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Links to information about cancer treatment:
THE Therapy: Quick and Dirty
Sybil passed away on April 12th. I will continue to keep up this site as best I can. Please remember that Sybil's cancer was especially difficult to treat because she was so young when it started and she had a late detection. I'm convinced that the theory behind her treatment is sound and it can be useful for many people. Best wishes to all. Matt Donath.
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My name is Sybil Brabner. This site will describe my positive, non-toxic results in shrinking tumors with low dose chemotherapy and a Cox-2 inhibitor. This therapy is also known as “Metronomic Dosing.” (Remember the metronome on top of the piano slowly clicking time?) This therapy is not something that is unique to me or something that will only work in me or with someone with my type of cancer. I am collecting what most oncologists will call “anecdotal” stories about people that are having the same positive results that I am. Unless this therapy goes into major trials with many, many people, most oncologists will discount it as not valid or worthwhile. Theoretically, this therapy should work across a broad spectrum of cancer patients. Why? Because it does not target tumor cells (which are very unique in each of us). Instead, it targets the endothelial cells, which are far more similar in all of us. Conventional chemotherapy kills all dividing cells in the body, aiming to do the most damage to dividing cancer cells. However, normally dividing cells (hair cells, intestinal cells, mucous membranes, bone marrow cells) are also destroyed. This leads to well-known severe side effects of chemotherapy: hair loss, diarrhea, mouth ulcer, infection, and low blood counts.
“Metronomic Dosing” targets only the endothelial cells that are feeding the tumor. The chemotherapy dose is very low and combined with an anti-angiogenic agent the side effects are almost non-existent. During my therapy my energy has been very good, I have been able to eat normally, and I have had no low blood counts or infection. I believe that
cancer is a manageable disease right now; we just don't have the
clinical trials to prove it. What we do have are a lot of
"pre-clinical" trials at many teaching hospitals, doctors who are
quietly prescribing this protocol for patients facing "end life" diagnoses,
and patients who, like me, are trying to have a little more control over the
quality of life they have while dealing with cancer.
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