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Dr. Colleen Huber, NMD, Medical
Director
Dr. Kenneth Lashutka, NMD
Dr. Thomas Jemison, NMD
NatureWorksBest Natural Cancer Clinic
1250 E. Baseline Rd., Suite 205, Tempe, AZ 85283
Tel: 480-839-2800; Fax: 480-897-2453
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NatureWorksBest
Cancer and Remission -
SUMMARY
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We
have the best success in cancer treatment of any clinic we have found,
natural or conventional.
As
of July 2011, 93% of the cancer patients who have completed our treatments have
been going into remission, and/or staying well long-term. Stage 1 through
Stage 4. We exclude no one. All are welcome.
Of 165
patients treated, 105 have completed our treatments, and only 5 have come
out of remission.
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The
question is:
Why
do our treatments work so well?
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How do you treat cancer?
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We
are licensed as Naturopathic Medical Doctors and primary care physicians.
We use natural treatments only for cancer and other diseases. That is, we
use no chemotherapy, radiation or surgery. However, at a patient's request,
we do work with surgeons and oncologists, the formal name for doctors who
are cancer specialists. And they work with the mainstream treatments, as
well as imaging and labs showing what happens with tumors over time.
If a patient prefers to work only with us, that is okay too. We can order
all imaging and labwork. All of that is usually covered by insurance, or at
least would apply toward your deductible in many cases. Medicare is an
exception, because Medicare does not yet recognize naturopathic
medicine. However, Medicare supplemental insurance has been reimbursing
some of our Medicare patients. Check with us regarding your insurance.
A number of our patients have also undergone mainstream
treatments such as surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation. We owe our best
efforts to you whether you choose to have surgery, chemotherapy, and/or
radiation, or choose not to have surgery, chemotherapy, and/or radiation.
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What natural treatments do you use?
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It's
important to understand that that depends entirely on the patient. Each of
our cancer patients came in with a different type of cancer, different
stages, often different co-morbidities, and different patterns of
metastases. More than 165 cancer patients have come to us in Stages 1, 2, 3
or 4. Yet we have only lost seven patients to cancer in the last five years
of using these protocols. Twelve others who died were late-stage patients
who had come to us very late and had been in and out of the hospital and
had died there from hospital procedures or chemotherapy. Your best
opportunity to fight cancer – and this goes for all cancer patients – is to
begin the natural treatments before the conventional treatments sicken and
weaken you.
We primarily offer intravenous anti-cancer nutrients, such as massively
high doses of Vitamin C and other anti-cancer nutrients that benefit normal
cells while killing cancer cells. These nutrients have to be given
intravenously, because you cannot get adequate levels to destroy cancer
cells by only taking them orally.
Linus Pauling is the only person in history to be awarded two solo Nobel
prizes. His work with Vitamin C and cancer was groundbreaking decades ago.
Now we know that we can use much higher doses of Vitamin C than Dr. Pauling
did without side effects, and get even better results than he did in his
day.
Certain herbs have shown a tremendous effect in slowing the growth of
cancer or shrinking tumors and inhibiting metastases, so we use those when
appropriate. Renée Caisse was a Canadian nurse who worked with the Ojibwa
people, and together they put together a formula of herbs that has shown
good results for many patients, called Essiac, so we often use that. But
certainly not alone.
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for an example of a specific treatment, let's say a cancer patient has lung
involvement. Then we will deliver natural treatments to the lungs by way of
a nebulizer. This has been helpful with both primary lung cancers as well
as secondary metastases to the lungs. What we put in there is a combination
of herbs and nutrients, in a form that is tolerable to the airways, and
with specific attention to the patients' needs.
Several other cancer-fighting strategies are available from nature. For
example, if a person is very acid, and their blood or urine shows high
acidity, then we work extra hard to alkalinize them, because most types of
cancer cells only thrive in acid, not alkaline conditions.
Dr. Tullio Simoncini is well known for his work with sodium bicarbonate and
cancer. He sees cancer as closely related to fungal conditions, which are
intolerant of an alkaline environment. So he uses sodium bicarbonate by
injection. Although Dr. Simoncini has done groundbreaking work, this is one
piece of a very large and complex puzzle. We do need the other treatments
as well to be really effective. Several other natural substances will also
alkalinize the body. We use some intravenously, and some are taken orally.
The ones we like best are the ones that are attracted to the tumors and
more active there, with least disturbance to other cells.
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How do you work with oncologists?
There are 2
types of oncologists in our experience: the old-fashioned kind, those who
only know about chemotherapy and radiation and surgery, and who are not
interested in natural treatments for cancer. Some have shown a lot of
hostility toward natural treatments. They have not been very cooperative
with us regarding the patients that we share. And this has been detrimental
to the patients' wellbeing, because necessary information such as PET
scans, MRI's etc. have been withheld by them.
