This website and the ebook chapters it contains were lovingly created to serve as free resources for cancer patients who wish to consider choices beyond or in addition to conventional treatments.  Indeed, the concepts they contain apply to most illnesses---as well as to all of us who seek to live an optimally healthy, joyful, fulfilling life.

I spent four years at the National Foundation for Alternative Medicine (NFAM) in Washington DC, founded by former U.S. Congressman Berkley Bedell.  Along with Senator Tom Harkin, Berkley was responsbile for the establishment and funding of the Office of Alternative Medicine at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).  A man of great integrity and vision, he later created NFAM to identify and scientifically validate non-traditional, non-toxic, innovative and effective treatments for disease.  During the four years I spent there (1999-2003) we focused almost exclusively on cancer. 

As the V.P.of Educational Services, I wrote dozens of clinic reports, produced seminars and interacted with hundreds of desperate cancer patients and their families who wanted better choices. Most expressed a powerful desire to avoid chemotherapy or radiation. I left NFAM in early 2003 when the decision was made to focus on research activities exclusively.  Regretfully, patient education and outreach were no longer an integral part of its mission.

My four years at NFAM provided a wealth of opportunitiees to learn about alternative cancer therapies.  An NFAM representative or physician visited over 100 international cancer clinics and I learned about many exciting and promising new treatments.  But even at the best of these alternative and integrative clinics, although there were a number of complete remissions and many patients did receive excellent help in treating their disease, for far too many, the cancer eventually came back.  A major contributing cause for their illness just wasn’t being identified and addressed--and that's what this website is all about.

My Story:  I have spent the last fifteen years learning and working within the fields of alternative medicine, holistic education and spirituality, after being inspired and guided to this path by the death of my life partner in 1990 from metastatic colon cancer. Although he was in the best physical shape of his life and had only minor symptoms, Tom was diagnosed soon after his 38th birthday and given just four months to live. His tumor had "seeded" throughout his entire peritoneal cavity, including his liver.  Yet he was able to survive four full years beyond this grim prognosis. I attribute this to his unabashed joy in life even in the most difficult of circumstances, to his determination to create more time to be with his children, and yes—to the amazing gift of love that we shared during those years.

At one point, Tom went into a surprising remission immediately after being extremely ill with a virus and enduring very high fevers for several days.  Two weeks later, every test clearly showed that there was no cancer left in his body! What I later came to understand was that this brief but virulent illness and high fever probably weakened the cancer and catalyzed his immune system, which then resumed its normal function and destroyed the remaining cancer cells in his body.  Several of the therapies available at international CAM (complementary and alternative medicine) cancer clinics mimic this very same and reproducible effect in the body and have demonstrated significant success against various cancers. These therapies are not currently approved for use here in the U.S.  Examples include Coley’s Toxins (a virulent artificially-produced infection) and whole body hyperthermia (an artificially-induced fever). 

Tom's cancer eventually returned with a vengeance within six months and in another six months he was gone.  If he and I had known then what I now know about cancer and healing, I believe that he would still be here.  I now believe that Tom's cancer eventually returned because he did not understand the need to identify and address the repressed emotions of a lifetime, including some long-held angers and resentments.

Several years after his passing, my dear Mother suffered the indignities, pain and invasive procedures of conventional cancer treatment and experienced one of the most difficult and horrifying deaths imaginable. She spent most of the last six months of her life alone in a hospital bed as her well-meaning doctors tried one toxic, debilitating, ineffective treatment after another.  She had no quality of life during this lonely, painful time and her understandable sadness was treated with several anti-depressant and anti-anxiety medications--in addition to all the other drugs she was taking of course. I knew then that there must be another answer and I knew I wanted to be part of it somehow.

As my life later unfolded, I found my way to the newly-created National Foundation for Alternative Medicine (NFAM) in Washington, D.C. and spent the next four years learning firsthand and writing about dozens of holistic cancer treatments and protocols used internationally. Now I want to reach out and help as many cancer patients and their families as possible through the powerful and life-altering information contained within this website. The understanding and belief that I eventually came to was that the root cause of the overwhelming majority of cancers can be found in the realm of the mind and the emotions--and their direct connection to the functioning of the immune system.  To ultimately heal the cancer completely, this is the area the cancer patient eventually needs to address--whether sooner or later.  I hope that this website can inspire it to be sooner.

I want to offer an understanding of the reasons why illness may develop without creating a sense of guilt. I want to empower patients to take responsibility for their own healing, to educate them about how and where to begin and then encourage them to take action to create their own healing miracle. If you have cancer, there is some inspirational and profound information on this website that will make you think long and hard about how you got to this place in your life-- and what kind of joyful and fulfilling future you want to create as a survivor.  

And remember—there is always hope. It is never too late to begin.