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Article: A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH; BOOKS.(Features)
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- Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- February 23, 2002
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Byline: Noreen Barr
WHEN Oxford don Michael Gearin-Tosh was diagnosed with bone marrow cancer five doctors urged immediate chemotherapy. But one cancer specialist, Professor Ernst Wynder, was of the opinion that if he touched chemotherapy "he's a goner".
Gearin-Tosh, who was 54 at the time, had already been considering his options. When he heard of Wynder's warning, second-hand through a friend, he embarked on a search for an alternative way to treat his usually-fatal disease.
Ultimately he rejected all conventional chemotherapy and radiotherapy and decided to follow a regime of 12 freshly made vegetable juices a day, vitamin supplements, and ...