Archived from Charlotte Gerson's booklet

Story

Edmund was 30 years old, married with two young children,
when in July 1955 he had a cancerous testicle removed, along
with extensive cancerous lymph nodes along a fourteen-inch
surgical cut line. The operation was done at St. Mary's Hospital of
Racine, Wisconsin, by Dr. Russell Kurten, and was followed by a
total of 88 deep X-ray treatments over six months. Ed described
the effects of the radiation as "having a fried torso and a body
riddled with metastatic cancerous tumors in both lungs and on the
penis." This latter tumor also interfered to some extent with his
urinating.

All along Edmund believed, and still does, that the cancer
probably started during World War II, when he was stationed at
Los Alamos, site of the first atomic bomb test. The enlisted men
were sent in without protective clothing to check everything at the
test site soon after the bomb had been detonated, and of course
the area was highly radioactive. Tragically, many of the soldiers
who had been similarly exposed al that site also developed
testicular cancer.

In March 1956 Ed reported again to the hospital. This time,
barely eight months after his operation and drastic radiation
treatment, a tumor was found in his lung, and he was prepared
for surgery to remove the affected lung. He was already
"prepped," in the operating room, when at the last moment they
wheeled him back out. It turned out thaI far from having just one
tumor, he had tumors in both lungs, hence surgery was impossible.
His doctors told him that further treatment was not advisable, but
that pain could be relieved for the remaining few months of his
life. He was sent home to die just one week before his wife was
giving birth to their third child.

In April 1956, against the advice of his local physicians, Ed
traveled to Dr. Gerson's clinic in Nanuet, New York. His doctors
had even warned him that he should 'carefully guard his wallet,'
suggesting that Gerson was charging heavily for his treatment. In
fact, Ed found the charges very modest.
Within a few weeks of starting the Gerson Therapy, Ed's
urination became normal. After five weeks some of the tumors
began to decrease in size, and in six weeks one lung already
showed clear. Over the next year or so all his tumors disappeared,
but it took longer for the radiation burns to heal. Ed recalls how
during the radiaton 'flare-ups' he returned for another visit with
Dr. Gerson in Nanuet. Eventually the burns also healed.
Ed was 'cured' by 1959, when Dr. Gerson passed away. That
presented him with a new problem: he didn't know how to come
off the Therapy and stop it completely. To make things worse, he
realized that his doctors had no understanding of his life-saving
treatment, since they had objected even to his going to see Dr.
Gerson. So, amazingly, he stayed on the full Gerson Therapy for
eight years!
We received word in August, 2004 that Eddie Braun had died
peacefully, aged 80, some 49 years after he had been sent home to
die.