I treated cancer with Essiac hypodermically for many decades successfully. I am a nurse, not a doctor, therefore, I always made sure that every case was diagnosed by a qualified physician and as often as possible administered treatment under the observation of doctors.

Essiac is a herbal treatment given as an inter-muscular injection and is quite harmless even to a well person. I have hoped to prove that it is a preventative medication. As a rule, patients were presented by their doctors after everything known to medical science had been used and failed. Even in the most advanced cases I was able to stop haemorrhaging, relieve pain and prolong life.

I classify myself, not as a quack, but as an independent cancer research worker, because, besides the great amount of clinical experience I have had, I have intermittently done a great deal of animal research with doctors, in and out of clinics. In fact, years ago I converted my own mother's basement into a laboratory where I worked on mice with doctors who were interested.

I found that on mice inoculated with human carcinoma, after nine days of Essiac treatments the growth would regress until it was no longer invading the living tissue. One could understand the attitude of the medical profession if they had themselves found anything better to offer.

It is now charged that professional jealousy among doctors and research workers is delaying a cure for cancer. The charge is made by a medical doctor, Dr I MacDonald, Director of the Biochemical Research Foundation of the Frankwood Institute of Philadelphia. In a statement recently published in one of the Institute journals,

Dr MacDonald declares: "The jealousies and antagonisms of the cancer research workers in this country have delayed the cure of cancer many, many years."

Continuing his charge Dr MacDonald says: "A number of years ago I thought it would be a grand idea to correlate all the research on cancer then in existence to prevent undue duplication, and that each would get the advantage of the others work. But I found that university men who make up the workers were very jealous of their plans and results."
"They considered their advancement within the University to be dependent on their reputation as gained by publication. And the results were their own stock and trade".
"It seems almost unbelievable that the fullest advantages of research in so vital a field of medical science, as cancer treatment, should be denied to the public for any cause, much less than from professional jealousy."

I disputed the Royal Cancer Commission's findings and their report to the Government of my cases. Particularly, in the case of Mrs Annie Bonner of 260 Logan Ave, Toronto, Case #35
Mrs Bonner's case was listed as a cure attributable to radiation. The sworn statement by Dr E H Shannon to the Commission states:
"It is my opinion, however, that this patient cannot be accepted as a cure due to radiation treatment or to any other form of therapy, in view of the fact that the disease was never positively established."