Archived from Charlotte Gerson's booklet

Story

   William H. was born in 1938 and was a one-pack a day smoker
from ages 18 to 35.

   When he was 54 years old, he was hospitalized at the Long
Beach (New York) Memorial Hospital with a left-sided pneumonia.
He never recovered fully, and his chest X-ray remained
abnormal. February 1993, a chest CT scan showed a lower lobe
mass. The bronchoscopy that followed in March revealed a small
cell anaplastic carcinoma. He was advised to take chemotherapy
immediately, since small cell lung cancers are extremely aggressive.
He refused.

   After seeing a pulmonary specialist for a second opinion at the
North Shore Hospital, also on Long Island, he was again advised
to transfer immediately to the oncology department for chemotherapy.
There he was told that he might survive for only three to
four months without it.

   William's cousin in Oregon, who runs an organic farm, told
him to call the Gerson Institute for information on nutritional
healing. Given some hope now for recovery, he came to the
Gerson Therapy Hospital in Mexico at the end of March 1993.

   After a three weeks' stay at the hospital, William continued the
Gerson Therapy at home, adding shark cartilage, and later bovine
cartilage to the treatment.

   In 1997, he had surgery to remove a persistent mass in the left
lower lobe. This turned out to be a "carcinoid" tumor without
evidence of any small cell carcinoma.

   Last report: August 1999: patient is doing well.