Cancer Treatment - Cure Cancer

Cancer Treatment Methods - My Cancer Cure Story 2

I’m writing this part of my cancer history on day 19 of my fast and grape food diet (first 6 days fasting on water only and from then the grape diet from Johanna Brandt). As you’ve realised, I’m still alive and kicking

See My Cancer Treatment Journey Photos HERE

About 2 yrs back, I realised that a scab like appearance on my cheek was somewhat unusual and probably skin cancer. If I rubbed it with a facecloth, it would take the thin layer off and remain raw for a few days.

Being the typical male, I didn’t say anything, but friends and family started noticing the slowly spreading, lumpy growth and eventually persuaded me to go and see a skin specialist, Dr Marx, which I did in September 2006.

He took one look at it and chopped it out with a laser. Bad move. What he thought was basal cell carcinoma (the lightest variation of skin cancer) turned out to be melanoma, the most serious form of skin cancer.

Melanoma, if recognised and treated early, is considered to be almost 100% curable. But if it is not recognised early enough, the cancer can advance and spread to other parts of the body. It then becomes hard to treat and can be fatal.

EXCERPTS FROM THE PATH LAB REPORT FROM ‘PATHCARE’

Drs Hofmeyr, Kasongo & Partners
Drs. Dietrich Voigt Mia Inc.
28/09/2006

ADDENDUM #2. - Entered: 05/10/06 – 1106

Received: 1 block, 4 stained slides.

Microscopy of the referred sections show curetted fragments of skin. The epidermis shows pseudo-epitheliomatous hyperplasia and is admixed with lobules of malignant melanoma. Fragments of epidermis show junctional atypical melanocytes with pagetoid invasion of the epidermis by large atypical melanocytes.

Immunochemical staining show strong positive staining for S100 and Melan-A in the tumour cells. No normal surrounding dermis is present for assessment.

The features are those of a malignant melanoma in the vertical growth phase in view of the presence of mitotic activity in the dermal lobules. The Clark level and Breslow thickness cannot be estimated with any accuracy as these fragments have been randomly orientated.

DIAGNOSIS: - Curetting, right cheek - MALIGNANT MELANOMA
VERTICAL GROWTH PHASE

And from the 2nd page:

‘… ulcerated malignant melanoma tumour, the cells of which appear carcinomatous and exhibit squamous differentiation.”

IN LAYMAN’S TERMS

Skin cancer of the severe kind!

The moment Dr Marx received the pathologist’s lab report, he phoned me and recommended that I see a plastic surgeon. The plastic surgeon, Dr Konrad Hoekstra, promptly excised around the area which the skin specialist had lasered out.

This excision was sent off, to another path lab this time, but unfortunately wasn’t conclusive as to whether the cancer still remained as the area tested had already been obliterated with the laser.

His thought was to simply wait and see and if it cropped up again, we’d know it was cancer.

About 6 months later, while adjusting my position during a shoulderstand in a yoga class, I felt a flicking sensation across the side of my neck, as if a tendon was flicking past a bone. The more I adjusted, the more I felt it, and then it seemed to flick ‘out’- for want of a better word – and caused a small lump on the side of my neck.

At first I imagined that it was simply a gland of some sort that had shifted slightly and would soon go back into place. It didn’t.

It grew, slowly at first, and then somewhat quicker until it resembled a golf ball out the side of my neck. Again, being male, I did nothing until finally persuaded to see a plastic surgeon again. This time, a different one as I felt that it was probably going to be cut out and would need a little more than a simple excision.

As I don’t have medical aid, I was extremely lucky to be persuaded by one of my yoga students to see Dr Solomons in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, as he would be able to put me through the public health system. (This was about July 2007)

He took one look at it on a Friday afternoon, had no doubt that this was not mickey mouse type cancer, and had me under general anaesthetic at the Provincial Hospital by Monday morning, where he cut it out, and for good measure, removed more from my cheek, where the skin cancer seemed to have returned.

I came to instructing the nurse who was shaking me to “chill” and telling Michelle, a doctor friend who came to see if I was alright, to “Remember the golden rule. He who has the gold, makes the rules.”

I remained in a ward for an hour or so after the op and then went home, plastered up, cheek and neck.

More to follow in my next post.

Cancer Treatment Methods - My Cancer Cure Story 2

Technorati Tags: cancer, skin cancer, cancer cure, cancer treatment, melanoma, malignant melanoma, carcinoma, tumour

Like this post? Subscribe to my RSS feed!