DO NOT LET YOUR GUARD DOWN!! When I look at the research on cancer, I see that the medical profession does not try to fix the ROOT CAUSE OF CANCER. In my opinion, it is principally the diet that allows cancer to grow and flourish by giving the cell that becomes cancerous the food (glucose from sugar and other carbs) to grow and not providing the body with its' natural DNA repair tools - Vitamins (especially D), minerals and anti-oxidants.

So be sure your mother keeps her Vitamin D levels at the high end of the preferred range (even above a little) which is what I do. Then keep the sugars low using saturated fat (butter coconut oil etc.) for energy.

Even men that have only a small tumor found after total removal of the prostate, have no lymph node involvement, and have a low Gleason score (a measure of aggressiveness of the cancer) STILL have a 4% chance of reoccurrence even though the urologist will tell them that they are cured. Malignant cells constantly break away from the primary tumor. Most are killed by the immune system but some will lodge in other tissues and start to grow there - MAYBE. The reasons for metastasis occurring in some people and not in others are not really well known. So it is a "crap shoot" with traditional treatments, even chemo which you would think would hunt down cancer anywhere in the body.

Best wishes to your mother.

Thanks, all, and thanks LarryAJ for the additional thoughts. I'd like to think she'll stay vigilant about lowcarb, and the continued vitamin D is a given.

The diagnosis of cancer is worse than cancer itself. We all have natural cancer cells as some sort of defensive mechanism which is why the body doesn't fight the cancer cells itself. Needless to say at this point but the modern medicine is all wrong about cancer and that simply is not a coincidence. Cancer has become a 400 billion $ industry and growing and like any industry it will devour people, land or resources. To find out more, just read this book "Cancer is not a disease - It's a survival mechanism

http://books.google.ca/books?id=lij...epage&q&f=false