Talking to Family (and Doctors) About Fenbendazole

How to approach the sensitive subject that you've decided to treat yourself.

It really is a matter of life and death. And if you’re the one with terminal cancer, it is your life that hangs in the balance.

Treating yourself with fenbendazole requires that you appreciate the scientific basis of why it is likely to be helpful in your case as well as explaining to others the rationale of why you are using it. As a refresher here are the bullet points presented in a previous Substack.

Fenbendazole has multiple potential mechanisms to selectively kill cancer cells.

• First is disruption of the microtubule system that the cancer cell needs to survive and replicate.

• Second is disruption of glucose utilization blocking the energy supply to the cancer cell.

• Third is upregulation (increase) of P53 tumor suppressor genes that help kill cancer cells.

• Finally, it looks like FenBen also blocks the formation of new blood vessels to the tumor, this will starve and kill it.

Talking to Family and Loved Ones

While it is a given that everyone in your circle will be saddened by learning you have cancer, not everyone will be thrilled that you are taking the bull-by-the-horns to treat yourself. This is because the word “cancer” triggers a number of emotions including fear, uncertainty and withdrawl, and how an individual responds to those emotions will influence how they respond to your announcement that you are self-treating.

For example, for some people the word “cancer” is equivalent to a “death sentence.” These people are most likely paralyzed by their fears such that they are rendered incapable of rational analysis that might lead them to safer, more effective treatments like fenbendazole. Instead, they become victims of the inverse of the saying ‘paralysis by analysis’ such that their fear paralyzes their ability for rational thought and analysis. These people are highly likely to conceptually throw up their hands and run to the nearest expert, that would be the cancer clinic.

It is important that you recognize these people because they will do every thing in their power to convince you, and everyone else in your circle, to not use fenbendazole because it is not approved by experts, that it is not the standard of care. Their only argument against using fenbendazole will be that it is a “veterinary medicine, a dog medicine, experimental, unproven, etc” and that if fenbendazole was so effective that “all the doctors would know about it and recommend it.” These are reasons based in fear of the unknown and intellectual laziness. These arguments are comforting to those spouting them but dangerous to you.

The rationale of using fenbendazole has been made elsewhere, and obviously, you, the person with cancer, is interested in self-treating using it. To minimize the conflicts that may occur, one strategy is to ask the naysayer to read what you’ve read. Maybe they’re intimidated by medical terms. This Substack is relatively easy to read and the Case Reports are compelling. Ask them to bring evidence - other than the Standard of Care argument - that convinces you that fenbendazole is ill-advised.

If, despite these efforts, you still have people attacking your decision to use fenbendazole you can politely ignore them or, if necessary, deceive them. Deception seems like a drastic act but your life may depend on taking this action depending on the circumstance. In fact, we know first-hand of cases where a significant other was adamant against the use of fenbendazole such that the spouse was forced to surreptitiously self-administer the fenbendazole until they eradicated the cancer.

While the foregoing was directed at how to handle naysayers, hopefully, the majority of those in your circle will be supportive and on-board with your decisions. Indeed, most rational people will appreciate the huge potential upside vs. the miniscule downside risk in using fenbendazole such that they will help out with research and feel invested in your recovery. Afterall, when fenbendazole works for you there is no greater evidence that it will work for them, if they should ever need it, than seeing it with their own eyes.

This previous Substack below contains a letter that can be modified and emailed to family and friends to help explain the rationale of your using fenbendazole. Please feel free to copy, modify and use it

Fenbendazole Can Cure Cancer

Talking to Your Doctor About Fenbendazole

This is a complex issue. First off, most of the Case Reports presented in this Substack did not inform the oncologist that they were self-treating with fenbendazole, at least not initially. In some cases, the oncologist will be told about fenbendazole after the cancer is eradicated. In fact, recall that the original Joe Tippens report detailed how Joe had been enrolled in an experimental trial to test some drug, he quietly was self-treating with fenbendazole, and he was the only one out of 1100 subjects to go into remission! (Yeah, you can’t make this sh!t up!)

Here are some of the reasons given as to why people don’t tell the oncologist they are self-treating with fenbendazole.

• Concern that the oncologist will drop them as a patient, either they won’t approve of self-treatment and/or fenbendazole.

