Care Oncology Clinic

[Driebergen]

Hi!

I am reading a book called “How to starve cancer” and the author recommends a clinic in the UK called; Care Oncology clinic.

Has any of you have experiences with this clinic?

Thank you so much!

[Redditch]

Hi. My wife read that book and we went to them. They've had some really good results with brain tumours. My wife had 3c ovarian cancer. The theory is that cancer needs sugar and fats to feed on so they give you Metformin the diabetic drug which blocks the sugar and a child's wormer that blocks the fats alternated with a generic antibiotic and aspirin to stop sticky blood spreading the cancer cells.

It's pretty cheap about £70 a month.

It's side effects free

It gave my wife a bit more time

She was diagnosed at 3C at 63, statistics said she had less than a year but we had 18 months.

The symptom free and hospital free nature of it was appealing.

[Driebergen in reply to Redditch]

Thank you very much for your reply.

[Joglew]

Hello. My husbant has 4 stage colon cancer. He had consultation with COC in London as well as treatment to block cancer feeding pathways. From Semptember 2023 he has no evidence of disease. I think it helps.

[Driebergen in reply to Joglew]

That is amazing. Thank you for sharing!

[Lilymay9]

hello there I also read that book when I was diagnosed with Clear Cell ovarian in 2020. I did do some research and the clinic in London were very helpful in explaining what they did and how they work. I decided to add a few supplements myself and still take a couple today. My oncologist was open to me trying but interestingly I went to Guys Hospital in London and the consultant there said she wouldn’t bother!( but don’t quote me!) I hope this helps. Sending love

Marg xxx

[Driebergen in reply to Lilymay9]

Thank you very much! ❤️

[StilCrazy]

Hi Driebergen

[edited by moderator] The COC is a group of oncologists trying to implement a Western-Medicine-recognised, formal version of attacking cancer according to the Metabolic Model. The NHS and all other oncologists work on the older Genetic Model. The idea is you still work with the NHS (or private) oncologists. The COC uses well known drugs that are out of patent and therefore known to be safe after long use in the field. These drugs have been found to have anti cancer effects in patients using them for other reasons. They use them to block the 3 main energy pathways that all cancer cells use, and healthy cells don't use in the same way. In this way the healthy cells around the cancer continue to function and the cancerous ones cannot access the glucose/fat/protein they need because the pathways are blocked. The "How to Starve Cancer Book" also uses a number of supplements and goes a lot further than these doctors can,because they are constrained by the laws that control western medicine . However, they are demonstrating success and hopefully one day some of these old drugs will be formally trialled and relabelled for this use. Currently they are being used off label. I have been on them for a year and have outlived my prognosis. I have a friend who is considered a miracle by her oncologist. She was expected to die within a few months of chemo. Alive 3 yrs later (but had breast cancer not OC) But we have both also changed a lot of other things in our lives, so I believe it all plays a part and we cannot assume it is just that thing.

[Driebergen in reply to StilCrazy]

Thank you so much. It seems, after reading all the replies, that it is worth it!

Thanks again

[bamboo89]

I went for a consultation there I think in 2019, a while after my diagnosis and surgery in Jan 2018 of stage 4b OC. They were very pleasant and informative, but I was not able to take all of the drugs they recommend either because of allergy or because I was on permanent blood thinners. As I recall, what they wanted me to take were five drugs - metformin, atorvastatin, flarin (an anti-inflammatory drug), an antibiotic (might have been doxycycline can't quite recall) and I think mebendazole, a de-worming drug. They also made it clear this regime was meant to be taken alongside standard treatments such as chemotherapy, that it was not a substitute for standard treatment. I'd gone there in hopes of avoiding chemotherapy, and the fact that at least two of the drugs they recommend I was not able to take meant I decided not to adopt their regime, although the doctor I saw helpfully told me that the ranitidine I was already taking also had an anti cancer effect - pity it was withdrawn a while back, but I imagine the replacement I chose (Fomatidine) has the same anti cancer effect, since it is also an HC agonist rather than the more standard PPI drugs. Pretty sure the doctor I saw also told me that anti allergy drugs such as loratadine help too, which makes sense, since most of the drugs they recommend have an anti-inflammatory effect. I did intend to go back a few months later for another chat, but Covid happened and none of us was going anywhere...

Despite being stage 4b with two types of OC since January 2018, I am now into my seventh year - I have had limited chemo treatments, only two courses of carboplatin two years apart and am now about to complete a third course, which seems to have done something judging by my falling CA125. But I have to say It is a surprise to me (and my MacMillan nurse) that I am still here, I kind of expected just a couple of years survival because I spent most of that time refusing chemotherapy when it was offered; it just goes to show no one can really tell how long we've got...

Best wishes and if you do decide to have a consultation with COC, they do make a charge for that consultation, it was £100 when I went back then.

Miriam

[Driebergen in reply to bamboo89]

Miriam, thank you for taking time to share your experience!

So helpful. Wishing you many more years!

[bamboo89 in reply to Driebergen]

Thanks, though I'm not at all sure I want many more years, will shortly be 74 and everything else has either stopped working or is about to... this aging lark is really no fun at all😀

[Driebergen in reply to bamboo89]

I should have said “wishing you comfortable years!”

[bamboo89 in reply to Driebergen]

😂😃

[delia2]

I’m pretty sure there’s a Care Oncology Clinic in the US as well, but I can’t remember where.

[Driebergen in reply to delia2]

Ooh, that would be convenient. I will do some research. Thank you!

[Driebergen in reply to delia2]

You are so right. There is a care oncology clinic in Richmond, VA. Thank you!!

[Goodgirl98]

wow, this has been such an encouraging thread to read, to say the least. I did a 3 month holistic wellness program after the surgery and chemo cycles were over. It covered diet, meditation and sleep. A couple of supplements I still have are the probiotics and anti inflammatory recommendations like curcumin. I have this book but found it a difficult read- couldn't assimilate the details, so left it 25%in. Might have to give it a second try although not sure if said clinics are in India or nearby countries.

Are there supplements tweaked for each person in this clinic or they are proposed in general for all OC?

[marra159 in reply to Goodgirl98]

Where did you do your holistic wellness program?

[Driebergen in reply to Goodgirl98]

Hi,

The book is a little challenging to read. The Facebook group members “How to starve cancer” seem to agree on that. Some mentioned her online course and said it was very easy to understand. I am thinking of trying said online course.

howtostarvecancer.com/

There are 2 Care Oncology clinics. One is in the UK, the other in the US in Virginia.

When I find out more, I will let you know!