why? I am not going to give my personal comment / opinion. I think there are enough comments in the alternative medical media elsewhere.

Let me just reproduce (below) what I got from the internet that are put out by the mainstream medical media.

Swelling of the lymph nodes after Covid-19 vaccination

Axillary Lymphadenopathy After COVID-19 Vaccination in a Woman With Breast Cancer

Diana L. Lam & Meghan R. Flanagan of the University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle

JAMA. 2022;327(2):175-176. doi:10.1001/jama.2021.20010

Adenopathy Following COVID-19 Vaccination

Tina Washinton, Rebecca Bryan , Christina Clemow from the Department of Radiology, MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, OH