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Summary: Breast
cancer treatment with IPT is far less traumatic, and may be more
effective than standard treatment regimens. It may allow many
cases of breast cancer to be treated without surgery, radiation, or side
effects. What today is a devastating diagnosis, could become a
less feared condition with simple non-traumatic but effective
treatment. More doctor experience is needed, as well as more
research.
Interview with Donna McDermott, a survivor of
advanced breast cancer with thanks to IPT.
Articles and case studies about treatment
of breast cancer with IPT.
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Donna McDermott, breast cancer survivor,
in 2000 |
Breast tumor, Feb 3, 1989
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Tumor is gone after IPT
treatments, Jun 15, 1989,
as reported in European
Journal of Cancer
26(11-12)1262-3
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Breast cancer is one of the
most common cancers among women. And it is also perhaps the most
feared, not just because of the devastating effects of the disease, and
the risk of death, but also because of the devastating side effects of the
standard treatments, all of which threaten the woman's health and
femininity.
Standard treatment, traumatic. A woman with a suspicious
lump is often subjected to surgical biopsy, although fine needle biopsy
may produce equally good results with better cosmetic results. If a
woman is diagnosed with breast cancer today, she is virtually forced to
undergo surgical removal of at least a quarter of her breast (lumpectomy),
if not the whole breast, often along with lymph nodes and other
tissue. Cosmetic surgery can help, but can never completely hide the
effects of this surgery.
Then she is expected to
undergo radiation and/or high-dose chemotherapy. The side effects of
this can include nausea and vomiting, hair loss (another blow to female
beauty), and premature menopause and sterility (no possibility of
pregnancy). In advanced cases, she might be encouraged to undergo
bone marrow transplantation, an extreme procedure in which the immune
cells in the bone marrow are all killed by radiation or high-dose
chemotherapy, and new cells from a donor are injected. She is then
put on strong antibiotics to try to prevent deadly infections until her
immune system recovers.
Standard treatment is so
traumatic, and its results so uncertain, that many women who believe they
have genetic predisposition to get breast cancer, actually have their
breasts removed to reduce their risk.
IPT treatment, less traumatic, more effective? Would it
not be cause for rejoicing if a medical treatment for breast cancer were
announced that promises good results without any surgery at all, without
radiation, and without any significant side effects?
IPT may be just such a
treatment. The Drs. Donato Perez Garcia and SGA, M.D., have
reported several cases of very good results from using IPT as a primary and only
treatment. They report no major side effects, and frequent complete
remissions. They report better results, as in standard treatments,
when the cancer is caught and treated early, and when other treatments have not
been applied first. More advanced cases generally require more IPT
treatment sessions to achieve good results.
The most remarkable observation,
in cases treated with IPT, is that patients often report feeling better starting
with the first IPT treatment, in stark contrast with the distressing ordeal that
patients undergoing standard treatments usually endure. IPT patients
undergoing treatment usually look healthier as treatment progresses, not sicker.
In an email on 9/17/2001, Dr. Perez Garcia wrote: "IPT works very well for stage 1 &
2 [breast cancer]. So far the cases treated by my grandfather, my father, and myself
have had no recurrence. Unfortunately we receive only a few cases of stage 1 or 2 that have no previous treatment
(surgery, chemo or radiation). About 95% of the cancer cases seen at our office since
1940 are failures from surgery/conventional chemo/ radiotherapy. And in our experience, when the body
has been disrupted, it does not react as it should. I can also tell you that
in cases where the cancer is a recurrence (1st or 2nd), the only thing IPT can do for 96% of these cases is improve their quality of
life and achieve a tumor reduction of about 30 to 40 %. Of the remaining
4%, 2%
of the patients have a complete remission that lasts for 5 to 9 years (even if
they received chemo and radiation), and in the other 2% the cancer is stopped and a full remission
achieved, that will last for the remainder of the patient's life."
Safe-Trial of IPT.
Dr. SGA, in a recent paper,
suggests that doctors try a “Safe-Trial” treatment schedule in which a woman
undergoes gentle IPT treatment first, for a few weeks, only going to more
extreme standard treatments if IPT is not having the desired results. This
way, the woman would only lose a little time before beginning standard
treatment, and would have a chance to benefit from less traumatic IPT treatment
if it is going to work in her case.
