Aman (not his real name), fifty-five years old, had been a smoker for the past thirty years. His problems started with fevers, loss of appetite and loss of energy. There was no cough. He consulted a doctor in his hometown (Indonesia) and was told he had tuberculosis (TB). He was prescribed TB medication but it was not effective.
Not satisfied, Aman came to a private hospital in Penang for further management. A CT scan on 22 October 2019 showed a lung mass measuring 4.6 x 4.8 x 6.0 cm. A biopsy indicated a Large Cell Lung Carcinoma.
Aman underwent the following treatments:
1. Nine cycles of chemotherapy. The drugs used were: Cisplatin + Eptoposide.
2. Thirty-three times of radiotherapy.
3.Twenty-four injections of immunotherapy. The drug used was Imfinzi or durvalumab. Each dose of Imfinzi cost IDR40 million. This was given every two weeks. This means Aman was on Imfinzi for two years.
Did all these medical treatments cure Aman? Unfortunately, the answer is NO.
A PET scan on 26 July 2022 showed a 2.1 cm metabolic active lesion seen in the lobe of right lung (see image above). This showed the tumour did not go away! Aman was told to do another biopsy to reconfirm that this mass is still a cancer! However, the oncologist told Aman that there would be NO more chemo or immunotherapy for him. The only option left is surgery.
The family was disappointed having spent more than one billion rupiahs for the above treatments that failed. Aman came to seek our help. He gave up further medical treatment and was started on our herbs. It has been almost two years now – Aman is still healthy and leads a normal life (see photo below taken in May 2024). He plays golf regularly. I once asked him, Is there any other problems? He jokingly answered: Just money problem!
Ask this question: Aman spent three years undergoing chemotherapy, radiotherapy and immunotherapy. The family spent more than a billion rupiahs for these treatments. What did he get?
The tumour shrunk from 4.6 cm to 2.1 cm. The oncologist gave up – no more treatment – and asked Aman to go for surgery! Is that a good answer? Take note, is this all the scientifically proven cancer treatment can offer?
Undergoing immunotherapy (the state-of-the-art treatment that is being promoted today) creates NO “magic”? But a change of diet and lifestyle plus taking of herbs restored Aman’s health! And more important, at a cost of peanuts!
When I woke up on the morning of 2 April 2024, Im told me that she had a dream. Ina, our cancer patient and a good friend, came to her in a dream.
In my dream, Ina was wearing a bright dress with many colors, and
everything looked bright and cheerful. I felt happy.
Chris was busy working at his computer – his back facing us.
Ina and I were happily sharing something on another computer when
she took out a cartridge and inserted it into a gadget and told me that we may have duplicates of some pictures. She said: There is no need to make copies of everything. I said something (that I cannot remember).
Then she turned to the left and picked up two babies, one on each arm and showed them to me.
I told her not to strain herself. She smiled and said it is okay.
That was when I woke up suddenly. I looked at the clock in my room – it was 7:30 a.m. I felt very afraid – my heart was very troubled. For a long while, I dared not check my handphone for fear of receiving any bad news about Ina.
There was a message in our whatsapp: Aunty passed on early this morning.
To be honest, this sad news came as no surprise. When you have metastatic cancer, we know that there is no cure. There will be a day when we need to accept that death will come. That is the final cure for cancer. But while we are still alive, let us pray that there is no suffering and we go in peace. This is the message I would like to share with you.
That same evening, Im and I went to pay our last respect to Ina and got to meet some members of her family. Although the mood was sober no one showed any feeling of desperation – everyone in the family did their best and Ina’s time was up and she left without any suffering. Amazingly after (or before?) she left Ina visited Im in her dream.
There is no denying, this is a good death.
Let me recall what happened to Ina – whom I wrote about in our book Breast Cancer – Sharing our 25 years of experience.
Her Tango with Breast Cancer
Ina was 51 years old when she was diagnosed with Stage 2 left breast cancer with nodal metastases. This was 12 years ago – around July 2012. She underwent surgery to remove the cancerous breast but refused further medical treatment – no radiation , no chemo and no tamoxifen, etc. She opted for our therapy – i. e., herbs and change of diet.
Why did she not want to go for chemo, radiotherapy, etc.? Unfortunately, Ina came from a family with cancer problems. She once told me that 50% of her family members got cancer. Both her father and mother died of cancer and she saw how they suffered. No, she would not want to go through all those tortures.
For 8 years (2012 to 2020), Ina was doing well and led a perfectly normal life. She took care of her diet very well and was serious about taking care of her health. She once told me that she hoped to live for “another 30 years”.
But it was not to be. The world was struck by the Covid-19 epidemic. During this lockdown period we did not get to see much of Ina. She was out of our radar. During this time, something was brewing up.
Ina had her Sinovac vaccination:
First dose: 9 July 2021
Second dose: 30 July 2021
Booster dose: 12 December 2021
Her blood test results on 17 September 2022 showed “good health, nothing abnormal”, as below:
ESR = 10
Platelet count = 271
Liver function tests = all values within normal range.
Alpha fetoprotein = less than 1.3
CA 125 = 4.8 (normal)
CA 15.3 = 14.9 (normal)
CA 19.3 = 28.7 (normal)
CEA = 0.9 (normal)
Ina was infected with Covid-19 on 25 September 2022 – in spite of the vaccination received earlier.
Ina became breathless and came to seek our help. She was given Lung Tea. After taking Lung Tea she felt okay.
Blood test on 10 May 2023 showed deteriorating results:
ESR = 52 High
Platelet count = 275
CA 125 = 4.7
CA 15.3 = 65.5 High
CA 19.9 = 48.8 High
PET scan on 14 September 2023 showed more serious condition.
The metabolically active left lung mass with multiple neck, axillary and mediastinal nodes. Left pleura and bone lesions are likely due to primary lung malignancy.
However, metastatic breast cancer recurrence cannot be excluded.
Ina continued to take the lung herbs. In view of the above PET scan results (now suggesting that she might have lung cancer besides breast cancer!) I suggested that Ina seek medical opinion and help in addition to taking our herbs. Ina made it clear to me that whatever it is, she was not prepared to go for chemotherapy or radiotherapy.
Ina still managed to lead a normal life but many times she felt breathless to the point of not being able to walk much. Another problem she faced was wind or gas in her stomach which made her uncomfortable.
One day in early 2024, Ina, her husband, son and daughter came to our house for consultation – What to do now? This was my advice to Ina.
Yes, by all means go and consult the doctor and see what the cancer expert(s) can offer you.
I have done my best for you – for the pasts 12 years – and now, I don’t have any more herbs to make your problems go away.
Ina said the oncologist wanted her to do a biopsy and PET scan and most probably follow up with oral chemo or immunotherapy drugs.
To be fair to Ina, I told her I am not going to give my opinion on this – she will have to make that decision herself. If that is the only route to take, just give it a try.
I may give my thoughts but you and your family must come together, discuss and decide what to do.
I asked Ina to take Lung Phlegm tea together with the Lung tea. This was to help her with the laboured breathing. It was indeed surprising that Ina told us she became normal again after taking this tea. I talked to her over the phone. Her voice was strong like any healthy person.
I received these messages:
28 March 20240: Agreed to go for scan today. Letrozole + ribociclib. She still felt breathless the whole day. Couldn’t sleep the whole night again. I think she’s going to give it a try.
29 March 2023: Started on Letrozole and abemaciclib tonight. Biopsy confirmed hormone positive breast cancer.
2 April 2023: Im and I visited the Funeral Parlor to pay our last respect to Ina. We were told the following by various family members.
Before Ina went to the hospital for the biopsy and treatment she was still okay. She was in her shop giving instructions to her staff on what to do.
A targeted therapy cancer drug (either abemaciclib (Yulareb or Verzenios) or ribociclib (Kisqali). I am not able to confirm which drug was being used. Anyway, these are new drug that are not readily available in most hospitals in Malaysia. This is the second time I have heard of abemaciclib being used on breast cancer patients. The first time was from a Indonesian lady. She had many cycles of this drug in Jakarta. Unfortunately, the result was disappointing. As for ribociclib, this is the first time that I heard of this drug.
According to Ina’s husband Ina was given a cycle of these drugs (plus other pills) and that costs RM90,000 (ninety thousand ringgit). The family was also told that should Ina needed to be admitted in the ICU, it would cost the family at least RM5,000 per day.
Ina took the targeted therapy drugs:
Day 1, Ina took 1 pill.
Day 2, she took 2 pills.
Day 3, she took 1 pill.
Ina developed difficulties and she died early morning the next day, about an hour after the family had left the hospital for home.
Comments
Probably the first question anyone may want to ask is:Why did Ina die so fast? Three days after swallowing these scientifically proven drug, she was dead.
Can this be due to the following?:
Her breast cancer which she had been living with for the past 12 years without any problem suddenly turned aggressive and killed her within 3 days. Can this ever happen?
It is because of lung complications arising from her covid-19 infection.
It is because of the scientifically proven targeted chemo drugs that she took?
Oh, it is just her fate – just that her time is up.
I would not wish to give my comment on the above reasons. It is up to you readers to come to your own conclusion based on your belief. I cannot and would not want to change your belief system either. So be it.
By bringing up the above question, I am also not trying to ask you to find a scape goat either. The doctors did their best based on the knowledge that they had learned. All family members gave advices, rightly or wrongly, in the hope that what they said might help Ina.
To me, by sharing with you Ina’s story, is to highlight some lessons we can learn from Ina’s experience. Do you learn anything after reading her story?
Let me tell you what I learned. I thought, throughtout these 12 years, I have done my best to help Ina. But I must admit, upon reflecting on Ina’s case again, I would say I could have done better. I did not prescribe her the covid herbs that we have – especially the tea to deal with long covid symptoms. Yes, I gave Ina the lung herbs to help her with her lung problems but I wondered, could the covid herbs be better for her? To me, I believe the problem that Ina was facing was not breast cancer – she had been living with this for the past 12 years!. Yes, the lung has breast cancer cells but what mattered most was that her lungs needed help – she had severe breathlessness, lack of energy or strength, etc. Could these be caused by the covid infection she had earler – the monster referred to as long covid?
How long does fatigue last after COVID-19?Your recovery from COVID-related fatigue will likely depend on how severe your illness was. After a mild case of COVID-19 your fatigue may clear up after about 2-3 weeks. But if you had a severe case, it’s possible to feel sluggish and tired for months.
Ina “recovered” from her covid infection but her problems did not go away for many months. After recovering from covid, Ina took time off to visit South Korea. When she came home (according to her husband), she was still coughing.
More from the internet ….
Long COVID still worrisome 2 years after infection – even two years after infection with the virus, fallout from COVID-19 may persist.
COVID-19 can cause lasting lung damage.
Covid-19 continues to harm the body even months after a seeming recovery
Long COVID Has Caused Thousands of US Deaths: New CDC Data
COVID-19 can cause lasting lung damage.
What’s the link between coronavirus and lung cancer? COVID-19 disproportionately harms frail persons, including the elderly, and those with comorbid conditions, including cancer patients who are immunocompromised.
Some people with cancer are at increased risk of serious illness if they get COVID-19, because their immune systems have been weakened by the cancer and/or its treatments.
What happens if cancer patients get COVID? Studies show that having a history of cancer may also increase your risk of serious illness and death from COVID-19.
Why is COVID bad for your lungs?After a COVID infection, the immune system can inflict remote damage on other organs by triggering serious inflammation throughout the body – and this is in addition to damage the virus itself has directly inflicted on the lung tissue.
