On June 26, 1997, I went to Philippine General Hospital for a biopsy test of my breast. I brought the result to a resident doctor. "Do you know what POSITIVE FOR MALIGNANT CELLS* means?" the doctor asked. "This is cancerous!"

Biopsy test was taken at Department of Pathology, College of Medicine, University of Philippines, Manila. Cytology No.: C-97-3222. Source of Aspirate: Breast Mass (L). Patient: BIAGTAN, Adelina. Age: 53. OPD clinic: 2C02. Pertinent Data: 5 Yrs. PTC-breast mass(L), 1 month PTC - increase in size (L) nipple d/c. Physician: Dr. Cadelina. Diagnosis: Positive for Malignant Cells. Consistent with Ductal Carcinoma. Consultant: Januario D. Veloso, M.D. Date: 6-19-97. Reported by: Mirian N. De Leon, M.D.

"This is what I`ll do, I`ll start you on cobalt therapy by Monday. After one month of treatment, we`ll have to perform surgery no matter what the result will be." I was shocked with this diagnosis. I felt fear running through my bones. I dropped by the hospital chapel to pray before I went home.

I was in tears when I got home. My children run to me when they saw me crying. After they`ve found out the truth, they also cried with me. Deep inside I know I`ll be cured through God`s healing. With this, my family started our daily prayer together.

After a month or two, I was still hoping that the findings were wrong. I went to see a certain doctor named Dr. Equette (St. Agnes Clinic). He said that my cancer is in advance stage and I need to be operated on and get a chemotherapy treatment. He asked me to bring P25,000 (Philippine Currency) in the soonest time possible in order to start with the treatment. He was planning to remove the whole breast and replace it with some leg muscles. I was uncomfortable because that will mean 2 incision.

Next, I went to a Chinese herbalist in Roxas Blvd. He prescribed some crystal nature herb for me to drink and crystal oil to put on my breast. Unfortunately, nothing happened.

I was still looking for a doctor who would advise me not to have a surgery. I went to see another doctor in East Avenue. He told me it was necessary to undergo surgery by November. I didn`t heed his advice, neither did I went back to see him.

There had been a constant pulsating sharp pain for several days from the breast cancer. I had been having sleepless nights.

On October 14, 1997, my husband brought home a box a China No. 1 Tian Xian Liquid. I started taking the medicine. The medicine was a little bit sweet and bitter. 2 days after, the pulsating pain subsided. One week after taking Tian Xian medicine, I noticed the hard lump began to soften. A few days later, abscesses began forming similar to boils. When it came to a head, not one but several heads, the tender skin broke and pus began flowing out.

After a month, Nov. 12, 1998 of taking the Tian Xian Liquid, the surface areas of the cancer was a big lesion. Initially, while pus continues to come out daily, there was a minor bleeding. Later on as the days progress, bleeding became profuse and so with the pus. By December 1997, the wound was so sensitive that, a little touch on one surface would cause the pus with blood to squirt out of the nearby skin. It continuously flowed out like a fountain.

I placed a handkerchief over the wound every night. I usually lie on my back when I sleep and don`t turn around. Amazingly, I found the covering full of solidified pus and blood stained every morning. The blood was very fresh red like that of a freshly killed pig. This made me doubt the effectivity of the medicine. I only realized that this process, ripening the mass of cancer, was good when I was cured. Of the 1.25 inches of lump, a depression like a hole in the middle was beginning to appear. The pus and bleeding, although now there was reduced bleeding, continued until I became anemic.

One day, I lost consciousness and was rush to the hospital. Because my blood level was low, I was given a blood transfusion. This was on January 1998. I had to receive new blood because of the blood loss I incurred the past few months. At the same time, the doctor required that I take radiation therapy for the open wound in the cancer. I agreed to proceed with the cobalt radiation treatment. During this time, bleeding became lesser, though the stench of burning tissue and pus was there.

Before each cobalt treatment, I ask my sister to clean the wound with anti-bacterial medicine, hydrogen peroxide (Agua Oxinada) and supratool. Everytime I have cobalt treatment, I have to raise my hand and be exposed to 5000 watts of treatment. My skin became darker. I slowly recovered from the radiation burns.

After a week or two, I felt pain deep inside. But the doctor told me that it was okay. I was on antibiotics and had to take morphine tablet to control the pain. The morphine tablet caused me much dizziness and I immediately stopped taking it. I completed my cobalt treatment on March 3, 1998, without any interruption for one-month (every Monday to Friday). The doctor was surprise at my