Archived from Charlotte Gerson's book

Story

   To his shock and dismay, in November 1989, sixty-year-old John Peters of
Pittsburgh was diagnosed with lung cancer—an adenocarcinoma. Although he
had eaten a good diet, swam a thousand yards in his swimming pool five days
each week, never smoked, and had been given an excellent health report by his
doctor just three months before, Mr. Peters still had come down with non-small-
cell carcinoma of the lung, staged at level IIIA by his consulting oncologist.

   Upon an emergency recommendation of his consulting oncologist, John
Peters underwent immediate open-chest surgery, followed by twenty- four
radiation treatments. Thus, his various symptoms consisting of constant cough,
sometimes containing blood, hoarseness and shortness of breath, excessive
sputum, recurrent episodes of lung infection, weight loss, and swelling of the
face, plus the sense of overwhelming fatigue, lessened to the point of almost
disappearing.

   A year later, however, the patient's original coughing and some of his other
symptoms recurred. Another series of diagnostic tests, including bronchoscopic
examination, revealed that he again required chest surgery for excising the non-small-
cell lung cancer. “When I refused surgery and chemotherapy, the doctors
told me that there was no chance for my survival at all,” John Peters explained.

   “I had researched lung cancer and realized that the only reason I got cancer
was that my body supported it. Thus, if I didn’t change the internal
environment of my body, the cancer would just come back again. In May
1991,I started on the Gerson Therapy at home,” said Mr. Peters. “I was very
weak, and this Gerson Therapy was demanding, but I was facing the Grim
Reaper, so I was also highly motivated.

   “In only three weeks, I knew the Gerson treatment was working—I was
getting stronger, coughing less, and feeling much better. Most surprising, I was
actually gaining weight on this vegetarian diet. After losing so many pounds
the months before, I was finally becoming more than just skin and bones,” Mr.
Peters wrote in a letter to the Gerson Institute. “I have remained cancer-free
and in good health for the past seven years. I am vegan, avoid refined flour,
sugar, salt, caffeine and alcohol and still press vegetables and drink their juices,
about twenty-four ounces per day. There is no doubt in my mind that I would
have been in the cemetery six or seven years ago without the Gerson Therapy.

   ‘Incidentally, before going through my 1989 lung removal surgery, I had
obtained a second opinion from the head of the Pittsburgh Cancer Institute.
When I returned to him for a follow-up cancer test in 1996, he was shocked to
see me surviving. The lung surgeon told me that I’d never know how lucky I
was to be alive and that with my disease, there was only about a 3 percent
chance of five-year survival. Eating the Gerson vegetarian way has saved my
life,’ John Peters confirmed.

   At his latest report to this book’s two authors, as a former lung cancer
patient who subscribes rather closely to the eating program of the Gerson
Therapy, John Peters has gone well beyond doubling the usual cancer patient's
five-year survival time for adenocarinoma of the lung. (As you've been
informed, five-year survival of any cancer is defined by the American Cancer
Society as a “cure.)’