Actually I have an entire book full of natural and home remedies collected from around the world and through the ages - and as time goes by I will be sharing them here (as I am doing slowly but surely on my websiter http://www.tbyil.com - be sure to come visit and let me know what you think of what I am trying to do). Thanks

You follow the suggestions in the article and dedicate yourself to a very healthy diet and lifestyle and you beat it! See "The Berkson Clinical Study" http://www.tbyil.com/berkson.htm

Miss "A", as you very well know, I deleted your other posts because they contained uncalled for personal attacks aganst me. You have no idea who I am, what I have done, or what kind of person I am. Perhaps THAT is what you should research! As it is, you can do any search on any subject you wish, but do realize that I will reject any study funded by industry or those connected with it, because it has been conclusively proven that mainstream funded studies provide favorable results for those who fund them five time more often than similar studies that are independently funded. In other words, just like our legislators, our laws, and our government and public agencies, the trillion dollar big drug and big medicine empire has largely bought them off. Their only marketplace is our bodies, and cancer is a $400 Billion dollar a year industry whose continued profits, and the continued existence of many agencies, depends on NOT finding a cure, and certainly not allowihg any natural competition that might be safer, more effective and far less expensive.

I have no problem debating whatever you come up with or any defense you may wish to make about the evil system of managed illness that serves as our medical care. However, if you continue to pepper you posts with your venomous and snide remarks and unfounded accusations, no matter what other information they contain, they are not going to last long where I have a say. And the same holds true if you continue to be less than truthful in your comments about what you have done in your previous posts.

Well Deb A, that is quite an improvement from calling me a cancer who preys on others and my actions criminal - not exactly the way to get off on a friendly footing. Let me ask you, where do you think all of the scientific terms in my article came from if not from science and studies? I didn't pull them out of the air and they certainly did not come from testimonials. The ABM mushroom description quotes studies. As for the rest of the mushrooms, all you have to do to find all the studies you could want is to go to PubMed and put in the mushroom's name, or do a google search for the name of the mushroom plus scientific studies. For example, if you look in PubMed for Shiitake mushrooms you will find 131 studies. Maitake has 63, Reishi 199, Coriosus Versicolor 33. and Cordyceps 10. Oh yeah, and the ABM mushroom has 664 (you must enter the search as the agaricus mushroom and not ABM though).

As far as I am aware, the biggest study on medicinal mushrooms was the landmark study conducted by the UK through the University of Strathclyde. I have it among my hundreds of files and references, but I fear it would be impractical to reproduce here since I have it as a 10 part .pdf download that totals 2.6 megabytes. However, I highly recommend it for scientific types such as yourself, and you should be able to locate a copy of the impressive government sponsored study with a minimum of searching. Here are the details:

University of Strathclyde

Medicinal Mushrooms:
Their therapeutic properties and current medical usage with special emphasis on cancer
treatments

May 2002

Smith, Rowan and Sullivan

And finally, to answer one of your questions about how I would feel if I caused someone to forego mainstream treatment and instead pursue natural alternatives- if they decided to pursue one of the natural alternatives I know that work and have confidence in, I would feel marvelous and quite confident that they had a much better chance of survival. As a matter of fact, I would almost NEVER recommend that anyone pursue mainstream treatment of cancer. I would however, recommend that anyone who has been told by mainstream medicine that there is no hope should pursue nature, because in most instances there is very much hope unless mainstream medicine has not strung them along for too long and damaged them beyond repair.

Somehow, miss highly excitable and skeptical Deb A (note that I am being nice), I have a feeling that you are really going to freak when I start posting my series of articles about the main subject of my book and previous research - the oleander plant! Just be nice and I will answer all your questions and provide you proof of that as well.

Deb - I think that there are natural remedies for rabies too. Do you notice any foaming at the mouth?

Just FYI - I do not promote mushrooms as a sole cure for cancer. The article is merely an informative one about the best ones with cancer fighting and immune boosting characteristics. If you doubt what I wrote, go to PubMed, do a search and come back and apologize for spouting off.

NOW, on the other hand I personally tell people all the time that their bodies are their own and that, regardless of how mainstream medicine has rigged the laws and suppressed the truth, they have a God given right to address their own health issues and their own bodies as they see fit - and my recommendation is to look both inside the mainstream box and outside it.

Inside the box you see over a half century of lies, broken promises, juggled statistics and conflicts of interest to support the failed mainstream treatment methods of trying to cut away, burn away or poison away the symptoms of cancer. Inside the box, you see man created synthetic drugs and patentable unique isolates in forms not encountered in nature, and over 95% of those drugs have side effects that lead to other drugs so that by the time an average man reaches 65 years old he takes no fewer than 15 prescribed and over the counter medications daily when it all began with one or two conditions that could have been treated naturally.

Outside the box you see what God promised us in abundance, all kinds of botanicals, fungi, vitamins, minerals, sunshine, oxygen, water, - and the right diet and nutrition, along with a healthy overall lifestyle and the right supplementation with natural God given plants can achieve what man has never been able to achieve (or actually even wanted to achieve when you get to the top levels of the highly profitable Big Pharma companies).

Most people who have followed my advice came to me only after mainstream medicine had failed to help them. In many instances nature had to not only beat cancer and/or other serious illness, but also had to overcome the damage to the immune system and major organs caused by the barbaric methods of using chemo and/or radiation to try to poison or burn away the cancer before the treatment itself killed the patient.

You know nothing about me and it is obvious that you know nothing about nature or what mainstream medicine is really about. Stop being so insulting or I will remove your posts altogether. Civil debate and discussion is one thing, but mindless name calling and insults is not something I tolerate at Yahoo, nor at CureZone and I will not tolerate it here either.

Scientific proof? How about hundreds of living patients who are alive today after mainstream medicine gave up on them? And let me ask you - when exactly did God become a quack?

"You can't go around making claims like this."

Sure I can - going aroung making claims like this is what I do. I have spent tens of thousands of hours researching natural health in general and natural ways to avoid and beat cancer in particular. I am the author of a book titled "Cancer's Natural Enemy" which has sold in over 15 countries and is praised on prominent alternative and natural health sites, the host of the Yahoo forum group "Oleandersoup" and the CureZone forum "Ask Tony Isaacs" as well as a respected contributor to Cancer Compass and numerous other sites. Don't blame me because mainstream medicine's only market is our bodies and cancer is a $400 billion dollar industry that depends on no cures and no natural competition.

FYI - while the mushrooms listed do have track records of being very strong cancer fighters and immune boosters, some more so than others, I would not recommend using mushrooms as the sole way of fighting cancer. There are other stronger natural alternatives, but mushrooms could be a good part of an overall protocol that included proper diet, lifestyle, removal of toxins, clean air, sunshine, fresh water, exercise and proper supplementation.

What I would NEVER recommend is the barbaric mainstream methods of trying to cut, burn and poison away symptoms of cancer instead of treating the underlying causes (or preventing them in the first place).

Someday mankind will look back on the past half century of surgery, chemo and radiation and deem the failed war on cancer as the true dark ages of so-called modern medicine. - Tony