Hi,

Both Betsy and the one who wrote me the letter are gone.

Both stayed on Chemo to the bitter end.

Betsy had a fairly remarkable recovery and was doing great
except that she
listened to her doctor and stayed with the chemo. I deleted the
doctor's
name.

Chemo will kill if one just stays with it. That is based on
observation.

Cliff
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Hi,

This originally came from a friend of mine.
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Betsy is a friend of ours, in her 70s I suppose. She has
multiple myeloma,
a
very deadly kind of bone cancer, and is being treated by the
same
oncologist I go to.

We saw Betsy a couple weeks ago. She's bright eyed and bushy
tailed...her
old self. She mentioned that Dr.----- had recently told her she
was his
"miracle patient".

This spring I had heard about Betsy's situation. It was greatly
different
from what it is today. She was extremely sick and unable to eat.
She could
only lie in bed and was just wasting away. Her husband, Don,
thought she
was
dying. He may have been right. It had taken a long time for her
doctors to
diagnose an obviously deteriorating health condition as multiple
myeloma,
so
that it was quite an advanced case before she was referred to
Dr.-------,
as I understand it. I believe she had recently been started on
chemotherapy
by Dr.-------- a little before I learned what was happening. But
no matter
how
good
his treatment might have been, if she couldn't eat she wasn't
going to get
better.

I went down to --------- and bought a pint of Barlean's lignan
rich
flaxseed
oil, some low-fat cottage cheese, a pineapple and some honey,
and took it
over to Don.

Don made Betsy a smoothie, using some of the pineapple to cover
the taste
of
the oil. A little later I learned that Betsy had called the
smoothie
"delicious food". She could eat it! Later still, I heard that
Betsy likes
tuna fish in her flaxseed oil and cottage cheese smoothies,
instead of the
pineapple. You can use anything in the smoothies to make them
taste good to
you. In the meantime, Don had ordered some of the oil direct
from
Barlean's.
If you're a cancer patient it's sold to you at wholesale and
costs about
half as much as at-------------or other health food stores, even
with the
shipping cost.

It wasn't too much longer before Betsy was able to get up and be
in a
wheelchair. Soon she was able to stand and get around a little
with a
walker. A month or so ago she went in some cancer event that
involved a
3-mile walk. She had intended only to do the first mile but
ended up doing
the whole thing! She was back.

Betsy is an avid gardener and has one of the city plots. She had
been able
to get the garden planted somehow, with help from Don, and it
has been
delivering great quantities of produce all summer. Every now and
then Don
brings some by for us. He thinks I saved Betsy's life.

Is Betsy's amazing response to the treatment of this devasting
kind of bone
cancer because of the combined benefits of the flaxseed oil and
chemotherapy?

My friend----------

There is controversy here. I see this as an example of the fact
that
flaxseed oil will be of real benefit even though chemo is being
used. I
personally do not know of many , if any,situations where the
continuous use
of chemo has resulted in real recovery.

Chemo does kill cancer cells, maybe 9d5 to 98% of them, but does
not kill
all of them. The patient is now in remission but the resistant
cells
continue to survive and increase. As the "treatment" is
continued, the
cancer cells are not affected, but the good cells of the body
and the
immune
system, heart, liver, etc. are contuing to be destroyed.

When the patient is aware that the cancer has "returned" a new
chemo must
be
tried because the old one is no longer effective. The cycle is
again
followed and the patient is again in "remission". The word
"remission" is
used because there is no expectation of a cure.

With each new cycle of chemo the patient is increasingly weaker
and less
able to fight the invader and death will occur.

The flaxseed oil, with the Omega 3, may be a major help but
cannot do the
whole job against the destruction of the chemo.

I do not know the complete details, but I understand that the
chemo was
continued and eventually won and Betsy passed away.

Cliff