One additional but major mistake, made with all cancer cases, is the one occurring when dealing with cancer testing in general, but post L.I.E.S.H. Therapy in particular. A major error happens with the way the progress, or more adequately the regression of the cancer is tested and/or monitored. Medical tradition insists on using pretty much the same kind of testing before as well after treatment; the principle applies in general, independently from the treatment selected. What kind of fundamental principle was used in such a determination is still a mystery to us, but common sense does not seem to be involved.

Even before considering the significance of such a choice in the case of our therapy, let’s evaluate what happens to patients following standard treatments in full and to the dot. Based on the well known and proven effects of chemotherapy and radiation on the human body, it is impossible to deny that after standard treatments the immune system is tremendously damaged, sometimes beyond repair. Still MRI and PET scans are the required steps, to monitor a patient’s progress; but if you consult professional text books you will find that such tests recognize active cancer by looking for unusual activities in the body, all triggered by the immune system.

If the immune system has been effectively destroyed, temporarily or not, how can such tests have any significance in determining the patient’s progress? However, this could completely explain why patients, sometimes only a few months after being diagnosed “Cancer-Free”, are informed that their cancer has “returned”; this occurrence is of course explained as due to a very aggressive cancer condition, instead of admitting that the cancer was never destroyed and was in fact temporarily dormant.

So how do we explain that in some patients the “reoccurrence” of their cancer is not detected by PET scan until months, sometimes a few years later? Could this have something to do with the time their body requires to fully repair its immune system? We believe so. Our conclusion is also strongly confirmed by what happens to our patients, if they do not follow our guidelines for appropriate post-treatment testing. We clearly state and repeatedly explain that of the presently existing tests, the only ones capable of detecting death of tissue are the Ultrasound with Color Doppler and CT Scans with contrast; we also repeatedly explain that MRI, PET Scans and Biopsies are inadequate tools.

Invariably our patients, after going back home and sometimes seeking independent confirmation of our results, end up consulting an oncologist and they are basically informed that MRIs, PET Scans and biopsies are the “Gold Standard” in cancer testing and, if we are opposing them, it is simply an effort to “hide the facts”! The nicest explanation we can give to this behavior is the fact that traditionally, over the centuries, medicine has always violently opposed any change and, by claiming “undisputed” expertise, not to mention self-proclaimed divinity status, medical “professionals” have been successful in convincing the majority of the public that theirs is the only way.

We advise the patients to strictly request an Ultrasound with Color Doppler or a CT scan with contrast, because only these tests can give the appropriate answer. The first one can demonstrate the absence of blood flow within the tumor. Even though it is obvious that no blood flow means no life, this proof is criticized and even ridiculed, with absurd comments indicating that absence of blood flow is immaterial because cancer can grow new vasculature in a week. That might be true, but how is that possible after death?

The other type of test we indicate as appropriate is a CT scan with contrast, simply because dead tissue cannot absorb the contrast agent and it will appear like normal tissue on the scan. Unfortunately even this evidence is challenged with two major comments: either the cancer has invaded the surrounding tissue in its entirety or the CT scan was not helpful, consequently a PET scan is required. That conclusion contradicts every text book on the subject.

Since we have already explained why MRIs and PET scans are the wrong tests to perform after our therapy, we would like to highlight why a biopsy also falls outside the range of significance. We are actually not the first ones to state this fact; other independent research groups have reported this finding, but few individuals are aware of it, due to uncommon use of Photo-Dynamic Therapy in standard “care”. The equipment and method used for biopsies can only allow to view details in the nucleus of a cell; this situation is also aggravated by the general misgiving that, once to cancerous tissue has been killed, it no longer looks like cancer! That is altogether a pretty ridiculous belief, probably derived from the fact that radiation totally obliterates the tissue by generating excessive heat, while the poison introduced with chemotherapy disrupts and damages nuclear matter beyond recognition. On the opposite side of the spectrum, Hyperthermia only damages the cytoplasm of cells, disrupting the function of the sub-cellular components responsible for the support of life.

This fact makes confirmation of tissue death a lot more complicated and restricted to specialized research groups. In conclusion, the lack of knowledge in the ranks of medical professionals is the source of unfair and unfounded attacks to the LMI Team and the perpetuation of unnecessary suffering in the ever increasing crowd of cancer patients.