I'm sorry, there is no value in veg*ns approach to healing. It's all based on pseudoscience, and lots of it can get in the way of both natural healing and the chemotherapies commonly used with cancer.

I would go ketogenic because most cancers will be starved without sugar, plus there's some evidence that being in ketosis makes the good cells more resilient to chemo and the cancer cells more susceptible.

I would not do any kind of juicing. The idea of most cancer treatments is to actually kill the bad stuff. If you're taking megadoses of vitamins and antioxidants you're actually going to undo the effect of the treatment. Just like taking megadoses of antioxidants after exercise to reduce soreness actually reduces your body's ability to adapts and get stronger because of the exercise.

And yes, I would bet my life on my current (strict) paleo diet. I dealt with cancer and chemo on the SAD and that was terrible. I wish I knew then what I know now. A high-nutrient keto diet probably could have saved me 4 months of chemo.

I'm an oncology nurse and breast cancer survivor, so I'm a bit biased, but:

If you ever get cancer, please PLEASE PLEASE get your ass to an NCI-designated comprehensive cancer center, get a second opinion (ideally from another NCI-designated CCC), educate yourself about your options, clarify your goals, and then DO THE CONVENTIONAL TREATMENT that meets those goals. Complementary treatments like acupuncture, massage, Reiki, etc. are awesome. Nutrition is VITAL to getting thru treatment and/or improving quality of life in an end-of-life situation. But no nutritional changes will cure cancer, I promise. Bullshit pseudoscience placebo juice fasts (or really any "eat this and you will be cured" diets) are evil, create false hope, and in my experience end in tragedy and regret and misery.

I would probably stop letting myself read questions like this.

I would do multiple things at the same time. Both Doctor and Diet.

Things to research:

Ketogenic diet.
Ketogenic diet w/ coconut oil.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natto (fermented soy).
Some grassfed liver
Vitamin D3
Change meat to exclusively Grassfed Lamb/Beef and Wild Salmon. No chicken or pork.
Healing your gut. http://www.siboinfo.com/ Dr Allison Siebecker will do skype calls with you. If you visit her once in person then I think the skype calls can be full up patient doctor..

Things to get rid of:

All Vegetable oils. (This seems like a no brainer but of course research.)
All Dairy. (research)
White Sugar
Soy Protein Powder.

You might study the work of:

http://www.dr-gonzalez.com/index.htm

He is WAPF friendly but not Paleo. He has a video series in cancer that is interesting. Being his patient involves one flight a year to NY. My friend visits him.

-Ketogenic Paleo Diet -GAPS bone broth -Intermittent Fasting -Low Dose Naltrexone & IV Alpha Lipoic Acid -Curcumin BCM95 -Vitamin D levels up to 80

Depends what kind of cancer really and the prognosis given. In all cases, simply tightening up diet and getting all metabolic ducks in a row is going to help immensely. If prognosis is good (80+% recovery, life extension on the order of years), do the standard cancer treatment regimen. That with a good diet puts one in the best position for recovery. If however prognosis is poor even with treatment (less than 20%, treatment extending life just months as opposed to years), rely on diet, move close to a medical marijuana dispensary, and enjoy what time I have left.

Well, it depends on the cancer, how far advanced it is, the treatment options, and the prognosis. But no matter what those variables might be, I'd be researching the hell out of it in order to make the most informed decisions possible.

I'm not one for passively trusting financial advisors, veterinarians, lawyers, or anyone else to know everything and automatically act in my best interests; as a client I'm actively involved and willing to do a lot of homework and ask a lot of questions (which makes me a pain in the ass to some, and a dream client to others). And I'm the same way with physicians. No matter how caring others may be, I'm always going to be my own best advocate.

My particular beliefs about death are such that I'd be okay with choosing palliative care and enjoying what quality of life I might have left over waging a desperate, agonizing battle with a poor chance of survival. I don't want to die, but I'm not afraid of it.

If the outcome is promising, however, I'd go with conventional treatment, supplemented by any alternative means that studies have shown to be useful, or else would obviously do no harm. One thing that seems to be very helpful to those undergoing chemo is fasting, during which the body's normal cells get a chance to put up their defenses against stressors--defenses cancer cells usually don't have. I've seen friends and family suffer horribly from the effects of chemo, which weakened them even further. So if fasting can potentially reduce those toxic effects, I'll do it.

Doubling-down as far as diet goes is another step I'd definitely take. There's a lot of small things where I'm not strictly paleo, so I'd optimize my diet.

But, to be honest, I really don't know what else I'd do. So much would depend on currently-unknown variables that I won't know unless I'm ever in that position--which I would greatly prefer not to be.

Long bouts of water-fasting. green-juice fasting. Lots of sun and relaxation. Sorry but Dr.Brian Clement of Hippocrates health institute has healed many of degenerative,chronic diseases through the use of fasting and green juice fasting. I'm not saying meat would slow down the healing or anything. Just saying so far fasting and herbs seem to be the best choice in my opinion.

Dr Schultzes incurables is a great adjunct to a high fat/mod protein/low carb diet. He is PETA vegan so I am just going to go over some herbals and other Schultze protocols. He told me there are 3 kind of people you wont cure. 1. It is just their time. 2. The disease serves a function..ie..my mom and her alcoholism. Everytime she drank she became the center of attention in the family again. 3. They are not willing to crawl over broken glass to get well.

He also said about herbs..."People go to a party, drink a 5th of Jack Daniels, smoke a pack of cigarettes and do an 8 ball of coke...but when it comes to herbs its.."do I take 2 drops of lobelia or 3?" Take herbs like you are partying. Get strong, organic, properly prepared herbs. I drowned cancer patients in Echinacea and it never burned out their immune systems"...so speaks Dr. Richard Schultze. I spoke to a lot of people he was successful with, cancer included. + 1 for the medical marijuana...California looks ok again.

