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Dr Max Gerson's contribution to Cancer treatment

Dear WDDTY

I was absolutely staggered that you should present the Chinese cancer study as a "breakthrough", hailing it as an important boost for the idea that nutrition plays a part in disease prevention.

In the early part of this century, Dr Max Gerson cured his first cancer patient and went on to cure many others until his death in 1959. His therapy was detoxification, plus administration of needed nutrients in juices every hour. The Gerson clinic is forced to continue in Mexico, since it is illegal in the US. Jill Donisthorpe, Nairobi, Kenya.....

WDDTY replies: See WDDTY vol 2 no 7 for a full report on alternative cancer methods, including Gerson's.

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