My Victory Over Cancer Using Common Sense Therapies

In January of 2002 I joined a club that is far too big in America—the Cancer Club. I was diagnosed with prostate cancer. I deferred surgery or radiation to try some alternative treatments and was declared cancer clear in late June, 2002!

If you’re a woman, you should know that uterine and breast cancer are similar if not identical to prostate cancer.

My mother, grandmother, an uncle, a nephew, a cousin and many other relatives have died of cancer. I now know there are many simple ways to reduce cancer risk or help overcome cancer that are not readily known by the general public. I’m mad about that!

This web site is one small attempt to point the way to some helpful anti-cancer information that I have discovered in almost two years of learning. I hope it speeds up your search. Part of the difficulty in this search is the confusion created by technical terminology. I’ve tried to simplify some of the terms and concepts used in the professional cancer literature as a means of being a more informed consumer of health services. And in addition to just treating the cancer manifestation, I’ve sought the source of the cancer to eradicate its cause.

This is not a comprehensive study of all alternative cancer treatments. It’s an anecdotal account of what worked for me.

My Diagnosis

The urologist in Baton Rouge, LA, who did my biopsy and ordered the chest x-rays and atomic dye-injected full body bone scan informed me I had an adenocarcinoma of the prostate, Gleason score of 6 (3+3), grade: intermediate, which meant I had a slow-growing cancer confined to the prostate gland. He reviewed several traditional options including radiation and recommended immediate surgery. He agreed it would be safe for me to take three months to research my options. I was soon shocked to discover the failure rate of the traditional cancer treatments and their devastating side effects.

Common Sense Therapies that Cured My Cancer

FIRST: PRAYER. I believe the God who created me can heal me.

SECOND: DIET CHANGES. I learned quickly that CANCER HATES OXYGEN. The supplement Co-enzyme Q-10 increases tissue oxygenation. A high intake of 300 mg daily was recommended by my family doctor. Also, the herb Ginko Biloba helps increase the supply of oxygen to all body parts. Drinking ozonated water safely raises the body’s oxygenation dramatically.

CANCER THRIVES in an ACID environment (opposite of alkaline). The pH test measures a range from acidic to alkaline. To raise my pH level I took Coral Calcium, which is an efficient way to raise the pH of the body tissues and also a way to receive many other trace minerals. The American Cancer Society wisely recommends eating deep colored vegetables as a way to fight cancer; incidentally, this raises the body’s alkalinity. Vegetables are complex non-starchy carbohydrates which digest slowly and provide dietary fiber, which fights cancer. Simple carbohydrates like refined flour products which the body quickly converts to sugar, and all forms of sugar (as in soft drinks and fruit) increase acid. SUGAR FEEDS CANCER! To raise cancer risk, eat more sugar and starchy foods, such as grain products, potatoes and corn. The supplement chromium picolinate , which is promoted as a weight-control aid, helps metabolize sugar. That makes it good for diabetics and cancer patients too. The safest way to sweeten things is to use stevia, a sweetener made from the leaf of the stevia plant, available from health food stores. Contrary to popular opinion, certain fats are essential to health. The human brain is mostly fat! I started daily consumption of omega 3’s and 6’s (essentiaL fatty acids) by eating salmon regularly and taking fish oil or flax/borage oil and adding a tablespoon of fresh ground flax seeds to salads or other food. The healthiest oil is coconut oil for cooking or other consumption.

Fresh squeezed carrot juice fights cancer, and improved my eyesight. (I went in for an eye exam and the doctor said, “No wonder your eyes are giving you a headache, these glasses are too strong for you!”)

An excellent resource for guidance in fighting cancer and other diseases by means of diet, hormones, etc., and other up-to-the-minute health information compiled by Dr. Joseph Mercola and his extensive research staff is found at Mercola.com

THIRD: DIGESTION, METABOLISM, and IMMUNE SYSTEM THERAPIES. A doctor in Atlanta taught me in February, 2002, that cancer originates (1) as a metabolic deficiency disease, which (2) weakens the immune system, resulting in (3) a degenerative disease (cancer). He told me that diet, exercise, and detox can reverse it, along with immune therapy and metabolic therapy.

Hair analysis testing showed mineral deficiencies and showed that I was not metabolizing sugars and starches well, leaving them free to feed yeast, fungus, and cancer cells. Dark-field microscope examination of my blood confirmed the presence of parasites and yeast. I did strong herbal anti-parasite programs and oral herbal colon cleanses. After that I took digestive enzyme supplements, and pro-biotic pills and yogurt to increase the good intestinal bacteria that had been killed when I took antibiotics years before. All of these are available at health food stores. Their use would safely benefit health.

A cancer blood profile test showed that the weakest part of my immune system was an under-performing adrenal gland. This resulted in a low DHEA-S count, which is a prime component of the body’s immune function. This was solved by taking adrenal gland supplements.