However, there is a new forward-thinking, well-informed and open-minded
type of oncologist, and they are taking an interest in the tumor regression
and remission that we have experienced with natural treatments. These
oncologists have been helpful and cooperative about sharing information
from CT scans, PET scans, blood work, etc., and the patient benefits from
this shared information. Fortunately, some of our patients have these newer
kinds of oncologists. Some of these oncologists have even told one of our
patients that he would do what the patient is doing - that is, the natural
treatments - if he himself had cancer, and that he had nothing better to
offer for this patient's particular cancer. Another specifically
recommended our treatments to another patient as the only therapy. Three
other oncologists specifically instructed the patients to continue our
natural therapies. That kind of honesty is very welcome to the patient, as
well as to the public. Certainly oncologists do have a lot to offer to
cancer patients, often lifesaving help. But when they cannot help, it makes
most sense for them to welcome the natural treatments that do make a difference.
There is a genuine desire on the part of many mainstream doctors to act
with the patient's best interests as a priority, regardless of where that
road may go.
If
you want to consult with an oncologist that will be open-minded to the
natural treatments that you do with us, we can refer you to any of a number
of different oncologists if you wish. And if you want to only work with
us, that is fine also.
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How successful have we been?
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In
the last five years of using these particular treatments, we have treated
over 165 cancer patients long –term and intensively, and we have lost only
seven patients to cancer while still in our care. Another 12 patients died
of chemotherapy or other hospital experiences. This includes people who
came in to us very late stage, and even some people who came out of hospice
for our treatments. Of those going into remission, it has taken an average
of from 3 to 8 months from when we first met with them to confirmation of
total remission (no tumor load left in the body, or in the case of
leukemia, normal labs). No one patient whom we have gotten into remission
has had a recurrence of his or her cancer, except for two who are in
remission again now, two others who disagreed with our main dietary
recommendation, and another who may have had undiscovered metastases prior
to treatment, which in her case turned out to be too short.
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Does insurance cover any of this?
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Things
are changing very rapidly here. Recently, the major insurance companies
have begun to cover naturopathic treatments more than before, as they
realize that we save them quite a bit of money over mainstream medicine.
Unfortunately, Medicare is still not covering this, but Medicare supplemental
insurance has started to cover these treatments. That’s supplemental, not
secondary.
United Health Care is now the best at covering our treatments, recognizing
that they are “medically necessary.” Aetna and Cigna have been next best
at covering naturopathic medicine. Others are starting to catch up. Even
Blue Cross/Blue Shield and Humana, which never used to cover naturopathic
services are beginning to get with the times. The most common objection of
the insurance companies to the natural treatments is that they are
"experimental." However, many of these treatments have been
around longer with a longer history of success than a lot of the
chemotherapy drugs.
We have recently begun to submit our bills to insurance. Although your
payment is due at the time of service, we try to get your insurance company
to reimburse you by submitting the proper codes for diagnosis and
treatment.
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Does the FDA approve of any of this?
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The
scope of practice for a Naturopathic Medical Doctor in the State of Arizona
as well as a number of other licensed states includes the following:
primary care practice (office consults, physical exams, laboratory tests
and imaging), natural medicine (nutrition, IV nutrients, herbs,
acupuncture, homeopathy, physical medicine, hydrotherapy) as well as
mainstream medicine (minor surgery, prescription of pharmaceuticals) for
any health condition whatsoever, except certain emergency situations, i.e.,
fractures, major surgery.
For cancer, all treatments that we use are natural substances, not
synthetic, and all are available in some form or other to the general
public, over the counter. However, the quantities and form differ greatly,
if you really want to have a fighting chance against such a vicious disease
as cancer. Some of this has to be given intravenously in order to be really
effective against cancer. You can't just get enough or the right amounts
and proportion and form of these simply by visiting the health food stores.
Although for certain items, we ask all of our patients, whether they have
cancer or not, to go buy this or that item at the health food stores. We
located our office near Whole Foods and Nature's Health and Sunflower and
Sprouts stores for that reason.
So yes, it's all legal, all within the scope of practice of naturopathic
physicians here in Arizona, licensed by the State of Arizona, with
oversight by the Naturopathic Physicians Board of Medical Examiners, and
our medical schools are accredited by the US Department of Education. There
are 15 states total as well as the District of Columbia that license
naturopathic medicine. They are:
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- Alaska
- Arizona
- California
- Connecticut
- Hawaii
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- Idaho
- Kansas
- Maine
- Minnesota
- Montana
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- New Hampshire
- Oregon
- Utah
- Vermont
- Washington
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- Washington, D.C.
- Puerto Rico
- Virgin Islands
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What happens to the patients?
