The earlier version of this site carried a number of pages suggesting that cancer could be treated by urine therapy, laetrile (“B-17”), the Gerson regime, graviola, paw paw or wheatgrass. I have not carried those pages across, and I want to explain that honestly rather than let them quietly disappear.
None of those treatments has been shown to treat cancer. Laetrile in particular has been tested and found ineffective, and it carries a genuine risk of cyanide poisoning. Reviews of the Gerson regime have found no reliable evidence of benefit, and its coffee enemas have caused deaths.
The greater harm is not the treatment itself. It is delay. Cancer outcomes depend enormously on how early treatment begins, and the months spent on an alternative are months during which a curable cancer can become an incurable one. That is the part I could not leave standing on a page with my name on it.
There is also a legal point. In India, the Drugs and Magic Remedies (Objectionable Advertisements) Act, 1954 prohibits advertising any remedy claimed to treat or cure cancer, which is named in the Act's schedule.
Please see an oncologist, and please do it soon. Treatment in India is far more available and far more affordable than many people realise.
Good food, rest, gentle movement, breathing and meditation all genuinely help people living with cancer — with appetite, with sleep, with anxiety, with the strength to get through treatment. Those pages remain, and I hope they are useful. What they are is support alongside proper treatment. They are not a substitute for it, and I will not offer them as one.
If you are frightened and looking for another answer, I understand that completely. I would still ask you to see the oncologist first.