Cancer patients are also advised to take high levels of Beta-glucan, which can be extracted from the yeast cell wall and which helps build human cell walls, which are similar. Beta-glucan is what gives oatmeal its characteristic of sticky paste.

Toxins and stress cause the molecules of our cells to break down in a sort of chain reaction. Anyone, especially a cancer patient, needs anti-oxidants to repair that damage. I take a variety of anti-oxidants, such as pycnogenol (grape seed and maritime pine bark extract), lycopene (found in cooked tomato products and in watermelons), electron water and microhydrins (ionized hydrogen atoms, the smallest known anti-oxidant). Other excellent health boosters are milk thistle (for liver health), blue-green algae (a whole food packed with most of the vitamins and minerals, which also boosts the NK killer cells of the immune system), and beta sitosterol (a plant fat extract). Twice a day I drink a tea made from the small flowered willow-herb, which helps prostate, bladder, and kidney disorders.

I accessed many of the digestive, metabolism, and immune system therapies and products at the Center for Natural Healing in Baton Rouge, LA; (225)-927-9273.

FOURTH: My Silver Bullet—FREQUENCY THERAPY.

I learned of a man who lived nearby who’d been cured of pancreatic cancer by means of frequency therapy. I’d heard of breaking up kidney stones with sound frequencies, but not cancer!

I talked with this source for several hours. Being a piano tuner by trade, the power of vibrations made sense to me. Then I did a web search about frequency therapies that were based on the work of Royal Raymond Rife. In the 20’s to the 40’s, Rife discovered that germs and cancer cells could be ruptured and killed by bombarding them with their own resonance frequency, amplified to the right power. Healthy human cells, being millions of times more resilient, were unaffected. He devised a system that applied frequencies to the body via direct contact to the skin, which is similar to touching an amplifier. I began daily contact application at home about April 1, 2002. Blood tests in late June, 2002, showed me to be cancer clear. I had only mild discomfort with this treatment and no side effects.

The best website source that I've found for frequency equipment is RIFE for LIFE. A generic video tape that graphically shows the Rife technology at work is available from

Another type of frequency therapy is found at http://www.soundhealthinc.com, a site that also offers video and audio tapes explaining their programs. Their frequencies are administered through headphones.

Frequency therapy is an experimental alternative treatment for many conditions and diseases. Many companies produce frequency therapy machines. Some therapies and equipment that are available for personal research and experimentation are probably not as effective as others. I believe analog frequency is necessary rather than digital, and a direct contact is better than a broadcast application.

FIFTH: THE FUNGUS LINK to CANCER. In January, 2003, I discovered Doug Kaufmann, a biochemist who hosts a syndicated TV program called “Your Health”, and author of several books on fungus, yeast, and disease. One of his books is THE GERM THAT CAUSES CANCER. His web site is I know the Cause. He states that fungus, which is prevalent in grain and peanuts that have been stored in bins and silos, enters our bodies through our food, including meat from animals that ate mold and fungal contaminated feed. Cooking does not kill this fungus. Once in our bodies, Kaufmann believes fungus invades human cells, producing a hybrid cell with a mutated DNA, which is cancer. All cancer cells contain fungus, according to other medical books I’ve read. Most medical authorities today believe that cancer cells form first, then are invaded by fungus as a secondary infection. Either way, killing the fungus kills the cancer. I believe the experimental frequency therapy I used killed the fungus and by doing that killed my prostate cancer.

Kaufmann identifies many plants that are anti-fungal when eaten, including carrots and cruciferous vegetables such as brocolli, cauliflower, cabbage, and raspberries. He also discusses the role of anti-fungal drugs as a possible weapon against cancer.

SIXTH: The CANCER VACCINE is a promising new cancer treatment, not a prevention, as the name would imply. I was preparing to undergo this therapy when I was declared cancer clear. In short, a biopsy is taken to the lab, the cancer cells are killed and are mixed in a medium to be administered as a shot. The live cancer cells can hide from the immune system. The dead cancer cells cannot camouflage themselves. The body’s natural immune system is thus alerted to an invader and then is effective at locating and killing the live cancer cells. A brief report on this new treatment was in the April, 2002. Reader’s Digest. The information from one company developing this vaccine can be viewed at Antigenics.

FOR FURTHER RESEARCH on frequency therapy and cancer therapies, search the internet on a search engine such as Google and enter such words and phrases and combinations as: electro-medicine, Royal Raymond Rife, Robert Beck, Sota Instruments, Dr. Johanna Budwig cancer diet, Essiac tea, frequency therapy, cancer cure, alternative medicine, health, herbs (and names of herbs), etc.

A comprehensive summary of alternative cancer therapies is in a small book compiled by the late Hanna Kroeger entitled CANCER—Traditional and New Concepts, ISBN: 1-883713-06-4.

Also the massive reference book, ALTERNATIVE THERAPIES, THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE is very detailed and wide-ranging.

I believe there are many viable ways available to survive and reverse cancer and the other diseases that are ravaging America and the world today. I’m living proof.

--Michael Mattison.

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