My Anti-Cancer Treatments: Vitamin K2

Vitamin K2 is found in chicken egg yolk, butter, cow liver, certain cheeses and fermented soybean products such as natto, the best source of vitamin K2.

Vitamin K is a fat-soluble vitamin. The "K" is derived from the German word "koagulation." Coagulation refers to the process of blood clot formation.

Vitamin K2 is the most biologically active form of vitamin K, a vitamin that has anticancer properties, but is also known as "the forgotten vitamin" as very few supplements on the market contain it, and those that do contain very small amounts.

It is also the most beneficial form of vitamin K for bone health maximization.

Synthetic vitamin K2 (menatetrenone, or menaquinone-4 (MK-4)) may improve a group of blood disorders known as myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS).

It also ameliorates cytopenia in patients with refractory anemia of myelodysplastic syndrome.

Vitamin K2 and its derivatives induce apoptosis in leukemia (CML) and lung cancer cells and enhance the effect of all-trans retinoic acid.

Vitamin K2 is also useful in the treatment of liver, colon, stomach, nasopharynx, breast, prostate, lymphoma, bone and oral cancers.

Synthetic vitamin K2 (menatetrenone, or menaquinone-4 (MK-4)) is hard to find at local health food stores, but high dose supplements can easily be purchased over the internet, or can be obtained by prescription. The doses used for myelodysplasia and leukemia range from 20 mg to 135 mgs per day, with 45 mgs per day being the average. The time required before obtaining some hematologic improvement after initiation of vitamin K2 therapy ranges from 1 to 3 months.

It should be taken with a fat, such as organic coconut milk, to make it more bioavailable, or should come in a gel cap, like vitamins D and E.

Vitamin K2 is completely non-toxic and has no side effects, even at very large doses.

Natto is particularly rich in the highly bioavailable form of vitamin K2 called menaquinone-7 (MK-7).

Natto provides natural vitamin K2 as menaquinone-7 (MK-7), which is the most bioavailable form of K2 available, and also has the longest half-life in the blood. This provides optimal vitamin K status with a recommended daily dose of just 45-90 mcg.

You can buy the natural vitamin K2 through Dr. Mercola:
Fight Cancer With Vitamin K

Natto: The Fermented Soybean That Fights Cancer and Hot Flashes.

Vitamin K2 has also been linked to osteoblasts, the cells that generate or "lay down" bone and produce a specific protein known as osteocalcin:

Vitamin K2 Prevents and Reverses Bone Loss

Life Extension Magazine article on Vitamin K2, March 2008

Vitamin K2 is normally produced by bacteria in the intestines, and dietary deficiency is rare, unless the intestines are heavily damaged or are unable to absorb the molecule, such as in malabsorption syndromes, or through the chronic use of drugs/medications, alcohol or antibiotics.

Natto also contains nattokinase, a very popular enzyme used against cancer and clots.

UPDATE 07/03/08: Since I posted this blog entry, there have been numerous visits to my site by people searching for natural treatments for myelodysplasia and leukemia, and iHerb keeps running out of it's high-dose Carlson Vitamin K2. Please put yourself on the list to be notified when they are back in stock. It seems that they re-stock it every couple of days, but it sells out very fast, within hours. So, order fast when you are notified by email that they have it in stock again! You should take Carlson K2 with an oil to make it more bioavailable, as it is synthetic.

LEF Nutritional Supplementation for Specific Forms of Leukemia

For non-leukemia cancers:

Kiran Krishnan (see the comments to this blog entry) recommends Dr. Mercola's vitamin K2 or Swanson's K2 called MenaQ7, at 100 mcg. per day.

Safety of Vitamin K2 with Respect to Hypercoagulation in Humans:

From a large number of clinical trials using dosages in excess of 40 mg/day, there were no reports of side effects associated with any type of hypercoagulable state. (1,27,35.36) Both animal and clinical studies support the conclusion that vitamin K2 has no abnormal hemostatic activity. In one study, vitamin K2 given to rats at a dose of 250 mg/kg body weight per day for 10 days resulted in no appreciable change in blood coagulation characteristics or platelet aggregation. (37)

Diagnosing Dana: Exhibit 4

Following the dental procedures performed on me by Theresa F. Keefe, DMD, I began to feel very ill. In October of 2000, I began to experience frontal headaches and severe fatigue with drenching nightsweats, so I asked my sleep disorder doctor for an MRI at UConn Health Center.

