Ankit suggested that we should consult Dr. Dolkar, a Tibetan doctor who treats patients with herbal medicines..One of Ankit's friends' father who had been suffering from cancer and about whom the doctors practicing allopathy had declared that he would survive only three months had been treated by Dr. Dolkar. The man then lived for more than ten years.Well, it was tempting. Who knows her medicines could work for me too?What was the harm in giving it a try?
So we went to the Kalkaji area of Delhi.There was no need of a prior appointment.We could go there between 9 a.m. and 12 noon in the mornings and between 5p.m. and 7 p.m. in the afternoons and wait for our turn.We reached there around ten a.m.. A young man and a young woman behind an almost semi circular counter were dispensing medicines, attending telephones and were also giving small slips of paper containing serial numbers for the visitors.The visitors would take their slip , read the serial number, look at a small screen on the wall behind the counter to know the visitor of what serial number was with the doctor, look at the serial number on their slips, assess mentally how much more time they are likely to be waiting for their turn and begin waiting patiently.The number on our slip was 9. The small screen on the wall behind the counter indicated that the visitor with the doctor carried the slip containing the number four meaning thereby that we might have to wait for a considerably long time for our turn. And wait we did.
After about an hour we were seated before Dr. Dolkar, a reasonably stoutly built Tibetan woman in her late forties ( or that is what I thought).. She glanced through my reports and made three observations: it was a treated case i.e. the surgery had been performed to remove the tumour; the disease appeared to be at an initial stage since the biopsy plate did not show a fully blown up flower that is apparent when the disease has advanced considerably;and that no relevant blood tests had been conducted to assess the level of cancer in the body.She advised that I should undergo the following cancer marker blood tests and show her the reports to enable her to make necessary changes in the doses or contents of the medicines she was asking me to start immediately:
LDH (Lactate Dehydroganese)
AFP (Alpha Fetoprotein)
CEA (Carcino Embryonic Antigen)
CA19.9(Pancreatic Cancer Marker)
Beta 2 CgA (Chromogranin AMicroglobulin, Serum and
FDP (DR- 70)
The reporting process took many days, may be a month and the reports were more or less normal except for the following:-
FDP (DR-70) was H1.7,the normal would be less than 1; Chromogranin A was 169.39 ng/ml,the normal would be less than 100ng/ml; CEA was 7.30 ng/m/l; the normal ranges were less than 5 for smokers and less
than 3 for non-smokers
On our next visit Dr. Dolkar looked at the reports and said that there would be a need to repeat one of the tests after about two months and that the decreased levels in that report would indicate that the medicines were having an effect. She further said that only when the markers are within normal ranges continuously for three long years can the patient be declared as having been freed of the cancer The treatment would continue for three years and the cost of medicines would be between three and five hundred rupees every week ( She had told us about the costs and the duration of the treatment at our first visit)
Since my first visit I have been taking the medicines regularly at mornings,between 10a.m. and 11 a.m.,between 3p.mp. and 4p.m. and the last thing at nights. In the first week the doses comprised four pills but now they are five pills each time. She has told me that I could continue with these medicines even if I have to undergo chemotherapy at a later date.
Incidentally, I am simultaneously taking what may be called the desi treatment comprising neem leaves, basil leaves and linseed oil leavened into freshly made cottage cheese from cow's milk.This latter i.e. cottage cheese concoction is courtesy Shri Jagroshan Lal Sharma, my daughter's father-in-law who procured the freshly extracted linseed oil from somebody in Meerut where he stays.I really do not know how I can repay the debt of all these people including my wife who makes cottage cheese every day in the morning.I sincerely hope and pray that earnest efforts of all these people do not go in vain .
So we went to the Kalkaji area of Delhi.There was no need of a prior appointment.We could go there between 9 a.m. and 12 noon in the mornings and between 5p.m. and 7 p.m. in the afternoons and wait for our turn.We reached there around ten a.m.. A young man and a young woman behind an almost semi circular counter were dispensing medicines, attending telephones and were also giving small slips of paper containing serial numbers for the visitors.The visitors would take their slip , read the serial number, look at a small screen on the wall behind the counter to know the visitor of what serial number was with the doctor, look at the serial number on their slips, assess mentally how much more time they are likely to be waiting for their turn and begin waiting patiently.The number on our slip was 9. The small screen on the wall behind the counter indicated that the visitor with the doctor carried the slip containing the number four meaning thereby that we might have to wait for a considerably long time for our turn. And wait we did.
After about an hour we were seated before Dr. Dolkar, a reasonably stoutly built Tibetan woman in her late forties ( or that is what I thought).. She glanced through my reports and made three observations: it was a treated case i.e. the surgery had been performed to remove the tumour; the disease appeared to be at an initial stage since the biopsy plate did not show a fully blown up flower that is apparent when the disease has advanced considerably;and that no relevant blood tests had been conducted to assess the level of cancer in the body.She advised that I should undergo the following cancer marker blood tests and show her the reports to enable her to make necessary changes in the doses or contents of the medicines she was asking me to start immediately:
LDH (Lactate Dehydroganese)
AFP (Alpha Fetoprotein)
CEA (Carcino Embryonic Antigen)
CA19.9(Pancreatic Cancer Marker)
Beta 2 CgA (Chromogranin AMicroglobulin, Serum and
FDP (DR- 70)
The reporting process took many days, may be a month and the reports were more or less normal except for the following:-
FDP (DR-70) was H1.7,the normal would be less than 1; Chromogranin A was 169.39 ng/ml,the normal would be less than 100ng/ml; CEA was 7.30 ng/m/l; the normal ranges were less than 5 for smokers and less
than 3 for non-smokers
On our next visit Dr. Dolkar looked at the reports and said that there would be a need to repeat one of the tests after about two months and that the decreased levels in that report would indicate that the medicines were having an effect. She further said that only when the markers are within normal ranges continuously for three long years can the patient be declared as having been freed of the cancer The treatment would continue for three years and the cost of medicines would be between three and five hundred rupees every week ( She had told us about the costs and the duration of the treatment at our first visit)
Since my first visit I have been taking the medicines regularly at mornings,between 10a.m. and 11 a.m.,between 3p.mp. and 4p.m. and the last thing at nights. In the first week the doses comprised four pills but now they are five pills each time. She has told me that I could continue with these medicines even if I have to undergo chemotherapy at a later date.
Incidentally, I am simultaneously taking what may be called the desi treatment comprising neem leaves, basil leaves and linseed oil leavened into freshly made cottage cheese from cow's milk.This latter i.e. cottage cheese concoction is courtesy Shri Jagroshan Lal Sharma, my daughter's father-in-law who procured the freshly extracted linseed oil from somebody in Meerut where he stays.I really do not know how I can repay the debt of all these people including my wife who makes cottage cheese every day in the morning.I sincerely hope and pray that earnest efforts of all these people do not go in vain .