Archived from Charlotte Gerson's booklet

Story

   In May 1990, when Jean went for her annual check-up, the doctor
discovered lumps in her left breast. A mammogram was taken and
the doctor said he was 99% sure it showed malignancy, but in
order to confirm his opinion, a biopsy had to be taken. The biopsy
(performed at Burnaby General Hospital) came back positive, so
surgery was recommended, involving a lumpectomy along with
lymph node dissection. Four out of 12 nodes were positive.

   Jean was referred to a cancer clinic where she was prescribed
Tamoxifen and scheduled for radiation. She refused both, choosing
to do nothing at all until the end of 1991. At that time she
realized she was in deep trouble; she knew she was dying. She had
no energy, no strength and was a wreck. "I did not recognize
myself in the mirror. That person looking back at me was dying."

   On December 30, 1991, a kettle of boiling water fell on her
foot and took all the skin off.

   The doctor at Burnaby General was talking skin grafts. "I was
sitting on the gurney and saying to myself, God, I cannot handle
skin grafts and cancer at the same time. He answered my prayer."
Jean's sister Lila, who is a volunteer at the Health Action Network
in Vancouver, was familiar with an alternative cancer treatment
called the Gerson Therapy and told Jean about it.

   On January 2 1992, she entered the Mexican Gerson hospital,
confined to a wheelchair. The doctors there treated her severe
burns and infections with natural tree bark powder and some
antibiotics. She was amazed that on the Gerson Therapy the
'triad' (one aspirin, one 50 mg niacin and one 500 mg tablet of
Vitamin C) took her pain away. [It would be hard for any allopathic
physician to believe that one aspirin with some vitamins
would be sufficient to relieve burn and cancer pain!] The burns
healed very rapidly and today not even a scar is visible on her
foot.

   Seven days after she arrived at the Gerson hospital, she was
able to walk. However, it took some six months before she had
enough strength to do the full Therapy on her own. In the meantime,
her sister faithfully helped her many hours a day, every day,
to keep up the juices.

   It was interesting that after three months on the Therapy her
family could see her getting better, while it took Jean six months
to see the improvement and change!

   Jean stayed on the Therapy and after about two years she
reduced the juices to three a day, but stayed on all organic and
vegetarian foods. Last year she got remarried. Her new life
included "eating out a fair bit," and by December 1997 she found
that she had some swollen glands again. A biopsy at Burnaby
General proved cancer. Jean "hit the Gerson Therapy again," and
it took about four months for the lymph nodes to come down
again. In her own words, "Now they are very, very tiny, but not
gone." [They may be calcified or have turned into scar tissue.]

   Today, the whole family eats vegetarian food. Jean's brother-in-law
was staying at Jean's house "and his health improved tremendously.
When he leaves and goes on other food, he doesn't feel
good."