After the MRI was performed, I asked the radiology technician if I could see the computer images, as I was quite fascinated with this new technology. She allowed me to view the results and we started by viewing the top of the brain and went all the way down to the lower jawbone. When we got to the mandible, we noticed white ring that completely encircled the bridge that Dr. Keefe had just placed into my mouth. I asked the technician what it was, and she told me that she did not know, that I would have to follow up with my primary care physician, which I did:

Click on image to enlarge.

During this visit, I also showed my doctor what felt like very hard veins that started at the bottom of my right jawbone and went down the side of my neck. He told me that this was fibrin.

My doctor then told me that there was nothing mentioned in the radiologist's report about this potential mandibular lesion and that perhaps it was an artefact.

I was not worried. I knew that Dr. Keefe taught dental classes at UConn, I had listed my doctor's name at UConn in her new patient registration form, and she had promised me that there was no pathology in my jawbone before placing the bridge in my mouth.

If she had made a mistake, surely she would be notified and call me in to her office fix her mistake. Right?

I had complete faith in our conventional health care system!

By this time, I had finished painting Dr. Keefe's living room and dining room (in a beautiful gold on cream damask design), and still had to paint her very large two story foyer to pay for the dental work she performed on me, but my health was spiraling downhill, and fast . . . .

My Anti-Cancer Treatments: Pineapple

This was my dessert tonight.

Pineapple works against all kinds of cancers, including lymphoma, leukemia and myelodysplasia.

Always buy fresh pineapple, never canned.

Fighting Cancer With Pineapple

Diagnosing Dana: Exhibit 3

On March 2, 2000, I was solicited to the dental office of Theresa F. Keefe, DMD, (a.k.a. Dr. Tracey Keefe) because she wanted to pay for my decorative painting services in her house, which she owned with her husband, hematologist/oncologist Zia Rahman (St. Francis Hospital) by providing me with cosmetic dental care. 

During my first visit with her she took this x-ray of tooth #30 and the surrounding bone in my lower right mandible:

Now, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to see that there is something seriously wrong with this picture.

Unfortunately, Dr. Keefe never showed me this x-ray and never informed me that I had permeative, moth-eaten and ill-defined radiolucent lesions and root tip resorption in tooth #30, or that the extraction site from tooth #28, which was pulled by my regular dentist seven months prior due to complete resorption of the root (a sign of bone lymphoma, the tooth also had a nickel post in it and a nickel crown), had not yet healed, as shown in this photograph of my jawbone, also taken by Dr. Keefe (and which was also never shown to me):

An extraction site that fails to heal is a sign of early, treatable cancer:

A case of oral non-Hodgkin's lymphoma presenting following a tooth extraction is reported. The clinical presentation was that of a periodontal lesion and an extraction socket that failed to heal.

"Swelling, ulcer, or discomfort may be present in the region of the lymphoma, or it may mimic a periapical pathology or a benign condition." - Diffuse Large B-cell lymphoma of mandible: A case report. 

Dr. Keefe lied at least THREE TIMES in my dental records by specifically writing that my oral cancer exam was "within normal limits", that my bone x-rays were "within normal limits" and that I had no root tip abnormalities:

Unfortunately, I did not have access to this x-ray until October 25, 2002, or this photograph until August 24, 2004.

Had I known about this lesion in my jawbone, I would NEVER have allowed Dr. Keefe (who has post-graduate training in dental oncology and head and neck cancer and is also a Clinical Professor of Dentistry at UConn Hospital) to place a carcinogenic nickel-beryllium-aluminum post into tooth #30 and a cosmetic dental bridge over a potentially cancerous non-healing ulcer in my jawbone . . . .

Notice the osteoclerosis (seen in bone lymphoma) and the widening of the periodontal ligament space next to where her custom-designed nickel-beryllium core cuts into my jawbone? Both signs of cancer. 

Beryllium has been banned from dentistry because it causes osteosarcoma, and there was even a lump of reactive bone (reactive fibrosis is seen in bone lymphoma) that grew around Dr. Keefe's post and core. Also, the post in tooth #30 looks like it has caused the entire root to resorb and the adjacent bone to turn black.

You would think that with all her post-graduate training in oncology (she is not incompetent, and her husband was her oncology professor), she'd be the first person to recognize the signs of cancer, and the last person to sell you a carcinogenic nickel-beryllium bridge . . . .

Nickel causes bone lymphoma, aka reticulum cell sarcoma, aka histiocytic lymphoma, a lymphoma of the connective tissue.

Genetic and Epigenetic Mechanisms in Metal Carcinogenesis and Cocarcinogenesis: Nickel, Arsenic and Chromium

Metallic Implant-Associated Lymphoma

Increases in sarcoma and lymphomas with bone involvement due to metallic implants containing high levels of nickel. 

