Dr. Colleen Huber, NMD, Medical Director

Dr. Kenneth Lashutka, NMD

Dr. Thomas Jemison, NMD
Naturopathic Medical Doctors of Arizona, LLC
1250 E. Baseline Rd., Suite 205, Tempe, AZ 85283
Tel: 480-839-2800; Fax: 480-897-2453

NatureWorksBest

Cancer and Remission - SUMMARY

We have the best success in cancer treatment of any clinic we have found, natural or conventional.

As of July 2012, 85% 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. And we report the data for all patients, our successes as well as our failures.

If you consider our Stage 1 through early Stage 4 patients, our success rate is 92%. (Not so good with late Stage 4).

No other cancer clinic in the world

of any kind

has such a high success rate.

Of 243 patients treated, 151 have completed our treatments, and only 10 have come out of remission.

The question is:

Why do our treatments work so well?

How do you treat cancer?

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. 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, there are some add-on PPO’s with Medicare that have reimbursed some of our Medicare patients. PPO’s in general have recently been more likely than before to reimburse for our treatments. HMO’s are likely not to reimburse. 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.

What natural treatments do you use?

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 243 cancer patients have come to us in Stages 1, 2, 3 or 4. Yet we have only lost twenty-three patients to cancer in the last five years of using these protocols. Sixteen 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.

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 our patients that they would do what the patient is doing - that is, the natural treatments - if they themselves had cancer, and that they had nothing better to offer for these patients’ particular types of cancer. Four 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 some cancer patients, sometimes lifesaving help. But when they cannot help, or when the patient chooses a natural cancer treatment, it makes most sense for them to welcome the natural treatments that do make a difference.

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.

How successful have we been?

In the last six years of using these particular treatments, we have treated over 243 cancer patients long –term and intensively, and we have lost only twenty-three patients to cancer while still in our care. Another 16 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). Only 10 patients whom we have gotten into remission have had a recurrence of their cancer.

Does insurance cover any of this?

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 some add-on plans with Medicare have started to cover these treatments. We can tell you about plans that have reimbursed our Medicare patients.

Aetna and United Health Care are now the best at covering our treatments, recognizing that they are “medically necessary.” Cigna has been next best at covering naturopathic medicine. Others are starting to catch up. Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Healthnet and Humana have not done much yet to cover our services. 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, and almost all claims arrive to your insurance company within 72 hours of your visit. 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.

Does the FDA approve of any of this?

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 patented synthetic drugs, 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 life-threatening 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 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:

Alaska
Arizona
California
Connecticut
Hawaii

Idaho
Kansas
Maine
Minnesota
Montana

New Hampshire
Oregon
Utah
Vermont
Washington

Washington, D.C.
Puerto Rico
Virgin Islands

None of the material on this website has been approved or disapproved by the FDA. If you think we may be violating any US law, please contact us right away, so that our legal team may investigate the concern. The Dietary Supplemental Health and Education Act of 1994 required the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to regulate dietary supplements as foods, rather than as drugs. Therefore, dietary supplements are not subject to safety and efficacy testing, and there are no approval requirements. Nevertheless, the FDA’s long history of suppression of information and free speech regarding the value of natural medicines stifles the advertising and promotion of natural medicines no matter how strongly their safety and efficacy contrast with pharmaceuticals. Therefore, we are censored and can’t talk about any substances used at our clinic on the website. Any substances or procedures or recommendations used by our doctors are within the context of the patient / doctor relationship, and are always determined on a case-by-case basis, with both parties present at our clinic.

Our work is done under the oversight of an Investigational Review Board of the American Naturopathic Research Institute / Naturopathic Oncology Research Institute (ANRI / NORI), in compliance with the requirements of the Code of Federal Regulations, specifically Title 45, Part 46, and Title 21, Part 312.7(a). The latter prohibits the promotion of specific substances that the FDA labels “investigational” or “experimental;” however, this law specifically does not restrict the full exchange of scientific information concerning any of the planet’s existing substances, which is why you will find a detailed research paper regarding the results of our treatments on our data page.

In order not to be persecuted by the FDA, we hereby do not claim that any of our treatments are safe and effective, and we do not claim that any specific substance or treatment will cure any disease. However, our clinic has a policy of “no side effects” from anything we do, which means if a side effect does occur, we try to eliminate it immediately; and our clinic has the best track record against cancer of any clinic we can find in the world that reports its results, whether conventional or natural. Please correct us if this statement is mistaken.

What happens to the patients?

In our private practice, which opened in 2006, we have treated over 243 patients for cancer, using thousands of treatments and have lost only twenty-three of the patients in our care to cancer in that time. Another 16 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. Some work; others are retired. Some 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 243 cancer patients treated until July 2012, only ten have had a recurrence of their cancer.

Profiles of some of our patients

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.

Case 1

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.

Case 2

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.

Case 3

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 three months of natural treatments, he is now in remission. He continues to ride his bicycle several miles a day and works at a strenuous job.

Case 4

This is one of the twenty-three 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.

Case 5

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.

Case 6

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.

Case 7

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.

Case 8

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.

Case 9

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.

Case 10

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.

Case 11

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.

Case 12

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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