Hi Alice77 I have advanced prostate cancer the only treatment I use is holistic alterative treatment My self and others have found that this form of treatment has worked out quite well. for me my PSA is all most half of what it was, Now I would not ever tell a patient to go against how the doctors want to treat there cancer, that up to you, but I would like to give you some more opportunity, to look at but I know with cancer of the lymph nodes chemo may be the only way if not you can still fall back on to the alteratives. I had a friend in our cancer support group. say that The alternative drugs. along with traditional treatment. helped her. Two main thing about cancer you need to know first any cancer can be slowed down just by having high dose of anti oxidants and the best one of these is vitamin C and secondly cancer love to eat glucose it gets this from simple sugars and carbohydrates I can say if any one who has cancer gos on vitamin and mineral suplements, no sugary food or drink, and a low carb diet it realy dos help with the fight with cancer wheater there have chemo or not when you get the chance have a look at these links and then you will be better able to make the bwst choce that will help you mother
http://www.nzma.org.nz/journal/115-1159/123/
http://www.cancertutor.com/Cancer/Budwig.html
http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v04n19.shtml
http://www.mnwelldir.org/docs/nutrition/sugar.htm
http://hubpages.com/hub/asparaguscurescancer
http://www.gemm-therapy.com/eng/default.php
Cancerous cells are always being created in the body. It's an ongoing process that has gone on for eons. So parts of your immune system are designed to seek out and destroy cancer cells.
Cancer has been around as long as mankind, but only in the second half of the 20th century did the number of cancer cases explode. Contributing to this explosion are the excessive amounts of toxins and pollutants we are exposed to, high stress lifestyles that zap the immune system, poor quality junk food that's full of pesticides, irradiated and now genetically modified, pathogens, electromagnetic stress, lights, and just about everything that wasn't here 200 years ago.
All these weaken the immune system, and alter the internal environment in the body to an environment that promotes the growth of cancer.
Cancer is not a mysterious disease that suddenly attacks you out of the blue, something that you can't do anything about. It has definite causes that you can correct if your body has enough time, and if you take action to change the internal environment to one that creates health, not cancer, while at the same time attacking cancerous cells and tumors by exploiting their weaknesses.
Cancer tumors begin when more cancerous cells are being created than an overworked, depleted immune system can destroy.
Constant exposure to tens of thousands of manmade chemicals from birth onward, chlorinated and fluoridated water, electromagnetic radiation, pesticides and other toxins, leads to the creation of too many free radicals and excessive numbers of cancerous cells.
Alone this would be enough to raise cancer levels, but combined with an immune system weakened by a diet of refined and over processed food, mineral depleted soils, and too much exposure to artificial light at night, the immune system at some point no longer is able to keep cancer in check, and it starts to grow in your body
.http://www.cancer-prevention.net/