(The Unitbond alloy she used to fabricate my post and core contained 78% nickel, much higher than the amount used in stainless steel.)

ADA: Proper Use of Beryllium-Containing Alloys

On August 23, 2002, I emailed this letter to her:

She agreed to meet me at her office on September 2, 2002 to discuss and then she very coldly refused to remove these allergens and carcinogens from my mouth even after I spent almost two hours in her office crying and begging her to remove it, unless I paid her another $3500 for a replacement bridge. 

I called the manufacturer of Unitbond, the metal used to fabricate my post and core, and they told me that Unitbond was contraindicated for use in posts and cores.

The MSDS for the 78% nickel alloy (Unitbond) used in my mouth by Dr. Keefe claimed that it was toxic and caused tumors and fatigue. It has been recently removed from the market.

Still, Dr. Keefe refused to remove it. She told me that I would never be able to prove that dental metal allergies cause CFS or cancer, that no oral surgeon will ever biopsy my jawbone, and that I will never be able to prove I have cancer. 

So I filed a suit in small claims court to get my money back for the bridge, so that I could have another dentist replace it and to assert my rights as a dental consumer. However, she had her attorneys motion it over to the regular docket.

SMALL CLAIMS LAWSUIT transferred to regular docket by Dr. Keefe: Click here to see how difficult it is to get the carcinogens she places back out of your mouth.

During discovery, Dr. Keefe made it very clear that she thinks that I am delusional for believing that I have cancer in my jawbone and that nickel is a carcinogen.

She also deposed my treating psychologist and tried to convince him that I was a delusional liar, that there were NO lesions in my jawbone, and warned him that he was about to testify against another "professional".

During four 8-hour depositions at her attorney's office she would show up and glare at me with hatred the entire time. 

She never once showed any signs of remorse or empathy or apologized. 

UConn: The Killers (and Liars) in Our Midst:

So how do you recognize a sociopath if you happen to meet one in your daily life? Stout urges readers to practice what she calls "the rule of threes." 

One lie or broken promise or neglected responsibility may simply be a misunderstanding. Two may involve a serious mistake, but "three lies says you're dealing with a liar, and deceit is the linchpin of conscienceless behavior," Stout writes. 

"Do not give your money, your work, your secrets or your affection to a three-timer."

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The bridge that Dr. Keefe installed in my mouth:
(It had a loose post and core still attached, which means the bridge was broken).
Removed June 5, 2003

This is what my jawbone looked like after the removal of Dr. Keefe's bridge and tooth #30:
(Notice the two dark spots from toxic nickel leaching out due to root resorption.
Root resorption is a sign of malignancy.)
Photo taken October 2003

This is what my jawbone looked like in January 2004 after oral surgeon Avram Berger, DDS, sewed up the extraction site that failed to heal. There was thickening in the bone torus, which was removed but never properly biopsied. There was no infection in my jawbone. Lymphoma of bone is a gray-white fish-flesh like tumor that diffusely infiltrates the bone:

This was the swelling in my jawbone and neck glands after the same very minor surgery:

Dr. Avram Berger (who I later found out is a friend of Dr. Keefe's) then called my new PCP to tell her that I was delusional and that there was nothing in my jawbone:

Panorex, April 2004:

Occlusal x-ray of the area surrounding Dr. Keefe's work, April 2004:



X-ray of lower right mandible, April 2004:



If I had not gotten that extremely toxic bridge out of my mouth, I don't think I'd be here today to tell my story . . . .

Here are some of my interrogatory responses in my lawsuit against Dr. Keefe:

At the time, I did believe it was an "artifact" because I trusted Dr. Keefe. 

I hope you like the living room, dining room and 2-story foyer I painted for you Dr. Keefe.

I worked really hard to make your home more beautiful and used only non-toxic materials.

Had you not been happy, I would have painted it over, for free.

***********************************************************************

This story has been updated on March 24, 2105 here:

Dental Causes of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

And here are two more cancerous lesions found underneath the two dental crowns (also with nickel-beryllium underneath) she placed in my mouth in 2000:

Teeth extracted 7/31/15. Photo taken 8/05/15.

My Anti-CancerTreatments: Curcumin

My stash of turmeric.

I take 5 grams (two level teaspoons) of turmeric twice per day, dissolved in organic coconut milk, and with a dash of black pepper, so that it is better absorbed in the intestines and more bioavailable.

