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Part 1.After winning the fight, Jeffrey Deslandes authored a book (left) “From Cancer Good Things Grow,” about his remarkable recovery from cancer.

Diagnosed with Non Hodgkin’s Lymphoma Stage IV with bone marrow infiltration in 1999, with treatments, he subsequently relapsed 4 times.

After his last relapse in 2006, Jeffrey started looking for emerging therapies. He learned of an experimental treatment involving a personalised vaccine protocol.

It was now feasible to have something good a personalised cancer vaccine created from something bad your cancer.

This one-of-a-kind vaccine re-educated his immune system so that it could identify and destroy his cancer.

His is an inspiring, positive, and true story about surviving cancer and the things it teaches you. Jeffrey says, “You grow as a person. You learn what is really important in life. You discover who your true friends are.”

Purchase Jeffrey’s Inspiring Book – Share with Others – You could save a Life

Click Here  to purchase “From Cancer Good Things Grow” (the link takes you to website – the Grace Gawler Institute)

All proceeds go to further cancer vaccine research.

Note: via the Grace Gawler Institute’s Cancer Navigation Service, patients can access improved versions of the vaccines used by Jeffrey.

Jeffrey Deslandes  Jeffrey Deslandes is a native of Melbourne, Australia. He is a Master of Engineering Science, and a Doctor of Philosophy, attained at the University of Melbourne. He has been married twice and has five children. One fateful day in 1999, he believed it was all over when he was diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer. He was wrong.

His diagnosis, B cell non-Hodgkin s lymphoma, follicular mixed small and large cell, Stage IV, with bcl-2 gene translocation, and splenic and bone marrow involvement. Like most people diagnosed with Cancer, Jeffrey’s life was to change forever. His is an inspiring, positive, and true story about surviving cancer and the things it teaches you. You grow as a person. You learn what is really important in life. Compelled to write about his experience. “From Cancer Good Things Grow” was published recently. Available as ebook and soft cover.(Balboa Press)

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Part 2. In my first interview with Jeffrey in 2014, we focussed on the recent release of his book, “From Cancer Good Things Grow”, whose title describes quite a different take on the experience of cancer.

Diagnosed with non-Hodgkins Lymphoma Stage IV with bone marrow infiltration in 1999; with treatments he subsequently relapsed 4 times.

After his last relapse in 2006, although under pressure from friends to take the alternative medicine path; instead, a self-motivated Jeffrey started looking at innovative, emerging medical therapies.

He learned of an experimental treatment involving a personalised vaccine protocol. Jeffrey reasoned that it was feasible to have something good a personalised cancer vaccine created from something bad your cancer.

This one-of-a-kind vaccine re-educated his immune system so that it could identify and destroy his non-Hodgkins lymphoma cells. Today  almost 11 years on his worst prognosis; Jeffrey is considered cured.

Note: the Grace Gawler Institute helps patients access (in Asia) improved versions of the vaccines used by Jeffrey  these are more powerful, effective and have been producing positive outcomes in our patients for the last 3.5 years.

Jeffreys documented diagnosis is recorded as B cell non-Hodgkins lymphoma, follicular mixed small and large cell, Stage IV, with bcl-2 gene translocation, and splenic and bone marrow involvement.

However, there is more than meets the eye of being a survivor of such an advanced and aggressive form of non-Hodgkins Lymphoma. Therefore today I ask Jeffrey what are the ingredients that make up the cancer survivor recipe? Why does he believe he survived against the odds? Are survivor skills innate or can survivorship skills be learned?

As well as talking about the process of making cancer vaccines, in this interview we explore and discuss important principles for recovery: adaptation, perseverance, gratitude, surviving and thriving.

If you or someone you know is dealing with cancer and feeling hopeless and helpless  then encourage them to listen to this inspiring interview.

Click here to purchase “From Cancer Good Things Grow”; an inspiring, positive, and true story about surviving cancer and the things it teaches you.

Jeffrey Deslandes has been on the Gold Coast as a guest speaker at The Grace Gawler Institutes U CAN  TRI Survivor-Ship launch at Hollywell Yacht club 21 November 2015.

Jeffrey is a native of Melbourne, Australia. He is a Master of Engineering Science, and a Doctor of Philosophy, attained at the University of Melbourne. He has been married twice and has five children. One fateful day in 1999, he believed it was all over when he was diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer. He was wrong.

