Defeat Cancer (38 page)

The specific protocol that I develop for my patients depends upon a lot of factors, such as how many co-morbid conditions they suffer from, the stage of their cancer, and the type of tumors that they have, but it’s difficult to describe all of the considerations without writing an entire book. Basically, we look at all of the contributing factors to disease and base our treatments upon the individual patient’s needs. For example, we can’t use sonodynamic or photodynamic therapy on patients who have very advanced cancers, because their tumors have caused too much destruction in their bodies and they can’t cope with the treatment. Treatments for such people would need to be more palliative. Pro-enzymes, on the other hand, work extremely well for any patient at any stage of disease. If we could find the raw materials to make those again we could use them at our clinic, but for now we have to wait for Propanc-PTY to manufacture them.

Our initial intensive treatment course lasts two to five weeks, three days per week, depending upon the types of tumors that patients have. Following their initial treatment regimen, they generally come back to our clinic once every several months, for at least five years, to receive maintenance treatments. During this time, we also do relevant blood tests and measure their organ and other functions through the equipment that I previously described. We decide what their ongoing prescription will be, based on the results that we get from these tests.

The maintenance program that we recommend includes strategies that support Th-1 cell-mediated immunity, such as: beta glucans, high doses of Vitamin D, and a range of nutritional supplements such as quercetin. We might also use oral TCM supplements which support organ function. These include collections of herbal and nutritional preparations, and sometimes, bovine organ extracts. We use a wide range of remedies, mostly herbs, to treat all of the organs.
While certain vitamins and minerals can be helpful, most people don’t seem to realize that when you give the body a bunch of vitamins and minerals, the cancer uses those, too, just like the rest of the body. Patients can take them, but they will have no significant negative effects upon their tumors.

Ninety-five percent of our patients come to us after they have had chemotherapy and radiotherapy (radiation), and are at the end stages of disease. We are able to bring some of them into remission, and have many testimonials of people who have been alive for ten years since being given a terminal diagnosis. These testimonials can be found on our website, in the paper that we published on sonodynamic and photodynamic therapy. Most of our patients follow up with us after they complete their treatments. We have been able to keep track of about 80 percent of our patients, for years down the road.

I have been using sonodynamic therapy for five years, which is longer than any other practitioner, anywhere else in the world, because we developed it. Since using this therapy on our patients, our treatment outcomes have literally increased by 50 percent; we have had massively improved results, even with sarcomas. Truly, the results have been extraordinary.

That said, while conventional medicine can offer statistics on its success with different types of treatments, including chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery, we don’t have statistics on the results of treatments for our early stage cancer patients. We haven’t been able to complete the same level of research.

Some people insist on doing our treatments before trying conventional medicine, and we accept these patients on an informed consent basis. In the end, some do well and some don’t. There are no guarantees with cancer. No one treatment works 100 percent of the time.

My lifestyle recommendations for healing vary from patient to patient. In general, it’s important for people with cancer to reduce their daily stress levels, whether the stress that they suffer from is emotional, job, or relationship related. One basic intervention that we recommend for dealing with stress is Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT).

Mindfulness is the Buddhist concept of allowing yourself to be completely aware of the present moment while treating yourself and your surroundings in a gentle and compassionate way. More than just a nice idea, the practice of mindfulness can bring about opportunities for happiness and re-engaging with life, ourselves, and the people around us.

MBCT combines mindfulness and the practice of meditation with the principles of cognitive behavioral therapy, which provides the skills for applying the art of mindfulness to everyday life. The course at our clinic involves a two-hour weekly class over an eight week period, and also provides patients with the opportunity to practice mindfulness meditation at home with the help of guided CDs.

In MBCT, patients focus on the present moment, instead of on the past and what might have been, or on the future and on what might be. Focusing on the past or the future wastes energy; it’s important that people learn how to focus on the here and now. So we do a lot of MBCT in our practice, which is usually very effective for our patients. Our research has taught us that the psychotherapeutic approach, which involves patients talking to a counselor about mothers, fathers, and deep instincts, is mostly a waste of time.

Our treatments aren’t funded by insurance or any national health service, so when patients can’t pay for them, this can be a block to their healing. Also, if patients have some strange fixed idea about
our treatments and think that only conventional medicine can cure them, then our treatments won’t help. They are wasting their time and money. If they believe that “getting blasted” with chemotherapy is going to help them, then they should be doing that instead.

If people can’t afford treatments at a clinic, doing treatments at home to stimulate immune function can be helpful. The most important thing that they can do is take a high-dose beta-glucan product such as Wellmune, along with other beta-glucans, at three times the regular dose. People with cancer should take beta-glucans for life, even if that means for 30 or 40 years. I also recommend high doses of fatty acids that are high in EPA, because these are anti-inflammatory, and cancer is stimulated by inflammation. Any chronic inflammatory problem in the body can eventually lead to cancer. In fact, inflammation in any part of the body is the main, or primary, condition that leads to cancer.

Patients who treat themselves at home should realize, though, that treating cancer requires a complex, multi-faceted approach. The problem with conventional oncologists is that they are too single-minded in their approach to treatment, and that doesn’t work for a complex illness like cancer.

Family and friends should do MCBT, along with their loved ones who have cancer. Also, they should try to get them to accept where they are in their healing journey. For instance, a quarter of our patients are dying, and those who accept death have a much better quality of life than those who refuse to accept where they are at. Even though we have some ten-year survivors of metastatic disease, these diseases are technically incurable. So we might say to such patients, “Look, we can’t cure you, but we might be able to do this and that (to extend your life and reduce your symptoms). If you can accept where you are at, you will do much better.” And being able to
adopt such an attitude basically reflects a mindfulness approach to living.

