IV Vitamin C Fights Cancer in 6 Year-Old Boy After Chemo Fails
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IV Vitamin C Fights Cancer in 6 Year-Old Boy After Chemo Fails
Posted: Nov 14, 2016 10:41 PM HST
Six year-old cancer patient, Hoyt Lee is improving after IV high-dose vitamin C treatments at the Riordan Clinic in Wichita, something his oncologists said would likely never happen.
Wichita, Kansas (PRWEB) November 15, 2016
After undergoing failed chemotherapy treatments and the debilitating side effects that go along with them, things are finally looking up for 6 year-old cancer patient, Hoyt Lee. Since starting high-dose intravenous vitamin C therapy at the Riordan Clinic in Wichita, Kansas two and a half years ago, Hoyt’s condition stabilized and is now improving; something his oncologists said would likely never happen.
At just three months of age, doctors diagnosed Hoyt Lee with Neurofibromatosis 1 (NF-1). At 16 months old, he started chemotherapy for a brain tumor. After completing a grueling year of drug cocktails that wracked his young body, Hoyt’s mother, Shawna Overbey, received the news that she’d feared the most. Hoyt’s tumors were not responding to the chemo. They were growing.
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) showed accelerated tumor growth in his optic nerve chiasm. The optic chiasm is an X-shaped structure formed by the crossing of the optic nerves in the brain. The tumor was affecting his right and left eyes, his pituitary gland, and his hypothalamus.
The only available treatment alternatives were radiation or a different chemotherapy cocktail that can cause nerve damage and affect motor skills like walking and hand movement.
That’s when Shawna knew there had to be another way. Countless hours of research lead Shawna and Hoyt to Dr. Ron Hunninghake at the Riordan Clinic, a non-profit organization in Wichita, Kansas that specializes in alternative cancer therapies. The Riordan Clinic was founded in 1975 by Dr. Hugh Riordan and benefactor Olive W. Garvey. It has been providing IV therapy to patients like Hoyt for the past 40 years.
The late Dr. Riordan and his son, Neil H. Riordan, PhD, were pioneers in the use of vitamin C to treat cancer. Far ahead of their time, they invented patents (6,448,287, 6,436,411, 6,284,786) on treating cancer with vitamin C that date back prior to the turn of this century. For the past 20 years, Nina Mikirova, PhD has carried on their cancer research at the clinic.
Since undergoing IV high-dose vitamin C therapy, Hoyt Lee’s progress has been miraculous. According to his mother, MRIs have shown tumor stability or shrinkage over the past two and a half years. The tumor is no longer affecting his right eye, pituitary gland or hypothalamus. As of February 2016, there is almost no sign of a tumor in Hoyt’s optic nerve chiasm. Hoyt is doing so well that he won’t have to return to the hospital for another year.
“We are delighted with Hoyt’s progress and equally proud that through generous charitable contributions, we’ve been able to do it without the crushing costs that can be associated with conventional treatments like chemotherapy,” commented Donna Kramme, CEO of Riordan Clinic. “It can cost as much as $15,000 per year to treat a child like Hoyt. We ask that everyone who is passionate about helping children like Hoyt please contact the Riordan Clinic to donate today. Without your help we cannot continue vital research that will make Hugh Riordan’s dream four decades ago, a reality today and into the future,” she concluded.
“As Schopenhauer said, ‘All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.’,” said Dr. Riordan. “As far as high-dose vitamin C goes, I think that, fortunately, we are finally entering the third stage,’ he added.
No longer working at the Riordan Clinic in Wichita, Dr. Riordan is now a renowned applied stem cell therapy researcher whose clinic in Panama, Stem Cell Institute, specializes in treating inflammatory and autoimmune related conditions with human *umbilical cord tissue–derived mesenchymal stem cells. Dr. Riordan has also teamed up with board-certified orthopedic surgeon, Wade McKenna, DO to bring stem cell therapy for orthopedic conditions to Southlake, Texas at the Riordan-McKenna Institute (RMI). RMI uses a proprietary mixture of the patient’s own bone marrow stem cells with *amniotic tissue products. Patients can receive intravenous high-dose vitamin C and other intravenous nutritional supplements at Riordan Wellness, which occupies space at the RMI building in Southlake.
About Riordan Clinic
Riordan Clinic is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3), nutrition-based health facility in Wichita, Kansas. We have integrated lifestyle and nutrition to help you find the underlying causes of your illness. Since our inception in 1975, our mission has been clear and unwavering. Our functional medicine providers “stimulate an epidemic of health.”
People turn to the Riordan Clinic to restore, improve, and maintain health. Our integrative health practitioners listen to the needs of patients. Then we test and measure to map out a research-based, nutrition-fueled path to well being. Together, our professionals move beyond simply treating symptoms to address illness at its cause. Your Way to Well communicates a positive, hope-filled message. It stresses our individualized approach and achieves the best possible outcomes.
Riordan Clinic Website: http://www.riordanclinic.org