The service that Jeffrey was able to enlist to fight and cure his cancer is no longer available in Australia; however The Gawler Institute is connected to the Scientific Research Institute located offshore, where Jeffreys vaccines were created. If you wish to inquire about cancer vaccines and their suitability for you  Please contact me, Grace Gawler, via our webpage:

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Swiss Herbal Tonic-Strath Successfully Impacts Wellbeing Cancer Patients during Chemo and Radiation Therapy.

There is a lot to know about supplements for cancer patients undergoing conventional treatments. More than 35 years ago I was introduced to Strath Tonic.

I began prescribing it for radiotherapy patients. Radiotherapists wrote to me asking why my patients were doing so well. Strath is proven to be the tonic beyond tonics.

The formula makes use of the ability of yeast cells to ?digest? extracts of 50 herbs added to them. The essence from these herbs is totally absorb-able in the human body.

It was 1948 when Fred Pestalozzi was diagnosed with Meniere?s disease. He approached German chemist, Walter Strathmeyer for help.

After taking Strath, Fred?s health improved dramatically. Eventually the recipe was obtained and the Strath Company was created in 1961. Today Strath is sold in over 50 countries.

Taking Strath regularly can increase concentration, improve memory, bone health, boost health after surgery or chemo/radio therapy and improve performance in children with ADD.

David Pestalozzi – David Pestalozzi, son of the founder of Bio-Strath (also known as Strath) is CEO and Managing Director of this highly successful self-made Swiss company. Directing a staff of 18, the family firm, Bio-Strath*amazingly supplies half the world with its natural food supplement, managing to hold its own against pharmaceutical giants. A testimony unto itself, Bio-Strath AG has been successfully marketing the same product, unchanged, for almost 50 years! Fred Pestalozzi, David?s father set up the company in 1961. In 1948 he met German chemist, Walter Strathmeyer. His interest was piqued due to his medical condition; Meniere?s disease. After taking Strath, life changed for Fred. His health improved dramatically. Today Strath is sold in over 50 countries across the world. Since 1964 the production plant for ?Strath? has been based above Herrliberg. David Pestalozzi carries forward the tradition with a range of Strath*(Bio-Strath) products.

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Promising Results From World-First Brain Cancer Trials

Professor Rajiv Khanna a leading researcher at The QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia; a world progressive translational research institute focused on cancer, infectious diseases, mental health and a range of complex diseases. Professor Khanna has been researching immunotherapies & has had a major breakthrough in the treatment of the aggressive brain cancer Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM). Professor Khanna developed a technique to modify the patients? T-cells in the laboratory, effectively ?train? them to attack the virus, and then return them to the patient?s body. When the killer T-cells destroyed the virus, they also destroyed the cancer. ?It?s becoming increasingly clear that immunotherapy – manipulating a person?s own immune system ? is a rich new frontier for cancer treatment,? Professor Khanna said. Be informed about the answer to cancer. Support Immunotherapy week. More info www.qimrberghofer.edu.au & gracegawlermedia.com

Prof Rajiv Khanna – Prof Rajiv Khanna obtained his doctorate degree from India & undertook his post-doctoral training at the University of Adelaide & (QIMR), Brisbane Australia. At QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Prof Khanna has been researching immunotherapy & has had a major breakthrough in treating the aggressive brain cancer, Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM). He also holds a Senior Principal Research Fellowship from NH&MRC Australia. His research group have obtained a deeper understanding of the mechanisms by which an immune response to human herpes viruses associated diseases may be generated, augmented and applied to control these diseases. Prof. Khanna has developed novel immune-based therapeutic strategies for the treatment of patients with herpesvirus-associated complications & is lead investigator on five clinical trials. He has published more than 150 scientific papers in leading journals & holds numerous international patents on EBV and human cytomegalovirus. www.qimrberghofer.edu.au

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Navigating the Breast Cancer Maze  a Patient’s story. Marnie interviewed by Cancer Navigator – Grace Gawler

Reference: eBook: Women of Silence  The Emotional Healing of Breast Cancer by Grace Gawler – Available in Hard copy or eBook

Today Marnie tells her story of breast cancer; her life before her diagnosis, during her experience navigating the breast cancer medical maze and then after her treatment and re-adjustment phase.

Marnie is married, 48 years of age and resides on the Gold Coast, Queensland Australia, however the experiences that Marnie describes in this interview are universal.

