Archived from Charlotte Gerson's booklet

Story

   In January 1986, Patricia was sent by her doctor from her residence
in Nanaimo (BC, Canada) to Victoria for a CAT scan.
The results were verified by a needle biopsy. The medical specialist
said to her, "Go home and get your life in order; the
cancer is so bad it is inoperable." She was also told that the
malignancy had spread to her liver, gallbladder and spleen.
By then she had lost more than 45 pounds and was vomiting
blood.

   Naturally, the medical verdict distressed Patricia greatly.
After much anguish and weeping she decided to make the
best of the few months left to her with her family.

   Patricia was skeptical when she first heard about a nutritional
treatment claiming to heal cancer, called the Gerson
Therapy, and thought it had to be a scam. But then she and
her husband read about a Victoria man who had apparently
recovered from pancreatic cancer on this therapy (see George
Birnie) and wondered whether she should give it a try. Finally
on March 7 1986, she arrived at the Mexican Gerson clinic.

   Already after ten days she began to feel considerably better
than she had in months. By December of that year, her
doctor told her that "he thought Patricia had the cancer
licked." He went on to say what many other physicians have
told their patients who had recovered on the Gerson Therapy:
"I don't know what you are doing, I don't want to know, just
keep doing it." In February 1990 her family physician wrote a
letter in which he stated the following: "Patricia was diagnosed
as having a malignancy of her pancreas. She received
treatment of her disease outside of Canada, and I am pleased
to say that as of the present time she has no evidence of recurrence
of the disease, and what evidence of malignancy was
present in 1985 has now gone."

   Although she has enjoyed excellent health for many
years, Patricia still drinks the freshly made organic fruit and
vegetable juices that are a mainstay of the Gerson Therapy,
and has the occasional coffee enema, to ensure her continued
well-being. She leads an active life and enjoys the company of
her grandchildren, sixteen years after being told that her life
was over. Last contact: a Christmas card received in 2001.