Archived from Charlotte Gerson's booklet

Story

   Mary was born in England in 1947 and lives in London. In 1991,
aged 44, she found a tiny lump in her right breast and went to
King's College Hospital in London, where a needle biopsy and a
mammogram were done. She never knew the outcome because, as
she was told, "They lost the results." A year later, in November
1992, she returned to the same hospital for another needle biopsy
and mammogram. This time the tissue showed positive for
malignancy, Mary, who at the time was studying toward her
qualification as a lawyer, was devastated, assuming that she was
dying.

   At Christmas a lumpectomy was performed, with the removal
of six lymph nodes. These proved clear and she was told that her
cancer was of the "least aggressive" grade. Nevertheless, after the
lumpectomy she was given a full course of radiation that lasted
until Easter. She states, "It knocked me out. I was too exhausted
to go for walks." However, she recovered.

   Three years later, in June 1995, Mary had a mammogram done
of her left breast, which showed a tumor. The surgeon tried to
excise it, but as he was unable to obtain clear margins, he urged
her to have a mastectomy. This was carried out in February 1996,
without the removal of any lymph nodes.

   Another two years later Mary developed "weird symptoms,"
such as migraines, floating lights in her eyes, and pain under her
right arm where she also found lumps. She returned to the hospital
and was given pain medication, with the assurance that her
symptoms were normal after surgery, and that she was fine. But
the symptoms persisted, so Mary returned to the hospital and saw
a different registrar who booked her for an ultrasound test of her
right axilla - and discovered a recurrence. Additional tests,
including a bone and liver scan, showed tumors in both lobes of
her liver. She had been urged to have another mastectomy; however,
when the results of the liver scan arrived, the surgeon agreed
that this would be useless. At present Mary believes that she saw
three tumors at the time. Her doctor gave her six months to live,
but referred her to a medical oncologist on his team. This doctor
tried hard to "sell her on chemotherapy," while admitting that it
wouldn't cure her. On further questioning he thought it might
prolong her life by three months. Understandably, Mary refused
chemotherapy.

   She changed hospitals and went to the Royal Marsden, where
she was offered Tamoxifen, which she accepted. Mary also
attended a Gerson training day in late December 1997 and started
on the Gerson Therapy at home in January 1998. She never had
chemotherapy.

   The swelling in her breast that was present before she
embarked on the Gerson treatment vanished immediately, she now
reports, and adds that each year on the therapy one liver tumor
disappeared. At the time of her last scan in September 2001 none
were found.

   In March 2002 Mary reports to be well, and has been working
as a solicitor (lawyer) three days a week for the past year.