Is there a problem with lung after COVID? If COVID-19 pneumonia progresses, more of the air sacs can become filled with fluid leaking from the tiny blood vessels in the lungs. Eventually, shortness of breath sets in, and can lead to acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), a form of lung failure.
What organs are affected by COVID? The virus that causes COVID-19, can damage the lungs, heart, brain, kidneys, and blood vessels. Inflammation was first thought to be the main source of this damage.
Does Covid stay in your body forever? Scientists at the University of California San Francisco have discovered that remnants of the COVID-19 virus can linger in blood and tissue for more than a year after a person is first infected.
Does COVID weaken your immune system? In a small study supported by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), severe cases of COVID-19 were shown to cause long-lasting changes to the immune system.
What are long Covid lung symptoms?
Difficulty breathing or shortness of breath.
Cough.
Chest pain.
Fast-beating or pounding heart (also known as heart palpitations)
Trouble breathing.
Persistent pain or pressure in the chest.
Inability to wake or stay awake.
Death is Not a Failure
Many people often time believe that to die is a failure. This idea is notoriously perpetuated in medicine.
Dr. Robin Kelly (in Healing Ways) said: Fear of death is seen as a necessary part of modern medicine … This idea stems from a materialistic view about life.
Dr. Bernie Siegel wrote: I experienced being unhappy as a doctor. I was uncomfortable with the mechanical approach that we are taught in medical school. My success is measured by whether or not I saved your life. If I can’t save your life, I’m a failure. But now I don’t feel like a failure. I can help you live. After all you’re not going to live forever, no matter what I do.
Those who are spiritually orientated understand that life on earth is only transient and therefore view life and death in a different light. There is an Indian saying: When you are born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
To me, this is the secret of how we can triumph and give meaning and beauty to our own death. We can leave this world with a sense of pride and dignity knowing that we have done our best to make it a slightly better place for those we leave behind.
I saw Ina lying in the coffin and was told that the white blouse that she wore was specially designed by her. I believe Ina was well prepared for this day. I am sorry I cannot make her live for the next “thirty years” but she had done 12 years very well. Being a business woman Ina had many customers who had cancer. They went through surgery, chemo, radiation, tamoxifen, etc. Many suffered from the treatment and some died.
I recall what Ina told me after she went to consult the oncologist for her problems. Ina said something to this effect: The doctor was surprised. He said: You have stage 4 cancer and you can walk into my office like a normal person! Generally, stage 4 patient come in a wheelchair looking very sick. You walk in like a healthy lady with no problem!
No, Ina’s death is not a failure.
Let me end with what Dr. Bernie Siegel wrote in Peace, Love & Healing:
It is important that we realize that we can never cure everything. We will never find … cure for all the diseases. Dying can be a healing, ending a full, rich life for someone who is tired and sore and in need of rest.
Rose, 62 years old, had been having heart problems for the past 3 years. She is currently on heart medication. About 2 years ago, Rose was not able to move her bowels for 5 days. She was admitted into a hospital in Medan. Indonesia.
A CT scan indicated a mass in the sigmoid colon and multiple adenopathy. A biopsy confirmed malignant metastatic adenocarcinoma.
Rose underwent an operation, the cancerous colon removed, and was fitted with a colostomy bag.
Histology report indicated: Low grade adenocarcinoma of colon-rectum.
After the surgery, Rose underwent the following treatments.
Chemotherapy
Oral drug with Intacape (or Xeloda)
Immunotherapy (with Avastin)
Radiotherapy
Rose had her chemo treatment in Medan. She received the following:
Cycle 1 – 29 Aug 2022: Oxaliplatin injection + Intacape.
According to the Kartu Kendali Kemoterapi (Chemotherapy Record Card), Rose received 5 more chemo injections from 13 November 2023 to 11 January 2024. The drugs used were:
Uracil
Iritero (or Irinocetan)
Leucovarin
Bevagen (or Avastin).
Since these treatments did not show improvement, Rose decided to come to Penang for further treatment.
A CT scan on 22 January 2024 done at a private hospital indicated:
Hypodense cystic lesion in right liver suspicious of post treatment changes, residual disease or tumour.
Herniation of bowel loops into left lumbar.
Previous rectosigmoid surgery with stoma seen in left lumbar region.
Rose underwent two cycles of chemotherapy in Penang, in January and February 2024. The drugs used were: Irinotecan and the oral drug, TS-1 (instead of Xeloda as in the previous treatment).
The cost of the first visit in January 2024 was RM4,917.55
The cost of the second visit in February 2024 was RM5,170.25
The following are 2 blood test results done on January and February 2024.
22 Jan 2024
21 Feb 2024
CEA
20.1 High
15.9 High
Neutrophils
4.1
2.4 Low
Lymphocytes
1.7 Low
1.4 Low
Red blood cell count
2.89 Low
2.64 Low
Haemoglobin
10.5 Low
10.4 Low
Platelet count
149 Low
148 Low
How did Rose get to know CA Care?
While in Penang, Rose and her daughter went to a pharmacy store to buy some medications. While in the shop, they met Jaya (not real name) and his wife. This couple is also from Indonesia. Jaya shared his cancer experience with them. Eventually, Jaya recommended that Rose come to seek our help!
Who is Jaya? He is our patient! Jaya was also diagnosed with colon cancer and underwent an operation in October 2014. After surgery, he received 2 cycles of chemotherapy with oxaliplatin + Leucovarin + 5-FU.
Jaya developed serious infection. He was rushed to Singapore and was hospitalised for 17 days. While in the hospital he remained unconscious for 3 days. The doctor had asked the family members to “get ready.” Fortunately, Jaya recovered from this ordeal.
Jaya refused further medical treatment – no more chemo! Jaya and his wife came to seek our help and was started on our herbs. He was told to take care of his diet. It has been almost 10 years and Jaya is very much alive and kicking! More of his story below:
Rose did what her doctors in Medan wanted her to do. She went through surgery and 11 + 5 cycles of chemotherapy. Did these treatments cure her? Unfortunately, NO. She ended up with a bald head, dark palms and feet.
What is more disappointing is that CT scan on 22 January 2024 showed there is a cystic lesion in her right liver. According to the report it could be due to post treatment changes, residual disease or tumour. Does this mean that the treatment causes metastasis to the liver?
No satisfied with the treatment in Medan, Rose came to Penang for more chemotherapy. Did the treatment help her? It is too early to say. After all, she had just received 2 cycles of chemo. But what is most baffling is that the chemo-drugs used were Irinotecan and TS-1.
Rose just had 5 cycles of Iritero – that is Irinotecan! In Penang she was given more of the same stuff. What is the whole idea? What can you expect from this treatment?
Rose was on Xeloda during her treatment in Medan. In Penang, she was given TS-1, another oral drug. Can TS-1 be better than the oral Xeloda? Agreed, currently the popularity of Xeloda is fading and TS-1 is starting to “shine” as of now.
This is an email from Linda (not her real name) received this morning: 1 March 2024 8:48 AM
Dear DR Chris,
Hi … How have you & wife been? It’s been almost 8 years since we last talk. First and foremost, the whole family would like to extend our greatest appreciation for your 5 Stars and tip top God-gifted abilities in dad’s NPC case.
The herbal decoction that was prescribed worked wonders. I remembered within a week of consumption, he’s able to slowly regained his strength & appetite. Believe it or not, he is still working till now! To which, I am glad to say that.
We have successfully achieved our main initial goal, that is “to live peacefully with his cancer.”
As of current, he is still facing the consequences of the side effects from the 13 sessions of radiotherapy that was done in 2017, i.e., weaken gum & loose tooth, hair thinning & he has not regained his sense of taste fully.
But thank God, from what I observe or physically see, there are no symptoms of an advancing cancer. He himself did not complaint of any discomfort, etc, which could be related to signs of an advancing cancer. I take it as good news.
In your opinion, do you think it is advisable to continue with the NPC 1 & NPC 2 or do you have any other ‘magic’ potions to recommend?
Again, thank you so much!! May God showers HIS countless blessings on you & family, and may HE bless you with happiness and rewards you for your kindness.
Thank you for your guidance & wisdom. As a Muslim, we believe in GOD’s plan, and meeting you is part of it.
Regards, Linda.
PS: Over the years and up till now, dad has been promoting your CA Care to his circle of clients & friends.
Within these 7 years, we met a number of our clients who are diagnosed with NPC just like dad. They completed the radio/chemotherapy treatment and within 1 year or so, without having a chance to fully recover from the side effects, they encountered a recurrence and sadly they succumbed to it. These experiences are really an eye opener. Wondering if the therapy kills the cancer first or the person receiving it?
May God bless us all with health & wealth. Looking forward to your reply.
The Story of Her Father
On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 3:00 AM, Linda wrote:
Dear DR Chris Teo,
I apologize for writing without the benefit of an introduction, I am writing this email, with the hope that I can schedule an appointment with you, on behalf of my father who has been diagnosed with nose cancer (T2N1).
My father, ABA, 58 years old, has been diagnosed with nose cancer (T2N1) in February 2017 and was scheduled for 33 sessions of radiotherapy and 6 rounds of chemotherapy (4 hrs of cisplatin IV infusion), with an approximate total cost of SGD$9,700.
He declined the chemotherapy treatment (oncologists here are very persistent, we had to go thru a series of ‘debates’) but complied to radiotherapy treatments.
We were initially ensured of a total recovery. Doctor mentioned that only 30% suffered from mild side effects and seeing my father is young he is confident that my father will be able to spring back to life in seconds.
Little did we know that radiotherapy is just as bad. He is currently on his 13th session. The tormenting days started as early as day 2. He is unable to eat – maybe because of the many big ulcers, sudden chills, fever, nausea/vomiting and scalded skin. He is so weak.
And ever since radiotherapy, I noticed he started to develop tight congestive cough at night. As of now, he said he had loss his sense of taste and hearing to his right ear.
On 6 June 2017, during a scheduled consultation, we expressed our concern on his deteriorating health, and if there is anything that they can provide to aid him during this time, and they mentioned a list of medications in which they don’t recommended. Their only advice is to allow his antibody to fight it off naturally.
At the end of the day, we were only prescribed with a tin of Ensure Vanilla powder. Disappointed with their lack of concerned and couldn’t help feeling betrayed, that was when we finally decided to called it off and stop the radiotherapy treatment.
It has been more than 48 hours from his last radiotherapy session and he doesn’t seem to be getting any better.
Our family do believe in herbs but we have no knowledge on it. We sincerely hope you are willing to look into my father case. My father is eager to take all possible aggressive measures to combat this disease or at least to live peacefully with it.
We understand that this is one of many such requests that come across your desk and greatly appreciate any guidance that you can give. We lived in Singapore.
Thank you, in advance, for your help. I look forward to hearing from you at your earliest convenience.
Our Therapy Helped Him
On Wednesday, July 12, 2017, 3:47 AM.
Hi Dr Chris,
Hope all is well. The whole family would like to extend our greatest appreciation for your help, advices and herbs. Just like the pastor (link below), he is now strong enough to walk and work!
The swell on his right lymph node have totally disappeared.
Although his sense of taste has not recovered fully, but he’s eating now. Ulcers gone!
Phlegm/mucus isn’t that thick anymore.
No more congested cough throughout night. Amazing!
Initially we had to bring the tea to him, now he will be the one asking for it!
