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be cured by the use of Antineoplastons,

and we already have proof that it can be cured.

She was diagnosed in March of 1996, she was eleven,

and pretty much just started having really bad

double vision is how we discovered it and went to the eye doctor

and that's when they did the MRI and

discovered it was a brainstem glioma.

And they explained that hers was diffused, where it was like the

Healthy tissue and the cancerous tissue were swirled together

-so of course surgery wasn't an option.

And with the radiation they suggested, her prognosis

was probably going to be about eight to eighteen months.

The thing is, with the radiation,

what it would do to you from what I understood is,

They would shoot the beam through your ears,

and the beam would burn your healthy

and your cancerous cells outside-in.

So all your hair around your ears would be gone,

never grow back, your ears would become deformed and burnt,

you would be come deaf,

it would also destroy your pituitary gland which

is the gland that helps you grow as you hit puberty...

Yeah, she was eleven at the time and that was a real concern I had.

And it would make you stay in an eleven year-old body,

and basically you'd go into a vegetative state, where you

couldn't take care of yourself, which wasn't a very good quality of life.

My big concern was with the oncologist that we were originally

dealing with was how it was going to affect her development,

and when she started to enter the teenage years,

starting her period, and growing and developing

-and he just looked at me and said

"well, frankly Mrs. Ressel, she's not going to live that long."

What she would have to go through in those extra months-

that would be horrible.

I wouldn't want to go through it. Why do it?

You're handed a death sentence anyway,

so what was the point of the radiation?

You know, then, you have to say okay,

"modern medicine doesn't have an answer, let's find our own."

Jessica Ressel's brainstem glioma was confirmed by an MRI in

Springfield, Missouri; and the children's hospital of St. Louis Missouri.

Jessie Ressel is riding on the best news she's had since March.

She and her parents now believe they are on their way to a cure,

for what doctors had said was an incurable brain tumor.

Here at the Burzynski Clinic in Houston, Texas,

the Ressels have found an experimental drug

they could only dream of eight months ago.

That's when Jessie was still a fifth-grader,

at a catholic elementary school in Springfield.

It's when one of her eyes started crossing in,

she started seeing double,

it's when Jessie went to the doctor and learned that she

had one of the most aggressive kinds of brain cancer-

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