Hi, I am Jim Barry and this is my story of how I beat cancer. 

I have been a black cab driver in London for the last 30 years. It is not a particularly healthy lifestyle with irregular hours and sitting for long periods of time in traffic, breathing in fumes. 

Sometimes I am away from home days at a time and end up grabbing some sleep in the cab.

It is not easy to eat healthy meals whilst working although I do try to take prepared food from home and have always been a big fruit eater. I prefer a hot meal but it has not been easy to find a decent meal with cooked vegetables at a reasonable price and I would often grab a pie or snack and mug of tea.

in 2016, I started to sense things were not as they should be. This was concerning as for many years I had very rarely had the need to consult a doctor, but my instinct was telling me all was not right. In August 2016, I experience a bout of sickness when on holiday in Australia - I put it down to something I had eaten but this is not something that had ever happened before and I would have described myself as having a cast iron constitution regarding reaction to food. 

As the months progressed, I found I had to go to the toilet regularly and would pass cat-like poops - small and passed with a certain force. Occasionally, I found there were traces of pink. I never experienced any great pain but rather discomfort on occasions. 

I finally went to the doctor in December 2016 and he got me to do a bowel cancer test. I was then sent to the hospital for a colonoscopy and it was confirmed that I had lower rectal cancer at stage 3, which was inoperable in its present state.

They would need to treat me with a course of radiotherapy and chemotherapy to reduce the size of the cancer, which was very close to the bowel wall and lymph glands. The plan was to remove the cancer once it had shrunken sufficiently for it to be possible to do so. After the operation was performed, I would, however, have to live with a double colostomy bag.

When I heard this, I was gripped by a feeling of intense dread. This was heightened even further when I recovered my composure sufficiently to ask the doctor how long I would have to live if I didn’t have the operation. His matter-of-fact answer was like a punch to the stomach: “Four months.” 

After receiving the devastating news, a profound sense of despair settled in. However, a conversation with a colleague began to change that. When I shared my terrible news, she urged me not to lose hope. Her partner, Fatos, had faced advanced cancer in multiple areas of his body. She later showed me a PET scan that highlighted the cancerous regions in vivid red, resembling a canvas splattered with paintball shots.

Remarkably, she explained that he had been treating himself with THC oil. A second PET scan revealed a dramatic transformation: the majority of the red areas had vanished, leaving only faint pink dots. Years later, Fatos remained fit and healthy, free from cancer.

Hearing of and having seen the evidence of Fatos‘s recovery was a turning point for me. It dispelled my fear and made me confident that I, too, could beat my cancer.

I decided at this point that I would not have the surgery but would try a different path. When I mentioned this to the surgeon, I am sure he thought this was a panic reaction and that, of course, I would choose to have the surgery to save my life. I did, however, go through with the chemo-radiotherapy and should have visited the surgeon a few weeks afterwards. 

Strangely enough, the hospital records seemed temporarily to be lost. It turned out they had put my name down as Barry James rather than James Barry, meaning that I never received an appointment card for several months. This bought me time to pursue my alternative methods without pressure from my family or the medical team.

From the moment I was diagnosed, I read every piece of information I could on cancer and pH levels in the body, the effects of THC and CBD oil and anything else I could find. My son Adrian, who was 32 at the time, galvanized into action and decided that I should adopt an organic vegan lifestyle. Red meat was definitely off my menu.

Adrian had a food parcel delivered to our home every week containing daily ingredients and recipes and my wife Pam prepared the meals every day. I can't say I enjoyed them but I respected my son and stuck with it. Adrian was insistent that I only ate “whole foods”, not tinned or processed foods in packets . I also cut out sugar and carbs completely, to starve the cancer. 

Based on what I had read about changing the body's PH levels, I started to eat lemons (skin, pips, pulp etc), broccoli, kale, spinach, blueberries and took cumin capsules and diluted apple cider vinegar. I also took bicarbonate of soda. 

I investigated where I could buy good quality CBD oil as I was convinced this would help and found a health shop in Putney that stocked an oil that was really strong. The cancer sufferer Fatos also gave me some THC oil of which I needed only to take enough to cover a pin’s head. In my enthusiasm, I initially exceeded that dosage, but soon regretted it- I felt as if I was having a heart attack. After that, I used it sparingly. 

My wife Pam also suggested I visit a Chinese herbalist she had used for acupuncture and he gave me a small jar of herbs to take. He said one of his patients had taken these and cured their bowel cancer. I took the Chinese herbs for a couple of weeks. 