Rina (not her real name) was a 30-year-old lady from Indonesia. She led a healthy life except that she was told there was one or two cysts in her uterus. She had the following problems during her menses.
She had pain about 3 days before her menses and the pain persisted until 2 days after the menses started.
It was a pulling pain.
Before menses she had pain in her back and breasts.
Before menses she suffered from mood swings.
Before menses she likes to eat sour food.
But it was not to be. In August 2023, Rina had a laparoscopic surgery in a private hospital in Jakarta. The histopathology report confirmed:
Salphingitis – inflammation of the left and right fallopian tubes.
Leioyonma (also referred to as fibroids or myomas).
The medical treatment cost Rina IDR 200 million or about RM61,000.
In December 2023, Rina underwent 3 cycles of chemotherapy. Unfortunately, she did not know the drugs used on her. After chemotherapy, Rina was given Pamorelin injection, once a month for 3 months. Since her wellbeing was going downhill, Rina decided to stop further medical treatment.
Did the above treatment “cure” or help Rina?
Unfortunately, the answer is a big NO. That is why Rina decided to come and seek our help. Rina and her sister said each day life was “hell” for her. This happened after the completion of chemotherapy. She suffered:
Pain on and off. She had to take pain killer medications.
Once a while she had “wind” or gas in her stomach.
She was not able to sleep.
She felt tired all the time.
Her appetite was very poor.
Her urination was 5 to 6 times per night.
When I met her, Rina presented as a desperate and frustrated lady. This could be “seen” from her facial expression. She told me that there was constant pain in her uterus.
In spite of the medical treatments, there was blood discharge for 1 to 2 days, then there was pain, then there was blood discharge again.
The pain was intense during the night or early morning. When asked to rate her health condition on a scale of 0 to 10, Rina said it was 10 – real hell that she had to go through each day.
I prescribed her some herbs to take care of her uterus, fibroid, PMS, gassy stomach and frequent urination.
The next day Rina texted me saying that her problems improved after taking the herb for only ONE day!
After taking the herbal tea, I felt sleepy.
Even though I felt sleepy, I have more energy.
Pain in the uterus was less.
Abdominal pain is totally gone!
Urination frequency at night was reduced!
One month after the herbs.
Rina and her elder sister came back to Penang again. It was amazing to learn that Rina had recovered – no more hell! See the video below;
Her sister said: Before she on herbs, she would call me very often and complained about all problems that she had. Now she is far, far better – her problems almost gone.
Rina regained her health and was back to normal again.
Problems
Before the herbs
One month after taking the herbs
Pain
Rated at 10 (scale of 0-10)
Gone!
Stomach gas / wind
Discomfort on and off
Improved
Unable to sleep
Slept at 4 or 5 a.m. woke up after a few hours
Slept at 10 or 11 p.m. and woke up at 7, 8 or 9 a.m.
Appetite
Very poor
Appetite normal
Frequent urination
5 x per night
2 x per night
No energy
Preferred to stay home
Like to go out and be on the move
Comments
I spent some time trying to understand the reason for her menses problem. After some questions, it appears to me that Rina suffered from PMS (premenstrual syndrome).
Over the years, I have helped many ladies with PMS. This can be easily solved by taking our PMS herbs for a month or two.
With her problems, Rina went to a private hospital for surgery. This baffles me! Does Rina really need surgery for her problems? Can this be solved by a much less invasive and cheaper way?
Please reflect on the quotations below:
Even more baffling is that Rina had to undergo chemotherapy! Based on the histology report, Rina did not have any cancer. Why does she need chemotherapy? Is this just a case of prevention stretched a bit too far? Rina suffered from inflammation of the left and right fallopian tubes. Surgery was done to take care of that. Did she really need chemotherapy for her inflamed fallopian tubes which have been removed? Where is the science in that?
After 3 cycles of chemotherapy, Rina underwent hormonal treatment with Pamorelin. This is even more baffling. Why Pamorelin? From the internet, I learned that Pamorelin is used to treat prostate cancer! Prostate cancer drug on the lady? A lady can have prostate cancer? Does it sound right or scientifice?
Oh, no – Pamorelin is also used to treat endometriosis in women. That is what scientific medicine say? You buy that? Say what you like, the medical report never mention that Rina suffered from endometriosis anyway! She has fibroid.
It looks like Rina has be overtreated. Is this not the reason why Rina suffered badly after her chemotherapy?
Since I am not able to know the name of the chemo drugs used, I am not able to speculate why Rina suffered so badly. But for Pamorelin, the main side effects of this drug are: hot flushes, night sweating, vaginal dryness, headache, dizziness and nausea, to name just a few!
My final comment.
Ladies, it is your life. Decide carefully before you allow anyone to use the knife and toxic drugs on you. These may not be the answer to your problem.
During this Chinese New Year 2024 – the year of the Dragon! – I had the opportunity to read two books The Red Light Therapy and The Cancer Industry – Crimes, Conspiracy and the Death of My Mother. Both of them were written by Mark Sloan of Ontario, Canada.
Mark’s mother had cervical cancer. She died after surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Mark wrote:
(This) happened when I was 12 years old. My father called a family meeting in the living room and sat my sister and I down on the couch. We had no idea what he was about to tell us but he looked upset … and I knew at that moment something was terribly wrong.
Dad told us that our mom had cancer.
Doctors found a cancerous lesion on her cervix about the size of a baby fingernail. Dad told us they had detected it early and were going to rush her in for surgery followed by radiotherapy to ensure the cancer wouldn’t return. He assured us that treating her quickly would give her the best chance of survival, and we’ve got the best doctors in Canada working on her.
After surgery and radiotherapy …
Six difficult months passed … back into the hospital for re-assessment. The cancer had spread to her hip area and they wanted to do chemotherapy.
The dramatic decline in her health immediately following chemotherapy was disturbing. Within days of her first treatment, her legs swelled up so badly that she could no longer walk. The poison injected into her veins reduced her jaw muscles to scar tissue so she could barely open her mouth to talk. Chewing food was out of the question so she was reduced to a liquid diet and we began bringing her smoothies.
My mom was able to return home shortly after chemotherapy treatments but her return wasn’t at all glorious like I had imagined. I remember laying in bed late at night and hearing her downstairs crying in excruciating pain. My mother went from looking like a healthy middle-aged woman to something approximating a prisoner of war who had been captured and tortured by the enemy.
The confusion began to set in and then quickly turned to anger: Why was my mother in pain? I thought we had some of the best doctors working on her giving her the best treatments available. She was supposed to get healthy but the treatments have made her worse!!!
A couple months later…
When I got downstairs, Dad was a mess; unable to hold back his tears and struggling to speak.
Dad told us that our mom was gone.
Time to Ponder and Ask Questions
Cancer – surgery, radiotherapy and / or chemotherapy, etc. The patient died. Does this happen often to cancer patients? Unfortunately, the answer could be yes or most likely.
For the following questions, I shall not answer the questions posed but rather quote what Mark Sloan wrote in his books.
2. Can medical treatments cure cancer? This is what Mark wrote (pg. 44) in the Red Light Therapy:
It’s been almost 50 years since the war on cancer has been declared and yet more people are diagnosed and dying of the disease than ever before.
If you give somebody 50 years and around $500 billion dollars in research money to find a cure for cancer and they literally come up with nothing, what do you do? You fire them and find a new approach.
Yes. Many people are being fed with the propaganda that cure is just around the corner! Really?
3. Why can’t they find a cure?
Mark wrote on page 45 of his book:
An industry that makes $126 billion dollars a year will never give us answers, if these answers would mean putting itself out of business.
It is up to us as individuals to understand what cancer is, and the most efficient ways to remedy it.
4. What can be the reality of today’s medical treatments for cancer?
Mark wrote on page 45/46
We’ve all seen at least somebody in our lives undergo surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy and then come out far worse than before. I saw it happen to my mother when I was 12 years old. As soon as she received chemotherapy, it was like she got hit by a truck. Instead of recovery, she died a few months later, and every moment from chemotherapy to death was spent in agony.
It is common sense that cutting a sick person with a knife, injecting poison into their bodies, and burning them with ionizing radiation will make their health worse.
It is time to learn from history and take action instead of ignoring it.
5. After much reading, did Mark learn anything?
In his book The Cancer Industry – Crimes, Conspiracy and the Death of My Mother (page 107), this is what he said:
When human being is sick with cancer, they deserve the absolute safest and most effective medicines known.
Yet in this world, cancer patients are routinely rushed into oncology centers where doctors sentence them to death using treatments that make industrial animal slaughterhouse look humane.
My mother didn’t die of cancer. She was murdered-for-profit by an industry that cares more about making money than saving lives.
The monstrous $126 billion dollar cancer industry, hell bent on preserving its profits at any cost, continues its murderous rampage to this day.
The above is Mark’s view. This is what he had learned. You may not agree with him. This is your right.
Let me end by quoting what Dr. Richard Smith said below. Dr. Smith worked at the British Medical Journal for 25 years, serving as editor in chief of the BMJ. Don’t you think he knew “something” that you and I do not know?
ST is a 62-year-old man from Perak. Two years ago (May 2018) he was diagnosed with cancer of the appendix and adjacent caecum.
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He underwent a right hemicolectomy in a private hospital in his hometown. It was a Stage 2 cancer. This operation cost him RM50,000.
A CT scan of the chest, abdomen and pelvis did not show the cancer had spread to other parts of the body.
After surgery, ST underwent six cycles of chemotherapy. He received treatment every three weeks. The chemo regimen used was Mayo Clinic Regimen – consisting of 5-FU on day 1 and day 5 and folinic acid on day 1 to day 5. Chemotherapy was completed on 1 January 2019.The total cost of treatment was about RM40,000.
ST was well for about a year. He continued to lead his “old lifestyle”. No, he was not told to take care of his diet – the doctor said You can eat anything you like! Indeed this is the advice most patients and their family members like to hear!
In March 2020, ST started to have abdominal pain and at times, he vomited. He went back to the same hospital where he had his surgery. A CT scan was done and revealed:
Acute small bowel obstruction with no evidence of tumour recurrence.
Liver lesions – cyst or metastasis ?
Bilateral small renal cyst.
On 25 April 2020, ST went back to the hospital again due to small bowel obstruction. He underwent a laparotomy on 29 April 2020.
Intraop finding: Jejunoileal junction tumour infiltrated by posterior abdominal wall.
Histopathology of small bowel, retroperitoneal nodule and omentum: Adenocarcinoma with lymphovascular invasion.
On 8 May 2020 ST suffered bile leak from the wound site. He had to undergo another operation – relaparotomy, jejunostomy done stoma created. This means ST had to wear a bag.
ST was discharged from the private hospital on15 May 2020. The total cost of these two operations came to about RM80,000.
RM190,00 gone – but ST’s problem was not yet solved. Four days later ST had to be admitted into a government hospital duet to:
electrolyte imbalance and
severe AKI (Acute kidney injury- sudden episode of kidney failure or kidney damage that happens within a few hours or a few days. AKI causes a build-up of waste products in your blood and makes it hard for your kidneys to keep the right balance of fluid in the body).
ST recovered and was discharged and was given the following medication:
Simvastatin
Mecobatamin
Lomotil
Loperamide
Pantoprazole
Liquid morphine – he has to take morphine every four hours.
A CT scan done on 4 August 2020 showed:
Progression of disease evidenced by increased number and size of cystic liver lesions – likely metastasis.
No evidence of recurrence.
Prostatomegaly.