The key issues that women with breast cancer deal with today have changed little during the 40 years I have been working in this area.

In the early 1990s I recognised that there was a huge gap in the way women with Breast Cancer were supported from diagnosis through to life after cancer; and as a result  I began the first support groups for women with Breast Cancer.

The groups were different to todays cancer support groups. They were structured as a course over 12 weeks and were intended to be a therapeutic breast cancer support group with a smaller emphasis on the social aspect.

They were designed to provide a tool kit for women to navigate the complexities of the maze. Many of the issues that we discuss in this very-down-to-earth and authentic interview with Marnie; are the issues that in the early 1990s; ignited the idea of support groups for women.

Based on the experiences from those groups, I authored a best seller, Women of Silence  the Emotional Healing of Breast Cancer. If after listening to this this interview; you want explore some of the critical issues raised in the interview and solutions – The book is available in Hard copy or eBook

Marnie Rose – 2015

“During my involvement with the “Grace Gawler Institute ” I was referred by Grace to her “Navigating the Cancer Maze” internet radio show. The interviews I listened to were both helpful and interesting. All past interviews are archived so that it is easy to look up a past guest of particular relevance to your specific topic or field of interest. The long list of guests, all of high esteem within their fields of expertise, is an extra resource from which to access additional information on topics of relevance to your current situation.
I find that sitting somewhere comfortable, listening with headphones is a relaxing way for a patient to access and absorb information, especially if not feeling well. A nice change from reading from internet pages or books. It’s also comforting to hear Grace’s voice when you haven’t seen her for awhile ! “

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Grace Gawler

I first worked in the UK in 1993 at what was then the Bristol Cancer Help Centre. I was to return many times over the years ahead giving practitioner trainings and patient workshops. I was delighted to work with and present for the London Breast Cancer Haven and the Helen Rollason Foundation in Essex.

I returned to the UK ten years later in 2003 following surgery in the Netherlands that is discussed in this podcast. I presented the Penny Brohn Memorial lecture where I met Prof Karol Sikora who was then Professor of Cancer Medicine at the Imperial College London. The same year, during my convalescence, I re-edited and re-published my book for women with breast cancer – Women of Silence – The Emotional Healing of Breast Cancer – which has remained in demand ever since.

Just before I had to leave the UK to return to Australia in 2004, Professor Sikora offered me a position in his Harley Street practice. It was one of those potentially life-changing moments; but I had to pass it by as family needs called me back home to Australia in 2004.

As host and Creator of Navigating the Cancer Maze Australia and a similar show formerly hosted at Voice America; it is always good to remember what it is like in the shoes of the interviewee.

The interview you will hear describes my own journey through illness and 22 surgical procedures. There are no dress rehearsals for suddenly being diagnosed with a chronic illness and if one doesn’t have knowledge and strategies in place that have been sculpted by the life already lived; healing and recovery becomes an even bigger challenge.

After a surprise marriage separation that stunned and shocked me; I experienced a totally prolapsed uterus. The bottom literally fell out of my life within a few days and I became a surgical patient. Post-surgical complications led to rectal and partial bladder paralysis. At least I was fortunate when trauma and then repeated trauma struck; that my tenacity to survive and thrive was activated and not thwarted although I became very ill very quickly.

I have a dogged personality and as my condition worsened, over several years I was not complacent and kept searching for a solution despite life and outcome being a very gloomy possibility.

This is the place where often the battle with illness or cancer is won or lost. But it is not that simple!

Due to previous training over decades, when I became the patient, I was able to recognise and balance my need for solid strategies I had learned previously; what we might call a mind-body approach. However, Mind-Body medicine has become rather a loose term, implying that just because you think positively, meditate, change your lifestyle, forgive everyone who has harmed you and do the right things etc; that somehow your disease or condition will suddenly get it and with new found understanding and personal work  you will become well again. Not so!

This is the same fallacy taught by many schools of thought in cancer healing and recovery. Many cancer patients believe they can make themselves cancer resistant and because of the massive changes and sacrifices they have made, that the cancer will simply go away!

Thanks to the BBCs terrific interviewer, John Darvall, this interview explores the real and authentic nature of healing and recovery. One needs to remember that Holistic medicine has a hole in it if smart conventional medicine is not included.

