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My Answer to Cancer-Get Lost!
by author Daniel Crisafi, MH, PhD

I’m not the kind of person who likes to talk about himself. So, when I was asked to write an article about my experience with cancer, I felt quite uneasy, as I’m afraid that people will try to copy what I have done as though it were a magic recipe. We are unique individuals who respond in unique ways because of genetic, congenital, acquired, sociological, psychological and cultural variations. The objective of this article is to give you encouragement should you or a loved one be faced with the life threat that is cancer.

If you have cancer or support someone who does, never forego the help of a competent health professional. If you can, get the collaboration of an oncologist (the cancer specialist) and a naturopathic doctor or holistic medical doctor. Please bear in mind that the cancer patient is ultimately responsible for the therapies she decides to use and don’t dismiss the fact that an incredible number of scientific studies have demonstrated the essential role of lifestyle in preventing and recovering from cancer even with conventional medical treatments.

My Story

I was diagnosed with prostate cancer nearly 20 years ago. For reasons probably related to pride, I hid the fact from my immediate family and friends. (Don’t do that. You will need the nurturing support of loved ones as you go through your cancer. And, if you’re supporting someone who has cancer, don’t overindulge or pity them.) After the diagnosis I was offered the usual conventional medical treatments: chemotherapy and possible surgery. While I was reflecting on whether to use them I remembered how my father used to shop in health food stores as early as the mid 60s. He’d buy vitamin E, lecithin, linden bark and whole wheat bread. This was unusual in the late 60s. I decided to visit a health food store myself.

I went to a small local health food store, the kind that many of us remember. Old wooden floors, the constant and varying scent of herbal teas, bulk bins and an old peanut mill in the far left hand corner of the store. The clerk was very attentive to my comments, criticisms and scientific superiority. When I finally admitted I had cancer, she didn’t laugh at me or look at me in a condescending way like I expected. She gently but firmly suggested that I might need to change my lifestyle–dramatically. Gently, yet still firmly, she placed a book in my hands. The book was about a cancer cure used in the clinic of a bona fide medical doctor in Scandinavia. The doctor’s name was Kristina Nolfi and the book Raw Food Treatment of Cancer. Dr Nolfi had studied with German healer Rudolf Breuss.

My Eyes Were Opened!

Daniel Crisafi is a naturopathic doctor and a member of the Canadian Health Food Association board of directors.

Source: alive #222, April 2001