Above all, I constantly assured my family all would be well and I was absolutely convinced that some or all of what I was doing would get rid of the cancer. 

At some point, I had asked a nurse at the hospital what cancer looked like and she told me it was white. I remembered this one day when I checked the toilets bowl after a movement and noticed a white blob. To my mind, I had passed the cancer. Even if it turns out I was wrong, it does not matter - it was enough that I believed it, thereby strengthening my positive attitude.

When the hospital did eventually get my files sorted (some 5 months later), I was called in for a scan to see if the cancer had shrunk sufficiently for them to be able to operate. Pam was waiting nervously in the car park but, once again, I completely believed that I would be OK. 

As the doctor did his investigation with the ultrasound scan, he seemed unable to locate the cancer as he moved the probe about on my stomach. Eventually. he found what he thought was the cancer and said that, at least, it didn’t seem to have grown. Then he realized he was mistaken: What he was looking at was actually scar tissue. 

He turned to me and said these words that I shall forever cherish: “The tumour is gone.” He had a look of shock on his face and said I was in that small 1% category where this happened. He had never personally witnessed such a thing.

I was overcome with joy at hearing I had been reprieved of my death sentence and rushed out to break the good news to Pam in the parking lot. I phoned everyone I could think of to share my good news, including the most cynical person I know, my brother-in-law Nev. He later convinced me to make this video. 

I truly believe I was healed as the result of my own interventions and some or all of what I did had somehow shrunk the tumour.

Six years on, I regularly go for colonoscopies every six months and will have to do this for another 4 years - a small price to pay to save myself having to live with a double colostomy-bag and, more importantly, to be free of cancer. 

Obviously, I can’t say exactly what it was that cured my cancer nor guarantee that anything I did contributed towards the cure but my belief is that somewhere in that combination of methods, my cancer disappeared. I feel certain my positive attitude also contributed to the favourable outcome.

I would say is you or a member of your family is diagnosed with cancer, don't give up. Gather information and try whatever you feel is right for you - at the end of the day, everything I did off my own bat was unconventional but, for me, it worked.

Spotting cancer at an early stage saves lives, so it is important to tell your doctor as soon as possible if you notice anything that isn’t normal for you.

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Footnotes and references:

1. Positron emission tomography
2. Tetrahydrocannabinol is the major psychoactive component found in cannabis. synthetic formulations of THC have been FDA approved to manage chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting Currently, cannabis is legal for medical purposes in over 50% of the states, and seventeen states permit products that are high in cannabidiol (CBD) and low in THC (tetrahydrocannabinol) for medical use. Its use however is prohibited in any product by the Food and Drug Administration,w ww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
3. Red meat is classed as a probable cause of cancer.
4. Large-scale study explores genetic link between colorectal cancer and meat intake.
5. Ultra-processed foods may be linked to increased risk of cancer.
6. According to The American Institute for Cancer Research: There’s no clear evidence that the sugar in your diet preferentially feeds tumors over other cells. There is a connection between sugar and cancer risk, however, but it’s more indirect than many realize. Eating a lot of high-sugar foods may mean more calories in your diet than you need, which eventually leads to excess body fat. After not smoking, being at a healthy weight is the most important thing you can do to prevent cancer. Jung-whan Kim, Ph.D. of the University of Texas at Dallas received a research grant from the American Lung to study the connection between glucose (sugar) and squamous cell carcinoma, a type of lung cancer that accounts for 25 to 30 percent of all lung cancers. Kim and his team have found that sugar serves as an energy supply for this kind of lung cancer, aiding in the tumor's growth and survival( https://www.lung.org/blog/sugar-and-lung-cancer )
7. For confirmation of Nigella Sativa (black cumin)’s effectiveness against cancer, see: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3252704/. As is the case with most alternative remedies, the jury is still out with regards to the usefulness of an alkaline diet to treat cancer: https://www.healthline.com/health/apple-cider-vinegar-cancer#risks
8. Qi et al. (42) found that (Traditional Chinese medicine) TCM-based adjuvant therapy can not only delay tumor progression and enhance immune function but also enhance the sensitivity to chemotherapy, reduce the chemotherapy-induced side effects (e.g., gastrointestinal symptoms such as diarrhoea, nausea, and vomiting and respiratory infections), and protect liver function, so as to alleviate radiotherapy or chemotherapy-induced fatigue( https://apm.amegroups.org/article/view/2239%20/3341)
9. Why early cancer diagnosis is important.