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I’m talking with one of Australia?s most celebrated medical research scientists; Professor Ian Frazer AC, FRS, FAACEO, 2006 Australian of the Year & Director of Research – Translational Research Institute, Brisbane Australia. Prof Frazer has received numerous national and international awards for his work in developing the technology that has enabled vaccines to help prevent cervical cancer. To link a virus to cancer in the 1980?s was contentious, but Ian Frazer persevered, convinced this needed further investigation. Now his successful research and development of a cervical cancer vaccine has sold worldwide under the brand names Gardasil and Cervarix. In May 2011, Prof Frazer was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of London. This achievement elevates him to the same status as world renowned scientists such as Stephen Hawking and Sir Isaac Newton. Today?s interview will probe in depth the connection between viruses and cancer. More at www.gracegawlermedia.com

Professor Ian Frazer – Professor Frazer, a renal physician & clinical immunologist from Edinburgh, Scotland; came to Melbourne Australia in 1981 to pursue studies in viral immunology and autoimmunity at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research. In 1985, he moved to Brisbane to assume a teaching post with the University of Queensland & was appointed Director of the Centre for Immunology and Cancer Research in 1991. He has taught immunology to undergraduate & graduate students at the University & has research interests in immune-regulation and immunotherapeutic vaccines for HPV (Papilloma virus) associated cancers. Now involved in revolutionary research, he is developing a vaccine/treatment for HSV-2 – the virus implicated in genital herpes. He is a past President of the Cancer Council Australia, Chairman of the Australian Cancer Research Foundation?s Medical Research Advisory Committee & Chair of the International Agency for Research on Cancer Scientific Advisory. Committee. He was named Australian of the year 2006.

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Cancer Schmancer is name that one could easily associate with Fran Drescher; loved by millions for her television role as ?The Nanny?, this humorous, elegant, beautiful, fun loving celebrity has a more serious side to her life and mission.

What connects Fran Drescher and Grace Gawler? Both women have experienced great life adversities. Both women are using their lives to help others through the course of early cancer diagnosis.

Guest Info – Fran Drescher: Fran Drescher is an American film and television actress, comedian, producer, and activist. She is best known for her role as Fran Fine in the hit TV series, ?The Nanny? for which she was nominated for two Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress in a Comedy Television Series during the show’s run. A uterine cancer survivor, Fran Drescher is an outspoken healthcare advocate and LGBT rights activist, and is noted for her work as a Public Diplomacy Envoy for Women’s Health Issues for U.S. State Department. A survivor of rape in 1985 and then diagnosed with uterine cancer in 2000, she wrote about her experiences in her second book, Cancer Schmancer. Her purpose. has also this book was to raise consciousness for men and women “to become more aware of the early warning signs of cancer, and to empower themselves.” The Cancer Schmancer Movement followed. Recently, a TV sitcom ?Happily Divorced? has been a great success for Fran and her ex husband. She has recently created a children?s picture book ?Being Wendy?. More information at http://www.cancerschmancer.org/

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Could timing of cancer treatments be the missing link in delivery of cancer therapies? Sounds too simple to be true? Two cancer researchers Martin Ashdown & Brendon Coventry are “immunological explorers” who not only unearthed a buried “treasure”; but they have also created a map for other innovative cancer “explorers” to follow. The “treasure” is a cancer drug used for more than 20 years that is now providing oncologists with new information about how to best help patients achieve complete remission. The drug called interleukin-2, is providing cancer researchers with something akin to how the “Rosetta Stone” was used to unlock historical script; the outcome; mapping the immune cycle! Join me with guest Martin Ashdown on Navigating the Cancer Maze to hear the story of this amazing breakthrough. Learn how you can access info about your immune cycle to assist cancer treatment efficacy. Please email me at askgracegawler@gmail.com

Martin Ashdown -? Martin Ashdown is a Melbourne based scientist, Research Fellow at the Faculty of Medicine University of Melbourne. Martin has made the observation that the immune response in the late stage cancer patient is oscillating repeatedly over an approximate seven day period or cycle. This observation may have profound implications for the timed delivery of various therapies, which via immune modulation may increase complete response rates, reduce toxicity and substantially reduce the cost of treatment. Martin has co-designed trials at international institutions and presented at international conferences advocating monitoring patients prior to treatment and accurately timing therapy as pulses.This technique, known as ?Immune Synchronization? is believed to already happen accidentally is those patients who successfully respond to therapy with a complete response. Martin and colleagues suggest that the drugs and resources to successfully treat cancer are already here, but need to be used more accurately.

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