Dr Tina Willits was told she had conscionable 24 months to unrecorded aft being diagnosed pinch shape 4 bosom cancer.
The mother-of-five's illness was 'everywhere,' pinch 3 golf-ball sized tumors successful her bosom and cancerous masses successful her ribs, spine, lymph nodes and legs.
She was told it was excessively precocious for a mastectomy and was placed connected end-of-care chemotherapy and told to 'enjoy nan clip you person left.'
That was astir 3 years ago, and, against each odds, nan 53-year-old from Florida is now wholly crab free acknowledgment to a revolutionary caller crab therapy that uses acold gases and nan body's ain cells to frost and conflict tumors.
Dr Willits — a information subject interrogator and coach — has been successful remission ever since.
She told DailyMail.com: 'When my crab was detected, it was beautiful past a shape 4 test and I was excessively acold gone for a mastectomy.
'So they put maine connected what they called palliative chemotherapy pinch only 1 drug, and not nan hardest supplier against nan crab either.'
Tina Willits, now 53 years aged and from Florida, was fixed conscionable 24 months to unrecorded aft she was diagnosed pinch shape 4 bosom cancer. But nan mother-of-five is still present 31 months connected and cancer-free. She is pictured supra holding 1 of her grandchildren
She continued: 'I was devastated, but I was besides for illustration no, I was not good pinch that diagnosis. I felt I had to do something.
'I was conscionable really wished that I did not want to unrecorded my life pinch this cancer, moreover if they could extremity it progressing, I didn't want that, I conscionable wanted it gone.'
Dr Willits is not a aesculapian doctor, but gained nan title aft earning a Doctor of Education successful instructional exertion from Pepperdine University successful California.
The mother-of-five was diagnosed successful March 2022 aft going to doctors complaining of a lump connected her breast.
Doctors were initially unconcerned, believing nan lump was linked to her bosom implants she had had successful for 17 years.
She had a mammogram successful October 2021, which showed nary origin for concern.
But aft room to switch her implants successful early 2022, she woke to find them removed and drains attached to her breasts. Doctors suspected cancer.
They referred her to an oncologist, who diagnosed her pinch bosom crab pursuing tests and scans.
Breast crab is nan astir communal crab successful women successful nan US, pinch astir 270,000 women diagnosed pinch nan illness each year. A full of 42,000 women dice from nan illness annually. Cases are astir communal among women 50 and over.
Dr Willits' crab was HER2 positive, which accounts for astir 20 percent of each diagnoses, and she had nary family history of nan disease.
DrWillits is pictured supra connected her wedding day, and earlier her diagnosis. She credits her endurance to a therapy that progressive freezing her tumor and targeting it pinch immunotherapy drugs
Dr Willits went done 4 rounds of chemotherapy earlier she sought replacement curen astatine nan Williams Cancer Institute.
She discovered nan institute successful June aft reference a book by its laminitis Dr Jason Williams connected his caller crab treatment.
She made interaction pinch nan squad conscionable earlier July 4th, and they said they would beryllium capable to thief her. The institute sent her a database of supplements to statesman taking and advised her to debar sugar.
Researchers propose immoderate supplements tin thief to trim inflammation successful crab sufferers, while different papers person pointed to nan thought that crab cells are fueled by sweetener — meaning that eating little tin slow their growth.
Once nether nan attraction of nan institute, she started a curen regimen that is not yet afloat approved successful nan US.
It is because of this that nan halfway carries retired nan treatments successful Mexico.
They besides opportunity it tin prevention patients money, pinch immoderate chemotherapy narcotics priced astatine $10,000 successful nan US costing only $1,000 successful nan country.
First successful nan curen regimen was cryoablation — which sees doctors insert a mini metallic probe done nan tegument and into nan tumor wherever highly acold gasses are released straight into nan wide to termination its cells.
She past received immunotherapy, during which Dr Willits had 8 narcotics administered straight into her tumor, which doctors opportunity tin punctual nan immune strategy to admit crab cells arsenic a threat and trigger an immune response.
Dr Willits is now moving a marathon for bosom cancer. She is pictured supra astatine a bosom crab consciousness event
Dr Williams, who founded nan center, developed nan curen regimen complete respective years, and argues it could connection a amended measurement to dainty cancer.
He said he is presently moving a proceedings of nan curen successful hard-to-treat prostate crab patients.
Early results show much than 50 percent of patients are still alive, he said. For comparison, nan five-year endurance complaint for patients pinch shape 4 prostate crab is 34 percent.
He did not uncover really agelong nan study had been going aliases really galore rounds of curen nan patients had received.
For bosom crab patients, location is nary statistic connected nan endurance complaint for those who sojourn nan Williams Center.
Overall, statistic show nan endurance complaint for shape 4 bosom crab patients is 31 percent.
Dr Willits said she was shocked to get nan results from her six-week scan aft nan curen pinch nan Williams Cancer Institute, which revealed nan illness appeared to beryllium gone.
'There were none, nary tumors. They were conscionable wholly gone,' she told DailyMail.com. 'All nan metastasis (cancerous growths extracurricular nan breast) had wholly healed, and nan crab successful my lymph nodes was nary longer there.'
After nan treatment, she had different 4 rounds of chemotherapy. She still undergoes PET scans each six months to guarantee nan crab does not return.
So far, nan crab has not been detected successful her assemblage since nan curen — but she needs to hold for 5 years of clear results earlier she tin beryllium declared crab free.
The curen was not covered by security and costs $65,000, which she said she was capable to spend via cashing successful her life security policy.
Dr Willits said nan test has near her pinch a overmuch deeper appreciation for life
Dr Willits is sharing her communicative to raise consciousness of nan curen and to impulse much aesculapian professionals to mention crab patients to Dr Williams.
She said that upon returning to Florida and seeing her first oncologists, they were amazed by her advancement but ne'er asked what curen she had had.
'These oncologists will not moreover springiness a thought to different treatments,' she said. 'They conscionable did not want to cognize what I did.
'People person asked maine who cured my cancer, and I answered it was God and Dr Williams.'
Dr Willits is now making nan astir of her life since nan diagnosis, and says she has a caller appreciation for it.
She has traveled to Honduras and to Colorado, tried upland biking and has trained to tally a 5k this period for bosom crab awareness. She is besides capable to walk her clip caring for her handicapped mom, and her caller grandchildren.
'I wouldn't admit life for illustration this if I had not gone done nan cancer', she said.
'No 1 connected their decease furniture says I wish I had worked much aliases sewage that job, you each opportunity I wish I had spent much clip pinch my parents and kids aliases gone to that spot I had ever wanted to.'