Young mother dies of cancer after refusing chemotherapy in favor of vegan diet

Britton-Jordan found she had breast cancer while breastfeeding her daughter. British doctors diagnosed her and recommended a mastectomy and chemotherapy.

“We were told in no uncertain terms that she needed chemotherapy, radiotherapy and a mastectomy, or she was going to die, and that was the only option,” Britton-Jordan’s husband said in an interview with the Derby Telegraph. “We said we wanted to think about our options. We became second-class citizens as soon as we said that.”

The couple spent the money pursuing expensive, alternate forms of treatment. Britton-Jordan moved to a vegan diet of fruit and raw vegetables supplemented with a variety of vitamins. She experimented with unconventional and unproven treatments.

Eventually, Britton-Jordan did get a mastectomy, but refused to go through the “poison” of chemotherapy. Complications after the surgery left a giant, open hole in her chest.

The couple drew on their pensions and crowd-sourced money to travel to a clinic in Mexico to pursue other therapies, such as blood transfusions, sitting in a hyperbolic oxygen chamber, and undergoing dendritic cell therapy.

Britton-Jordan’s death has sparked a debate in the medical community on how to convince people that conventional medical treatments, such as chemotherapy and vaccines, are the safest and most reliable forms of treatment.

“From what I’ve learned about her cancer, I can say with confidence it was quite treatable,” American surgical oncologist David Gorski said. “It hadn’t gone to the lymph nodes. With a combination of surgery plus chemotherapy, she could have expected an 85% chance of long-term survival. Yes, surgery is nasty. Chemotherapy is even worse, I get that. The alternative, however, is near-certain death.”