Just over three and a half years ago I was diagnosed with breast cancer (invasive ductal carcinoma) and was advised to have a mastectomy with drug treatment afterwards.

I thought this was far too drastic and so did some research on the Internet to find my own cure. I read books by Philip Day, and other alternative health books and went to see a nutritionist who set me on the right path by working out a healthy diet regime, and supplements program. On that supplement program was included MSM, B17 (apricot kernels, ) essiac, Vitamin C, B12 and B6, Flaxseed oil, EPA (omega 3 fish oils) Vitamin E and A.

3 members of my family have died as a result of their cancer medical treatment. 11 years ago I lost my daughter Emma when she was only 20 following chemo for NHL (non-Hodgekins Lymphoma), 14 years ago, my sister died of breast cancer at the age of 48 (she had a mastectomy and chemo) and my dad died of stomach cancer after he was operated on. I was determined not to go down the same road!

I have found out that your risk of surviving breast cancer is just about the same as it was 50 years ago. In fact, the so-called success of conventional treatment is often illusory. It has been observed that the temporary shrinking of a tumour mass - defined as a partial or complete remission - is not necessarily a good sign, because the remaining tumour cells often grow much faster and more virulently after the first series of chemotherapy treatments. Highly aggressive chemotherapy actually shortens survival times compared with patients in whom chemotherapy was delayed or administered less aggressively.

Modern oncology (the study of tumours) needs to radically rethink the way it looks at and treats cancer. Treatments have hardly changed at all in the last 50 years, just variations on the same theme; different drugs, different methods of surgery and different and varying doses of radiation. The central focus is on the tumour and not the patient as a whole person, so treatment tends to be indiscriminate.

Within 18 months my cancer was in remission and I visit for a check up once a year now. I studied nutrition myself and am now a nutritional therapist. I thoroughly recommend anyone to please consider a nutritional program as the FIRST treatment of choice before going down the medical road. Too many people only turn to alternative therapies once they have had their immune system ruined by chemo and radiotherapy and it then becomes much more difficult to recover under these circumstances.

I have never felt better and other health problems that I used to suffer with, like back pain, eczema, asthma, acid reflux, IBS and migraine headaches have never come back since starting my healthy diet. I eat fruit for breakfast every morning, have cut out ALL dairy (I have soya alternatives) beef (cattle are pumped full of hormones) refined foods, sweet foods like cakes, biscuits and so on, and eat loads of fresh veggies, salads, oily fish, and wholefoods. Vegetable juices were part of the diet at the start 3 times a day, and I drink alcohol only a couple of times a week. (mostly red wine) and 6-7 cups of green tea a day. I also lost 2 stone in weight and feel better than I did in my 30s!

I hope you will read this and feel encouraged that the big "C" CAN be beaten without suffering from horrendous treatments. I have read of a lot of stories like mine and even people with late stage cancer (I was stage 2) can recover if they stick at it long enough!