• Need access to diagnostic testing, so they “pretend’ to be a patient.

• Concerned about embarrassing the oncologist.

• The oncologist is a close family member.

There are sure to be other reasons as well but these are what we’ve heard directly. Whatever your reason to not tell your doctor, that’s personal and totally up to you.

Standard of Care

You may encounter the phrase “Standard of Care” when speaking with a medical worker, and you may have seen it in several of the Case Reports here as well. Standard of care generally means, roughly speaking, “what we typically do.” Perhaps not surprisingly, most of the definitions of “standard of care” come from legal references related to malpractice. Here is a useful definition from VeryWellHealth:

A standard of care can also refer to informal or formal guidelines that are generally accepted in the medical community for the treatment of a disease or condition. It may be developed by a specialist society or organization and the title of standard of care awarded at their own discretion. It can be a clinical practice guideline, a formal diagnostic and treatment process a healthcare provider will follow for a patient with a certain set of symptoms or a specific illness. That standard will follow guidelines and protocols that experts would agree with as most appropriate, also called "best practice." Standards of care are developed in a number of ways; sometimes they are simply developed over time, and in other cases, they are the result of clinical trial findings.

This definition makes it crystal clear that unless fenbendazole becomes a mainstream treatment in the very near future that your doctor or oncologist won’t be able to guide you in its use. When they state that fenbendazole is not “standard of care” you’ll know what that means. Standard of care translates into defensive medicine with respect to alternative cancer treatments that are demonstrably effective like fenbendazole.

Strategies to Consider Regarding Doctors and Fenbendazole

They are not going to suggest, recommend or condone using fenbendazole to treat your cancer, at least not initially. To know that you have cancer you must have received a diagnosis, most likely along with diagnostic tests such as blood tumor markers, biopsies, XRAYS, CT scans, MRI, PET scans, etc. It is important that you obtain these records - they belong to you - because you’ll need them as a reference point, a starting point to measure your progress.

Let’s call the Doctor that gives you the diagnosis, Doctor #1. Part of that diagnosis will be a proposed course of treatment, basically you have cancer and here’s what we suggest you do. From that proposed course of treatment you can determine whether it’s practical to start fenbendazole before you’re first scheduled traditional treatment. According to the American Cancer Society, sometimes it can take three months or more to start treatment depending on the nature and the type of cancer. So if Doctor #1 schedules your first treatment 2 or 3 months down the road, you have a clear window to start fenbendazole and give it a fair shot.

Before the first treatment request new diagnostics. State that

Issues to consider if you decide to not tell the doctor

The most salient issue is that the doctor won’t understand why your cancer is disappearing. If you opt for the traditional route of chemo and radiation, oncologists will never say the word “cure”, they will only state that we can slow it down, give you some extra time, but we can’t cure you. This occurred in Case Report: Metastatic Breast Cancer, age 83, F. This person was given fulvestrant (an estrogen receptor blocker) by the doctor, that, at best, would only stop the growth of the cancer but would not account for the eradication that was clearly observed. Eventually, the patient confessed regarding her use of fenbendazole and the doctor responded, “Well then, keep on doing what you’re doing!”

Another issue to consider is that fenbendazole potentiates or enhances the effectiveness of traditional radiation and some chemotherapy treatments. Many people choose to use fenbendazole in addition to traditional cancer treatments. There is a Substack in the works covering this topic in detail but for the purposes of this article appreciating that fenbendazole may interact with and increase the effectiveness of traditional treatments is advised. This is important because there may be a standard regimen of traditional treatments that you’re prescribed that may be rendered unnecessary, and perhaps dangerous, if you’re also taking fenbendazole…because the cancer is gone. For example, if the usual treatment for a tumor of your size is 10 radiation treatments with specific parameters of intensity and duration, and the tumor is eradicated after 3 treatments, you may be exposing yourself to unnecessary radiation. So in this instance, the cancer can be gone but you’re still being treated (poisoned with radiation).

If you are under the care of an oncologist, and using fenbendazole, you’ll probably have to fess up if you are also incorporating traditional chemo and radiation into the mix. If you’ve refused traditional treatment, for whatever reason, and are self-treating only with fenbendazole you most likely can safely keep fenbendazole to yourself until the oncologist notices that your cancer is gone and asks what you’re doing to eradicate your cancer.

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