From:
Jackie DeCarlo
Date: 2001-02-28 17:34:00 UTC
Subject: Lymphoma/Prednisone/Essiac
My Taz also had Lymphoma and her treatment plan was Prednisone and
Rene Caisse Herbal formula... I never believed in herbal medicine
before but after looking at other methods of treatment for Lymphoma,
I opted for this...at first my vet only gave her a couple of months
so when I took her back after a month to get a refill on her meds I
then broke the news what I was doing (giving her the essiac)...I
think he was just humoring me when he said "go ahead, what will it
hurt" and since there were no harmful ingredients that would affect
the Pred he had no problem. I gave him the paper describing what it
is and what it does but he only put it in her files. Now, when she
kept coming back in great condition he took another look at the
essiac and had a different outlook.. After 6 months he took a biopsy
of a lymph node (he was the second opinion vet) just to make sure she
still had the cancer because of the great condition she was in...it
was still there but it seemed to have been been arrested..Now he was
amazed and said not to stop using it.. After a year of this he was
now recommending it to other owners of fuzzies who had cancers. (The
essiac does not work with adrenal nor ferrets with Insulinoma's.) Now
mind you she was on a high dose of Prednisone and the essiac..It
could be her Lymphoma was diagnosed early and the combination of Pred
and essiac was more effective, we do not know..he would of liked to
have done a study with this but a lot of Lymphoma symptoms are
diagnosed late so he could not do a comparison..After all said, Taz
lived 16 months on this treatment...14 months more than he expected..
(his longest living Lymphoma patient only lived 6 months after being
diagnosed). So, he is a believer and so am I... Oh, Taz was diagnosed
at 5.5 yrs and was almost 7 when she passed away...
Jackie Peanut, Bandit and still missing Taz