Archived from Charlotte Gerson's booklet

Story

Barbara was born in 1942 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Aged 7, she had
polio that left her with scoliosis (abnormal curvature of the spine),
and the need for a leg brace and crutches to enable her to walk.
Later she went to college and graduated with a Master's degree in
psychiatric social work. She married "a wonderful husband" who
has always been supportive in whatever she wanted to do.

In 1983, suffering from allergies, she and her husband moved
to Florida, and started following an organic vegetarian diet. She
had been reading avidly about alternative medicine for 15 years.

In October 1995, she felt lumps in her abdominal area. Her
gynecologist had an ultrasound done which showed two tumors,
while a CA 125 test produced a score of 398 (a normal score is
below 31). Barbara chose to have a complete hysterectomy, which
was biopsied. The diagnosis was a very fast growing ovarian
cancer, Stage II.

After surgery, her cancer score dropped to 85; after three weeks
on the Gerson Therapy, it went down to 31. Since then the CA
125 has fluctuated from as low as 6 to 16. In January 1998, with
the re.duction of the intensive Therapy, the CA 125 was 11.

Following her operation, the surgeon advised Barbara to have
chemotherapy. She refused. He told her that the prognosis for
recovery from ovarian cancer after surgery and chemotherapy was
20%. Without chemotherapy it was approximately 2%. Since her
odds for survival were very poor, Barbara contacted Charlotte
Gerson and opted to go to the Gerson Hospital in Mexico. Since
her prognosis was bad, she wanted to determine her own treatment
and destiny.

She started the Gerson Therapy on November 15, 1995 at the
Gerson Hospital and stayed there till December 5th, then returned
home where she religiously followed the full program for two
years. After that she switched to a modified program of three to
four juices daily and a coffee enema every other day.

After seven months on the full Therapy finances became a
problem. Barbara returned to full-time work as a psychiatric
social worker at the Veterans Administration Hospital, but had to
hire a helper to make juices to take to work and make the enema
coffee. She had to move closer to work in order to go home at
lunch break for juices, a meal and an enema. This has proved
workable but not easy, and expensive.

She had frequent follow-ups with the Gerson doctor. Her
co-workers, physicians, nurses and other staff at the Veterans
Hospital where she worked all showed support and much curiosity
about her progress. One local physician told her that she
should have been dead in six months. Barbara replied, "I would
have been if I had done chemo or radiation."

She adds, "I feel strongly that to follow the Gerson program
religiously, a person must be determined and convinced that the
program can cure cancer and that one must persevere in spite of
all the obstacles. I am very sad that the American medical establishment
is against non-chemical treatments that work, especially
since what they have to recommend obviously fails."

Diagnosis made at the Bayfront Medical Center, St. Petersburg,
Florida, on October 17 1995: Bilateral ovarian cancer.