Archived from Charlotte Gerson's booklet

Story

   Sue's story illustrates that even the most severe advanced cases of
melanoma in the liver can be cured on the Gerson Therapy. It also
shows that if young people (she was 35 at her first occurrence)
develop cancer, particularly melanoma and lymphoma, it is safe to
assume that they have had other health problems which caused
them to take doctor-prescribed medicines. Sue's experience fits this
picture completely.

   Some 15 years before her melanoma was first diagnosed, Sue
had suffered from severe ocular migraine headaches - the kind
that leaves you blind for a little while. At those times her doctor
prescribed Florinal and codeine. She took those drugs for 15
years. Also, between 1982 and 1988, Sue believed that she was
suffering from stomach ulcers and took the drug Zantac. She also
had other digestive problems, see-sawing between constipation
and colitis. Later, when she was taking coffee enemas, her doctor
told her that she would never again be able to eliminate normally.
As it turned out, Sue had never had stomach ulcers.

   In September 1982, Sue noticed that a mole was growing on a
spot on her left ankle where she had previously had a wart frozen
off. The size of the mole doubled in three weeks. When she saw
Dr. Norman James at the Holy Family Hospital in Spokane, WA,
he immediately did a wide excision (4" across and 2" deep), and
covered the wound with a skin graft. Just four months earlier, she
had undergone a hysterectomy for endometriosis. On finding that
the mole on her ankle was melanoma, the surgeon suggested
stripping out the glands in her groin. Sue refused. Years later she
learned that stripping lymph nodes weakens the body's immune
defenses.

   Four years later, in 1986, she noticed an enlarged lymph node
in her groin. This, too, was removed by the same surgeon at the
same hospital in Spokane. Another six months later a CAT scan
showed melanoma spreading to the liver.

   By April 1987 she was too weak and ill to travel to the Gerson
Hospital in Mexico, and started the Gerson Therapy at home. At
first she needed help to walk to the bathroom. Six months later
she was able to make some of her juices herself. Another two
months later she was going up and down stairs to do her laundry
in the basement. After one year on the Gerson Therapy she felt
fairly normal.

   Fifteen years after embarking on the Gerson program, Sue is
well and active.

   Last contact: February 2002.