Archived from Charlotte Gerson's book

Story

   N.P. had a 5 mm mole on his back, which began to bleed in October
1990. He consulted skin cancer specialist, Dr. Richard Ferderspiel, who
was sure that the lesion was not melanoma. However, the biopsy proved
him wrong, and on October 30, at the Berrien General Hospital in
Michigan, a large area of skin was removed from the patient's back.

   Six months later, in April 1991, an enlarged lymph node was discovered
in N.P's right axilla. It was biopsied and found to be metastasized
melanoma. The oncologist at the Borgess Medical Center of Kalamazoo,
Michigan, told N.P., "I've treated several cases like yours and lost them
all." (8) He then proposed an experimental treatment that might possibly
extend the patient's life from the six-month prognosis to nine months.
N.P. refused.

   At that stage, he received a letter from the widow of an acquaintance,
a man of his own age, who had received all available conventional
treatments for metastatic melanoma and died five months later.
This persuaded N.P. to go to the Gerson clinic in Mexico, where he
arrived with his wife in May 1991. At the time, another tumor
appeared, but vanished in six weeks. At the end of the therapy, N.P.,
aged 67, was in perfect health and regularly competed in the Senior
Olympic Games in Michigan and Florida, winning Silver twice and
Gold once in the Racewalk.

   In time, he eased off the Gerson type of food and abandoned the diet
completely while traveling in South America. In 1994, another lymph
node had to be removed from the original site; it proved to be melanoma.
N.P. immediately resumed the strict intensive Gerson Therapy
and again made a full recovery. At present (2007), he remains well and active.

REFERENCES.
8. Personal communication to Charlotte Gerson.