I hope that what has been written here about our treatments opens the minds of people who are suffering from metastatic cancers, and incites them to consider other approaches, particularly those involving immunotherapy.

Medical Director, The Dove Clinic for Integrated Medicine

Winchester & London, United Kingdom

www.doveclinic.com

To learn more about sono- and photodynamic therapy, visit:

www.spdt.org.uk
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Information on our other treatments can be found on our website:

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Dr. Kotsanis is Board Certified in Otolaryngology (Head and Neck Surgery). He completed his residency at Loyola University of Chicago in 1983. He is a member of the American Academy of Otolaryngic Allergy. He is licensed to practice medicine in Texas, Illinois, and North Carolina, and is licensed by the Arizona State Board of Homeopathic Medicine.

Additionally, Dr. Kotsanis is a certified clinical nutritionist and is also certified in Auditory Enhancement Therapy and IPTLD (Insulin Potentiation Targeted Low-Dose Chemotherapy, which is also referred to as IPT). He’s a certified instructor of IPTLD and has been teaching physicians about IPTLD/IPT for cancer treatment since 2002. Additionally, he serves as Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School and is a founding member of Defeat Autism Now! (DAN).

Dr. Kotsanis has been treating cancer since 2001 and has been in practice since 1983. His specialties include integrative cancer
therapy, allergies, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, autism spectrum disorder, anti-aging medicine, nutrition, and stem cell therapy research. He treats patients based on their individual physical, metabolic, and biochemical makeup.

He’s an avid researcher, and educates physicians and patients alike on different treatments for cancer and other diseases. His mission is to change the way healthcare is delivered to the world, one person at a time. About 30 percent of his patients are cancer patients. He treats the most difficult cases of chronic disease, including late-stage cancers. His practice consists of people who have failed traditional oncology treatments, people who cannot tolerate traditional approaches to medicine, and those who refuse to do traditional (conventional) therapies.

Cancer results from changes in the body’s epigenetic expression, which gets altered because of the environment we live in today (Epigenetics is the study of changes in gene expression which are caused by mechanisms other than changes in the underlying DNA sequence). If I had to pick a name for cancer it would be called the “Post-Industrial Revolution Civilization Disease.” Our genes don’t change that much, but the expression of our DNA can, as a result of the environment we live in. Arthur Kornberg, a biochemist who won a Nobel Prize in 1959 in Medicine (together with Dr. Severo Ochoa of New York University) for his discovery of the mechanisms involved in the biological synthesis of DNA (ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid), demonstrated how such changes in DNA expression can cause cancer. Physical, spiritual, and emotional stressors alter DNA and cause cancer, so we address all of these in our patients.

Poor nutrition is one important environmental factor which causes epigenetic changes in the body. As an advanced western society, our nutrition has gone downhill because of industrialization and commerce. We also eat too much food, which equates to too many pounds on our bodies. Additionally, we have too many chemicals,
pesticides, hormones, and antibiotics in our food supply. Eating isn’t a nutritional experience; it’s a social event, which means that we don’t eat foods that are good for us. Yet to stay healthy, we need to be mindful of what we eat, and the amount of calories that we consume. Studies have shown that the fewer calories people eat, the longer they live and the less disease they have. So eating toxic food, and lots of it, contributes to cancer development.

Emotional trauma is another major contributing factor to cancer development. The number one cause of emotional trauma is other people, especially people that we know, such as family, friends and co-workers who push us over the edge!

Finally, and most importantly, epigenetic changes result when the immune system malfunctions or breaks down. As the immune system breaks down, opportunistic infections set in and a never-ending vicious cycle of infection and toxicity gets initiated. So while cancer has hundreds of causes and contributing factors, if I could narrow it down to one thing, I would say that it happens because the immune system has been poisoned by bad food, emotional trauma, toxins, and infections.

In human physiology, basic systems need to be intact in order for a person to be healthy, and one of these is the gut. Whatever goes on in the gut affects the brain and the immune system. Seventy percent of the immune system is physically housed in the gut. There are one hundred trillion microflora here, and each has its own specific function. There is beneficial flora (bacteria), which are the “good guys” which digest foods and produce vitamins. These “good guys” also support the immune system and direct its activities. Then there is flora that I like to call the “recycler” bacteria, which are there to “take out the garbage.” As an analogy, suppose that in a city of 100,000, there are five or ten garbage men. That would be a good thing. But what if 95,000 of those citizens were garbage men? It would mean that something was wrong with that city, right? So when 95 percent of the gut flora is comprised of garbage men, they are no longer garbage men, but pathogens. That’s what pathogenic
flora is. The pathogens then become the drivers of the immune system and they take it straight into the ditch.

As another analogy, think of the immune system as an 18-wheeler carrying fruits and vegetables, and the driver of the 18-wheeler as the healthy flora. The good guys take the 18-wheeler to the mitochondria to create good energy, which is needed by the body. But in order for that energy to be good and arrive at the right place, the back of the truck has to be filled with healthy, organic food, and the driver must be a good guy (healthy flora). In this example, the back of the truck is filled up with the foods that people consume as a part of their diets. If the truck is filled with undesirable food, this promotes pathogenic growth. These pathogens then become the drivers that take this trash into the mitochondria. Since the mitochondria are always looking for quick energy, they will accept this junk for energy, but it’s like putting kerosene into a car!