ST was told to undergo more chemotherapy! This time the treatment would be 12 cycles and drugs to be used are:
Folinic acid
5-FU
Oxaliplatin
ST decided to give up chemotherapy and came to seek our help.
Chris: Who asked you to come and see us?
Daughter: The owner of a bookshop in our hometown!
C: Why don’t you want to go for chemotherapy?
D: My uncle (my father’s elder brother) had chemotherapy for his lung cancer. He was 58 years old then. Just after two shot of chemo he died.
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Lessons We Can Learn From This Story
Surgery did not cure him. ST underwent three operations and has spent about RM130,000 (RM 50K + RM80K) for the procedures. The procedures helped him for about a year. Then the cancer came back. It had spread to his liver.
Chemotherapy did not cure him either. After surgery, ST underwent chemotherapy using a Mayo Clinic regimen – using 5-FU plus folinic acid. Unfortunately, the treatment failed.
ST was told to undergo more chemo – this time using a “better” combination of drugs – 5-FU + folinic acid + oxliplatin. Study the names carefully, it is about more of the same – you agree?
Chris: Did you ask the doctor in the government hospital if the chemo that he is giving your father is going to cure?
Daughter: No, cannot cure. It is only to prolong life.
Well, think for yourself too – do you think it is worth it – enduring all the sufferings? Prolong life for how long?
Let me share with you what we wrote in this book (Pages: 210-211):
When we first started CA Care, we encountered many cases of colorectal cancer. The first to come to mind was Yeoh, a man of great wealth. He had colon cancer and went to the top oncologist in Singapore for treatment. He was fitted with a pump in which the toxic chemodrug,5-FU was delivered at regular intervals. He even went to Sydney to consult another famous oncologist. One day, he suffered complications from the treatment and died.
Then there was Leong who was the owner of a construction company. He too had colon cancer and died while undergoing chemo with 5-FU. At that time the gold standard for treatment of colon cancer was 5-FU. One day before he died he called his daughter and told her. If Dr. Teo needs help with renovating his house or the cancer centre, please help him. I still remember this episode up to this day.
Then one day, I received a call asking me to meet a VVVIP ( I am sorry, with due respect, it would not be proper for me to identify this person). I prescribed herbs for this person who had cancer of the colon or rectum. The person got better but one day the person’s personal doctor called me to complain about me giving herbs to the “boss”. Later, this VVVIP went to Singapore for chemotherapy and died.
During those early days. What we “saw” and knew happened appeared acceptable. We just accepted it as the way it is. We learned that chemo can kill. As we get to see more patients over the years, we learn of many more reasons why patients don’t want to go for chemo.
Julie’s husband died within minutes after completion of his sixth cycle of chemo.
Julie, a lady from Indonesia came to seek our help after being diagnosed with lung cancer. She was asked to go for chemotherapy which she refused to do. Why? Julie had a bitter experience to share.
About five years earlier, Julie’s husband was diagnosed with colon cancer. He underwent an operation – performed by one of the best colorectal surgeons in Singapore. He was then sent to a well known Singapore private hospital for chemotherapy. Chemotherapy was started in June and by December Julie’s husband was dead. Julie: After receiving three cycles of chemo, he had difficulty walking.
Chris: And he still continued with the chemo?
In spite of the early warning that something had gone wrong, the oncologist still wanted the patient to finish the scheduled six cycles. Julie’s husband eventually completed the six cycles of chemo. Within a few minutes of completing the last cycle – after the “needle” was removed from his arm – he died.
C: Did you ask the oncologist why your husband died?
J: The oncologist said his heart could not stand the toxic drug.
Chemotherapy spreads cancer! You get the message? Is it a joke of some kind? And in this present age, is it fake news? Many people would argue — if chemo is that bad as implied by the title of this article, why then governments all over the world endorse such treatment? Chemotherapy for cancer is supposed to be proven and scientific, right? Why do doctors give chemo to their patients if it is that bad? Do I need to answer such questions?
Here are some facts presented by scientists.
On 30 December 2018, a group of medical researchers from the School of Life Sciences, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland; Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA and Department of Developmental and Molecular Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY, USA, wrote an article in the Nature Cell Biology journal: Chemotherapy elicits pro-metastatic extracellular vesicles in breast cancer models https://www.nature.com/articles/s41556-018-0256-3.
Below is the abstract of this research report:
Primary tumours release extracellular vesicles (EVs), that can facilitate the seeding and growth of metastatic cancer cells in distant organs.
Two classes of cytotoxic drugs broadly employed in pre-operative (neoadjuvant) breast cancer therapy, taxanes and anthracyclines, elicit tumour-derived EVs with enhanced pro-metastatic capacity.
Chemotherapy-elicited EVs are enriched in annexin A6 (ANXA6), a Ca2+-dependent protein that promotes NF-κB-dependent endothelial cell activation, Ccl2induction and Ly6C+CCR2+ monocyte expansion in the pulmonary pre-metastatic niche to facilitate the establishment of lung metastasis.
Don’t blame yourself if you don’t understand what these researchers are talking about. You and me are just laymen — how are we to understand such scientific language? Moreover, some of us don’t read English! How to understand if you only learn your native language in school? Such is our world today.
Let me try to explain what these researchers are trying to tell us by reproducing what others wrote about this particular research results. Perhaps it is easier to understand if it is written in layman’s language.
If you have breast cancer, chemotherapy is often given before surgery. This is called neoadjuvant therapy. The idea in this case is to shrink the tumour and make it easier to remove. Or the chemotherapy is given to “weaken” the cancer. After chemo, the patient’s remaining tumor is removed by surgery.
Unfortunately, the treatment does not always shrink the tumour. If the growth resists neoadjuvant therapy, the cancer is more likely to spread to other parts of the body.
Basically these are what can happen when patients undergo chemotherapy:
The commonly prescribed chemo drugs: paclitaxel (or Taxol) and doxorubicin (or Adriamycin) cause breast tumours to release small fluid-filled sacs called exosomes.
Chemo-treated tumours makes exosomes that contain a protein called annexin-A6. Annexin-A6 is not found in sacs released from untreated tumours.
Once released from tumours, exosomes circulate in the blood until they reach the lungs.
They then give out annexin-A6, which stimulates lung cells to release another protein called CCL2.
CCL2 then attracts immune cells called monocytes, which fight certain infections and help other cells remove dead or damaged tissue.
This immune reaction can be dangerous, because those monocytes can facilitate the survival and growth of cancerous cells in the lung, which is one of the initial steps in metastasis.
Is this the only research showing the chemotherapy spreads cancer? NO – there are many more researchers in the US who have also reported the same message — chemotherapy spreads cancer!
On 6 August 2012, researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, USA, published their research results in Nature Medicine. https://www.nature.com/articles/nm.2890. These are what they said:
Cancer cells inside the body live in a very complex environment or neighborhood. Where the tumorcell resides and who its neighbors are influence its response and resistance to chemotherapy.
In the laboratory, you can “cure” almost any cancer — you just give a huge dose of toxic chemo-drug to the cancer cells in the petri dish and the cancer cells are destroyed. But you can’t do that to patients, because the high dose would not only kill cancer cells but also healthy cells. The dose you would need to give the patient to wipe out the cancer would also kill the patient. So in real life, if you want to kill all cancer cells, you can also kill the patient at the same time!
So chemo treatment of common solid tumors has to be given as smaller doses paced out in cycles, to give healthy cells time to recover in the intervals. But the drawback is that this approach may not kill all the cancer cells. Those cancer cells that survive can become resistant to subsequent cycles of the chemotherapy.
Normal, non-cancerous cell, the fibroblast, that lives near cancer tumors are important for healing wounds and producing When their DNA is damaged, by chemotherapy, fibroblasts can release a broad range of compounds that stimulate cell growth. So you see, in the process of trying to kill cancer cells, chemotherapy may also spur healthy cells in the neighbourhood to release a compound that stimulates cancer growth, eventually leading to treatment resistance.
The researchers examined cancer cells from prostate, breast andovarian cancer patients who had been treated with chemotherapy. They found that when the DNA of fibroblasts near the tumor is damaged by chemotherapy, they start producing a protein called WNT16B in the microenvironment of the tumor.
When the protein reaches a high enough level, sometimes increased by thirty-fold. This protein, WNT16B, when secreted, would interact with nearby tumour cells and cause them to grow, invade, and importantly, resist subsequent chemotherapy.
Scientists at New York’s Albert Einstein College of Medicine, US, have found evidence that chemotherapy is only a short-term solution and can be dangerous. In their study they investigated chemotherapy-induced cancer cell dissemination in breast cancer.
While chemotherapy may shrink the tumors, chemotherapy could causecancer to spread and become more deadly.
And once cancer spreads to other organs it becomes almost impossible to treat and is often fatal.
Three standard chemo-drugs used in neoadjuvant treatment for breast cancer are: paclitaxel (Taxol), doxorubicin (Andriamycin) and cyclophosphamide. They are shown to increase the number of microscopic structures in breast tumors called tumor microenvironment of metastasis (TMEM), as well as the number of tumor cells circulating in the blood.
How chemo spreads cancer: Scientists believe that in order for metastasis to occur, three types of cells must come in close contact with each other on a blood vessel wall:
tumor cells, that produce high levels of a specific protein.
immune cells called macrophage, and
endothelial cells (cells which line organs such as blood vessels).
These spots, called “tumor microenvironments of metastasis” or “TMEMs” are found on blood vessels within tumors.
To enable the cancer cells to spread, the macrophages in a TMEM loosen the normally tight connection that exists between endothelial cells, creating a temporary opening in the wall of a blood vessel for the tumor cell to squeeze through and enter the bloodstream, facilitating its spread to other parts of the body.
reported the work of another group of scientists at the Ohio State University (OSU) led by Tsonwin Hai, a professor of biological chemistry and pharmacology at OSU. They studied the effects of the commonly used chemo-drug paclitaxel (Taxol) on the spread of breast cancer cells to the lungs. Taxol is also commonly used as a frontline medication in treating ovarian and lung cancer (besides breast cancer).
Paclitaxel may activate Atf3 (Activating Transcription Factor 3) gene: In those who had received chemotherapy, the gene Atf3is overexpressed, compared with patients who were not administered chemotherapy. ATF3 is overexpressed in a large fraction of various cancers including solid tumors in the breast, lungs, pancreas, and colon. ATF3 is hyperactivated in most cells in Hodgkin’s disease. Overexpression of ATF3 in cancer cells have been proposed to promote proliferation and inhibit cell death.
According to the OSU researches, the findings suggest that paclitaxel may have a carcinogenic effect by activating this gene.This gene seems to do two things at once:
essentially help distribute the ‘seeds’ (cancer cells)- increasing “the abundance of the tumormicroenvironment of metastasis, and
fertilize the ‘soil’ (the lung – by improving “the tissue microenvironment (the ‘soil’) for cancer cells (the ‘seeds’) to thrive” at the level of the metastatic lung.
These changes, include increased inflammatory monocytes and reduced cytotoxicity.
Prof. Hai says: What is surprising to us is the multitude of pro-cancer effects that paclitaxel has! It not only enhances the escape of cancer cells from the primary tumor but also facilitates the preparation of distant sites (lung in our case) in such ways that when the cancer cells arrive, they can set up shop and grow.
