Hope 2001
In October 2001, after some prostate problems and five biopsies, I was clinically diagnosed with just about the smallest amount of prostate cancer possible. Out of many small cores extracted via an electric needle, only one showed any cancer, and less than half a millimeter at that. My urologist sent me home with some literature and told me to make a decision on immediate treatment--a radical prostatectomy, beam radiation, seed radiation, hormone therapy, cryotherapy or, the least of which he seemed to value, watchful waiting. I read the literature thoroughly and returned to his office, thinking that seed radiation--one of the least invasive techniques--might be the one for me.
"I told you to read that material!" he trumpeted. "Surgery--that's the answer!"
"I did read it," I countered, "and it's very badly written. I don't care, for instance, what Jerry Lewis did. I'd like to know, rather, things like, Does diet have anything to to with this?"
"No, it doesn't. There's no cure."
"So why, according to this other page, do men in Asia have little prostate cancer?"
"Well, there could be three reasons--brown rice, green tea and soy."
I'd already decided to have a second opinion, but continued. "I'm interested in clinical trials." I was so because I'd read in Franz Metcalf's WHAT WOULD BUDDHA DO? that that's what Buddha would do--suffer, if need be, for the greater good of human--or here, mankind.
"Then get on the Net."
Several days later, at the Community Cancer Center, an arm of St. Joseph's Hospital here in Bellingham, I told my story.
"Go home and drink a glass of tomato-based vegetable juice every day," my new doctor answered. "Eat five servings of fruits and vegetables a day. If you're interested in clinical trials, try to get involved in one for PC-SPES (PC for Prostate Cancer, SPES being Latin for hope). Come back in three months--then we'll see if you're a candidate for seed radiation, even temporary radiation"--which my first urologist claimed is no longer done.
At the Community Cancer Center, you get not only a doctor, but a dietician, a psycho-social worker, and someone who tracks prostate cancer all over Whatcom county. I found out that I couldn't enroll in a clinical trial for PC-SPES without going to San Francisco, or buy it for less that $200 a month. But one of these Center people suggested that I contact a particular naturopathic college in Seattle, and perhaps they could put something similar together for me. We knew the formula, and the clinic did put it together, for $20 a month. I took it twice a day, and changed my diet according to all the material on prostate health that I could find in the Bellingham Library. Robert Arnot's book THE PROSTATE CANCER PROTECTION PLAN: THE POWERFUL FOODS, SUPPLEMENTS AND DRUGS THAT COULD SAVE YOUR LIFE(2000)was the most recent.
Four months later, when I returned to the Center, I was a good 10 pounds lighter (down from 186 to 177) and my PSA(Prostate Specific Antigen)count, the normal fear factor, eventually went down by more than two points, from 10.7 to 8.4. I didn't even need seed radiation, just watchful waiting. Five years later, three years after I stopped taking the new formula, my PSA is down to 7.7.
Three years later I had another biopsy, because my prostate was enlarged, and we found no cancer at all.
The formula that I took was equal parts Reishi (a mushroom), Baikal Skullcap, Dyer's Woad, Mum, San-Qi Ginseng and a like amount of saw palmetto. The last ingredient, Rabdosia, we could not find so I didn't take it.
The foods that I gave up are coffee, eggs, potatoes, red meat, processed grains, all fats and all dairy products except mozarella cheese (from buffalos, it's almost fat free).
Besides brown rice, green tea (four cups a day) and soybeans (40 grams a day, as soymilk from flakes, miso, tofu, tempeh, nuts and/or soy ice cream), I added Navy, Pinto, kidney, and black beans (1 1/2 cups a day), All-Bran, grapefruit, cocoa, minestrone, freeze-dried soups (no ramen), lentils, whole wheat spaghetti, calamari, free range chicken and turkey, tomato sauce, olive oil, kohlrabi, asparagus, red cabbage, purple onions, collard greens, rutabegas, turnips, bok choy, kale, rye bread, Ry-Krisp,red wine, sherbet, fig bars, chocolate-chip/oatmeal cookies, almonds, cashews, chestnuts, hazel nuts, coconut, honey, mangoes and cranberries,sherbet and dark chocolate. I was already eating flatbread, lean beef, pork (ham), wild salmon, trout, halibut, tuna, shrimp and crab, garlic, spinach, red bellpeppers, cauliflower, squash, broccoli, sunflower seeds, Brussels spouts, parsley, mustard, corn and carrots, shitake and portobello mushrooms and brownies, cherries, apples, pears, bananas,strawberries, plums (prunes), oranges and canteloupe. The Italian, Greek, Chinese and Japanese diets being the best, with their whole, non-processed grains, according to Michael Milken--yes, that Michael Milken, the ex-con and longterm cancer-survivor--in his TASTE OF LIVING WORLD COOKBOOK, I could also have added canola oil, barley seedlings, buckwheat, tabouli, couscous, sorghum, artichokes, focaccia, bouillaisse, edamane, rapini, macademia and Brazil nuts and limes, for more good international prostate menus than there are days in the week. Being intersted in India, I aso use tumeric, cumin, cardamom (all three have anti-cancer properties), cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger and coriander. Organic produce is the best, so I use my Smart Commuter card (10% off any one organic item) each time I shop at Bellingham's Community Food Co-op, to keep myself from any further impurities and inflamation in my system. The more colorful the veggies, the more flavinoids, and therefore the more antioxidents they have in them. I take selenium and saw palmetto, and try to keep my Vitamin D, calcium (they cause stones)and glucose (diabetes)down, and my Vitamin E (libido) and soluble fiber up (for the digestive track). I try to keep my weight down, the theory being that since cancer cells feed off normal cells, they will starve to death before the normal cells are damaged. Try not finishing that little dab of food left on your plate. It helps.
