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A friend of mine (she is a microbiologist, let's call her Lucy) was diagnosed with Uterine cancer. Oncologist told her they have to remove her womb, otherwise s
by andreygrehov 10y ago
A friend of mine (she is a microbiologist, let's call her Lucy) was diagnosed with Uterine cancer. Oncologist told her they have to remove her womb, otherwise she'll die in a couple weeks. She decided to avoid "traditional treatment". Instead, she shared her issue with various professors from the university she is working at. One of the professors (another friend of mine) advised her to go to the Republic of Peru. He gave her contacts of his friend who's already been there and suggested to talk to him first. Lucy got in touch with this guy, he convinced her to go and in a week or so she was already in Peru.
In Peru, Lucy met some sort of a shaman. He wrote down her a list of things she must eat and things to avoid. This list also contained some herb, that she had to eat during the 2-3 months she was there.
After a few months, she got back home. 6 months after - no cancer. Year after this all happened she was dancing at my sister's wedding, healthy and happy.
Now as for the Peru guy and the friend of my friend who been there :) He had a brother. They both got cancer. One of the brothers decided to go with traditional treatment (radiation and all that). The other one went to Peru.
Long story short: the one who picked traditional methods died many years ago. The other one (who convinced Lucy to go) - completely recovered.
As far as I know, overall treatment was less than $5,000. If I'm not wrong, this was including rent + air flight.
I must add, that Lucy lost 45 pounds within a year. During my sister's wedding, she was only eating some oceanic fish and rice.
Edit:
This is just a short story from people I know in person. All of them are scientists working at university, doing researches on molecular genetics & microbiology.
I'm not even sure the guy in Peru was a shaman. That's just how I called him here. I just don't believe he was a real doctor. The gist of the whole treatment was fasting, not a herb.
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- ryanwaggoner 10y agoThis is a scam, pure and simple. People die from this shit needlessly all the time. Doesn't uterine cancer have a very high survival rate with proper treatment? But no, this "microbiologist" treks off to the Peruvian jungle to spend a measly $5k for a magical herb that cures cancer! Doctors hate this one weird trick! If you or someone you know has cancer, go see an oncologist, not a freaking shaman.
- andreygrehov 10y ago> Oncologist told her they have to remove her womb, otherwise she'll die in a couple weeks.
- ryanwaggoner 10y agoSorry, I've heard all this before. My family is packed with people who "know someone" who amazed all the doctors by curing their cancers with weird diets, herbs, and prayers. I don't buy any of it. Unless you have some data, it's basically worthless noise.
- galuggus 10y agoOne of the worst things about cancer is hearing stories like this all the time. It's really unhelpful and very draining to have your body undergo hell and your mind besieged by well=intentioned idiots telling you to expel toxins/ pray the cancer away/ stop eating this.
- andreygrehov 10y agoAgree. Maybe this is all a coincidence they both survived and the other guy passed away. Have no idea. Shared what I know. Nothing less, nothing more.
- ryanwaggoner 10y agoYou don't really know anything of value about this though. Are you an oncologist? Did you see her scans and test results? Have you been to her follow ups? Talked with her doctors? Do you even know the name of this magical herb that cures cancer but has somehow eluded the attention of thousands of researchers desperate to save hundreds of millions of suffering people, including their own loved ones?
- andreygrehov 10y agoRyan, there is no magical herb. The gist of treatment was fasting. I have no idea what kind of diet it was. Do you want to know more? I can ask her details and the other guy who survived by sticking to the same diet.
- ryanwaggoner 10y agoI want to know whether they're dedicating their lives to winning a Nobel prize and saving billions of lives with this magical cure. If not, why not? They had fatal cancers cured in just a few months with no treatment, and then just went back to work and forgot about it? Also, if the essence is fasting, why did they need to go see a shaman in Peru?
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- ryanwaggoner 10y agoDoesn't it strike you as incredibly shady or selfish that these scientists who had their cancer cured haven't bothered to tell the world about it? Or if they're currently researching it to help others not die from cancers that can be easily cured, please point us to their work.
- tremon 10y agoDoesn't it strike you as incredibly shady or selfish that these scientists who had their cancer cured haven't bothered to tell the world about it? It doesn't, actually. Getting diagnosed with cancer and then surviving it is still a terrible ordeal. Publishing their single story would do nothing to change the course of medical science, but it would open them up to abuse from skeptics all over the world. I'm sure that even if I survived cancer (through whatever means), I would still not have the courage to allow myself to be flagellated by a horde of entitled zealots.