Archived from Charlotte Gerson's booklet

Story

   Lura underwent a biopsy at the Health Sciences Center of Portland,
OR in 1982. The diagnosis showed that she had melanoma
of the eye. As Lura was pregnant at the time, she did not receive
either chemotherapy or radiation. However, she had a total of
seven operations. At first the doctors removed the original tumors
around the eyeball. Then more tumor tissue would appear,
covering the entire socket area. This tissue was removed piece by
piece during the ensuing surgeries. Every time it seemed as though
the melanoma was spreading further. At the time, her doctors
stated that she would not live five months - but over a year later
she was still alive. Still, the doctors said that her case was hopeless
and there was nothing they could do.

   When Lura found out about the Gerson Therapy and came to
the Mexican Gerson hospital in 1985, she had a one-year old baby
and the melanoma was spreading. She was blind in the affected
eye.

   This is now some 17 years ago. Lura is doing fine, and her eye
has regained 20/20 vision (according to her mother's report in
1998).