Liza has Stage 4 Brain Cancer. Please help her to help herself

Any cancer diagnosis is life changing but this one is particularly challenging.

The prognosis given by the doctors was 3 months survival without treatment and up to 15 months with treatment. But Liza’s family and friends are not about to accept this. Having undertaken hundreds of hours of research they have uncovered ‘hope’. Hope from hundreds of recent research studies that have unearthed a far greater survival rate and even possible remission by embracing natural and alternative therapies. But it’s going to be a fight that will take all of Liza’s determination and courage … and some help from friends and acquaintances to finance these therapies

Treating brain cancer is a very different process than treating cancer in any other part of the body because of the blood- brain barrier, which stops pathogens and molecules from passing from the blood into the brain. Whilst this is key to keeping the brain safe it also makes it hard to get drugs like chemotherapy in. There’s also the challenge that the brain tumour is a mix of cells so when you kill some the residual cells can take hold again and regrow. For this reason conventional treatments have a poor end result .

But if anyone’s prepared for this fight … Liza is. After years of rehabbing and rejuvenating many tired and broken racehorses into horses who have a will to win again – this time the fight’s for her.

To start this process Liza needs to be able to fund private MRI’s to first form a baseline for the size of her rapidly growing tumour and secondly monitor whether we’re spending donated money wisely. And no - without private insurance you don’t get this service. You actually have to have blind faith that conventional treatment is working even though we know the hugely limiting effect of these on this monster disease.

Having already had 3 brain surgeries in the last six weeks Liza starts conventional radiotherapy and chemotherapy on the 23rd November. Concurrently with this, Liza is taking advice on new immunotherapy which harnesses the body’s own immune defences to fight these rogue cells but it is likely that she will have to travel overseas to access this.

So in the meantime Liza is taking heed of the volumes of recent research that highlights how natural alternative therapies can help target these cancer cells. She is currently on an almost hourly intake of therapies including

Vitamin C

High potency curcumin / tumeric

Ruta 6

Calcarea phosphorica

Salvesterol

Boswellia

Melatonin

High dose vitamin D

Fish oil

Milk thistle

Berberine

Mushroom extract

Garlic

Cannaboid oil – being sought through an application to the National Health Board – has huge support as not just palliative but highly detrimental to brain cancer cells. Almost always now provided but at a huge cost.