The Whole Elephant 🐘

When Emily faced a de novo stage 4 metastatic breast cancer diagnosis in February of 2024, she immediately recalled the Buddhist parable of blind men feeling and describing different parts of the elephant. Both her conventional oncologist and the reputable naturopaths and complementary alternative practitioners she visited seemed convinced that the other side was dangerously wrong when it came to their approach to cancer treatment. This made the path forward unclear and uncertain. Thankfully Emily came upon the Radical Remission Project and The Metabolic Terrain Institute of Health, and the 10 Healing Factors and 10 Terrain Buckets guided her to zoom out and approach her treatment plan with an integrated perspective guided by her own intuition.

This path has not been easy, and it was incredibly expensive. Both Emily and her husband took off work for a large part of the year to navigate a busy treatment schedule, and thanks to the generous support of family and friends, they spared no expense in getting her the best care. Just months into treatment, she had CT scans showing no evidence of metastatic disease, and she is grateful to report continuing this approach has proved very effective as muliple PET scans and CTDNA blood biopsies have also confirmed the absence of disease.

Conventional oncology believes that stage 4 cancer is incurable, so Emily has no bell to ring and no treatments to "finish." She is, however, dedicated to being true to her intuition (one of the 10 Healing Factors of Radical Remission), and she is working with her team to stop the standard of care hormone inhibitors she currently has administered monthly. She acknowledges that life with this chronic condition is adaptive and anything but linear, and she is ready to implement a fully integrated approach should ever the need arise! She, like the Radical Remission Project, is not at all against standard of care oncology, and she believes every cancer and every bioindividual dealing with it will need a different approach.