When my friend contracted Glioblastoma in January of 2020, I had never heard about ‘repurposed drugs.’ Almost no one had. That is when my journey began.
I was not familiar with the prognosis, so I had to look it up. About one year is the average survival with ‘standard treatment’ which means brain surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. I read that the survival stats have not changed significantly the past 50 years.
You will find no mention of repurposed drugs if you read about Glioblastoma (GBM) on Wikipedia, but you will read plenty about the latest, greatest improvement in care - the drug Temozolomide (TMZ) - which a 575-person study showed increased survival from 12.1 months to 14.6 months.
However, when I researched long-term survivors, I found Dr. Ben Williams who was diagnosed in 1995 with Glioblastoma Multiforme - and he remains alive today because he used repurposed drugs. Only 1 to 3 % survive more than 5 years. And if you research Glioblastoma, you will read that the longest anyone has survived is around 20 years. Not true. Ben has now survived nearly 30 years, but he did not do it with chemotherapy or TMZ.
You will probably not see Dr. Ben Williams on most searches by design.
The media will direct you to treatment that at most can extend survival no more than a few months at huge expense and toxicity yet withholds information about how you can live another decade by using repurposed drugs that cost pennies.
Why?
Because of today’s stranglehold of Big Pharma which is not too dissimilar from Big Tobacco’s former hold on American Politicians.
So, I dug deep into repurposed drugs, and I found everything I needed to know to save my friend or at least prolong his life. The biggest problem was convincing him that repurposed drugs should be added to his treatment plan without sounding like a quack.
I felt a book, written in a scholarly fashion, using hundreds of PubMed studies, would do the trick, and so I wrote it as quickly as possible, realizing that every day that passed without his use of repurposed drugs would worsen his chances.
He has now survived his Glioblastoma 45 months, using the 4-Drug Care Oncology Clinic Protocol involving Metformin, Mebendazole, Atorvastatin, and Doxycycline. I wanted him to add additional drugs like Hydroxychloroquine, but the patient and his wife were afraid of it due to what Dr. Fauci and the media were saying.
Fortunately, the Care Oncology Clinic also added various supplements like Omega 3, Vitamin D3, Curcumin, Boswellia, and they also advised a ketogenic diet, and the avoidance of sugar.
However, Ben Williams used more than 20 repurposed drugs in order to achieve his monumental survival.
Williams, a Harvard trained Professor, was Chair of the Psychology Department at UC San Diego when he was diagnosed. He quickly realized that he would soon to die if he received the recommended standard treatment of chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery.
So, being a sharp intellect, he took his health care into his own hands, and researched every stitch of information on GBM - how it grew, ways to slow it, and most importantly ways to kill it.
He read about clinical trials and soon discovered that the drug Acutane, commonly used to treat Acne, could fight it. He found that the drug Tamoxifen, the drug commonly used to treat breast cancer, was also effective.
He learned that the tumor could shield itself from chemotherapy by using calcium channels. So he decided to add the calcium channel blocker, verapamil, to thwart this. Verapamil is usually used to treat blood pressure. He asked his cancer doctor if he could use these and about a dozen other ‘repurposed drugs’ to treat his cancer.
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