Category: cancer stories

  • My patient with breast cancer just informed me that all the doctors have given her the diagnosis of stage 4 cancer as if it was the death sentence. She felt sad and seems to believe what they are saying. I replied: ” those who are happy that they are alive are more likely to live…

  • Almost all my patients who have passed away seem to succumb sooner or later to bone metastasis. This is the most painfull of all the pain there is today, and to avoid having bone metastasis is my number one priority.Once symptomatic bone metastasis sets in, everything else is unimportant. Only pain is the concern of…

  • When patients go from bad to worse, you become more paranoid and doubtful about your abilities as a healer. Mind you, as a healer not as a doctor. A doctor prescribes medicine and hopes that it will work and if not then lets try another. A healer in my definition is someone who alleviates and…

  • Its sometimes so hard and disconcerting to discover and realize that one’s work and patients’ achievement can be suddenly wiped out in a matter of minutes. This is exactly just what happened to my patient with breast cancer. After nursing her back to health, physically, mentally and emotionally; her sister-in-law who is also an MD…

  • Yesterday, I just had a chat with a patient of mine who had stage 4 liver cancer. Like all the other conversations I had, it was just about what they were doing and what do they plan to do in the near future. I always ask this question, especially to  very ill patients, in order…

  • I recently had a Breast Cancer patient with an already oozing lesion on the nipple area. She was advised to have chemotherapy prior to surgery. She refused to do the chemo, feeling that it will hasten her poor health. Instead, she opted to have all those Vit C, B17 injections. Lost and unable to express…