My father has bone cancer. The cancer has spread to his bones from his kidey which was removed two years ago. He had 6 tumors in his legs that had eaten almost through, in his hip, in his shoulder and in his skull. he is undergoing radiation treatment for the second time to reduce the tumors and relieve the excrutiating pain he is in. he also wears a morphine patch just to function. I wonder if anyone has anything to say about treating someone during the radiation to help with the side affects? or about renal cell cancer spread to bones at all.
Michelle

This would be a challenging case to treat with homoeopathy, and with all the radiation and drugs, I am not sure how well you would do.

There are some good palliative homoeopathic medicines for the pain of cancer, but they need to be chosen on the basis of the symptoms, as per normal. Especially useful is the mental state at this point.

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we can palliate and control the later stages of cancer and its pain with our remedies.
One of the remedy for radiation hazards is Rad.brom.
The mode of selection is by similimm alone.
jayakumar

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CADMIUM SULPH.!!!!!
This is the main remedy for the side effects of chemo and radiation. Take as often as needed, but I would drop a few pellets of the 30C potency into a small spring water bottle, half full, and succuss (pound into the opposite palm) 10 times before each use in order to make it ever-so-slightly stronger each time so a tolerance isn't built up. A swallow is a dose.

As a cancer treatment, try giving
Symphytum 6C 4 times a day--which is homeopathic comfrey, what the Indians called knit-bone. Be prepared to stop this remedy from time to time in order to treat acutes when they arise, like severe pain. Aurum is often the remedy for this. You may want to keep Arsenicum on hand for anxiety. Resume the comfrey when the acute is resolved.

Cancer patients have many acutes and you have to be prepared for them.

In Luc De Schepper's book, Hahnemann Revisited, he has a whole section on treating cancer, which you may want to buy just for that, even though you would love the whole book.

Ten grams of Vitamin C a day would be a big plus. Spread it out, though; it won't do him any good taken all at once.

Lots of raw fruit and vegetables and doing away with the junk food, and lots of carrot juice will really help too. Let me know if you have any more questions.

Sincerely,

Snoopy

Hi, it's me again. I've been thinking. The 3 main remedies for bone cancer are
Heckla Lava, Phosphorus and Symphytum. Of these 3, only Phosphorus is also a kidney remedy! So, I might want to change my mind and go with Phosphorus instead of Symphytum, especially if your father has other Phos. keynotes, such as desiring icy cold drinks.

Sincerely,

Snoopy

Westlake's Radiation remedy - which is a mixture of Bach Flower in a Nat Mur base - is available from Ainsworths in UK. It prevents the side effects if started before the treatment and continued during it. It can also be used for Chemo.

Homeopathy in advanced cancer cases is excellent to produce a better quality of life and to control the pain. Seek out someone who knows what they are doing.

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Snoopy..a friend of mine is visiting from erie, penn...his sister in law had breast cancer a few years ago...but now has bone cancer. I was just wondering does Carc come into play here at all...I thought that was given for the most part if any cancer in family or having cancer currently. Just wondering.

Carcinosin, as with any other remedy, must only be given when the symptoms fit. Not because anyone said "it should be given if there is cancer in the family". Everyone has some family member with cancer--it would be stupidly destructive to dose everyone with carcinosin indescriminately.

All the remedies listed above are good suggestions--but the basic rule always applies--give only when the symptoms match the remedy, when the remedy fits the case.

Two years ago, a friend of mine was diagnosed with cancer of the pancreas, and she "outlived" her prognosis by over a year; the problem she could not overcome in her treatment, ironically, resulted by not being treated in person. She consulted an extremely well known homeopath in India who has made cancer treatment a specialty--he treated her via email and telephone, and gave her excellent remedies in unfortunate, too-high potencies...something he would never have done if he had been able to see her in person. When he did finally come to Toronto to see her, the potencies he selected went from the 1M and 200c range to nothing higher than a 6c. Unfortunately, the damage had already been done. By then, the aggravations had become so painful my friend was put on morphine at the hospital...and that fed into the unlucky "one thing leads to another" pattern that soon ended her life.

So, be certain you find someone whose skills are well honed in this treatment, with experience treating patients homeopathically while they undergo traditional cancer therapies. Constant physical monitoring, with face to face consultation, is all important...I can't stress this enough, because I know that if the good homeopath who treated my friend had only consulted with her in person, his treatment could easily have saved her.

Divina

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That is so very sad, Divina. Sorry you lost your friend.

I vividly remember reading in Herbert Roberts book about palliation in deep pathology - he said it is very tricky and really takes an experienced Homeopath to do it. He said they are some of the hardest cases to treat effectively without hastening death.

I'm glad you posted this - because it is good sense, imo, in cases like this - for one to seek treatment in person. Especially since we know that often Homeopathy can turn things more than we could know in some cases. (I recall one case where he said the life-expectancy was weeks and the patient lived another few years without pain - in relative health considering her pathology).

Good luck Robidoux - all the best to you and your father,

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Dear Carol,

According to Robin Murphy, when cancer starts in one spot and is suppressed to another, the remedy choice is still for the original site, even though that site may have been removed. In other words, you'd be looking for a breast cancer remedy, not a bone cancer remedy. I would recommend ordering Robin Murphy's tapes: "Cancer I and II" from www.minimum.com for answers to questions about homeopathy and the treatment of cancer.

Sincerely,

Snoopy