Chemotherapy is ‘a double-edged sword: Paclitaxel seems to set off a molecular chain reaction, the end result of which is the creation of a cancer cell-friendly environment in the lungs. Prof. Hai ventures a possible explanation for the study’s findings. She says, I think it’s an active process – a biological change in which the cancer cells are beckoned to escape into the blood – rather than a passive process in which the cancer cells get into the bloodstream because of leaky vessels.
Summary
Researchers found that the use of chemotherapy — extremely toxic class of drugs — can trigger the onset of new tumors in other parts of the body.
Chemotherapy drugs in breast cancer results in production of specific proteins. These circulate in the blood and, upon reaching the lungs, cause the release of further proteins and immune cells that can facilitate the development of metastatic cancer cells.
It is like, chemo makes the cancer tumor produce more seeds. These seeds are then carried away to other parts of the body. The chemo also makes the soil so fertile and conducive for the seeds to grow!
Why condone and still “selling” such therapy?
Through its continued sale and promotion of toxic chemotherapy drugs for cancer, the pharmaceutical industry is thus ensuring that, far from eradicating the disease, it continues to exist.
Small wonder, therefore, that the size of the global oncology market is expected to reach an eye-watering $200 billion annually by the year 2022.
The World Health Organization estimates that cancer is now responsible for 9.6 million deaths per year. Breast cancer and lung cancer are the most common forms of the disease, with each seeing over 2 million cases per year.
The total annual economic cost of cancer is equally startling, amounting to more than $1 trillion each year. Not only is there no sign of this decreasing, but with the price of some new so-called monoclonal antibodies or biosimilar molecules for cancer now reaching $700,000 per patient per year.
Cancer Drugs Are The Most Profitable For Big Pharma
Drugs for cancer have been the largest business sector of the global pharmaceutical industry for several years now. This is the real reason why cancer still exists.
With annual revenues from the disease exceeding $123 billion a year, drug companies have no interest in preventing the disease. Instead, they prefer to profit from it by selling patented chemical treatments that don’t address its primary cause.
For more information you can read our previous articles
Chemotherapy Spreads Cancer and Makes It More Aggressive: Articles From the Internet
Two Indonesians came to seek our help. One of them is from Medan and the other from Jakarta. Both of them had colon cancer. They had surgery followed by chemotherapy. The treatments did not cure them. Let us examine each case in detail. And let us hope we can learn something from their experiences.
Case 1: SPW is 53 years old. He is from Jakarta. About eight months ago, SPW passed out blood-stained stools.
A colonoscopy indicated tumour in his colon.
A CT scan done on 20 March 2019 showed gallstones, in addition to a tumour in the colon. SPW underwent surgery to remove the mass in his colon and the gallbladder stones.
After the surgery, SPW was sent home without further treatment.
About two months later (Jun 2019), a PET scan was done. The result showed the cancer had recurred at the previous operation site. There was NO spread to the liver, lung, lymph nodes or bone.
PW underwent 6 cycles of chemotherapy, at a private hospital in Jakarta. The chemo was given every two weeks. The regimen used was FOLFOX-4, consisting of Eloxatin (or oxaliplatin) + 5-FU + Leucovorin (folinic acid).
About five months later, in November 2019, another PET was done. The results were disappointing.
The doctor suspected the cancer had spread to the liver.
Metabolic activity of the recurrent mass in the colon was less intense but the cancer did not go away.
PET scan showed reactive lymph node.
The oncologist asked SPW to undergo more chemotherapy but he refused further treatment. Why?
SPW said he suffered severe side effects during the chemo.
He lost 15 kg of body weight within that few months of treatment.
He was depressed.
He suffered severe fatigue.
He lost his appetite.
He could not sleep at night, and had to take sleeping pills.
His fingers were numb.
He had difficulty walking.
Current condition: He has to urinate four times during the night.
Case 2: Wongso is a 67 year-old from Medan. In March 2018 he passed out stools with blood. A colonoscopy was done in a hospital in Medan. There was a mass in his colon.
Wongson underwent an operation to remove the tumour in his colon in April 2018. The pathology report confirmed cancer – adenocarcinoma, pT4N1Mx. One of the two lymph nodes was affected. A CT scan on 9 May 2018, showed the cancer had spread to his liver.
Wongso underwent chemotherapy at the government cancer hospital in Jakarta. He received 6 cycles of chemotherapy. The regimen used was FOLFOX-4, consisting of oxaliplatin, folinic acid and 5-FU.
A CT scan on 5 September 2018 showed that the tumour in his liver had shrunk from 2.49 cm to 2.06 cm. But it did not go away.
Wongso was prescribed an oral drug – Xeloda. He took the pill for two weeks followed by a week of rest. This constitutes a cycle. Wongso took a total of 12 cycles of Xeloda. His CEA was initially at 2.6 but this increased to 79.8 in November 2019.
CT scan on 29 October 2019 showed:
Mild ascites around the liver.
Multiple cyst in both lobes of liver.
Fractured compression at L4 vertebrae.
In spite of this failure, the oncologist still insisted that Wongso continues to take the Xeloda. Wongso was still on Xeloda when he came to seek our help. His complaints were: stomach pain, probably due to “wind”. He moved his bowels 3 to 4 times a day. He had to urinate 3 to 4 times each night.
Comments
The standard treatment recipe for colon cancer is: surgery, chemotherapy and oral drug such as Xeloda. Sometimes patient is also asked to go for radiotherapy before surgery. This is the cases where the tumour is too large.
If you have cancer, you have to go through these treatments no matter where you are – in the most famous and expensive hospital or in just any ordinary cancer hospital. Yes, you need to undergo this so called proven method of treatment. But, the question you need to ask is: does this proven and scientific method of treatment works for you? I cannot answer that question! But if you come to see after being diagnosed with colon cancer, my only advice is to go for surgery to remove the tumour, that is if the cancer has not spread extensively elsewhere. If there is a widespread metastasis, the value of surgery is questionable. So, that is as far as I would go. In fact, after I met with the two patients above, the next day, there was another Indonesian who also had colon cancer. He has not undergone any treatment yet. My advice to him was: Go and have the tumour removed. Go to this surgeon X in Hospital Y in Kuala Lumpur. He is a good doctor. I think he would be able to help you.
Looking back over the past twenty plus years helping colon cancer patients, I could recollect many sad experiences. In the early years, I have a few patients who underwent chemotherapy with 5-FU after surgery. At that time the only drug deemed effective was 5-FU. One patient went all the way to Sydney for his 5-FU treatment. He died while undergoing the treatment. Then there was this building contractor. He too had colon cancer and underwent chemotherapy after his surgery. He did not make it. Before he died he told his daughter to not forget CA Care and she should try to help us whenever we need to do any renovation work. Over the years, I lost many good friends.
Now, the chemo regimen for colon cancer has been “updated.” In the case of SPW and Wongso, the oncologists treated their colon cancer using FOLFOX-4 regimen, which consists of a combination of fluorouracil, leucovorin, and oxaliplatin.
In fact, besides FOLFOX, there are other variations such as:
FOLFIRI – consisting of folinic, 5-FU and irinotecan.
CAPOX – consisting of capecitabine or Xeloda and oxaliplatin.
XELOX – consisting of Xeloda (trade name) and oxaliplatin.
If you study the above carefully, these are merely different combinations of the same five drugs below:
5-FU.
Folinic acid or
Oxaliplatin
Irinotecan
Capecitabine or Xeloda.
One important question which most patients want to ask is: Can chemotherapy cure colon cancer? Or What is the success rate of chemotherapy for colon cancer. I tried to search the answers from the internet and these are what I got.
Chemotherapy is used after surgery in many colon cancers which are stage 2, 3, and 4. It has been shown that it increases the survival rates. This is not the case in stage I cancers, and therefore chemotherapy is rarely used in this setting. The vast majority of stage I cancers are cured with surgery alone.
Although clinical trials have demonstrated that adjuvant chemotherapy improves survival for stage-III colon cancer, the benefits remain controversial for stage-2 lesions. Stage-2 colon cancer patients receive adjuvant chemotherapy despite its uncertain benefits.
Surgery is the primary curative modality in 70–80% of colon cancer patients who present with a non-metastatic disease. However, recurrence is common and is seen in nearly 30% of stage 3 cases after 5 years.
Nearly a quarter of all colon cancer cases are stage 3 at diagnosis.
Chemotherapy does not cure metastatic colorectal cancer, but it can improve symptoms and prolong life.
Upon diagnosis, 20% of newly diagnosed colorectal cancer patients present with metastatic disease (Stage 4) with no curative treatment options currently available.
The overall five-year relative survival of colorectal cancer patients in the US is 64% and in England it is 50.7%.
Below is the survival rate in England, based on the stage of disease at diagnosis.
Stage at diagnosis
Number of cases
5-year relative survival (%)
Dukes A / Stage 1
26,727
93.2
Dukes B / Stage 2
74,784
77.0
Dukes C / Stage 3
72,806
47.7
Dukes D / Stage 4
28,377
6.6
The above data are obtained with patients in the US and England. We need to take note that survival rate does NOT mean cure. Unfortunately many patients are told that if they can live five years and more you are considered “CURED”. Unfortunately this is a wrong advice.
Take note also that the above result need not apply to you. You may respond differently from these people. The above result should be treated as just an indicator of what can happen to you.
In summary, if you are diagnosed with advanced or Stage 4 cancer, you chance of survival is probably 10 to 15%, no matter what you do. On the other hand, if you have a Stage 1 cancer, you don’t need chemotherapy at all after surgery. Even for Stage 2 cancer, chemotherapy is of doubtful benefit.
Overall, that data tells that for colon cancer, you have a 50:50 chance with chemotherapy if your cancer is at Stage 3.
Most patients believe that surgery and chemotherapy can cure their cancer. Unfortunately this is often not the case. In the case of SPW and Wongso, were they ever told the truth about their chances? Unfortunately, they had to learn the hard way.
SH is a 62-year-old Singaporean. Many years ago, his father had lung cancer. He underwent chemotherapy and according to SH’s wife, “it was very fast, within a year he died. He had chemo.”
Fast forward to early 2018. SH had difficulty moving his bowels which led to pains in the abdomen and loss of appetite. The problem persisted for some six months.
Sometime in June 2018, SH went to a government hospital and did a colonoscopy. There were some polyps. USG showed “air bubbles” in the intestine. Nothing was done and SH was asked to go home. Not satisfied, SH went to a “well known” private hospital (in Singapore). A CT scan was done, followed by a biopsy.
SH was told he had pancreatic cancer, Stage 3. The cancer might have spread to the small intestine.
On 1 July 2018, SH sent me an email:
Dear Dr. Chris,
I am SH from Singapore I want to check with you how can I come and consult you in Penang?
I have done a CT scan and found to have “abdomen/pelvis: mass in neck of pancreas, encroaching the portal vein causing portal obstruction with cavermosum formation. Also abutting hepatic artery and SMA”.
May I know how to make an appointment to see you? I look forward to your reply.
My reply: Go and see the doctors first and find out what they can do for you.
Dear Dr. CHRIS,
Thank you for your advice. I will discuss with my doctor first. I understand that he recommends chemo followed by surgery. I will come back to you once I have gone through the treatments and assess my health condition.
From 11 July 2018 to 9 July 2019, SH underwent chemotherapy. This was done at the clinic of a “famous Singapore oncologist”.
In total, SH received 11 cycles of chemotherapy using the drugs, Gemcitabine + Abraxane. This is the standard recipe used to treat advanced pancreatic cancer.
This treatment was stopped after 11 cycles because, according to SH, the treatment was not effective. For this treatment alone, SH spent about SGD100,000.
