This website is for information only. This is a simple blog to document my experience treating my basal cell skin cancer (bcsc) so others can review it and help them.

Around 2015, I noticed a spot on my right temple that was forming a scab and it would heal, then come back and repeat. That's a good indicator of basal cell skin cancer. I had a biopsy done and it was confirmed. I had a dermatologist look at it and it was about the size of a quarter so he recommended Mohs surgery and a skin graft from my hip.

The source of my spot was 2 fold. 1. I had a previous scar there from my teen years so there were damaged cells. 2. I was juicing too much. Turns out BCSC loves fructose (most cancers don't care which sugar they get, they just want it, more on that later) so I was giving it a huge food supply to go crazy and develop.

Step 1. stop juicing and cut out as much refined sugar from diet as I could.

I have nothing against the diagnosis nor the treatment (both md's are friends of mine) and had every intention to follow through with it but fate led me down another path that worked better....

Mohs surgery for a spot that big required me to avoid work for at least 2 weeks following the surgery and I had jobs scheduled I had to do so I had to postpone it for 2 months. Having a masters in exercise physiology, I wasn't about to do nothing to it for 2 months so I started to research, including actual papers and trials, not just alternative cancer websites as there are tons of those.

Cancertutor.com was interesting (note that the site has changed since I read from it). It said vitamin C (ascorbate) would kill the cancer, turn the scab black and it would fall off. So I tried that. It worked. I used a saturated solution of purified water and sodium ascorbate, treated it 2-3 times a day until that fell off (about a week). The problem: Ascorbate is a large molecule, and hard to get into cells, so chances are the BCSC would return, and sure enough, it did a few weeks later. Cells like sugar over vit c and guess which you have more of in your blood? Sugar. Adding to that, is that this was my scalp and very dense skin that heals slower than other more common BCSC sites like your face.

At this point I had been to the dermatologist and the plastic surgeon already. I was starting to think I could do this myself and avoid having to pay ~$15k for treatments an follow-ups. I canceled my surgery. Scary to do as they send you several letters saying you may die without it, but I'm pretty educated and did a LOT of research.

My first attempt was to get that ascorbate deeper. What is a good carrier? Athletes use DMSO. DMSO is a wood solvent and very dangerous to handle as it will carry ANYTHING it touches into your skin and blood. I had to use a sterilized eye dropper to handle it. It's not for average person to handle and I do not recommend this part to others but it is what I did so i'm documenting it. Athletes use creams with a small % in it. I was using straight dmso. There's also a blood-brain barrier on your scalp I had to be careful about so I was very cautious. I took that same saturated sodium ascorbate solution, dripped it onto the area (no scab, just pink skin), then used a single drop of dmso on each area, It felt very warming. A few minutes later, the cancerous skin dissolved. Yes, dissolved! No normal skin was harmed. The problem now is I have an open hole on my temple. What to do now?

Since I no longer had an outer layer of skin, putting “salt on an open wound” even sodium ascorbate would have sent me through the roof in pain so I had previously acquired a tube of Curaderm cream in anticipation of this happening and started using that as directed.

Curaderm is a plant based topical treatment. Here's how it works. As previously mentioned, cancer cells love sugar. Eggplant sugar (and its cousins from the same family called solasodine glycoalkaloids) isn't usable by your body. In basic talk, its a sugar that your body doesn't have the enzyme to process. Luckily, cancer cells don't know that and take it in anyway, causing the cell to die. Repeat this twice a day and eventually all the cancer cells die and are replaced with normal cells. It can be a painful treatment depending on location but I survived. It also took me 3 major stints to get it all but i'm now 3 years past and no recurrence. The 1^st try (9 months) worked but I didn't go far enough up and an upper area came back. 2^nd try I did that area but it re-opened the main area so it lasted a good 16 months. 3^rd area was just below the main area I had missed and lasted about 10 months. Scalp skin grows slowly and I was 50 yrs old. So be thorough!

My family and friends thought I was nuts, eventually I just lied and told them I was seeing a doctor about it. The new skin looks great but still hasn't tanned to match the rest of my scalp, small price to pay. Figure I spent around $2500 with all the cream, bandaids, gauze and such,

Do not use Curaderm without a biopsy! You need to know what it is you have! It works on basal cell and squamous cell skin cancers. They do not recommend it for melanomas as they grow too quickly. I have used it on that main spot and a few pre-cancerous actinic keratosis on my other temple. Those cleared in less than a week.

There is a facebook group for curaderm if you have questions and please read the book that comes with it. The application procedure is so important to avoid recurrance. I wasn't thorough enough but eventually prevailed.

Also stay off the sugar!

Common question: why dont doctors use this? They can't. It's a catch-22. The AMA decides what treatments doctors can and can't use. It's not approved because it hasnt been tested. It hasnt been tested because you can't patent it. The FDA says you cannot patent a naturally ocurring substance. Thus the dilema.

I hope this helps someone out there. And please do not take my word for it, do your own research.

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