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And with the radiation they suggested, her prognosis

was probably going to be about eight to eighteen months.

The thing is, with the radiation,

what it would do to you from what I understood is,

They would shoot the beam through your ears,

and the beam would burn your healthy

and your cancerous cells outside-in.

So all your hair around your ears would be gone,

never grow back, your ears would become deformed and burnt,

you would be come deaf,

it would also destroy your pituitary gland which

is the gland that helps you grow as you hit puberty...

Yeah, she was eleven at the time and that was a real concern I had.

And it would make you stay in an eleven year-old body,

and basically you'd go into a vegetative state, where you

couldn't take care of yourself, which wasn't a very good quality of life.

My big concern was with the oncologist that we were originally

dealing with was how it was going to affect her development,

and when she started to enter the teenage years,

starting her period, and growing and developing

-and he just looked at me and said

"well, frankly Mrs. Ressel, she's not going to live that long."

What she would have to go through in those extra months-

that would be horrible.

I wouldn't want to go through it. Why do it?

You're handed a death sentence anyway,

so what was the point of the radiation?

You know, then, you have to say okay,

"modern medicine doesn't have an answer, let's find our own."

Jessica Ressel's brainstem glioma was confirmed by an MRI in

Springfield, Missouri; and the children's hospital of St. Louis Missouri.

Jessie Ressel is riding on the best news she's had since March.

She and her parents now believe they are on their way to a cure,

for what doctors had said was an incurable brain tumor.

Here at the Burzynski Clinic in Houston, Texas,

the Ressels have found an experimental drug

they could only dream of eight months ago.

That's when Jessie was still a fifth-grader,

at a catholic elementary school in Springfield.

It's when one of her eyes started crossing in,

she started seeing double,

it's when Jessie went to the doctor and learned that she

had one of the most aggressive kinds of brain cancer-

a malignant tumor doctors said would kill her within months,

and that radiation would only give her a little more time.

And I would only live for like three months,

and live in pain and that's it.

Nota fun life. Id still die.

Today the medical pictures tell a different story,

you can see the improvement immediately

just looking at Jessie's eyes now, compared to last May.

An MRI on May 7th of 1996 revealed the size

Of the enhancing portion of Jessica's tumor.

One month into starting Antineoplaston treatment,

her tumor disappeared.

However, given the aggressive nature of this type of tumor,

it quickly returned in August, and remained until November.

In which time, Dr. Burzynski doubled her Antineoplaston

dosage until her tumor went away in December.

Only to return again in January of 1997, stayed around until

April, and finally disappeared in May of 1997-

one year after starting Antineoplaston treatment.

Jessica's tumor remained non-existent, up until October 2001,

when her brainstem glioma was considered resolved.

There were very few doctors that you would tell them that you

were seeing Dr. Burzynski that would be kind of

encouraging and positive with you.

Most of them, they would hear the name Burzynski

and they wouldn't want to deal with you-because they were afraid.

I am so relieved that we found

Dr. Burzynski because literally it did save her life.

Here she is now twenty-four,

and she's got a little boy who is almost five,

and her second baby will be born in October-

we just found out she's having a little girl.

Again, it's one thing to observe a single anecdotal childhood

brainstem glioma survivor, and it's another see the results from

FDA-supervised clinical trials treating Jessica's type of cancer.

Here is a table illustrating studies published in 2006, comparing

the results of different childhood brainstem glioma treatments.

There were three groups treated with radiation and chemotherapy,

and two groups treated with Dr. Burzynski's Antineoplastons.

Out of all three groups treated with radiation and chemotherapy:

only 1 of 107 patients, or O.9% were cancer free after treatment.

However, this patient did not live beyond five years-presumably

being devastated by the amount of radiation and chemotherapy.

Out of both groups treated with Antineoplastons, 11 of the 40 patients,

or 27.5% were cancer-free after treatment. And 11 of the 40 patients,

or 27.5%, lived more than five years.

Most of these brainstem glioma survivors who were not previously

subjected to toxic chemotherapy and radiation before starting

Antineoplaston treatment have gone on to enjoy full healthy lives.

So the good news is that cancer can be cured.

The worst type of cancer can be cured. For good.

The people who are surviving, they live normal lives.

No side-effects from the treatment, no symptoms,

no sign of tumors-back to life.

We started some of them as children

and now they have their own children.

There is no impairment of fertility.

They just live normal lives.

The bad thing however is that we know that we cannot help

everybody, but some of these patients.

Well, if about 30% of patients can survive over five years,

and a number of them live over ten years without any sign

of cancer, that's a good thing.

But obviously this is just the beginning,

we need to perfect this.

We need to introduce

the newer generation of Antineoplastons-

-which we call the "second" and "third" generation of

Antineoplastons to make the treatment more effective,

to cover a broader spectrum, and to be easier to administer.

They came back, they said she has this large

baseball-sized tumor in her abdomen

and not only that, but it's in her kidney-it was

every where, it was in her kidney and her liver and her lungs.

So here we are thinking, basically, this child has

literally a few months to live, is basically what they told us.

At that point we said, "well, we think we can get

the original tumor out."

So they had this surgeon, he was able to go in,

he got the whole tumor

-she did lose her left kidney and her left adrenal gland.

And it was four drugs, and it was like eight pages of side-effects

and very little hope that it would even work.

The drugs were:
Mitotane...

... Doxorubicin ...

... Etoposide ...

... and Cisplatin.

... and they told us admittedly

"this is the most toxic regimen that we have."

We have a six-month old with one kidney,

and the side effects were kidney failure, hearing failure, leukemia-

other kinds of cancers coming from this...

and I was just like "even if she's going to pass away,

I can't do this to her...

...I can't, why would I want her last

few months of life to be miserable?"

I didn't know what to do.

I just knew that I didn't want to put her

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