Join the Crowd!

There is an important clinical trial planned to study the effects of mistletoe on cancer (specifically, of the colon). It will be CROWD-funded -- that is, by PEOPLE, not by BIG PHARMA. Dr. Peter Hinderberger, M.D., Ph.D. a practitioner at the Ruscombe Mansion Clinic in Baltimore, has a key role in this study. Here is what he has to say about it:

"As you may know, Johns Hopkins Hospital (JHH) is doing a mistletoe study. An oncologist at JHH and I share a patient who was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer and a bleak prognosis and is now free of cancer thanks to her lifestyle  changes and mistletoe. This sparked the oncologist's interest and his decision to do a trial on mistletoe. This study will cost approximately $300,000. None of the funds will come from Big Pharma.

The patient co-founded a non-profit organization, Believe Big, to help families navigate cancer treatments. She offered to do the fundraising. She organized a gala dinner and almost 600 people signed up. We have the money to start the trial but need to raise more to finish it.

This is truly historic: Johns Hopkins, one of the top-ranked medical research facilities in the world, is doing a study on a botanical substance for cancer. This in itself is absolutely remarkable. Even more remarkable is that this is patient driven, not initiated by the manufacturer, nor a researcher, by Big Pharma, or an article in the New England Journal of Medicine. There is more: this is being funded by a grass roots organization. Not Big Pharma, not the government, but by us -- YOU and ME!

I have used mistletoe in my practice successfully for over three decades. It is time for mistletoe to be an integral part of a standard cancer treatment protocol. With this study the oncological world will not be able to continue to ignore mistletoe any longer."

Early on in this blog, I discouraged folks from participating in the Pink Ribbon cancer awareness campaigns (see the link on side-bar to the right about "Pink Ribbons Inc"). Big Pharma has its dirty fingerprints all over those "races for the cure." Please, if you want to donate toward a more worthy cause, JOIN the CROWD that is funding the Johns Hopkins mistletoe study. They could really use every penny you can spare. You can donate at   http://www.believebig.org/clinicaltrial.html    or mail a check to: Believe Big at 14030 Woodens Lane, Reisterstown, MD  21136. All donations are tax deductible.