Treatment

The chemotherapy regimen was very intensive and required her to stay in the hospital for 5 days at a time. It also caused her to become very ill. She says. “I spent a good year sitting or lying down on our living-room couch, while I had to watch someone else take care of my four children, with no ability to take part in their lives other than as a spectator.”

When these treatments failed to cure the cancer Sandi was given a stem cell transplant.  Her doctors assured her that they still “had a fighting chance to beat this.”  In order to perform this procedure her doctors had to destroy her immune system with high-dose chemotherapy along with full-body radiation, then they introduced the donor stem cells in the hopes that this would restart her immune system.

The greatest fear that any stem cell recipient has is graft-versus-host disease, which is when the new stem cells begin to attack the cells of the recipient. The three most prominent areas that this damage occurs are in the G.I tract, liver, or the skin.  Following the transplant,  Sandi began to have complications with her liver, so the doctors put her on higher doses of  immune-suppression drugs to prevent further damage. Looking back, Sandi says that taking these drugs may have prevented her body from fighting the cancer.  Unfortunately the cancer returned yet again, this time in the form of three tumors that her doctors treated with more radiation.

Shift to Alternative Treatment

Following that relapse, Sandi’s husband began researching alternative treatments. She began to juice organic vegetables as well consulted with a naturopathic doctor, but shortly thereafter she had 5 more tumors appear.  It was at this point that Sandi refused to have them biopsied.  She says that she no longer wanted to know what they were as she had made the decision to refuse any further chemotherapy or radiation treatments. All of this occurred around the same time that her husband began reading the book World Without Cancer; The Story of Vitamin B17, which was written by G. Edward Griffin.  She began taking Vitamin B17 Capsules every day along with some other supplements and pancreatic enzymes that she read would help the B17 work better. Coincidentally, her doctor began to lower her dose of the immune-suppression drugs at which time she took the initiative to wean herself off of them completely unbeknownst to her medical team.  Her doctors were horrified when they found this out.

Her next PET scan took place 10 weeks later and revealed that 3 of her tumors were completely gone and the other 2 were barely visible.  Sandi’s doctor walked into the office and said, “Your PET scan looks great!  Whatever you’re doing, keep doing it. It’s working.” He leaned forward, elbows on his knees. “What are you doing?” She handed him her list of supplements that included the B17. He said, “Since you’re not on any treatment plan from us, I don’t see any reason for you to keep seeing us. And what you’re doing seems to be working better than anything we have to offer. You should continue with your current treatments and go and live your life.”  He then asked if she was seeing another doctor who had prescribed these treatments.

Results

Sandi is now cancer free.  She reports that she has gone back to the cancer ward in order to share what she has learned about B17 with the other cancer patients there.