If this “Safe-Trial” treatment
schedule is validated, IPT could become the primary treatment of choice for
early stage breast cancer. This option is certainly available right now to
doctors and patients willing to try it, as IPT would only be using approved
drugs in a slightly modified chemotherapy regimen. I predict that there
will be a few early adopters of this method, and that their results, if they are
similar to past experience, will get big publicity, that will galvanize popular
demand and acceptance of the procedure. Breast cancer would no longer have
to be a woman's worst nightmare.
A friend of mine, Donna
McDermott, decided she would rather try IPT, instead of enduring the indignities
of surgery, radiation, and normal-dose chemotherapy. This choice was
difficult for her to act on, as she had to ignore the advice and pleas of her US
doctors, and she had to travel out of the country. She had fairly advanced
cancer, beginning to spread, and yet today she is in complete remission, without
having to suffer the devastations (other than the surgical biopsy which she
regrets having) that are today considered to be normal. Read about
Donna McDermott's experience in an IPTQ.com exclusive
interview.
Scan of photo by Patrick Tehan, San Jose
Mercury News, 1/26/00. Will remove from
IPTQ if requested by copyright holders. |
During January, 2000, in Santa
Clara and Contra Costa counties of California, a controversial poster was put up
on bus shelters before public reaction caused them to be removed. The
poster was a photo composite showing a female model, topless, with mastectomy
scars instead of breasts and nipples.
Many people applauded the poster
for its realistic portrayal, hoping that it would inspire women with such scars
to feel pride in their battle, and that it would inspire more women to pay
attention to breast health and to seek mammography examination. Other
people were appalled at the depiction of grotesque reality, and felt that it
would push more women into denial and keep them from seeking examination and
treatment until it is too late.
When IPT becomes known, tested,
and widely available, this whole debate may become irrelevant.
Mastectomies and lumpectomies could become rare. And women could be able
to get gentle, effective, non-surgical treatment without side effects, if
tumors are ever detected. The need for fear, panic, denial, and depression
will be mostly gone, as breast cancer treatment becomes more benign and
effective.
Eliminating the terror and horror
of breast cancer in women will have many beneficial effects in many realms of
life and health. As one example, consider hormone replacement therapy for
women who are past menopause. One of the reasons some women do not avail
themselves of the potential benefits of this therapy is that they fear the
increased risk of breast cancer even more than they fear the more certain risks
that arise from hormone decline. If breast cancer becomes less of a big
deal, then more women can enjoy the benefits of hormone replacement, with less
fear.
Case histories of breast cancer patients
treated with IPT appear on IPTQ, in several articles, in Dr. Paquette's
book, and in the 1990 patent:
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Interview with Donna McDermott, a survivor of
advanced breast cancer with thanks to IPT.
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| Donna McDermott's breast cancer case study,
slightly edited.
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| A
case of Infiltrative ductal carcinoma, grade 2, submitted by
Donato Perez Garcia 3, 2002.
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| Four breast cancer cases appear on Dr. SGA's website. Cases
1 and 4 appear in other articles.
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| Breast preserving treatment for newly
diagnosed breast cancer (SGA, M.D., unpublished article, April 1999)
[Summary by C Duffield, and URL to page on Dr.
SGA's website]
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| An outlook on breast cancer management
(SGA, M.D., unpublished article, 1999) [Summary
by C Duffield]
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| Chronology of events in the scientific evaluation of IPT and
the treatment of breast cancer (SGA, M.D., unpublished
article,
1999) [URL to page on Dr. SGA's website]
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| Clinical Experience with the Practice of Insulin
Potentiation Therapy: Best Case Series by Donato Perez Garcia y Bellon,
M.D., Donato Perez Garcia, Jr., M.D., and SGA, M.D. Presented at Monitoring and Evaluation Approaches for
Integrated Complementary and Alternative Medicine Cancer
Practices, Bethesda Hyatt Regency, Bethesda, MD.,
USA. August 4 - 6, 1997.)
Includes reports on four cases of breast cancer.
