That seems unlikely given she raised tens of thousands of dollars for her "treatment".
I was looking a bit more into the treatment provided by Dr. Dan Rogers. It's not 100% quackery, that's why her tumours did recede. However the reason why they got smaller was because of urea treatment, not because of Gerson therapy. So you can see the problem, when you mix one medical procedure that does work with the quackery that doesn't, patients then attribute their improvements to the Gerson therapy provided when in fact it was purely the urea treatment (and/or radiation therapy) that showed them signs of improvement. Urea treatment is of course not a cure for cancer on its own.
Gerson therapy most likely does more harm than good- the coffee enemas (being injected with hot coffee in her ass 5 times a day) are very dangerous and can be fatal, and almost certainly did her - a non-coffee drinker - way more harm than good. Vitamin supplements probably did more harm than good. And the extremely restricted diet also would have been counter-productive. To put it another way, giving a cancer patient food in the form of liquids 13 times a day in itself is probably not a bad idea, but you would want it to be energy dense - not based purely on fruits and vegetables. And you'd want to provide complete nutrition in whatever diet you are feeding your patient - Gerson therapy is based on a naturopathic diet designed in the 1920's. Even if it were well designed then (which it wasn't), it has not followed advances in modern nutrition science.
I was looking a bit more into the treatment provided by Dr. Dan Rogers. It's not 100% quackery, that's why her tumours did recede. However the reason why they got smaller was because of urea treatment, not because of Gerson therapy. So you can see the problem, when you mix one medical procedure that does work with the quackery that doesn't, patients then attribute their improvements to the Gerson therapy provided when in fact it was purely the urea treatment (and/or radiation therapy) that showed them signs of improvement. Urea treatment is of course not a cure for cancer on its own.
Gerson therapy most likely does more harm than good- the coffee enemas (being injected with hot coffee in her ass 5 times a day) are very dangerous and can be fatal, and almost certainly did her - a non-coffee drinker - way more harm than good. Vitamin supplements probably did more harm than good. And the extremely restricted diet also would have been counter-productive. To put it another way, giving a cancer patient food in the form of liquids 13 times a day in itself is probably not a bad idea, but you would want it to be energy dense - not based purely on fruits and vegetables. And you'd want to provide complete nutrition in whatever diet you are feeding your patient - Gerson therapy is based on a naturopathic diet designed in the 1920's. Even if it were well designed then (which it wasn't), it has not followed advances in modern nutrition science.
For Religion & Health see:[/b][/size] Williams & Sternthal. (2007). Spirituality, religion and health: Evidence and research directions. Med. J. Aust., 186(10), S47-S50. -LINK
The WIN/Gallup End of Year Survey 2013 found the US was perceived to be the greatest threat to world peace by a huge margin, with 24% of respondents fearful of the US followed by: 8% for Pakistan, and 6% for China. This was followed by 5% each for: Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, North Korea. -LINK
"That's disgusting. There were clean athletes out there that have had their whole careers ruined by people like Lance Armstrong who just bended thoughts to fit their circumstances. He didn't look up cheating because he wanted to stop, he wanted to justify what he was doing and to keep that continuing on." - Nicole Cooke
The WIN/Gallup End of Year Survey 2013 found the US was perceived to be the greatest threat to world peace by a huge margin, with 24% of respondents fearful of the US followed by: 8% for Pakistan, and 6% for China. This was followed by 5% each for: Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, North Korea. -LINK
"That's disgusting. There were clean athletes out there that have had their whole careers ruined by people like Lance Armstrong who just bended thoughts to fit their circumstances. He didn't look up cheating because he wanted to stop, he wanted to justify what he was doing and to keep that continuing on." - Nicole Cooke
