Ray Schilling's answer to If you have Stage IV cancer, can you prolong your life with diet
and exercise?

1. There are studies showing that you can survive somewhat longer with a diet low in
sugar and with exercise. Cancer cells love sugar and they don t really need oxygen (their
metabolism uses glycolysis, not aerobic respiration). By removing loads of sugar, you
starve cancer cells. When you exercise you provide oxygen to the tissues, which slows
down cancer growth.

2. The following is a description of a 9-year follow-up of incurable cancer patients. They
were given supplements known to stimulate the immune system and their survival rates
were recorded.
The experiment by Dr. Hoffer, the father of orthomolecular medicine.
This is a branch of medicine that uses large doses of vitamins and minerals to rectify
metabolic changes in various diseases.
Dr. Hoffer treated 131 advanced cancer patients between 1976 and 1988 with a mixture
of mega vitamins and minerals.
There was a control group (not taking anything) and the experimental group. The results of this 9-year follow up study are depicted in the image above. The Y-axis represents the % of survival (at the zero point of time 100 % of each group
were alive), the X-axis shows the time of survival in years.
Note that the group of cancer patients taking meta vitamins is depicted with orange
columns, the control group with blue columns.
At 7 years of follow-up none of the controls survived.
On average there was an 8 year survival advantage of the mega vitamin group versus
the control group (control group 28% survival at year 1 of follow-up, mega vitamin
group 34% survival at year 9 of follow-up).

3. Here are the supplements they used for the 9-year trial under point 2.
The supplements consumed were as follows: Vitamin C, 10,000 to 40,000 mg orally
daily; vitamin B3 (niacin or niacinamide) 300 to 3,000 mg; vitamin B6 (pyridoxine) 200
to 300 mg; folic acid 1 to 30 mg; vitamin E succinate 400 to 1,200 IU; Coenzyme Q10
300 to 600 mg; selenium 200 to 1,000 micrograms daily; zinc 25 to 100 mg; calcium
and magnesium supplement (2:1 ratio); mixed carotenoids as carrot juice; multivitamins and minerals.
The Mayo Clinic did a study where they "duplicated" Dr. Hoffer s study using only high
doses of vitamin C, but failed to show any cancer fighting effect.
However, they neglected to include all of the other cancer fighting supplements listed
above.
Vitamin C is an antioxidant, stimulates the immune system, but does not fight cancer by
itself.

4. Conclusion: Cancer treatments are entering a new phase where with the help of
multiple treatment modalities combined (PDT, immunostimulation, oxygen therapy and
low-dose laser activated chemotherapy) it is now possible to cure many cancers that
were untreatable in the past.
The tunnel vision approach of conventional oncology with a combination of surgery,
chemotherapy and radiotherapy is obsolete for cases where cancer has metastasized.
At this point the methods described here are promising, but have to be still considered
experimental until larger clinical trials confirm Dr. Hoffer s findings.

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diet-and-exercise

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