Healed of Cancer by Dodie Osteen

Author:Dodie Osteen
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Biography
ISBN: 9780912631332
Publisher: Joel Osteen Ministries
Published: 1986-11-30T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 3

Physicians' Statements of My Diagnosis and Healing

Dr. Reginald B. Cherry reports:

No hint of disease now present

To help you understand the magnitude of Dodie Osteen's healing, I want to point out that liver cancer is one of the most treacherous cancers we face in medicine. Because the cancer is in a part of the body that has a high blood supply, a very rich source of nutrients feeds the cancer. In the natural, medical sense, patients live very, very short life-spans once a diagnosis of liver cancer is made. Generally, the weight and energy losses are steady and progressive. And after just a few weeks—six to seven months at the most—the majority of patients succumb to the illness.

In late November 1981, Mrs. Dodie Osteen checked into St. Luke's Hospital at the Texas Medical Center in Houston, Texas, for what she felt would be some routine tests. Her complaint at the time of admission was a history of a mild fever and an episode of right upper quadrant abdominal pain.

Mrs. Osteen's initial physical examination revealed no underlying abnormality. Her blood pressure and skin color were normal. Her heart, lungs, and abdominal examinations were all within normal limits. It was beginning to appear that the mild fever and episodes of upper abdominal pain really weren't anything serious—maybe just a "bug" going around.

The physicians, however, felt an uneasiness. Somehow things just didn't add up. Some of medicine's most sophisticated tests were then ordered. It was after the first of these tests that the first hint of a problem turned up.

The diagnosis was consistent: Cancer!

An abdominal sonogram was performed in which sound waves passed into the abdomen. At first, all images of the pancreas, kidneys, and uterus were normal. Then the radiologist saw the ominous picture. Something was wrong in the liver. There was a mass occupying the right lobe of the liver.

An abdominal C.T. scan—a sophisticated form of X-ray— was ordered, and the results were unequivocal: "large lesion right liver lobe, 2 small lesions left lobe." The scan had the characteristic picture of cancer, but the doctors wanted to be certain. Was it an abscess, possibly caused by an amoeba or a parasite? They had to go into the liver: a biopsy was performed. Special tests were then done for parasites and other organisms, including blood tests, cultures, smears, and stains. All proved negative.

It had to be cancer, and to confirm it, cells were examined by the pathologists. St. Luke's pathologists examined the slides, which were then sent to M.D. Anderson Hospital, a world renowned institution dealing exclusively with the diagnosis and treatment of cancer, also located in the Texas Medical Center. The diagnosis was consistent: "metastatic adenocarcinoma of the liver."

Where, then, was the origin of the cancer? This question remained undetermined. All tests of other organ systems were completely normal.

Mrs. Osteen was informed of the diagnosis. The cancer was classified medically as being incurable. Medicine had reached the end. The sophisticated tests revealed the problem, but the technology of modern medicine could offer little more.

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