I'm still watchful waiting. It's 2006.
"I told you to read that material!" he trumpeted. "Surgery--that's the answer!"
"I did read it," I countered, "and it's very badly written. I don't care, for instance, what Jerry Lewis did. I'd like to know, rather, things like, Does diet have anything to to with this?"
"No, it doesn't. There's no cure."
"So why, according to this other page, do men in Asia have little prostate cancer?"
"Well, there could be three reasons--brown rice, green tea and soy."
I'd already decided to have a second opinion, but continued. "I'm interested in clinical trials." I was so because I'd read in Franz Metcalf's WHAT WOULD BUDDHA DO? that that's what Buddha would do--suffer, if need be, for the greater good of human--or here, mankind.
"Then get on the Net."
Several days later, at the Community Cancer Center, an arm of St. Joseph's Hospital here in Bellingham, I told my story.
"Go home and drink a glass of tomato-based vegetable juice every day," my new doctor answered. "Eat five servings of fruits and vegetables a day. If you're interested in clinical trials, try to get involved in one for PC-SPES (PC for Prostate Cancer, SPES being Latin for hope). Come back in three months--then we'll see if you're a candidate for seed radiation, even temporary radiation"--which my first urologist claimed is no longer done.
At the Community Cancer Center, you get not only a doctor, but a dietician, a psycho-social worker, and someone who tracks prostate cancer all over Whatcom county. I found out that I couldn't enroll in a clinical trial for PC-SPES without going to San Francisco, or buy it for less that $200 a month. But one of these Center people suggested that I contact a particular naturopathic college in Seattle, and perhaps they could put something similar together for me. We knew the formula, and the clinic did put it together, for $20 a month. I took it twice a day, and changed my diet according to all the material on prostate health that I could find in the Bellingham Library. Robert Arnot's book THE PROSTATE CANCER PROTECTION PLAN: THE POWERFUL FOODS, SUPPLEMENTS AND DRUGS THAT COULD SAVE YOUR LIFE(2000)was the most recent.
Four months later, when I returned to the Center, I was a good 10 pounds lighter (down from 186 to 177) and my PSA(Prostate Specific Antigen)count, the normal fear factor, eventually went down by more than two points, from 10.7 to 8.4. I didn't even need seed radiation, just watchful waiting. Five years later, three years after I stopped taking the new formula, my PSA is down to 7.7.
Three years later I had another biopsy, because my prostate was enlarged, and we found no cancer at all.
The formula that I took was equal parts Reishi (a mushroom), Baikal Skullcap, Dyer's Woad, Mum, San-Qi Ginseng and a like amount of saw palmetto. The last ingredient, Rabdosia, we could not find so I didn't take it.
The foods that I gave up are coffee, eggs, potatoes, red meat, processed grains, all fats and all dairy products except mozarella cheese (from buffalos, it's almost fat free).
Besides brown rice, green tea (four cups a day) and soybeans (40 grams a day, as soymilk from flakes, miso, tofu, tempeh, nuts and/or soy ice cream), I added Navy, Pinto, kidney, and black beans (1 1/2 cups a day), All-Bran, grapefruit, cocoa, minestrone, freeze-dried soups (no ramen), lentils, whole wheat spaghetti, calamari, free range chicken and turkey, tomato sauce, olive oil, kohlrabi, asparagus, red cabbage, purple onions, collard greens, rutabegas, turnips, bok choy, kale, rye bread, Ry-Krisp,red wine, sherbet, fig bars, chocolate-chip/oatmeal cookies, almonds, cashews, chestnuts, hazel nuts, coconut, honey, mangoes and cranberries,sherbet and dark chocolate. I was already eating flatbread, lean beef, pork (ham), wild salmon, trout, halibut, tuna, shrimp and crab, garlic, spinach, red bellpeppers, cauliflower, squash, broccoli, sunflower seeds, Brussels spouts, parsley, mustard, corn and carrots, shitake and portobello mushrooms and brownies, cherries, apples, pears, bananas,strawberries, plums (prunes), oranges and canteloupe. The Italian, Greek, Chinese and Japanese diets being the best, with their whole, non-processed grains, according to Michael Milken--yes, that Michael Milken, the ex-con and longterm cancer-survivor--in his TASTE OF LIVING WORLD COOKBOOK, I could also have added canola oil, barley seedlings, buckwheat, tabouli, couscous, sorghum, artichokes, focaccia, bouillaisse, edamane, rapini, macademia and Brazil nuts and limes, for more good international prostate menus than there are days in the week. Being intersted in India, I aso use tumeric, cumin, cardamom (all three have anti-cancer properties), cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger and coriander. Organic produce is the best, so I use my Smart Commuter card (10% off any one organic item) each time I shop at Bellingham's Community Food Co-op, to keep myself from any further impurities and inflamation in my system. The more colorful the veggies, the more flavinoids, and therefore the more antioxidents they have in them. I take selenium and saw palmetto, and try to keep my Vitamin D, calcium (they cause stones)and glucose (diabetes)down, and my Vitamin E (libido) and soluble fiber up (for the digestive track). I try to keep my weight down, the theory being that since cancer cells feed off normal cells, they will starve to death before the normal cells are damaged. Try not finishing that little dab of food left on your plate. It helps.
I'm still watchful waiting. It's 2006.
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