non small-cell lung cancer: alternatives

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Dear Leonard, , Cliff and other list members:

Here I am continuing with my research for the best

treatment for mom, and also starting to supporting her

spiritual and psychological side, because I see her

very depressed, stressed, angry, and faithless. It's

hard trying to push her out of those feelings, I just

pray God help me and help her in accurately addressing

her strength, courage and will to live.

By the way, just to remember, my mom is beginning her

60s, has nonsmall cell lung cancer, adenocarcinoma,

bronchogenyc, with mediastinal metastasis, she has

already received chemo for about a year and then a

radiotherapy cycle. She also has ostheoporosis. And we

keep searching in order to make the right decision this

week (, maybe you could help us if you could

recommend contact any clinic or doctor that has had

some success with my mom's type of cancer)

While we take our final decision about the place to

take her, we want to begin giving her some natural

supplements for her, so I wanted to ask for your

opinion about them (especially considering the fact

that my mom has " special " tastes, so for this moment we

want her to take things that are not difficult for her

to accept and take daily):

- Graviola (which brand, and which way--pills?,

frequency)

- Essiac tea (which brand, which way (pills, tea, etc)

and if it has good taste for her; frequency)

- Flaxseed oil (which brand, and tell me how is its

taste, and the way to prepare it, best distributors,

and also if it's better with which cottage cheese--it

would be as a mix, as what?; frequency)

- Pineaple and papaya juice; I know here at home it's

made, but we don't have a juice maker only a blender,

so maybe we should use it a the lowest speed; also the

skin has to be blended?; frequency

- Cat's claw (which brand, or in which way: pills,

herb,etc, what frequency)

I have also heard a lot about beta glucan, cq10 and

spirulina: what are they? how are they provided? how

could I get them and make my mother take them?

ALso, do they have side effects? My mom is still taking

pills for her pain, and process, so we are thinkin of

natural supplements that won't hurt her.

Maybe other herbs that could be suitable for her.

As always, thanks a lot for your information.

God bless you all,

carlos Izaguirre

Mensaje citado por: leonardleonard1@...:

> As a book indexer, I just had the honor of writing

the index for Phyllis

> Balch's forthcoming _Prescription for Herbal

Healing_. Although I have my

> criticisms of the book, it has TONS of info on herbs

and herbal formulas

> (amongst other things) that help heal particular

types of cancer, including

>

> much that I've never read elsewhere.

>

> Since a couple people have asked about treatments for

small-cell lung

> cancer

> (SCLC), I thought I'd mention that Balch reports that

the combination of

> astragalus and panax (Chinese/Asian) ginseng and

chemo is dramatically more

>

> effective than chemo alone. And it sounds like

ginseng itself is effective

> w/SCLC, even chemotherapy-resistant SCLC.

>

> Leonard

>

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