Dear All,
I'm pleased that my post about Alternative/Complimentary treatment centers have generated so much interest. I have no doubt, after speaking to long term cancer survivors (all have done some sort of natural, alternative treatments if the cancer couldn't be stopped with surgery) that the answer is somewhere outside the "standard therapy" mode. The problem is that no one seems to know exactly which "snake oil" they tried was the one that did the trick. The Mexican clinics I have researched evidently throw everything at you because, like us, they are not exactly sure what treatment or combination of treatments actually work. Maybe that is why no good statistical information about these treatments is out there. I also think that when the patients leave these clinics after their initial stay, there is no way to monitor their self treatment when they are at home. This is why I'm looking for people in this forum that have gone outside the U.S. for treatment. I would like to know where they went and how involved the at home regime was, and hopefully hear about more successes. The people I talked to that are listed in www.cancercontrolsociety.com have survived for so long (14-20 years with lung cancer) they can barely remember their treatments and what they did at home. Since I can't remember what I did last week, much less 20 years ago, I can understand.
Thank you all for your input and thoughtful answers!
Patti