Breast Cancer DIY

This material has helped either stop completely or minimize the burns.

I know this will sound absolutely crazy to you, but this is the story of what has become known as "Marion's Magic Blanket".

While I was in chemotherapy, my oncologist suggested I contact a company in Massachusetts, which had a product (holistic) that would reduce neuropathy that I was experiencing, after chemo with the drug Taxol.

In the process of obtaining the holistic chemical "Glutamine" Sympt.X produced by a company called "Cambridge Nutraceuticals", I became friendly by phone with their Oncology Dietitian. I called her when I was scheduled to begin my radiation, and asked if this "Glutamine" would help with the radiation effects.

She told me that it would not, but she and her associates at a cancer center in Massachusetts had found that they were able to almost eliminate the radiation burns, by using a product that she could get for me. It was still in the testing stage, but they had first tested it on people with severe sunburns, and those individuals did not blister, or peel, and the heat from the sunburn would be almost gone the next day, after putting this material on their bodies for several hours.

The way it was described to me was as follows, however I have not been able to find anywhere any actual documentation of this story, but all I know is that I am a blue eyed, fair skinned woman, who sunburns after 15 minutes in the sun at the beach, and living in Florida for 25 years, I had plenty of sunburns to know the pain that lasted for days.

The story:

NASA was trying to develop a material that could be used for underwear for the astronauts, that would protect them from excessive heat in the spacecraft upon re-entry. If the body temperature rose to dangerous levels, this material had to dissipate the heat, and spread it over the fibers (Ceramic fibers) of the material, and thereby reduce the body's temperature for survival.

When this product came on the market, as a household "blanket" used for normal household use, (the husband is always cold, and the wife is always hot) this blanket served the purpose of transferring this heat, and making them both comfortable by simple heat transfer thru the ceramic fibers.

This blanket cannot be washed, because it would destroy the fibers, it must be dry cleaned only.

The folks who were dealing with the "sunburned guys", came to the conclusion that maybe it would work the same way for radiation burns, so they began testing various skin types, and found that for the most part, most patients did not burn, when they used the blanket for several hours after each radiation treatment.

I had 35 radiation treatments and my doctor , at first looked at me like I was insane, but after 3 weeks of treatment, he was absolutely shocked that I was "not even pink".

He soon became a skeptical believer, that something had made the difference, since my fair skin, should have had burns by the time I finished radiation treatment - 7 weeks later.

At no time during this whole treatment did I develop burns, except thru my own carelessness.

I had to wear my bra one day, and the rubbing of the elastic against the lower part of my left chest, caused the skin to break down, and blister. I am positive that if I had not done that, I would have been free of all burns due to the radiation treatments I received.

After every treatment, I would come home, use large quantities of Aloe & Vitamin E cream, on the radiated area, then I would put on a very lightweight t-shirt, and then put the "magic blanket" on over the t-shirt, and secure it with a 6" ace bandage. I would wear this blanket every day for minimum of 4 hours.

Since the material is not washable, the T-shirt absorbed the cream, and allowed me to use the blanket without constant dry cleaning, since I needed it every day.

I continued to wear the blanket for several weeks after my treatment, as my doctor advised me that the radiation will continue to "accumulate" for several weeks after finishing treatment.

This blanket has been used by several other women and one man who had abdominal surgery for Colon cancer , none of whom burned.

The gal in Massachusetts is still working with the group and more experiments are being conducted on other uses of this product.

I KNOW that this sounds really wierd to a "traditional medical doctor", but unless you see it work for yourself, you will never understand what it means not to suffer radiation burns after treatment.


This product is NOT sanctioned by any doctors, as it is NOT approved by the FDA, and therefore no medical doctor can suggest that it be used.

Only those of us who have used it, can tell you that it works!