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In
our private practice, which opened in 2006, we have treated over 165
patients for cancer, using thousands of treatments and have lost only seven
of the patients in our care to cancer in that time. Another 12 died from
either chemotherapy or other hospital experiences. All of the latter were
late stage cancer patients, who had already been severely sickened by their
conventional treatments for their cancer, some even coming out of hospice
for our treatments.
As for what happens to our cancer patients, first, they start
feeling better and their energy comes back. Two cancer patients over 60
years old ride their bicycles several miles a day. This was while being
treated by us for cancer, and continuing now. Two in remission from
pancreatic cancer are a farmer and a pilot. Others go hiking or swimming or
play golf. Many of those under retirement age still work at their jobs
while getting treatment. That kind of well-being and strength and vitality
shown by these patients usually begins within several weeks after we start
treating them, long before we have evidence from the Ultrasound or CT
scans, MRI or PET scans of tumors turning necrotic, or shrinking tumors, or
tumors turning to inactive tissue. We look for evidence coming back of
shrinking tumors or tumors that are no longer there.
Every
July, we call the patients who have gone into remission to make sure that
they are all still fine. To this day, of 165 cancer patients treated until
July 2011, only five have had a recurrence of their cancer.
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Profiles of some
of our patients
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The following dozen cases are listed
in no particular order, but are a representative sample of the variety of
cancers that are increasingly common today.
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Case 1
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A
woman with endometrial cancer came in with a tumor the size of a
grapefruit, with such a deadly variation of this cancer that there are no
survivors of it in the medical literature except for this patient. Neither
chemotherapy, nor radiation nor surgery could eliminate it. It grew back
each time. The tumor was eliminated in 2008 with our treatments, and the
patient has kept her very active career ever since. There is still no
evidence of any recurrence. She was interviewed with our clinic in 2009 on
Channel 5 TV here in the Phoenix area.
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Case 2
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A
woman in her fifties had malignant melanoma, which is one of the most
dangerous kinds of cancers and the most dangerous of the skin cancers. By
the time we met her, it had already metastasized to her brain. This patient
chose a combination of surgery, radiation and our natural cancer-fighting
treatments, which we continued until she went into remission and continued
an active life with recreational travel.
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Case 3
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A
man in his fifties had prostate cancer and chose only our natural
treatments. He did not want to have any of the mainstream treatments. After
less than three months of natural treatments, he is now in remission. He
continues to ride his bicycle several miles a day and works two strenuous
jobs.
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Case 4
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This
is one of the seven patients we had who actually died of cancer. It was
inoperable pancreatic cancer, and the two tumors had actually shrunk
considerably, with one disappearing completely, during the course of our
natural treatments alone. This patient enjoyed a high quality of health,
very active physically and feeling good during the first few months of our
natural treatments. However, as things started to look very good, there
arose different viewpoints about the best way to proceed throughout the
healing process, and the initial success turned to very aggressive
metastases throughout the body. We can help you avoid this.
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Case 5
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A
man in his fifties with colon cancer chose a combination of surgery,
chemotherapy and our natural treatments. Among all these interventions, the
patient experienced a reduction in his cancer of 80% from chemotherapy and
natural treatments alone, beginning after the initial surgery. However, at
the same time, complications from his surgery took him back into the
hospital without recovery.
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Case 6
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A
woman in her fifties with breast cancer is considering all options and for
right now is just receiving our natural treatments and remains stable and
well with a high quality of life and activity.
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Case 7
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A
woman in her seventies with breast cancer also considered all her options
and decided to just receive our natural treatments. She is now in remission
with a high quality of life and wellbeing.
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Case 8
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A
woman in her forties with breast cancer chose lumpectomy and our natural
treatments. She is now in remission, and she has resumed an active life
with recreational travel.
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Case 9
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A
man in his seventies has lung cancer, which has now reduced in volume more
than 90% with a combination of radio ablation and our natural treatments.
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Case 10
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A
man in his seventies with leukemia has been through chemotherapy and a
number of natural treatments. Now that we have been treating him for some
months, his numbers remain stable. Although not yet in remission, this
man's quality of life remains quite high. He is very physically active, and
rides his bicycle several miles a day and recently helped a friend build a
cabin with their own hands.
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Case 11
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This
patient in her forties has had primary colon cancer, primary ovarian cancer
and primary uterine cancer. When she came to us after surgery, there were
metastases as well, and her condition was weak, fatigued and delicate. With
only our natural treatments, the metastases disappeared and the patient's
improved vitality and new robust energy was quite dramatic. Her travel
schedule is active. She is still in remission over two years later.
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Case 12
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A
man in his forties with Non-Hodgkins lymphoma came to us for natural cancer
treatment. He had already been through chemotherapy. With the natural
treatments that we have used, he has maintained a high quality of living,
active in his in a physically strenuous job and hiking in the local
mountains. He went into remission while continuing the natural treatments
alone.
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