Yesterday I sent you an article about Goji berries with the following title. Goji berries good for protection of the eyes [macular generation]......... don't overeat on them. As they are rich in selenium and germanium they may have cancer protective effects פירות יער Goji טובים להגנה על העיניים [ מקולרים] ......... לא לאכול יותר מדי מהם. כפי שהם עשירים בסלניום וגרמניום הם עשויים להיות כמגן נגד סרטן‎. Today I want to send you a special rapport about germanium, indeed amazing. Or was it the cruise and just ignoring "prophetic" doctors?? [with their often doom thinking] Minerva BMJ 2000; 320 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.320.7240.1018 (Published 08 April 2000) Cite this as: BMJ 2000;320:1018 Facing certain death from an unresectable and aggressive lung tumour, a 47 year old woman from Florida embarked on a cruise and a course of germanium, a controversial alternative treatment for cancer (Chest 2000;117:591-3). Her tumour and her symptoms disappeared, and she remains well four years after diagnosis. Oncologists are baffled. They had definitive histology of a spindle cell carcinoma, so must choose between two equally implausible explanations: spontaneous remission of the tumour or a real treatment effect from a toxic elemental metal that has failed to work in clinical trials of breast, prostate, and renal cancers. It's unlikely we will ever know.