It's hard enough knowing that fasting can help others who are still stuck in the indoctrination of medical science, but when it becomes personal it's almost unbearable. I watched a friend barely survive bowel cancer ending up with an illeostomy bag after the operation, only to be struck down by liver, hip cancer and finally a brain tumour three years later which of course was the end of it all. I am not the type to go preaching about the wonders of this or that and there was no way I could have convinced her to go against her doctors and family anyway, though I already knew of the benefits of fasting before her first operation. If I had of had access to some of the literature about it I do now I would have felt better that at least I'd been able to give her enough information on it to make an informed choice instead of just having to take the word of a radical non conforming friend.
It's hard to avoid the 'if only..' thoughts and equally hard not to end up despising the system which keeps such knowledge from being accepted publicly.
However it works out Vanda I hope your brother gets through this.