My wife and I started preparations for going to India; visas, plane tickets, figuring out how to get to the doctor’s clinic, which is about 6 hours by train north of Delhi.

Typical Street in India

Typical Street in India

In the meantime, I had another CT scan, which revealed that the tumor had started to shrink. The oncologist told me that the effects of the radiation would continue for 6 to 8 weeks if I were to stop now, but that the tumor would probably return even more aggressively.

However, when I told him that I had decided to go to India to try something different, he was surprisingly supportive. In fact, all the nurses and technicians at the Cancer Clinic were supportive. I was quite surprised.

My wife, Sandra, worked like a Trojan and we left from Vancouver International Airport for India October 24th. There was a 24-hour layover in Japan (the airline put us up in their hotel for free) and we stopped in Delhi for 2 nights to catch our breath. Then, early in the morning, we boarded a very comfortable train for the 6-hour ride north. That was followed by a crazy taxi ride to the clinic.

We were in the clinic for 10 days, where I received massage with hot oil every day, along with a series of medicines manufactured at the clinic from herbs and specially refined metals. I was already feeling a bit better, so we stopped for a few days in a couple of other places in India before the return trip to Vancouver.

The cost of the stay and six-month supply of medicines that I took home with me was less than $2,000.  Cost to continue with them is about US$200 per month.  Dr. Prakash told me to take them for a total of two and a half years to ensure the cancer did not come back.

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