In November 2018, SH underwent treatment with HIFU – high frequency focused ultrasound.
Then from end of July 2019 to end of August 2019, SH received 28 cycles of radiotherapy. This treatment cost him SGD20,000.
On Jan 19, 2019, I received this email from SH.
Dear Dr. Chris Teo,
I am SH from Singapore. I contacted you in July 2018. You asked me to see my oncologist first. I did that. I would like to visit you to seek alternative herbal treatment. I have completed 13 chemo sessions for treatment of my pancreatic cancer. Please advise how to make appointment to see you?
On Nov 4, 2019 SH again wrote:
Dear Chris Teo,
Can I come to see you in November (date to be confirmed)? My chemo treatment is not working for me. I will not hold you responsible. I am desperate to seek alternative treatment. Can you agree to see me? Thanks.
When SH came to seek our help in November 2019, he said he had learned from his father’s bitter experience about chemotherapy. From the beginning he was not happy to undergo chemotherapy but he had no choice. In the end, he decided to give up chemotherapy because of the severe side effects.
Did chemo and radiation treatments cure his cancer?
Take a look at the CA19.9 values during the course of his treatments:
SH was scheduled for a third cycle of chemo in mid-November 2019 but he decided to give up further medical treatment.
In fact SH was told that if he was to continue with chemotherapy, the drugs to be used would be changed to: 5-FU +irinotecan or 5-FU + irinotecan + oxaliplatin.
Alternatively, SH could opt for targeted therapy using Olaprarib.
If you check the internet, Olaprarib is a drug used to treat ovarian and breast cancer!!!!!!!
How much does Olaparib cost? In the US, the cost of Olaparib (internet information) is estimated to be USD3,000 per month!
SH’s blood test results on 5 November 2019 is a follows:
RBC
3.14 low
HGB
9.3 low
Platelet
86 low
eGFR
More than 60 high
Alk phos
55
AST
32
ALT
24
GGT
50
Below are the results of the PET scan done on 1 October 2019 (top row) compared to the one done on 15 July 2019 (bottom row). It is obvious that his cancer did not go away in spite of the treatments given.
My Comments
One question I asked SH (and his wife). Before you undergo the chemotherapy, did you ever ask the oncologist if the treatment is going to cure you? Yes, they asked that question. And the answer was, “No, cannot cure. It is just to prolong life or to promote quality of life.”
Is that what patients want — no cure but prolong life? Ask these questions — prolong life for how long? And at what cost in terms of suffering or money?
What about chemo promoting quality of life? Someone must be joking! SH said, “spend money is okay” but it is the suffering that he could not endure.
At the end of it all, ask yourself, Is it worth it? I can’t answer that question – only the patient who suffered the consequences would know better.
I always tell patients, understand that the decrease of tumor markers (in this case CA19.9) is meaningless! But many patients don’t want to understand this. To them if the tumor marker comes down, it means the treatment is effective! So patients like to go for blood test or do a CT scan soon after each or a few shots of treatment. Some even do the most crazy thing — doing a PET scan every month!
Let us look at SH’s case.
On 5 July 2018 before chemo, SH’s CA19.9 was at 5,248. That was high! Okay, after a shot of chemo, his CA19.9 went down to 1,658. Hooray, the chemo worked! That was what SH thought and it was probably what his oncologist also thought and wanted SH to believe — the chemo was very effective!
So go for more and more chemo — good, isn’t it?
By 28 February 2019, SH’s CA19.9 went down to its lowest level, at 206. Wonderful achievement.
But was that really wonderful? Don’t be fooled. If you have enough experience or if you are observant enough, know that this decrease of tumour marker may not last. It could be just an illusion; a temporary relief and a good start to make patients excited and spend their money. But it may not last. I have seen enough cases like this happen.
See, from the lowest CA19.9 level of 206 in February 2019, SH’s CA19.9 started to increase again. By July 2019 it went up to 500 – 600. That was just within five months.
It was at this point that the doctor told SH that the Gemcitabine + Abraxane concoction did not work anymore!
SH needed to be given another “magic” concoction of Oxaliplatin + 5-FU (or + irinotecan).
By October and November 2019, even with the new concoction, SH’s CA19.9 shot up to 4,329.
Remember before SH was started on chemo in July 2018, his CA19.9 was at 5,2438. After spending more than SGD120K for the treatment, he was back to square one — that was just 15 months later.
SH suffered severe side effects. In spite of not seeing meaning benefit, the oncologist would not want to give up yet. If SH had already developed a phobia for the needle, he can go for a “high sounding name treatment called Targeted Therapy”. This is to take an oral drug called Olaprarib. This is the first time I have heard of this drug. So I goggled to find out more about this. I learned that this drug costs a bomb — USD3,000 per month in the US?!? I have no idea how much this cost here.
But what is most bewildering about this drug is that it is meant for ovarian or breast cancer!!!! Has someone forgotten that SH has pancreatic cancer? That being the case, how good can this new drug be for SH?
So let’s go back to the title of this post — Can chemo cure you? Can the treatment kill you? or Can the treatment bankrupt you? I would not be able to answer that question. Patients, you answer that question!
PK is a 61-year-old Malaysian. In April 2017 he had difficulty swallowing. He consulted a doctor in Ipoh.
A CT scan on 14 April 2017 indicated:
Long segmental circumferential wall thickening of the mid-oesophagus with luminal narrowing.
No evidence of local infiltrations or mediastinal lymphadeopathy.
PK was referred to a private hospital in Kuala Lumpur for further management.
PET scan on 10 August 2017 indicated:
FDG avid primary at the mid oesophagus.
Intense FDG uptake in the left upper lobe lung nodule — suspicious of metastasis.
Small focal FDG avid lesion at L3 vertebra — suspicious of small volume metastasis.
No conclusive FDG avid lesion demonstrated elsewhere.
PK was told to proceed with one cycle of chemotherapy immediately. Five days later he had surgery. The total length of the tissue removed is 20.05 cm (picture below). This is made up of 10.04 cm oesophagus and 5.0 cm stomach tissue.
Histopathology report confirmed a moderately differentiated squamous cell carcinoma, ypT2ypN2.
Four of the 26 lymph nodes examined were positive for tumour metastases.
Following the standard procedure, PK underwent six cycles of chemotherapy and 25 sessions of radiotherapy.
A repeat PET scan was done seven months later. Is the cancer gone or is he getting worse?
Study the three pictures below and compare them with the PET scan done on 10 August 2017 (above). You don’t need to be a doctor to know that PK is not getter better. He is getting worse and the cancer has spread more widely.
The PET scan report of 11 April 2018 stated the following:
New development of large reticulonodular changes at the left upper lobe, probably related to post-radiation inflammation.
New FDG avid mediastinal nodes, probably reactive nodes from inflammation.
Metabolic increment in the left level IV cervical node.
Mixed metabolic changes in the retroperitoneal and pelvic nodes.
New development seen at thoracic stomach wall nodule and peri-bowel node at celiac axis, and celiac trunk nodes.
His blood test results are as follows:
30 July 18
27 Sept 18
CEA
25.7 H
33.8 H
CA 19.9
132.1 H
164.2 H
All told, PK had spent about RM200,000 for this failed medical treatment. He was asked to undergo more chemotherapy. PK refused and came to seek our help.
Below is excerpts of our conversation that morning.
Part 1: Surgery, chemo and radiation failed
Part 2: My advice
Comments
Generally most patients who come to us are those who have undergone all medical treatments and failed, like PK’s case. They probably have nowhere else to go. Then suddenly through words of a friend or the internet, they discovered CA Care. That is okay — after all this is what CA Care is about — to help those who are lost and in need of help.
Unfortunately, some patients are rather unrealistic. Even at this point of failure, they come with the hope that we can offer them a cure! That is impossible. We do NOT promise any cure. We only promise to do our best to help.
There is also another disappointing group of patients. They come seeking our help on their own terms and some even at their own time. They want to do things their way. They only want capsules and don’t want to drink the bitter teas — too much work having to brew them! What if I go for a holiday? They want to eat anything they like. For such patients, I generally send them home without any herbs. It is better for such patients to find someone else to help them.
Our core belief is that YOUR health is YOUR RESPONSIBILITY. We teach you how to get well but it is you who need to take charge of your own healing.
One of the things I often look for when talking to patients is their attitude and commitment. Do they believe in what we are doing — taking herbs and changing of diet, etc.? If you do not trust us or believe in what we do there is no reason why you should come to CA Care in the first place.
When PK was first diagnosed with oesophagus cancer he put his total trust in the doctors.
He underwent surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy and along the way spent RM200,000. Did he ever thought or believe in an alternative healing method? No. Did he know about alternative healing? I believe it is a big YES.
PK came to CA Care with his sister who is our patient. His sister had breast cancer. She underwent an operation to remove her breast and was treated with chemotherapy. After one shot of chemo, she suffered badly — difficulty breathing and the colour of her skin turned dark. She gave up chemo and started to take our herbs. That was in June 2005. Now, it is October 2018 — thirteen years — and she is doing well and has no problems all these years despite forgoing her schedule to do six cycles of chemo.
From my conversation with PK and his family, I sensed that he has zero knowledge about cancer. To him doctors know best. And he is wealthy enough to be able to pay the medical bills.
Whatever it is, after seven months of medical treatments, we know the reality of what modern medicine has done for him. There is no need to find a scapegoat. What is done is done. For those who wish to learn, take note of what had happened to PK. Since the past two decades I got to learn new things everyday! So I am sharing with you both the good and bad news so that we can all learn from these experiences.
I prescribed PK some herbs and told him to take care of his diet. I hope to see him again in the next two or four weeks, that is if he ever comes back again for more herbs! (Update: Yes, he did come back after two/four weeks, but I told him: If you find the herbs difficult to take or if they don’t help you, please stop taking them. Find other person to help you).
About this same time, I also have another case of oesophagus cancer. Let’s call him Alex, a 58-year-old man from Melaka. Like PK, Alex too had problems swallowing food. Alex was subsequently diagnosed with cancer of the oesophagus. Unfortunately the cancer had spread to the stomach and bones. Alex refused surgery or chemotherapy and came to seek our help instead.
How did Alex know us? Through a friend in Melaka who had stomach cancer. This friend underwent surgery but refused chemo. Through the recommendation of the surgeon who removed his stomach, this patient came to seek our help. It has been three years now, and this friend is doing well. Perhaps because of this friend’s experience that Alex came to us with high hope that we could help him.
After studying his medical reports, I suggested to Alex to go for surgery — at least to have the tumour removed so that he can swallow his food. No, Alex would not want to go for surgery. I impressed on Alex that
surgery is probably a good option to solve his swallowing problem. He was adamant — he would not go for any surgery.
I have to respect his decision. I also know that surgery would not cure him because the cancer had already spread to the stomach, many lymph nodes and bones.
I struck a compromise with Alex. Okay, take the herbs for about a month and see what happens. If there is no improvement, he should go for the operation. If the herbs do not help and he still refuses surgery then he should go and find someone else who can help him. I cannot help him anymore.
Alex came back after two months! He has no more problem with his swallowing. He seems to be able to carry on with his life like any normal person, except of the pains in the backbone because of the cancer. Is he cured? Definitely not.
So what is next? I really don’t know. But for now we can see that his outcome is better than PK. There is no drama and no suffering. On top of it, there no need to spend RM200K in seven months!
