WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN YOUR DOCTOR TELLS YOU YOUR CANCER IS TERMINAL?

Oncology ignores the critical distinction between diseases for which effective treatments exist and those for which effective treatments are lacking.  In the latter case, the practice of prescribing standard treatments that have a known record of failure is simply foolish. 

Promising treatments are unavailable because the U.S. government, via the FDA, has adopted a policy that rigidly divides treatments into "proven" and " unproven" categories based on a certification process of questionable validity.  When the standard "proven" treatments fail, terminally ill patients are denied access to promising alternatives because these treatments have not yet received FDA approval.  - "Surviving Terminal Cancer" - pg.4  

Because conventional medicine has its limits, terminal cancer patients need to explore treatment options not yet incorporated into conventional medical practice.  Patients must be willing to go beyond their physicians' advice, and sometimes follow options contrary to that advice.  This is not an easy road to travel.  Newly diagnosed patients are confronted with a disease about which they are largely ignorant.  For better or far worse, they often are at the mercy of their physicians.  Some physicians will actively resist any approach to treatment other than their own, even when they concede that their treatment offers little promise.  Therefore, patients need to learn how to acquire medical information on their own while exploiting their physicians' knowledge and expertise.  To do both simultaneously requires considerable patience, social skill, and effort. - "Surviving Terminal Cancer" - pg.2  

Prevailing medical practice constrains access to treatments that have a good chance of providing significant clinical benefits. Some of these options come from alternative medicine, which is typically scorned by conventional physicians.  Others come from cutting-edge treatments, which patients often do not learn about until several years into the treatments' development--years that many cancer patients do not have." - "Surviving Terminal Cancer", pg.3 

If your cancer is terminal your only chance of survival is through unconventional treatments which may include off-label drugs, cutting edge treatments, treatments from outside the U.S., and changes in diet and lifestyle.  Common sense indicates that implementing as many of the above changes as possible will yield the best chance of survival.  There are many lessons to be learned from Ben and others survivors who have beaten terminal cancer while Ben has focused entirely on treatments who's efficacy can be demonstrated with some scientific research, our philosophy goes one step further into addressing mental, emotional, and spiritual issues that may affect your ability to survive.

Cancer Patient Freedom (CPF) encourages you to study the above therapies along with the basics of holistic health and the relationship between diet and cancer.  It's understandable that you might be feeling overwhelmed by the amount of information being presented here.  Therefore, we recommend that you put together a support team of friends and family that are willing to develop a plan with you.  

You must ask yourself, what you are willing to do to survive?  How much work are you willing to put in?  How much are you willing to change your lifestyle?  All these factors are going to affect the development of a plan that will work for you?