I was recently suddenly diagnosed with breast cancer, operated upon (lumpectomy), and had my port installed for chemo. At diagnosis I modified my paleo diet (where my occassional cheat was rice-based spring roll wrappers or some so-so chocolate) to strict paleo with CR (calorie restriction) and did a couple of 36 hour fasts before the lumpectomy. I did a couple somewhat lesser fasts since my operations but out of concern for healing, didn't go too long (24 hour). I researched all the supplements I take and actually trimmed back a bit to just turmeric and my fish oil unless I was scheduled for a procedure, then I quit both a few days in advance. I have lost 10 lbs in the last 2 months on the calorie restriction and that put me down in a good "normal" range for my height which is excellent. Those last 10 lbs had been giving me a bit of trouble for about 6 months (weight plateau) prior to this dx and not being overweight is a factor for good prognosis. In order to get enough calorie restriction to get the scale to move, I have cut back on protein and fat servings somewhat. I also have added back in a serving or two of fruit per day. I mostly previously restricted them because of digestive issues with some of them. Since I primarily have added berries back in, I don't have a lot of GI issues with the fruit addition but I have to be conservative with citrus and apples even though they have great flavonoids in them.

I have not modified my diet much. I think a couple years of paleo has prepped my body well for further sugar restriction (BC is pretty sugar hungry) and for fasting. I am not betting entirely on diet but breast cancer has a lot of research behind it: I have estrogen stimulated BC so I'll go on a hormone blocker after a 3 month stint of chemo (I have an aggressive BC.) I don't love the idea of chemo but with the Oncotype that I have, it's highly recommended. I think modern surgeons are awesome. I think Oncologists are catching up.

Not a good place to be, and hopefully by adhering to the main tenets of paleo - especially grain-free and IF, along with getting vitamin D status up, you won't have to confront the nightmare. Going keto needs an "assist" in the form of lots of coconut oil.

The very first thing I'd do, while I get all the above STRICTLY dialled in, is get myself on LOW DOSE NALTREXONE - look this up! While this might not be "paleo" it IS something that might save your life. I would almost certainly refuse any form of conventional treatment - dependent on the diagnosis.

Conventional chemotherapy has an extremely low success rate! Evidence for this can be found in a completely impartial statistical analysis reported in "Superfreakonomics" (of all places). (NB There ARE some cancers that respond well, eg Hodgkin's disease, a form of lymphoma - and these are reported in the reference)

Go to the Hippocrates Institute in Florida- it is a vegan diet there but all juices, sprouts, raw and I personally know people who were told they had only months to live who went there are completely 100% recovered. I think that when your body is that damaged you need tons of nutrients and antioxidants infused into your system- you also need emotional healing, resting, yoga, support- all of which the H.I. provides.

Yeah it's pretty outrageous how many people on this Paleo Hacks page are supporting conventional cancer treatment, really? On a paleo site?

You people need to take your conventional wisdom or lack their of and keep it off of this site, this is paleo hacks not a site for western medicine ignorant degenerates, open your mind to the truth and read! a little more. Doctors get a large comission for prescribing chemo. Educate yourselves, make some friends in the medical field to learn about this disgusting truth, they essentially make money from a relatively uneffective dangerous procedure when simply water fasting and swimming in natural bodies of water (earthing) is more effective.

If I was to spontaneously get cancer (which I wouldn't ever) I would personally start juicing greens particularly home grown mineral rich wheatgrass mixed with coconut water/milk to make more palatable and would also add a generous amount of turmeric and ginger to it with a bit of bee pollen for taste or stevia. I'd also consume sulfur rich foods like fermented onions or saurkraut to accelerate my body's natural detoxifying antioxidant known as glutiathone.

I would also keep the fructose to a minimum get loads of sun every day and would swim in a lake or any clean body of water routinely as well to lower inflammation and regulate my hormones.

I would probably also hit the infrared sauna every day and might even do a niacin flush to clear out the toxins stored in my fat cells.

The last and probably most powerful thing I would do is keep a strong positive belief that I've already beat the cancer. I would also constantly watch my favorite comedy videos as depression has been shown to lower the immune system.

My daughter was diagnosed with stage 4 brain cancer on the brain stem at the age of 7. There was and still is no chemo for that type of tumor. Little did I know that it would work in her favor! They told us radiation would extend her life to 12 mos at the most and that even with radiation, the tumor would never shrink. We started supplements and an organic macrobiotic diet with chicken, turkey, fish and bison and green smoothies. She regained energy but tumor didn't shrink or grow. After 1 1/2 years I watched Crazy, Sexy, Cancer. We attempted a raw vegan diet but took me numerous times of getting back on the horse. We finally remained raw vegan for a year with lots of veggie juicing. Toward the end of that year we started wheatgrass juicing. 3 weeks into wheatgrass, the tumor shrunk down to nothing. She eventually had some sugar issues-cause of raw cow milk that we had started a few weeks prior. After some research we started a paleo diet about 1 year after sugar issues began. It got her sugar issues under control. Cancer cells spiked 5 months into paleo. We went back on a vegan diet with lots of ancient grains and veggies and fruits and juicing. Cells went down soon after. Cancer and tumor remains non existent and we are now considered completely out of danger by the docs. My daughter is now going to be 12 and has zero health issues. We eat vegan and juice wheatgrass daily. We eat all organic and non GMO. We also removed all houshold chemicals in the beginning. And that rule still remains.

ketogenic diet, nutritional healing, sauna, longlonglong vacation.