The cancer was spread throughout her body and her family was told to make the necessary funeral arrangements and prepare to say their goodbyes.  It was at this point that Doris’s husband made one last attempt to save her life. He had heard about a woman in a similar situation who had gone to Germany for cancer treatments.  When he asked the woman what treatments she had received there, she said that the main protocol consisted of a diet of fresh fruit and vegetable juices.  Doris’s husband found it inconceivable that a diet program could save his wife. The woman instructed him to contact The Foundation for Advancement in Cancer Therapy, which was a nonprofit organization founded by Ruth Sackman that is dedicated to providing information to the public about the use of nutrition and detoxification-based methods to treat cancer rather than using the standard protocols of chemotherapy, radiation and surgery which can often harm the body.  He called and spoke directly to Ruth who sent him information about diet, supplementation, and detoxification protocols that Doris could follow from home.

Following the FACT guidelines,  Doris’s husband bought a juicer and began to make a fresh juice blend of carrots, apples and celery to nourish her body.  He also crushed and dissolved a variety of supplements into the fresh juice and then spoon-fed her until she was able to drink the mixture with a straw.  He also made her a nutritional smoothie from yogurt, bananas, frozen pineapples, digestive enzymes, Bone Meal Powder, Kelp Powder, Brewers Yeast, raw organic honey, and vanilla bean extract.  After a month of drinking the fresh juices and the smoothies she became more coherent. Doris was also given enemas twice per day, and reports that she had several detoxification episodes which included an increase in pain that was accompanied by a fever, headaches, skin rashes, along with the release of a strong bodily odour.  Ruth had warned them that all of these symptoms were to be expected, as Doris’s body was releasing all of the toxins that it had accumulated over the years.

Eventually Doris reports that her eyes got stronger, she began gaining weight again and was able to come off of all of her medications.  As her appetite increased she began to add raw vegetable salads to her daily meals.  Just one year after sticking to a strict all-natural diet and using the detoxifying enemas, Doris tested negative for cancer.  She adds that it took about two years before she could handle doing her normal routines again. 37 years later, Doris was still healthy and cancer-free.  “When I first told my doctors, they couldn’t believe I was still alive,” she said. “They said to me, you should have died. I can’t believe you’re still here.”  She also says that one of her doctors had been diagnosed with cancer and began asking her for information about the program.