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Laryngeal Tumour

Mr Les L. first came to see me on 22^nd May 2002. He had been diagnosed with a T4 N0 squamous carcinoma of supraglottic larynx "which extended through the thyroid cartilage to involve the strap muscles". His consultant had said that the only real cure was a total laryngectomy with post-operative radiotherapy. Les had heard of me through the nurse at his GP. He was a lovely man - 82 years old, and had been a music-hall act in the 1930's through to the 1950's, then an 'agent to the stars'. He was about to lose his voice, and suffer the ignominy of the box in the throat, with the ensuing problems with tubes, mucous, talking etc etc.

His tumour had been growing for approximately 18 months to two years - the GP had not reckoned it was cancer. Maybe brought on by the stress of losing his wife through Alzheimer's. Anyway . . .

He had been referred to a consultant at Southend General Hospital, whom he first saw in April 2002, when scans and a biopsy had been taken. At the follow-up meeting on May 13^th, Les was told that he needed surgery urgently; that if he did not have surgery he would be strangled in 3 months. His laryngectomy was scheduled for 11^th June 2002. No time to lose!

A scan revealed an under-active thyroid - but right next to it the flicker of a positive signal. Maybe the growth was taking 'energy' from his thyroid - certainly he seemed to have some calcium deficiency in his bones - he had previously been diagnosed with spondylosis in the neck.

So I hit him with a strong anti-inflammatory from the pulsed electronic field armoury, I again used a direct microcurrent device, and an optical unit pulsing light signals at the tumour. What I thought was the final piece of the jigsaw was giving him a programme to stimulate the seratonin in his brain. I had originally developed this as an anti-depressant (a sort-of electronic Prozac^®) but I found some research from the USA that suggested that seratonin was not just limited to the brain, but circulated around the body and actually invaded and destroyed cancer cells. He was also extremely breathless. (For a couple of months we followed every avenue - lung infections etc with the GP - but nothing seemed to work. In fact, the answer was much simpler!)

After only a couple of treatments, I could no longer see the flickering on the scan from the tumour. Had it already been switched off from growing? If this was the case, this was Dr Robert Becker's theories at their most optimistic.

After 12 treatments his throat looked good on the scan - and sometimes his voice seemed to have improved. It all depended on the breathlessness, which was up and down.

I thought, as with Mr D., that if I could have a month or so of treating the tumour, I could shrink it enough to justify a second opinion. So Les duly requested a second opinion. Unfortunately, he had a second opinion, in the same hospital, with a visiting consultant who had been given a brief by the first consultant. So not really a second, independent opinion. This second consultant told Les that the breathlessness was caused by his progressive strangulation. He told him that his 'breathlessness is OK while you're sitting here. But if I were to walk you up and down the corridor your breathlessness would return - it's because the tumour is strangling you'.
He recommended that Les MUST have a full laryngectomy within 3 or 4 weeks.

By a coincidence, I heard of an enzyme that could be taken that 'ate' dead tissue. So I thought - if the tumour is dead, then this enzyme might speed its disappearance. So on 23^rd July Les started taking this enzyme.

Les phoned the hospital to arrange his August review. By now it was 3 months after he needed the urgent surgery, and he was feeling a lot better. In fact, his voice seemed to be improving, and he was putting on weight. His GP received a letter from the Senior Registrar at the hospital that seemed to imply that the tumour was not as large as they had expected it to be.

I looked through Les's notes and was convinced that the breathlessness was exacerbated by stress - particularly dealing with the hospital.  So I suggested that, as Les was patently not getting any worse, then if the consultant did not object, Les would ask for his next review to be after three months instead of one month.

His years of blowing a mean jazz trumpet, followed by years of inactivity, and recently months of inactive lifestyle meant that his lungs were now lazy, and - as I thought - producing mucous at the rate of trumpet-blowing but without a physically-active lifestyle to match. So fluid on the lungs meant breathlessness.

Les attended hospital for his review on 5^th August. The consultant was surprised that the tumour 'had not grown'. The laryngectomy that the consultant had booked for the following week (!!) was duly postponed. The consultant told Les that either the tumour had stopped growing - or, more likely - that it was simply a slow-growing tumour and might take two years to strangle him! This was indeed progress!

What I now realised was that the enzyme was also anti-mucal, and so the improvement in the breathlessness was not actually anything to do with the tumour, but to the improvement in Les's lungs. So much for 'strangulation' !!

By the end of September, Les's voice had taken a real dive - for the better !! - he could have done voice-overs for advertisements for men's jeans or after-shave! It was really deep and leathery - still a bit gruff, but definitely getting deeper. He could now sing a scale and hit the lowest note clearly without any gruffness. I felt that the logic behind this was that, if the tumour was shrinking, then it would come OFF his vocal chords. So the length of his vocal chords would increase, with the subsequent lowering of the note - just like playing a guitar or violin string.

Now we were into November - the 4^th, Les has just finished treatment number 57, and his review with the consultant was the next day. ALL his friends had commented that his voice was MUCH better - deeper and clearer.

Les told the consultant about his voice - and the consultant actually agreed!

Let me sum this up by reproducing words from the consultant to the GP (dictated by Les with Les's full permission) :-

"Re Mr L - T4N0 squamous carcinoma supraglottic larynx.

Mr L had refused treatment for his advanced laryngeal carcinoma. He wished to pursue alternative therapy with crystals.

Friends have told him that his voice sounds better and I would have to agree with this.
On examination he had no palpable cervical lymphnodes. Flexible laryngoscopy certainly shows no evidence of disease progression. In fact I thought the swelling in the right aryepiglottic fold may have been a little smaller and there was no question that his right vocal cord is now mobile. Therefore I can only conclude that for whatever reason his disease may be showing some sign of regression.

Mr L……. would like to continue with crystal therapy, and given my findings today I cannot really argue with this."

OK so it's electronics, not crystal. But - the combination of all four therapies, plus the fact that Les had daily treatments of one form or another, means that it works ! Les has had NO other therapy !


Footnote as at 30^th December 2002 - Les appears perfectly healthy - no tumour, a clear voice, and no breathlessness. And he's had a good Christmas ! Also - maybe a coincidence - Les's last review where it was confirmed that his tumour was in regression was after 57 treatments - the exact same number that Mr D had received by the time he was eating healthily, before Mr D started his chemotherapy.