Heres'a a post from the ACOR list that I found really interesting. I am particularly in interested in the role of the immune system in battling MM, because the focus of the Gerson protocol is detoxification and then rebuilding the immune system. Most conventional treatments, as we know, decimate the immune system, and medical wisdom warns us against boosting the immune system. But what if a strong immune system can hold MM in abeyance indefinitely? We don't need to "cure" it if it is "incurable," as long as we can hold it in check. Some accounts I've read of the Gerson protocol indicate that the protocol allowed patient's bodies to contain their cancers and wall them off from the rest of the body, rather than killing the tumor outright.

"from Newswise and Washington University Saint Louis School of Medicine Rita Kautz, Attica, NY, USA

Immune System Can Drive Cancers Into Dormant  State part I.
       
Newswise — A multinational team of researchers has shown for the  first time 
that the immune system can stop the growth of a cancerous tumor  without 
actually killing it. Scientists have been working for years to use the immune system  to eradicate cancers, a technique known as immunotherapy. The new findings prove  an alternate to this approach exists: When the cancer can't be killed with  immune attacks, it may be possible to find ways to use the immune system to  contain it. The results also may help explain why some tumors seem to suddenly  stop growing and go into a lasting period of dormancy. The study appears today in the advance online publication of  Nature. "Thanks to the animal model we have developed, scientists can  now reproduce this condition of tumor dormancy in the laboratory and look  directly at cancer cells being held in check by the immune system," says  co-author Robert Schreiber, Ph.D., Alumni Professor of Pathology and Immunology  at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. "That will allow us to  see if we can model this state  therapeutically.""