From the recent medical literature:
Cell Mol Life Sci. 2008 Jun;65(11):1631-52:

Curcumin: From ancient medicine to current clinical trials.

Hatcher H, Planalp R, Cho J, Torti FM, Torti SV.

Department of Cancer Biology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, 27157, USA.

Curcumin is the active ingredient in the traditional herbal remedy and dietary spice turmeric (Curcuma longa). Curcumin has a surprisingly wide range of beneficial properties, including anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, chemopreventive and chemotherapeutic activity. The pleiotropic activities of curcumin derive from its complex chemistry as well as its ability to influence multiple signaling pathways, including survival pathways such as those regulated by NF-kappaB, Akt, and growth factors; cytoprotective pathways dependent on Nrf2; and metastatic and angiogenic pathways. Curcumin is a free radical scavenger and hydrogen donor, and exhibits both pro- and antioxidant activity. It also binds metals, particularly iron and copper, and can function as an iron chelator. Curcumin is remarkably non-toxic and exhibits limited bioavailability. Curcumin exhibits great promise as a therapeutic agent, and is currently in human clinical trials for a variety of conditions, including multiple myeloma, pancreatic cancer, myelodysplastic syndromes, colon cancer, psoriasis and Alzheimer's disease.

American Cancer Society: A Cancer Treatment in the Spice Cabinet
National Cancer Institute: Toxic metals, including mercury, as a cause of myelodysplastic syndromes.

Article from MD Anderson.: Dr. Kurzrock, professor in and chair ad interim of M. D. Anderson’s Department of Investigational Cancer Therapeutics (formerly the Phase I Clinical Trials program), was impressed with the data. “It was clear that this agent was just as potent at killing tumor cells in the lab as any experimental drug I’d seen from pharmaceutical companies,” she said. Can A Common Spice Be Used To Treat Cancer?

Turmeric is also a natural liver detoxifer, antiseptic and antibacterial.

Diagnosing Dana: Exhibit 2

On March 2, 2000, I was solicited to the dental office of Theresa F. Keefe, DMD, (a.k.a. Dr. Tracey Keefe) because she wanted to pay for my decorative painting services in her house, which she owned with her husband, hematologist/oncologist Zia Rahman (St. Francis) by providing me with cosmetic dental care . . . 

 UPDATE : This blog post has been updated - click HERE - on March 10, 2105 

During my first visit with her she took this x-ray of tooth #30 and the surrounding bone in my lower right mandible:

Now, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to see that there is something seriously wrong with this picture.

Unfortunately, Dr. Keefe never showed me this x-ray and never informed me that I had permeative, moth-eaten and ill-defined radiolucent lesions and root tip resorption in tooth #30, or that the extraction site from tooth #28, which was pulled by my regular dentist seven months prior due to complete resorption of the root (a sign of bone lymphoma, the tooth also had a nickel post in it and a nickel crown), had not yet healed, as shown in this photograph of my jawbone, also taken by Dr. Keefe (and which was also never shown to me):

An extraction site that fails to heal is a sign of early, treatable cancer:

A case of oral non-Hodgkin's lymphoma presenting following a tooth extraction is reported. The clinical presentation was that of a periodontal lesion and an extraction socket that failed to heal.

"Swelling, ulcer, or discomfort may be present in the region of the lymphoma, or it may mimic a periapical pathology or a benign condition." - Diffuse Large B-cell lymphoma of mandible: A case report. 

Dr. Keefe lied at least THREE TIMES in my dental records by specifically writing that my oral cancer exam was "within normal limits", that my bone x-rays were "within normal limits" and that I had no root tip abnormalities:

Unfortunately, I did not have access to this x-ray until October 25, 2002, or this photograph until August 24, 2004.

Had I known about this lesion in my jawbone, I would NEVER have allowed Dr. Keefe (who has post-graduate training in dental oncology and head and neck cancer and is also a Clinical Professor of Dentistry at UConn Hospital) to place a carcinogenic nickel-beryllium-aluminum post into tooth #30 and a cosmetic dental bridge over a potentially cancerous non-healing ulcer in my jawbone . . . .

Notice the osteoclerosis (seen in bone lymphoma) and the widening of the periodontal ligament space next to where her custom-designed nickel-beryllium core cuts into my jawbone? Both signs of cancer. 

Beryllium has been banned from dentistry because it causes osteosarcoma, and there was even a lump of reactive bone (reactive fibrosis is seen in bone lymphoma) that grew around Dr. Keefe's post and core. Also, the post in tooth #30 looks like it has caused the entire root to resorb and the adjacent bone to turn black.