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| Case of a woman with
advanced breast adenocarcinoma, whose suffering was greatly relieved
by IPT, treated by Dr. Jean-Claude Paquette, 1994.
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| Insulin shows promise as BRM in breast cancer
regimens. (Oncology News, 1991, 17(4):1,7.)
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| Case of infiltrating adenocarcinoma of the
breast, in 1990 patent.
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| The same case, in more detail, in Insulin and cancer
chemotherapy (SGA, M.D., unpublished article, 1987.
[Summary by C Duffield]
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| Neoadjuvant low-dose chemotherapy with insulin
in breast carcinomas (SGA, Donato Perez Garcia y Bellon,
Donato Perez Garcia Jr., 1990, European Journal of
Cancer 26(11-12):1262-3.)
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| Breast carcinoma treated by a regimen of
low-dose chemotherapy and insulin: report of four cases and
pharmacokinetic considerations (SGA, Donato Perez Garcia
y Bellon, Donato Perez Garcia Jr., poster abstract at 42nd Annual
Symposium on Fundamental Cancer Research, Cellular and Molecular
Targets of Cancer Therapy, M.D.Anderson Cancer Center, University of
Texas, Houston, Texas, October 24-27, 1989)
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| Six breast cancer cases described in Cellular Cancer Therapy (Donato
Perez Garcia 1 and Donato Perez Garcia y Bellon 2,
1978 (?), translated by Mike Dillinger),. |
1. Bilateral mammary tumor [breast cancer]
2. Metastasis of carcinoma of the left breast to the right [metastatic
breast cancer]
3. Metastasis to lymph nodes of right axilla of
already removed carcinoma of the breast
4. Malignant tumor of the right breast
5. Osteal metastases from mammary carcinoma
6. Breast carcinoma
| Dr. Perez Garcia y Bellon 2 had a
protocol
for treating benign tumors and cysts of the breast. |
Excerpts from emails by Dr. Perez Garcia 3 on November 14, 2001:
"For your new patient with breast cancer [freshly discovered,
multifocal, with mets to local lymphatics] she can have IPT weekly, expecting on the first application to experience reduction in breast
swelling and probably softening of the mass. After the 10th IPT you and
she can expect to see a tumor reduction of about 40%. Some patients after the 6th
treatment show tumor reduction demonstrated on the ultrasound or CAT
scan."
"[about reported spectacular results...] Yes it is true ... for "virgin" cancer patients using IPT
as first line therapy, specifically for stages 1 & 2.
Also for some stage 3 and stage 4 there are a few impressive responding
patients with good results.
"I have only treated two patients similar to the condition you described
to me. [multicentric infiltrating ductal carcinoma right breast with 2
right axillary lymph node metastases out of 10 lymph nodes. Immunohistochemistry findings: estrogen receptor
uniformly positive, progesterone receptor uniformly positive. (uniformly = >75%).
No chemotherapy or radiation treatments to date. Several nutritional IV's and hyperbaric oxygen treatments.]
"One patient was in 1985 while I was working with my father and today I was informed she died 2
years ago, not of cancer, and her age was 78, so she survived disease free for
16 years. The other patient I treated in 1989 lived 8 years disease free. The first case was a stage 3 infiltrating ductal adenocarcinoma and the
later was a stage 4 infiltrating ductal adenocarcinoma in a 59 year women.
"Each patient is individual. IPT is not a recipe that the doctor follows the
same for each patient. I do not know what the prognosis would be with your
case. I know that there are no side effects (when IPT is done by a qualified
physician) like hair loss or nausea.
"Recently I have started to treat breast cancer in just patients diagnosed stage 1
& 2 with tumor size ranging from 2cm up to 8cm. I am currently treating 4 virgin
cases and the result as of yesterday is close to 70% tumor shrinkage, both breasts in their original place, minimal scar from
the needle biopsy, skin and hair in good condition, patients still eating,
walking, doing their regular life, and improving. My experience in the past
was with stage 4 and some stage 3 cancer patients who had undergone every type
of treatment for cancer . In all of them quality of life improvement was
improved, like less pain, up to 30% tumor shrinkage, more energy, increased
appetite."
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