FR is a 40-yer-old male, private school teacher from Indonesia. In November 2017, he had a swelling in the left side of his neck. A biopsy was done by a doctor in his hometown. FR was told he had tuberculosis (TB). He was prescribed Rifastar — a TB drug. FR took Rifastar for about two months. Another lump appeared on his neck.
FR went to see another doctor. He was again told he had TB. This time he was prescribed more drugs: Rofamtibi, Lovesco (antibiotic) and Lesichol (for liver). After one month on these drugs the swelling in his neck became smaller. But after the second month, the drugs were not effective anymore.
FR went to a hospital in Melaka for further management.
A trucut biopsy of left cervical lymph node on 28 March 2018, suggested a metastatic undifferentiated or poorly differentiated carcinoma, highly suggestive of undifferentiated nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC – nose cancer).
CT scan report stated: Tiny right middle lobe lung nodule and aorto-pulmonary lymphadenopathy (1.1 cm). Infection or metastasis ? No suspicious bony lesion.
MRI showed multiple enlarged left jugular nodes as large as 4 cm. There is no obvious tumour in the postnasal space.
FR was referred to the oncologist in the same Melaka hospital. He was told to undergo chemotherapy and radiotherapy immediately because this was a Stage 4B cancer.
FR came to Penang and consulted us. He was prescribed some herbs for his NPC, lung, lymph nodes and liver. However, FR’s father asked FR to undergo medical treatments instead of just relying on our herbs.
So FR went to a private hospital in Kuala Lumpur and had six cycles of chemotherapy with cisplatin — one cycle every week. He also received 33 sessions of radiotherapy.
In all, the cost of the treatments was about IDR 200 million (approximately RM58,000).
PET scan results below showed amazing results after the medical treatments. The swelling were all gone!
But there is no time to celebrate yet.
Unfortunately, the PET scan also showed (below) that the cancer had spread extensively to the bones — the skull (white arrow), T4, T5, T6, T7, T8, T9, T10, T11, T12, L1, L2, L3, L4, L5, and sacral vertebrae, head of humerus, left scapula, sternum, right 3rd and left 6th rib, pelvic and femoral bones.
FR was told to undergo more chemotherapy, this time using carboplatin + Gemcitabine. Six cycles of this treatment is going to cost RM42,000.
FR refused further medical treatment and came back to seek our help for the second time!
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This is indeed a sad morning for me to see how “lost and fearful” FR and his wife were. Why the extensive spread to the bones? And this happened so fast. Barely five months ago — the PET scan in May 2018, before chemotherapy and radiotherapy — showed no traces of bony metastasis. What has gone wrong?
Most patients, after being diagnosed with cancer, generally opt for the so called “scientific, proven” medical treatment. Yes, they believe medical treatments can cure their cancer. I have no problem with that. By all means, go and see your doctors and do whatever they want you to do. I also tell patients that if or when these treatments fail, they can come to us. No hard feelings. We do NOT promise we can cure you. But we shall try our best to help the way we know how.
Dr. Laura Nasi, an integrative oncologist, in her book, Cancer as a wake-up call explained clearly what medical treatments for cancer can offer patients. Let me quote what she wrote:
page114: Fifty percent of those who receive a cancer diagnosis — and up to 90 percent with some kinds of cancer — are cured with conventional medicine.
page 115: Eastern medicine, e.g. Chinese and Ayurvedic medicine, are excellent for preserving health, but they are not always fast enough when cancer is already established in the body. When the situation is urgent, Western medicine’s surgery, radiation and chemo take effect immediately.
page 117: When cancer is detected during its early stages, conventional medicine considers that there is a cure … the treatment is usually aggressive. In these cases, it’s considered more acceptable to tolerate serious adverse effects, since a cure is the intended outcome.
page 117: When cancer is more advanced or has spread to other organs, conventional medicine generally doesn’t have the tools to cure it. A long-term treatment can help control the cancer, reduce pain, relieve symptoms, avoid complications and sometimes extend a person’s life.
I am sure many oncologists everywhere in the world would say the same thing as Dr. Nasi. I guess most patients are also on the same page and believe their oncologists fully.
Perhaps that could be the reason why FR’s father told his son to go for medical treatments instead of just relying on our herbs!
But look at what happened to FR. Barely five months later, FR ended up with more metastases than anyone could ever imagine. Why? Is this the first time such a thing ever happen? My answer is NO. I have seen similar cases.
I have been helping thousands of cancer patients over the past two decades. Most of them who came to us had already undergone medical treatments. These treatments failed. These patients came to us as a last resort. So it is hard for me to fully agree with what Dr. Nasi wrote above.
For one, I have come to believe from my long years of observation that there is no such thing as a cure for cancer! Remission yes, but not cure. I have seen cancer patients suffered recurrence even after six, 12, 14 or even 20 years! I am skeptical when doctors tell patients about cure!
The idea of “whacking” the cancer real hard with toxic drugs or radiation trying to get rid of the cancer quickly seems a sensible proposition. Good logic but take note also that such aggressive treatment can not only weaken the immune system but also kill the patient!
Many patients who came to seek our help refused to undergo chemotherapy as suggested by their oncologists. Why? Because they have seen how their loved ones or friends suffered or died during or after the treatment. I wonder why people don’t realize that! If this doesn’t happen to you, it does not mean it is not true! Read more to know what others have gone through.
I also find it odd that people can sell the idea that chemo or radiation treatments can “controlthe cancer, reduce pain, relieve symptoms, avoid complications and sometimes extend a person’s life.” What about the short-term and long-term side effects?
Some of our patients have outlived their doctors prognosis many times over. Because they live long enough, we started to see the long-term side effects from their previous medical treatments. Of course if they die soon after their treatments, no one will know what these long-term side effects are!
I am not being anti-doctor by telling you all these. I am just sharing the reality from my perspective. And I am not alone on this. Many doctors and oncologists themselves shared similar experiences.
Read what they said.
Dr. Nasi wrote: Fifty percent of those who receive a cancer diagnosis — and up to 90 percent with some kinds of cancer — are cured with conventional medicine. How do you reconcile such way off claim when some oncologists said the contribution of chemotherapy to 5-year-survival is only 2.3 or 2.1 percent!
Nick (not real name) is a 37-year-old Indonesian. In late December 2017, he had coughs, became breathless and found a swelling under his left arm pit. In January 2018, he went to Singapore and did a PET scan followed by a biopsy. There was a large mass occupying the entire left lung. The left lung had collapsed, hence the breathlessness. The many surrounding lymph nodes were also swollen.
Histology confirmed Nick had a diffuse aggressive peripheral B-cell lymphoma with extensive supra- and infra-diaphramatic adenopathy involving mediastinal, hilar, left axillary/subpectoral and peri-celiac regions.
As expected, Nick underwent six cycles of chemotherapy with CHOP-R regimen. The total cost for this treatment came to about SGD80,000 (i.e. RM 240,000).
Chemotherapy was completed in May 2018. After a rest of about one and a half months, Nick did a follow-up PET scan on 2 July 2018. The results were as follows:
The previous mass, about 18 cm in the lung had shrunk significantly! Nick felt better after the chemo.
There is a residual non FDG avid soft tissue mass at the left hilum, measuring 3.0 x 2.8 cm.
A new focus of intense FDG uptake at the left aspect of the manubrium, suspicious of disease involvement.
A few foci of mild increased FDG uptake in the left upper pulmonary lobe associated with peripheral ground glass changes — probably due to inflammatory changes.
Diffuse mild increased FDG uptake in the bone marrow may be reactive in nature.
In view of the above, Nick was told to do another biopsy to determine what is in his breastbone. But before doing the biopsy, Nick decided to come and seek our help. He wanted to take herbs.
Nick shared the story of his friend who also had the “same” lymphoma at the same time as him. While Nick’s lymphoma mass was on the left lung, the friend’s lymphoma mass was in the middle of the chest.
Nick’s friend went to the same hospital, was treated by the same oncologist and received the same six-cycle of chemo — CHOP-R. Unfortunately, the treatment did not work for Nick’s friend. In this case, Nick was a bit more lucky.
Nick’s friend was asked to go for more chemo, using a new regimen called R-ICE. After one treatment his white blood cell count went down to almost zero.
(Note: The previous treatment regimen was Rituximab (R) and CHOP. CHOP stands for cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, and prednisone. The suggested new regimen is Rituximab and ICE. ICE stands for Ifosfamide + Carboplatin + Etoposide).
Listen to our conversation that morning.
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What can you learn from this story? Yes, you can go to the same doctor, receive the same chemo-drugs for the same type of cancer but you cannot guarantee that you get the same result. This story shows that healing of cancer takes more than just “text book science” that you learned in school. Over the years helping cancer patients, there is one thing that I learned — the outcome of each treatment is very much dependent on the “nature” of the patient himself/herself.
Dr. Glenn Sabin is a medical doctor. He was diagnosed with cancer but cured himself through the non-chemo way. He wrote a book, N of 1. He said, You may be wondering why I titled my book ‘n of 1’. In scientific circles, an N-of-1 trial is a clinical trial in which a single patient represents the entire investigation: a single case study.
Shortly after I was diagnosed with terminal cancer in 1991, my N-of-1 experiment began. No two cancers are exactly alike; neither are two patients. Our individual needs—physical, psychological and emotional—and cancer treatment regimens can vary widely; just like our responses to treatment and our unique journeys into survivorship.”
Dr. Sabin’s experience is an inspiring story about challenging medical dogma. He discussed how to activate the body’s innate capacity to heal. To heal, patients, their caregivers and their loved ones need to seek knowledge and self-empowerment.
In my book, Getting it right, I wrote a chapter with this title, Is Modern Medicine the Only Proven and Scientific Therapy?.
This is what I wrote: Medical treatments are said to be scientific and proven but what is the use, if patients still die after undergoing all these high-tech, state-of-the art treatments? Are the deaths and recurrences of cancer in patients not proof enough that scientific medicine has failed in one way or another?
Taking of herbs or other CAM therapies brought benefits to patients. These therapies have not gone through “scientific baptism” to make them scientific. But this does not mean that the therapies are ineffective or unscientific. The results speak for themselves. The requirement that truth can only be found through current “gold standard method” of medicine is in itself unscientific.
In the third chapter of the book, I went on to ask, Is Traditional and Complementary/ Alternative Medicine (CAM) a Quackery?
Traditional and Complementary / Alternative Therapies (CAM) are often regarded as unproven by those in the medical profession. This negative perception is disappearing as the general public had overwhelmingly confirmed that CAM therapies are indeed beneficial for them.
The next time you go to your oncologist to start your chemo, know that he/she is conducting an N=1 experiment on you. He/she may quote impressive success statistics but know that those statistics need not necessarily apply to you. If your oncologist says you have a 80 percent chance of cure, ask if he/she is sure that you belong to that 80 percent success group. Or what is the chance that you belong to the 20 percent failed group? If you ask such questions expect some unexpected response from your doctor! He/she may chase you out of the office! Or you will get a shelling. One doctor told a patient: How do I know, I am not god! Another doctor answered: It is your fate, your luck.
To me, you need more than just “science” to cure your cancer — yes, you may need more luck or more karma. But one thing I know for sure … you need God’s mercy and blessing. Unfortunately, many people are still not responding to this change of reality.
Back to the case of Nick. He had six rounds of chemo and spent about RM240,000 for the treatment. Did the chemo helped him? Yes, definitely. His collapsed left lung was “restored” and he can now breathe normally. But did the chemo cure him? No, not yet. I am not sure if Nick can ever be cured. He was asked to do another biopsy to know what is left behind. Then what comes after the biopsy? What can the doctor offer other than more of the same thing … more chemo like his friend. What say you to more chemo?
