Radical Remission for Myeloma

Is radical remission for myeloma even possible? After all, conventional oncology can’t cure myeloma. How did I go from end-stage myeloma to complete remission in 17 months?

The short answer is that I have antineoplaston therapy (ANP) to thank for my CR. The longer answer is outlined in the article linked below.

The radical remission multimodal intervention (RRMI) was created by the woman who wrote the book Radical Remissions- Dr. Kelly Turner.

The book talks about those complementary therapies common to the radical remissions that Dr. Turner writes about in her book. The interesting thing- to me anyway, is that after being told that I was end-stage, I broke from conventional oncology and followed the nine lifestyle factors along with ANP over the next 17 months (11/97-4/99) when I achieved complete remission.

Was it ANP? Was it the RRMI program? A combination of both?

The RRMI program includes 9 lifestyle factors of focus:

having strong reasons for living,
embracing social support,
using herbs and supplements,
radically changing your diet,
releasing suppressed emotions,
following your intuition,
increasing positive emotions,
taking control of your health,
and deepening your spiritual connection…

Dr. Kelly Turner Talks about her book-

I believe that conventional therapies- surgery, chemotherapy and radiation, are important tools for the myeloma patient. But they are only a small piece of the treatment puzzle. And these tools are, on average, over prescribed to MM patients.

I believe that the myeloma patient must look beyond conventional therapies. Consider the radical remission multimodal intervention (RRMI) therapy method.

Email me at David.PeopleBeatingCancer@gmail.com with questions about complementary myeloma therapies.

Good luck,

David Emerson

MM Survivor
MM Cancer Coach
Director PeopleBeatingCancer

Radical Remission Multimodal Intervention Improves QOL in Patients With Cancer

“The radical remission multimodal intervention (RRMI) therapy method led to improved quality-of-life (QOL) compared with baseline levels in patients with any cancer…

At month 1, Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy—Spiritual Well-Being Scale (FACIT-Sp) scores increased by 9.5 (95% CI, 6.2-12.8; P <.0001) when compared with baseline, a 7.7% improvement. At month 6, FACIT-Sp scores increased by 9.7 (95% CI, 6.4-13.0; P <.001) when compared with baseline, a 10.8% improvement…

“Findings from this study suggest that a safe, low-cost, and relatively easy to implement intervention such as the RRMI has the potential to significantly improve the QOL of individuals with cancer,” Junaidah B Barnett, PhD, Department of Nutrition at Harvard University and lead study author wrote. “Higher QOL is associated with improved well-being and cancer prognoses, including decreased adverse effects (AEs), decreased morbidity, and increased lifespan.”

In total, 119 completed the study questionaries at baseline (a week prior to the program), at month 1, and 100 patients completed at month 6. At baseline, 92% of patients were women, 77% were non-Hispanic White, 88% lived in the US, and 66.5% did not live alone. The mean age was 55.3 years and approximately 50% of patients had education beyond college.

The RRMI program includes 9 lifestyle factors of focus:

having strong reasons for living,
embracing social support,
using herbs and supplements,
radically changing your diet,
releasing suppressed emotions,
following your intuition,
increasing positive emotions,
taking control of your health,
and deepening your spiritual connection…

All measures of QOL for all patients with cancer were notably higher at month 1 then baseline aside for physical wellbeing (P = .53 for physical well-being and P <.05 for all other measures), which was also worse at month 6. Additionally, at month 6, the emotional well-being score improved 21.4%. Per emotional well-being, living situation was greatly influential and patients living with either a partner, family member, or pet had an average FACIT-Sp score increase of 1.5 points vs patients living alone (P = .0087)…

Breast cancer was the most common diagnosis (25.0%), followed by skin (7.0%), colon/rectal (5.5%), and ovary (5.0%), among others. An increase of 9.2 points (11.1%) was observed in the FACIT-Sp scores of patients with breast cancer at 1 month, and 6.7 points (13.2%) at 6 months, when compared with baseline…

The authors also point out that the findings on the impact of RRMI on the measures of interest are unable to be solely attributed to RRMI, so the findings cannot be conclusive or generalized to all cancer populations.

“The lifestyle factors identified are known to prevent, slow, halt, and reverse multiple chronic diseases such as diabetes, and cardiovascular disease, including cancer. Hence, they are likely to be generally beneficial in most disease states,” the authors concluded.”

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Harriet Hallie Hancock says a few days ago

Hi David, I enjoyed reading Radical Remission and have a decent grasp of the author’s theses. I have navigated the Myeloma journey for a long time. Longer than yours, actually: 20 years . I embraced a multi faceted approach to my treatments…using both complementary and allopathic, homeopathic agents/programs.
I have employed high quality, individually tailored supplements, organic/clean diet, chemo, and immunotherapy drugs including the one I take now: Teclistimab, a Bicma.
I do not have the day to day encouragement of a partner/family member or pet. My kids are adults and I do enjoy the grand kids. Two live fairly close.
I feel that my social engagement is hsmstringed bc my immunity nos suppressed . I currently havean extremely low IgG, below 150 now, after a year of Teclistimab…tamping it lower and lower.
When I was DX 2005… (age 53) in Temperance MI, I had low back pain/ trouble walking, anemia, low Vitamin D (17) several collapsed vertebrae and extremely tired. I had pushed myself and kept working, until I found out what was wrong.
Before and during, I’ve employed many natural interventions! Excellent high quality food
mostly plant and some fish, chicken and beef (limited grains and NO sugar) RO water, Juicing, walking 4-5 MI/day, yoga, foot reflexology, AcP, Ion foot detox, coffee colonics, sunshine, hyperbaric oxygen treatments, (40) in 8 weeks, prayer, Reike, infar Red sauna, heavy metal detox, all mercury amalgams removed (10 yrs prior to DX) and about to buy a Infar Red device. I’d like to know what you would recommend and how to proceed. Thank you! H3

David Emerson says a few days ago

Hey H3-

My guess is that you have lived so long with MM by walking the fine line between damage done by your MM and damage done by conventional therapies aka allopathic medicine.

I’m also going to guess that your body, other than your MM, is also in pretty good shape. HBOT and saunas are both heart healthy and brain healthy.

The only therapy that I can suggest, and teclistamab is so new that I have no research to base this on, is to suggest immune enhancing therapies.

Lifestyle therapies such as nutrition, sleep, etc. of course but also probiotics, acupuncture, bovine colostrum, all three that are supposed to enhance your body’s T, B, NK, etc. cells. IVIG therapy is supposed to enhance your immunoglobulins and I imaging the you and your onc have already discussed this therapy. Make sure your insurance co will pay for it if you do it.

Other than that, I can’t think of anything, any therapy, that you don’t already do/take/etc.

Good luck H3- let me know how you’re doing.

thanks,

David Emerson

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