Archived from Charlotte Gerson's booklet

Story

In January 1995, Debbi went to the San Antonio Community
Hospital in Upland County for a routine vaginal hysterectomy
with rectocele repair. During surgery they found multiple nodules
on the upper vaginal cuff. A subsequent exploratory laparotomy
disclosed cancer on the ovaries, bowel, omentum and pelvic gutter.
A more extensive hysterectomy had to be carried out through the
stomach, removing the ovaries and omentum, and scraping the
bowel and pelvic gutter as much as possible. Three nodules on the
small bowel and right pelvic gutter, measuring less than 1.0 cm in
size, were left; so were seedlings on the vaginal wall.

Debbi's condition turned out to be Stage III papillary serous
ovarian carcinoma with extensive omental involvement, studding
of the bowel and right gutter, as well as involvement of both
ovaries. The doctors wanted her to have chemotherapy (Taxol and
Cisplatin). Debbi felt scared and visited the UCLA Medical Center
for a second opinion. Contrary to her hopes, the original diagnosis
was confirmed, so she arranged with a doctor near her home to
start chemotherapy.

Her prognosis was not good: the experts said she probably had
six to nine months to live. Upon this her father and uncle pushed
her into considering the Gerson Therapy instead of chemotherapy.
Debbi read Dr. Gerson's book, A Cancer Therapy: Results of 50
Cases, watched the Gerson videos, did some research into
chemotherapy and some other treatments. She asked UCLA and her
oncologist for names of patients who were alive five years after
undergoing chemotherapy for ovarian cancer. They didn't give her
any. However, the Gerson Institute and the Cancer Control Society
in Los Angeles supplied her with patients' names and phone
numbers. She 'phoned these individuals, who had all had the same
stage of ovarian cancer as she had, or even higher. They were alive
9, 10, 14 and 17 years after their original diagnosis with no
recurrences, having used the Gerson Therapy - and feeling great.

The Gerson Therapy really made sense. Debbi canceled her
chemo the day before she was to start it and decided to go to
Mexico to start the Gerson Therapy. Her family and friends fully
supported her decision.

Two years after that nightmarish diagnosis, Debbi had no sign
of any recurrence, and all her tests showed clear. Way back in
February 1995, two weeks after her original surgery, an MRI
found a cyst on her left kidney, and gallstones. All that has
vanished. Her adult onset diabetes is also controlled. She does not
have to take any hormones to control the body changes due to the
removal of her ovaries, and is free from the panic attacks that
used to trouble her since childhood.

Debbi recalls three women acquaintances of hers who had
ovarian cancer and were treated with chemotherapy. None of
them lived even for nine months. She is the only survivor. She is
deeply grateful to Dr Gerson and to her own family and friends
for having helped her through her ordeal and adds, "I am much
healthier and more active than I have ever been." Debbi appeared
in The Gerson Miracle in 2004.

Diagnosis from the San Antonio Community Hospital, Upland,
CA, January 26 1995:

Well-differentiated papillary carcinoma with extension to
serosal surface of left ovary. Metastatic papillary adenocarcinoma
of uterus. Metastatic papillary adenocarcinoma of right ovary.