Nick knew the pitfall. He decided to come and seek our help. But I was frank with him that morning. I said, I may be able to help but I cannot cure you.
Over the more than two decades of helping patients, I have come across many lymphoma cases and I know that our CA Care Therapy did help some of them.
In March 2014, Mat had a lump on his chest. A biopsy confirmed it was a lymphoma. Had underwent 25 cycles of radiotherapy, but he refused chemotherapy. The lump went away but in 2016, fluid accumulated in his lung and Mat had it tapped out. Later the cancer spread to his neck. In February 2018, Mat wrote us to ask for help but I was reluctant to take up this case. I asked Mat to go and see the doctor instead. But he was adamant he did not any chemo. I had no choice but to help him. Yes, our therapy helped him too! For more read: https://cancercaremalaysia.com/2018/06/16/lymphoma-swollen-neck-refused-surgery-or-chemotherapy-opted-for-ca-care-therapy/
As I am finishing this story, a 40-plus-year-old man came to seek our help. He was initially diagnosed with TB, but later the diagnosis was changed to lymphoma. He underwent six cycles of chemo. The treatment failed. He was asked to go for another 12 cycles of chemo. After three cycles of this additional treatment he decided to give up and came to seek our help. After two weeks on the herbs, it looks like he is getting better. I cannot say what lies ahead for this unfortunate man.
Julie (not real name) is a 54-year-old Indonesia. She was initially diagnosed with TB (tuberculosis) and has been taking TB medication for the past seven months. No, her problems did not go away.
Blood tests showed her CEA was at 39.7 (high) and a CT scan showed a mass in her lung.
The doctor wanted her to do a biopsy and if it is cancerous, Julie would have to undergo chemotherapy. Julie do not want chemotherapy. My question to her, “Why don’t you want to go for chemo?”
Julie had a bitter experience to share.
About 5 years ago (in around February 2013) Julie’s husband was diagnosed with colon cancer. He underwent an operation — performed by one of the best colorectal surgeons in Singapore. He was then sent to a well known Singapore private hospital for chemotherapy. Chemotherapy was started in June and by December Julie’s husband was dead.
After receiving 3 cycles of chemo, he had difficulty walking.
Chris: “Did you still continue with the chemo?”
In spite of the early warning that something had gone wrong, the oncologist still wanted the patient to finish the scheduled six cycles. Julie’s husband eventually completed the six cycles of chemo. Within a few minutes of completing this last cycle — after the “needle” was removed from his arm — he died.
C: “Did you ask the oncologist why your husband died?”
The oncologist said his heart could not stand the toxic drug.
C: Before you started the chemo, did you ever ask the oncologist if chemo can kill?”
The oncologist said the chemo is going to cure him!
C: “In total, how much money did you spend for his treatment?”
About one milyar (one billion) rupiah.
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This is a story of two tragedies. One, Julie had been taking TB drug for the past 7 months because the doctor thought she had TB. She was not getting better.
Julie said every day, throughout the day, she has pain and numbness on the right side of her chest. Once a while blood oozed out from her right ear. She could not sleep at night because of her cough. She had no appetite and felt tired all day long. She became breathless when climbing the stairs.
The doctor was monitoring her progress through X-rays. It was not until May 2018 that a CT scan was done. After seeing the scan, it was not about TB anymore. Could it be lung cancer? Or to be more precise, could it be a metastatic lung cancer?
Why did I say metastatic lung cancer?
Julie told us that in 2011, she had a hysterectomy. Then in 2013, she again had an operation to remove her ovary. I asked Julie if the doctors at the time ever indicated that she had some sort of cancer? Julie did not know. It was indeed unfortunate that such medical history was not taken into account (perhaps they did not even want to know?) when the doctors came to the conclusion that she had TB.
Tragedy number two. Julie was told that she would have to undergo chemotherapy if the biopsy turns out to be positive. No chemo for me — that is Julie’s position. Her husband was killed by that kind of treatment.
Julie specially flew to Penang to seek our help. Yes, we understand her predicament. I have heard many such stories before. If you have colon cancer you don’t have to die within 6 months even if you don’t do any chemo. We have patients living ten years and more, after surgery but without any chemo. So the story of Julie’s husband is pathetic.
I spent almost an hour trying to help her in any way I can. I have also reminded Julie that I cannot cure her — to help yes, but to cure, NO. In a situation like this we can only do our best to heal ourselves. But first and foremost she must be willing to help herself. Are you prepared to take that responsibility?
You don’t have to wait until your partner dies before you believe what these doctors said:
On the last day of 2017, I received an email from a Malaysian lady in Germany. Let’s call her May. This is what she wrote:
Dear Mr. Chris Teo,
…. I would like to tell you a bit about my case. All our reports are in German. We will translate them and bring them back to you.
December 2016: I was diagnosed with undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma at blood vessels, which was near to my heart. The tumor grew from my right upper pulmonary vein through the mitral valve into my left ventricle of my heart. Via complete sternotomy, the tumor was excised.(Sternotomy — surgery where sternum or breastbone in centre of chest was divided or cracked).
Sternotomy was done one more time to stop internal bleeding and to remove a hematoma.
January – June 2017: Cytostatic chemotherapy was done with Doxorubicin and Ifosamid for 6 cycles.
October 2017: From standard checkup (CT scan and MRI), it was confirmed that a tumor, 2.4 x 2.2 cm is growing close to the right upper pulmonary vein and it presses onto the vein.
This result highly indicates a local recurrence. Sample of the tumor was taken via Endobronchial Ultrasound to pathology and it was confirmed it is the same high graded sarcoma.
November – December 2017: Chemotherapy (Gemcitabin and Docetaxel) for 2 cycles were done. Along with the chemotherapy, I took part in a double blind clinical study for Antibodytherapy Olaratumab).
During chemotherapy and antibody therapy the tumor had shrunk to 1cm (result from a CT scan).
27 December.2017:A CT scan of the whole body was done and metastasis was found in my brain. It was located above my left eye.
2 January 2018: It is planned now to remove the tumor, as the tumor has caused brain edema which can cause stroke or bleeding anytime.
If the recovery process and the operation turns out successful and I still can fly, we will come back to find you to try your method to control the primary tumor near my heart.
Regards.
This was my reply to May.
Thank you for your email. Actually I was wondering who you are and why you want to come and see me. You are from Germany and I am in Malaysia, half a world away.
Since Netherlands is so near you, why don’t you see Dr YY below. You can get her contact from the internet. I have read her 2 books but I have never met her personally. But that is the way to start … see her and ask for her advice.
I also know Germany is very famous for alternative cancer therapy — why don’t you scout around to go to these clinics — if you need help to find where and what, let me know. I may be able to help.
Sarcoma is a very difficult problem … see, even chemo and chemo … did not work. You asked to see me in Penang — you are welcome to see me. Are you from Penang?
Dear Mr Chris Teo,
I am from Kedah. If I am fit and the operation goes smoothly, I will come and meet you. Thank you and Happy new year.
In early February 2018, May, her husband and her mother came to our center.
May was prescribed a variety of herbal teas for her brain and sarcoma. Once in a while, I received updates of May’s progress.
Hello Uncle Chris,
8 Feb: I started soft tissue tea. My thigh has less pain. A bit pain at my left chest.
9 Feb: I feel some short pain at my left chest. When I first swallow food or water, my tracea is pain.
10 Feb: Same like 9.2
11 Feb: My thigh is less pain. But still pain when I swallow food or water.
12 Feb: My thigh still has a bit pain. Still pain when I swallow food and water.
13 Feb: still pain when I swallow food and water.
14 Feb: My cheek and neck is itchy and red. My thigh has no more pain.
15 & and 16 Feb: My cheek and neck still itchy and red. Still a bit pain when I swallow food.
17 Feb: No more pain when swallow food or drink water. My cheek and fore head are still itchy and red.
18 Feb: Still itchy at fore head and cheek.
19 Feb: Light pain at my left chest. A bit hard to explain.
On 28 March 2018 May, her husband and mother dropped by the centre before returning to Germany. And while in Germany May did write once a while to update us.
On10 May 2018, this is what she wrote:
Hello Dr.Teo,
I have check up and it shows that the tumour has reduced its size to half and no metatasis. A very big thanks to you from me and my whole family. My oncologist here in Germany is so curious about my therapy and would like to know more. So I gave him your website. They haven’t see such improvement before with chemo and radiation especially with my rare sarcoma. Thank you once again.
Reply:You wrote: I have check up and it shows that the tumour has reduced its size to half and no metatasis.
Can you tell me what does this mean? Before the herbs you have tumour ? Where? What is the size?
Now, what did the doctor do? CT or MRI … then what is the size?
10 May 2018:
Dear Dr.Teo,
I had recurrence before I came to see you. The primary tumour is located in the lymph node near my heart. The cancer metatasized to my brain. When I first met you in January. The doctor had removed the tumour in the brain but not the primary one.
The primary tumour in December was 5.5 x 3.2cm. Now it has become 3.2 x 1.9 cm.
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When I received May’s email, my first reaction was to ask her to see other alternative healers — Germany is so famous for alternative medicine — why come to CA Care? But since she insisted of following our therapy, I could not turn her down. Perhaps she missed “home” too. Good to be back in your own “kampong” and be among your loved ones when you are ill — right?
Below are pictures of the mass around her heart (top) and a tumour in her brain (below). After seeing this I shook my head in despair. As I told May, in my twenty plus years helping cancer patients, this is my first time seeing such a cancer. I really don’t know what I can offer May. But as you can see from this report, the herbs gave very encouraging results.
Sarcoma in blood vessel around heart
Sarcoma spread to brain.
Note: Undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma (UPS), is a type of soft tissue cancer. The word “undifferentiated” means that the cells don’t resemble the body tissues in which they develop. The cancer is called pleomorphic because the cells grow in multiple shapes and sizes.
While sarcomas are rare tumors, they do represent one of the most common soft tissue malignancies in adults. Soft tissue sarcomas can develop in blood vessels and in deep skin, fat, muscle, fibrous or nerve tissues. The cancer typically becomes quite large over a period of weeks or months, sometimes growing quite rapidly. The cancer can spread to other locations in the body, most often the lungs.
May told her German doctor that she wanted to come home to undergo our therapy. The doctor did not object to her taking herbs! After all the doctors in Germany had done their best — even surgery and chemotherapy failed — what else could they offer her except more of the same treatments.
From the start, I make it clear to May that I would not be able to cure her — to help her, probably yes. I know sarcoma is a very difficult cancer to handle. But, right in my head, I know that I had some wonderful successes with sarcoma. Read these stories if you want to know more: https://cancercaremalaysia.com/category/sarcoma/
Now that the tumour has shrunk rather significantly, just after three months of herbs, I pray that things become better and better with time. But May will have to help herself. She should keep on doing what she has been doing after seeing us. Don’t ever think that she can do and eat anything she likes!
This statement that May wrote, My oncologist here in Germany is so curious about my therapy and would like to know more, tickled me a bit! Most doctors/ oncologists generally don’t want to know! If you don’t want to know you are like “a frog under the coconut shell”, right?
I must say frankly, I would not know what is May’s future but for what it is we need to lift up our eyes to Heaven and praise the Almighty God for this healing. God bless.
CANCER STORY 
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