By Dr. Stefan Kuprowsky
Protocol for Complementary Cancer Therapy
In previous Vista articles I have discussed the philosophical and scientific approaches I use as a physician to treat cancer. Here I discuss in more detail how it is done.
The main point that I made previously is that neither conventional nor alternative medicine has a “cure” for cancer. Until breakthroughs are made in the field of cancer therapies, cancer is best treated as a chronic illness using both conventional and alternative approaches. In fact, for many cancers, the best approach is to use combination therapy, utilizing the best of both conventional and alternative medicine.
In my experience, I obtain even better results utilizing a combination of many therapeutic approaches to cancer therapy. As I have continually strived to improve my approach to alternative cancer therapy over the last 20 years I have discovered what I feel works and doesn’t work for patients. I will outline the main components.
The first and probably the most important part of the protocol is an alkaline diet for cancer patients. After studying various diets recommended for cancer, I came to the conclusion that the common element is emphasis on alkaline foods. Alkaline foods are whole, fresh foods like vegetables and fruits that produce an alkaline reaction in the body instead of the more usual acidic reaction. It is well known that cancer and other chronic diseases thrive in an acidic environment. Various cancer diets like the vegetarian diet, the macrobiotic diet, the Gerson diet, the Breuss diet and the Budwig diet all emphasize alkaline foods like fresh juices, green foods, fresh vegetables and fruits. In an alkaline diet, you choose which items you like from a list of numerous foods, and you are able to include some light meat like wild fish and free-range chicken and dairy products like yogurt and fresh curd cheeses. You should avoid all acidic foods like red meats, white sugar and flour, fast foods, convenience foods, coffee, alcohol and all junk foods as much as possible. Using the alkaline diet as a basis for a long-term diet plan helps to turn the internal acidic body chemistry, which promotes cancer, into a healthy cancer-fighting alkaline environment. My advice is to drink as many fresh juices as possible including carrot, celery, parsley, broccoli, cabbage and beet.
The second feature of my protocol is to drink only purified or spring water. Avoid chlorinated and fluoridated municipal waters absolutely since these disinfectants are themselves cancer causing. Most people are chronically dehydrated and do not drink enough pure water to feed and cleanse their internal cells. Cancer patients, who are going through intensive detoxification, need to drink enough pure water to flush out toxins. If you use distilled water, make sure to add back minerals to the water. Use distilled water only for short periods of time during a detoxification program. With long-term use, distilled water will pull out too many minerals from the body. It is energetically dead and cannot carry important electro-magnetic charges that make water a living, life-giving substance. One good method of purifying and making water more alkaline is use an over-the-counter device that makes “micro water.”
Detoxification is an important part of my protocol. The methods I use are colon hydrotherapy, infrared sauna and homeopathic and herbal drainage remedies. Colon hydrotherapy is the use of water to gently flush out the colon. Many people carry between 5 and 15 pounds of impacted stool in their colon. Having a series of colonics makes a dramatic difference in decreasing the toxic load in the body. Implants can be added after the colonic to increase the benefits such as wheat grass juice, chlorophyll, acidophilus and coffee. Dr. Max Gerson was a strong advocate of the coffee enema for cancer patients as a method of detoxification of the liver and colon.
The infrared sauna is an important method of detoxification and cancer therapy. It is a special sauna using heating elements that only heat the person inside the sauna, not the air. This allows the person to spend much more time inside the infrared sauna compared to a conventional sauna. Using this sauna on a daily basis approximates a specialized therapy used in Europe called hyperthermia therapy. Hyperthermia therapy raises the core body temperature high enough to kill cancer cells without hurting the normal and healthy body cells. As a method of detoxification, the infrared sauna assists to eliminate toxins from the lymphatic system into the sweat and to relieve some of the stress that is normally placed on the liver and kidneys during detoxification.
Homeopathic and herbal detoxification uses drainage remedies to help the body get rid of toxic residues through excretion organs like the liver, kidneys and lymphatic system. Most if not all cancer patients have added stress on their liver and kidneys and have a very congested and sluggish lymphatic system. This is especially important if they are going through chemotherapy or any therapy that attacks the cancer tumour.
Supplements and natural anti-cancer substances are also important. I do not give masses of vitamins and minerals, but instead put cancer patients on a well balanced multiple vitamin/mineral supplement that is especially formulated for them.
Phytonutients are also part of my cancer programme. The most vital one is called IP-6. This is short for instill hex phosphoric acid. IP-6 is found in humans, animals and plants. It is often called phytate and is most abundant in insoluble fibre like rice bran, where it is extracted for use as a supplement. It has many important effects in both the prevention and treatment of cancer. IP-6 is a potent antioxidant, increasing Natural Killer cells, which are involved in the immune defense against cancer. IP-6 helps to normalize the rate of cell division, which cancer cells have lost, and encourages cancer cells to die. IP-6 both prevents and fights active cancer. All cancer patients should take it.
Other important phytonutrients I use are green tea extract, grape seed extract, quercitan and mushroom extracts like reishi, coriolus and griffola. These are strong antioxidants that have a powerful anti-cancer and immune–boosting effects.
Another important alternative approach that has received considerable scientific study and confirmation of effectiveness is the use of frozen liquid shark cartilage extract (LCE). This is an inhibitor of the development of new blood vessels in tumours. To grow, a cancerous tumour must constantly create new blood vessels to bring in oxygen and nutrients. Shark cartilage is a potent inhibitor of this process and is effective in slowing down tumour growth while working with other therapies to kill off cancer cells. In one study, terminal patients with kidney cancer doubled their expected life span of 12 months using only LCE as a treatment (since no other treatment options were available to these patients).
When patients are on chemotherapy I use a combined herbal and shark extract in capsule form, which helps to prevent resistance to chemotherapy. This is possible because this natural product plugs the PgP pump that some chemo-resistant cancer cells use to expel the chemo drug from inside the cancer cell. This prevents chemo resistance and allows the chemo to kill virtually all of the cancer cells, thus preventing reoccurrences of chemo-resistant cancer cells.
In some difficult cases, I will add another natural remedy, a highly purified extract of ginseng containing potent anti-cancer sapogenins. This extract can be given as an intravenous drip or orally on a daily basis. Again, there is a lot of good clinical evidence demonstrating the efficacy of this extract in cancer treatment.
Other treatments used on a case-by-case basis are ozone therapy and chelation therapy. Ozone is a very potent oxidation therapy using the trimolecular form of oxygen called ozone. Chelation therapy is not directly a cancer treatment, but does remove heavy metals that may be affecting the cancer status in the body.
I also encourage all patients with cancer to work on unresolved emotional issues. Most people are in denial that they have unresolved issues. In the case of cancer, healing breakthroughs can occur when patients can meet their inner demons head on. Dealing with cancer is a very stressful event and having good psychological and spiritual support is essential in creating a positive healing environment.
Though there are other methods of complementary cancer treatment that also work, I have simply outlined what I found works best in my 20 years of treating this disease.
