Lynne is raising funds to be treated by The International Center for Cell Therapy & Cancer Immunotherapy (CTCI) who provide groundbreaking treatments for patients with cancer as well as non-malignant diseases. Some of the treatments are provided in Israel, and others are provided in other locations, in accordance with local regulations.
The cancer treatments include a broad range of personalised immune therapies, oncolytic virus therapies, and tailored drug regimens with reduced toxicity. CTCI’s personalised approaches aim to rehabilitate and/or regulate the patient’s immune system, or to introduce donor immune-system cells, to effectively fight disease and treat other disease correctible by bone marrow or adipose-tissue-derived stem cells. This would not only help treat Lynne’s cancer but help her regain her health which was compromised ten years ago by a devastating allergic reaction to mercury and amalgam.This was officially diagnosed by Guy’s Hospital and has left her health severely compromised for the last ten years. She is hoping to follow this treatment path as she hopes not only are her chances of survival much higher but also that her underlying health might be regained.


This is Lynne’s story told by her friend

I met Lynne in 1999 when she bounced into my life as an energetic bundle of positivity. She worked as a background artiste on TV shows like Holby City, The Bill, East Enders and Judge John Deed. She was featured in many big films most notably Star Wars. There is even a playing card with her character on it!
She regularly got up at 5am to travel to London in her little car for a long day’s filming. In her spare time Lynne had worked for The Hunger Project on a global level and also brought courses to the UK to help children and teenagers to learn skills that helped them to communicate better and be more confident and happy.

Not long after I met her, she developed a severe allergic reaction to mercury & amalgam in her fillings and when they were removed without full protection, she ingested the very thing that she was so allergic to. The bubbly energetic person was reduced to somebody who endured great pain and overwhelming fatigue.

Other people would have curled up in a depressed ball and given up, but Lynne had an idea for a project that she could work on from her bed, via the Internet, to keep herself positive. She went on to create something extraordinary.

Despite her life being changed irrevocably by her illness, Lynne had become passionate about the cause for World Peace and shining a light on all the people who do good things in the world. She set up a website called www.PeaceInOurLifetime.org. Her dream was to allow people to declare that they stood for Peace. They could then download their Certificate for Peace with their personal number on it. (They didn’t even need to give an email address!) They could print it out, use it as a screen saver and even put it onto a mug or a tee shirt. A simple gesture, but Lynne’s thinking was that if she could get one billion souls on this planet to say “Yes, I stand for Peace” then there could be a shift of World Consciousness: rather like the concept of the butterfly’s wings altering the course of life.

This movement has grown into a yearly concert, broadcast live on Peaceday.TV that happens all over the world. Many huge global organisations including Peace One Day, Peace Jam (10 Nobel Laureates working with youth), Pathways to Peace, Humanity’s Team and Imagine Peace have collaborated with her. Lynne was made a Goodwill Ambassador for The Goodwill Treaty for Peace and Fellow of The Peace Research Institute for her efforts in promoting peace and raising awareness of Peace Day. Her Facebook group alone has 25,000 members. All this, from a bedridden body, that is still fighting the poison that laid her so low.

A year ago with the help of regular thermal imaging photography, Lynne was diagnosed with Grade 3 aggressive ductal carcinoma - breast cancer. It was caught very early and most people would have opted for a simple lumpectomy followed by a course of Tamoxifen and radiotherapy. Because of Lynne’s already compromised health, she took the brave decision to have her whole breast removed, a belt and braces approach, so she could avoid the follow-up treatment which might effect her health still further.

An amazing team at the Queen Victoria hospital in East Grinstead led by Mr Zammit and plastic surgeon Mr Boorman, removed her breast and built her a ‘bionic boob’ from her stomach’s fatty tissue and muscle. The results were extraordinary and Lynne was slowly recovering from the enormous operation when somebody turned around quickly in a queue, hitting the breast reconstruction with their elbow. A small lump developed and the hospital thought it was perhaps scar tissue or fat necrosis. It became red and inflamed and eventually with persistent persuasion from Lynne, she had an ultrasound and a small needle biopsy. The results came back that the cancer had returned in the reconstruction – almost unheard of, in fact it had only happened once in the history of the hospital.

The next step in the UK would be for Lynne to have a lumpectomy. Once that tissue is analysed, she would probably be given a course of radiotherapy or chemotherapy. Because of her previous and ongoing ill health this would simply be too much for her body.

Did you know there are cures available already in ISRAEL and in trials in the USA? That in the UK there are already complementary medicines available that can considerably reduce the side effects of current treatments?

After a lot of research, Lynne discovered two ongoing programmes that might not only treat her cancer but also address the underlying health problems caused by the allergic reaction. One of these is Dr Burzynski‘s groundbreaking work in America that has reached the final stages of FDA approval. It’s a gene-targeted therapy that gives a much more refined medicine, specifically targeted for your particular genetic make-up and cancer. It is having extraordinary results.

Watch this video to find out more: http://www.burzynskimovie.com
You can watch the whole movie here: http://vimeo.com/24821365

The other option is at The International Center for Cell Therapy & Cancer Immunotherapy. http://www.Ctcicenter.com

CTCI provides groundbreaking treatments for patients with cancer or non-malignant diseases. Some of the treatments are provided in Israel, and others are provided in other locations, in accordance with local regulations. The cancer treatments include a broad range of personalised immune therapies, oncolytic virus therapies, and tailored drug regimens with reduced toxicity.

Their personalised approaches aim to rehabilitate and/or regulate the patient’s immune system, or to introduce donor immune-system cells, to effectively fight disease. It includes regenerative therapies developed by CTCI for neurological diseases and other conditions correctible by bone marrow or adipose-tissue-derived stem cells. This would not only help treat Lynne’s cancer but would also help her to regain her health that was compromised ten years ago by the devastating allergic reaction to mercury and amalgam.

Lynne wasn’t comfortable to ask for that money for herself, so instead she has embarked on a campaign of information, trying to bring these programmes to the UK for NHS trials, so that so many more people could be helped.

If many cancers could be cured in the early stages by targeted gene therapy, then surely it would be an enormous saving of NHS funds. The very expensive (and not very effective) current regime of multiple operations and huge blasts of chemotherapy and radiotherapy, has very poor results.

For Lynne, typically undaunted by the task, raising awareness and funding would be a far more attainable goal, as it would be a universal cause people could identify with. Cancer has touched almost everybody nowadays, at some stage, within their circle of friends and family.

SO…..yes, Lynne needs money for her own treatment and Ye to Life has kindly offered to help with publicising her campaign, but on a much wider level she needs help to bring the trials to the UK to possibly save millions of lives here.

Lynne has set up a Cancer Community (rather like a small Facebook) on ning.com where you can join in the debate. http://cancercurechoices.ning.com
You can interact, post articles and even make a profile page for your own particular interest – because the amazing thing about human beings is that in the face of great adversity we can come out fighting – for our friends and loved ones, but most of all, for our life.

Heather (a friend of Lynne)



Lynne has a JustGiving page set up to collect money through the charity Yes to Life. All donations made through this page will be used to help fund her treatment. Please click here if you would like to donate.

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