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I’m Not Saying We’ve Cured Cancer, but My Husband Has “No Detectable Abnormality”

The cancer has gone away

Susie K 🐹 Guinea pig slave
World Of Wellness
5 min readJun 7, 2023

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My husband was diagnosed with prostate cancer in October 2021. A scan identified a cluster of abnormal cells that turned out to be cancer.

It was a shock, but the good news was that it was a slow growing type, which ‘might not do anything’ so we were in a good position to experiment with an unconventional health regime. The consultant wanted to monitor it, not treat it, because it’s at such an early stage.

Apparently prostate cancer is common and not everyone who has it knows they’ve got it. Some people die from something else with a slow growing tumour that’s never caused any issues.

Nonetheless, we’d rather not have cancer, because we also know people who’ve died from prostate cancer. And if left to its own devices, it could turn nasty. So we decided to go onto an anti-cancer regime.

Anti-cancer regime

My husband and I have been following this regime together for 18 months. The results have been promising recently - his blood marker for prostate cancer has been going down.

He has regular blood tests to measure the PSA (prostate specific antigen), an indicator of cancer. He’s been charting the results…

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Susie K 🐹 Guinea pig slave
Susie K 🐹 Guinea pig slave

Written by Susie K 🐹 Guinea pig slave

Freelance journalist UK. Published in BBC Countryfile, The Mirror, Britain mag etc. Covers writing, health, psychology, memoir, current affairs, & environment.

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