You would think that with all her post-graduate training in oncology (she is not incompetent, and her husband was her oncology professor), she'd be the first person to recognize the signs of cancer, and the last person to sell you a carcinogenic nickel-beryllium bridge . . . .

Nickel causes bone lymphoma, aka reticulum cell sarcoma, aka histiocytic lymphoma, a lymphoma of the connective tissue.

Genetic and Epigenetic Mechanisms in Metal Carcinogenesis and Cocarcinogenesis: Nickel, Arsenic and Chromium

Metallic Implant-Associated Lymphoma

Increases in sarcoma and lymphomas with bone involvement due to metallic implants containing high levels of nickel.  (The Unitbond alloy she used to fabricate my post and core contained 78% nickel, much higher than the amount used in stainless steel.)

ADA: Proper Use of Beryllium-Containing Alloys

On August 23, 2002, I emailed this letter to her:

She agreed to meet me at her office on September 2, 2002 to discuss and then she very coldly refused to remove these allergens and carcinogens from my mouth even after I spent almost two hours in her office crying and begging her to remove it, unless I paid her another $3500 for a replacement bridge. 

I called the manufacturer of Unitbond, the metal used to fabricate my post and core, and they told me that Unitbond was contraindicated for use in posts and cores.

The MSDS for the 78% nickel alloy (Unitbond) used in my mouth by Dr. Keefe claimed that it was toxic and caused tumors and fatigue. It has been recently removed from the market.

Still, Dr. Keefe refused to remove it. She told me that I would never be able to prove that dental metal allergies cause CFS or cancer, that no oral surgeon will ever biopsy my jawbone, and that I will never be able to prove I have cancer. 

So I filed a suit in small claims court to get my money back for the bridge, so that I could have another dentist replace it and to assert my rights as a dental consumer. However, she had her attorneys motion it over to the regular docket.

SMALL CLAIMS LAWSUIT transferred to regular docket by Dr. Keefe: Click here to see how difficult it is to get the carcinogens she places back out of your mouth.

During discovery, Dr. Keefe has made it very clear that she thinks that I am delusional for believing that I have cancer in my jawbone and that nickel is a carcinogen.

She also deposed my treating psychologist and tried to convince him that I was a delusional liar, that there were NO lesions in my jawbone, and warned him that he was about to testify against another "professional".

During four 8-hour depositions at her attorney's office she would show up and glare at me with hatred the entire time. 

She never once showed any signs of remorse or empathy or apologized. 

UConn: The Killers (and Liars) in Our Midst:

So how do you recognize a sociopath if you happen to meet one in your daily life? Stout urges readers to practice what she calls "the rule of threes." 

One lie or broken promise or neglected responsibility may simply be a misunderstanding. Two may involve a serious mistake, but "three lies says you're dealing with a liar, and deceit is the linchpin of conscienceless behavior," Stout writes. 

"Do not give your money, your work, your secrets or your affection to a three-timer."

***************

The bridge that Dr. Keefe installed in my mouth:
(It had a loose post and core still attached, which means the bridge was broken).
Removed June 5, 2003

This is what my jawbone looked like after the removal of Dr. Keefe's bridge and tooth #30:
(Notice the two dark spots from toxic nickel leaching out due to root resorption.
Root resorption is a sign of malignancy.)
Photo taken October 2003

This is what my jawbone looked like in January 2004 after oral surgeon Avram Berger, DDS, sewed up the extraction site that failed to heal. There was thickening in the bone torus, which was removed but never properly biopsied. There was no infection in my jawbone. Lymphoma of bone is a gray-white fish-flesh like tumor that diffusely infiltrates the bone:

This was the swelling in my jawbone and neck glands after the same very minor surgery:

Dr. Avram Berger (who I later found out is a friend of Dr. Keefe's) then called my new PCP to tell her that I was delusional and did not have cancer:

Panorex, April 2004:

Occlusal x-ray of the area surrounding Dr. Keefe's work, April 2004:



X-ray of lower right mandible, April 2004:



If I had not gotten that extremely toxic bridge out of my mouth, I don't think I'd be here today to tell my story . . . .

Here are some of my interrogatory responses in my lawsuit against Dr. Keefe:

THIS is the ring that I saw mentioned directly above:

And THIS is Dr. Thomas Manger's cover-up report:

At the time, I did believe it was an "artifact" because I trusted Dr. Keefe. 

I hope you like the living room, dining room and 2-story foyer I painted for you Dr. Keefe.

I worked really hard to make your home more beautiful and used only non-toxic materials.

Had you not been happy, I would have painted it over, for free.