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by Alex Paul (Author), Peter Littrup M. D. (Author), Laura Ross-Paul (Illustrator)
They're Mine and I'm Keeping Them is a story of innovation, courage, and triumph. Laura Ross-Paul wanted to keep her breast after being diagnosed with breast cancer and facing a mastectomy as her only medical option. This is the story of how she and her husband bucked the system, found Dr. Peter Littrup, a doctor with advanced skill in the field of tumor freezing, who performed cryo-ablation, and ultimately saved her breast. The success of their collaboration makes breast conservation a realistic outcome of breast cancer treatment. An unexpected, but welcome result, of the cryo-ablation treatment, was the "immune effect." The body's immune system is able to recognize the protein structure of the cancer cells when it cleans out the dead tissue and in about half the cases of cryo-ablation, naturally creates an immunity to the cancer. The book also relates the success at FUDA Hospital in Guangzhou, China in treating a variety of Stage 4 cancers by combining cryo-ablation and advanced immune system therapies, which increase the frequency of the occurrence of the natural immune effect to approximately eighty percent or higher of the cases.
Author Biography
Alex Paul Alex received a Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Science from Oregon State University in Industrial Engineering. After graduating, Alex became a sales engineer for pollution control equipment, which led to Alex starting his own equipment sales business at an early age. This was followed by a career as a real estate investor and developer, which culminated in the development of several retirement residences in Oregon. Alex and Laura still own and operate one facility, Beaverton Lodge Retirement Residence. An early interest in poetry and writing blossomed into a writing career. His first novel, Suicide Wall, about Vietnam veterans and suicide, was published in 1996. A middle-grade action-adventure novel series called Arken Freeth and the Adventure of the Neanderthals is now available on Amazon.com. In addition, Alex acted as narrator, editor and ghostwriter for Dr. Littrup and co-author of this book, They're Mine and I'm Keeping Them, or How Freezing my Breast Saved my Breast. Alex maintains websites for his writing work. SuicideWall.com provides a place for veterans and their families to record their experiences with veteran suicide while ArkenFreeth.com is about the Arken Freeth series. Alex and Laura have been married since 1970 and have three children. Alex is an avid outdoorsman, fishing the ocean for salmon in the summer off the mouth of the Columbia River, surfing year round in Oregon and California, skiing the western states and Canada and hunting elk, deer and antelope in Oregon, New Mexico, Wyoming, Utah and Colorado. Alex is also a musician, playing blues bass in the band, Skeleton Crew.
