Archived from Charlotte Gerson's booklet

Story

   Beata lives in London. She is a writer, psychotherapist and former
broadcaster with the British Broadcasting Corporation. In November
1979, she discovered a growing brown/black spot on her right
shin. A dermatologist urged her to see a surgeon, who performed a
biopsy, which showed that the spot was melanoma (Clark's level 4).

   The surgeon performed a wide excision, removing a large area
of Beata's right leg either side of the shinbone, and covering the
huge wound with a skin graft taken from her left thigh. In her
book, A Time to Heal, by now published in seven languages, she
describes the pain and misery of slowly recovering after the major
surgery. Her only consolation was the surgeon's assurance that her
troubles were over and she could resume her normal life.

   Nonetheless, just one year later the surgeon discovered a
swollen lymph node in her groin. This was a recurring melanoma,
Stage IV, and deadly. He suggested a block excision of the right
groin and various tests to find out if the cancer had spread elsewhere,
too. Without surgery, he said that her life expectancy
would be between six weeks and six months

   Beata refused further operations. She reasoned that since the
first surgery only mutilated her leg but didn't cure the cancer, a
second one wouldn't cure it, either. She began to explore alternative
therapies, and at a friend's suggestion contacted Charlotte
Gerson's daughter, Peggy Straus, who at the time lived in London.
What she learned from Peggy convinced her that the Gerson
Therapy held her only hope of recovery. On January 20, 1981 she
arrived at the Gerson Hospital in Tijuana and stayed there for two
months. During that time her incipient diabetes disappeared,
never to return; so did the osteoarthritis in her right hand. She
was also able to stop smoking without any withdrawal symptoms.

   She returned to London in March 1981, remained on the
intensive therapy for 18 months, followed by a phasing out period
of six months. Her health was excellent throughout. But after a
while she began to take calcium tablets, as she thought to protect
herself from osteoporosis, having forgotten Dr. Gerson's clear
warning against doing that. To her horror, the lymph node in her
groin, which had never disappeared, began to grow.

   In a panic, she returned to Mexico, with CT scan pictures
showing that the tumor was completely encapsulated and could be
easily removed. This was done. At the Gerson doctors' insistence
she also had her teeth checked and discovered that she had four
abscessed roots, pouring toxins into her system. The teeth were
removed, the abscesses cleared, her problems were finally over.

   Instead of dying in June 1981 if she had no further surgery as
her surgeon predicted, Beata is well, very active, working hard
and enjoying life, twenty-one years after embarking on the Gerson
Therapy. She continues on the Gerson diet, drinks a daily litre of
juice and takes a half strength coffee enema every other day.

   Last contact: April 2012.