Ananda Lewis, a former MTV VJ, has been living with breast cancer for almost six times and has used alternative and conventional methods to treat it. Some of her cancers, she claims, are now invisible.
” If you extended your career, you won”, Lewis said this week in a , roundtable conversation , with CNN’s Stephanie Elam, who is one of her best friends, and fellow , breast cancer survivor Sara Sidner, even a CNN journalist. ” Nothing gets out of here dead. That is just going to happen. You’re going to succeed only based on your abilities and sense of responsibility. My quality of life is very important to me. … I know myself, I , want , to want to be around. So I had to do it in a particular method for me.
The 51-year-old, who rose to fame on BET’s” Teen Summit” and hosted” The Ananda Lewis Show” in the first aughts, found a lump in her shoulder in January 2019. She stated that it was likely “growing for a great while” and that she had immediately diligently looked into alternative therapies that might have kept the illness at bay. But eventually she “got lazy”, she said, and ran out of money, resulting in a transition to Level 4 last month.
There are a lot of things tied together in those two things that make that data make a little feeling, Lewis said,” when you talk about our people, Black people, being the most vulnerable for dying from this, you are talking about that.
” We have a long history of not being comfortable with specialists.” We need to get over our rightful distrust of the medical sector, but we wo n’t pretend that it came from somewhere and that it is real.
According to the American Cancer Society, breast cancer is the most prevalent malignancy in women in the United States, trailing only skin tumors. It causes about 1 in 3 new women tumors each month, and Black women are disproportionately affected by the condition. Black women are 60 years older than white women ( 64 ), and they are also more likely than any other race or ethnic group to pass away from breast cancer.
When she learned about the cyst, Lewis claimed that her cancer had advanced to the point where doctors, whom she called” standard specialists,” suggested a double surgery. Yet though her friends, family, and her sister, who is a doctor and cancer victim, gave her pain about it, Lewis opted to try alternative remedies.
” I know people that ]surgery and aggressive treatments ] worked for. However, Lewis said that this journey is really personal and that you must choose what works best for you and only you. ” My system did this, there’s something to know it”.
Lewis stated that she wanted to “figure it out” on her own and lessen the environmental poisons, mental strain, and” all the how of malignancy” that contribute to the disease’s beginning. ” If we do n’t start addressing those, the other stuff is a half-measure to me, which is why I did n’t do it”, she said of avoiding surgery, chemotherapy and other conventional breast cancer treatments.
At first, her strategy was to get the “excessive poisons” out of herself because she believes systems are “intelligent” and “brilliantly made and we disaster them away”. She decided to “keep” her malignancy and operate it out of her brain a different way, including cleaning, completely changing her diet and working on her “emotional scenery”.
She took meticulous information about what she ate, how she felt, and even how she breathed. That resulted in” a slow-it-down time” that she thought was quite effective. Finally, the COVID-19 pandemic strike and none of her sources were available nowadays.
However, the tumor kept growing.
Lewis moved to Arizona and integrated traditional and modern treatments for the illness. She underwent , insulin-potentiated treatment, detoxed and did more alternate therapies that brought the tumor down to Stage 2 in 2021. But, she said, she “ran out of income” and plan did not cover her systematic approach.
When she could n’t keep up with the regimen prescribed to her, she said,” I just started letting my life be normal again, and this takes everything, and I wanted something back”, she said. ” Cancer has a humorous way of just growing up,” he says.
Her scans revealed that the cancer had spread “almost anywhere but my mind” by the time it was detected in her neck, through her hips, into her swollen nodes, and through her backbone.
” It was the worst I’d ever been”, she said, adding that after getting a tooth test, she felt the worst pain she actually had. Additionally, it was her first “had a conversation with death,” leaving her feeling a little angrier and disappointed.
Lewis broke her leg after telling Elam and Sidner that she had tooth issues and had been unable to get out of bed for eight days. When she regained her insurance, she began receiving treatment and was ready for various other forms of medicine.
Lewis claimed that she has maintained” the integrated part” of her treatment strategy, which she believes reduces some of the drug’s side effects and has reduced her cancers. Some of them are presently unnoticeable.
For Sidner, it was  , Phase 3 breast cancers,  , which she discovered last year at age 51. She took a wholly different approach than Lewis did: She was determined to” cut it out, chemo it out, fight it out, burn]it ] in hell”, wanting an immediate response. Although her cancers was in one shoulder, she had a double surgery.
What I suddenly learned was that it was n’t going to be immediate and that I had to deal with that, which was a very difficult lesson for Sara Sidner. And I was pissed”, she said.
Both people stressed how crucial it is for people to conduct self-examinations, become aware of their body, and advocate for themselves.
Elam, who called Lewis and Sidner her daughters and” chosen home”, delved deeply into both women’s activities in hopes that it would assist others.
We are that for one another in both the good and the bad. So when they both began their breast cancer journeys, I did n’t know how best to support them and I also realized I had no idea what modern cancer treatment looks like”, Elam , wrote , on Instagram.
The TV journalist expressed gratitude to the media for their commitment to “fully opened up for the earth” and to speak with her.
” If we can find just one person to get their breast because of this discussion, that’s success. I want everyone to live long, healthy life”, she wrote.
Lewis registered , her response , in the paper’s comments section.
” Whew chile! The ride of]sic ] die is REAL! It was amazing to have this discussion with @stephelamtv and @sarasidnertv.” I hope for the best results for EVERYONE who is battling cancer. Like you”!
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