Running from Chemo: How Billy Best healed Hodgkin’s lymphoma with 714-X, Essiac tea, and a plant-based diet


Billy Best is a 30-year Hodgkin’s lymphoma survivor, author, and patient advocate. His journey began in 1994 when, at 16 years old, he ran away from home to escape chemotherapy.

Billy’s disappearance sparked a nationwide search and his story was featured on major media including Dateline, 20/20, A Current Affair, and more. As a result, Billy was able to garner the support he needed to pursue alternative cancer treatments, including 714-X, Essiac tea, and a plant-based diet for healing. Billy was able to reverse Hodgkin’s lymphoma in just three months.

714-X is an alternative cancer treatment developed in the 1960s by Gaston Naessens, a Canadian scientist. 714-X is designed to assist the body’s natural defense system due to its anticancer and immune supporting effects. The primary ingredient of 714-X is camphor, along with nitrogen and mineral salts and is administered via injection.

714-X is illegal in the United States, but is available in other countries including Canada and Mexico.

Billy shared his story in the book, The Billy Best Story: Beating Cancer with Alternative Medicine, co-written with Linda Conti. Today, he continues to inspire and supporting those seeking holistic approaches to healing.

Billy’s story is a powerful reminder to listen to your instincts and intuition. He is a true survivor and has overcome many hardships in life since beating cancer. I know you will be inspired by Billy Best.

Watch our interview below, or listen to it on the Chris Beat Cancer podcast on iTunes or Spotify.

Note: This particular interview is hosted on Rumble due to YouTube censoring issues. Rumble may display ads at the beginning of the video. I have no control over the ad content. Thanks for understanding.

Billy Best unedited interview transcript

Show Notes
-Billy’s life as a teenager [2:36]
-Billy’s Hodgkin’s lymphoma diagnosis [9:25]
-What changed Billy’s view on cancer treatment [14:01]
-Billy’s chemo experience [17:29]
-Turning to God for help [19:42]
-Trust your instincts [21:47]
-Billy runs away from home [23:32]
-Retuning home and choosing holistic alternatives [29:40]
-The importance of believing that healing is possible [39:40]
-Cancer-free in just 3 months! [40:58]
-Navigating media misinformation and censorship [42:54]
-Reflections on Billy’s addiction recovery and redemption [47:32]

Connect with Billy:
Email: be*********@***il.com
Book: The Billy Best Story: Beating Cancer with Alternative Medicine
Kindle Version: The Billy Best Story: Beating Cancer with Alternative Medicine

Books about 714-X:
The Persecution and Trial of Gaston Naessens: The True Story of the Efforts to Suppress and Alternative treatment for Cancer, AIDs, and other Immunologically Based Diseases by Christopher Bird

Do No Harm: 714-X Defying a Hopeless Prognosis by Charles Pixley

Find more lymphoma healing stories here

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Beat Cancer Kitchen: Deliciously Simple Plant-Based Anticancer Recipes Get it on Amazon
Beat Cancer Daily 365 Days of Inspiration, Encouragement, and Action Steps to Survive and Thrive Get it on Amazon

I've interviewed over 80 people who've healed all types and stages of cancer. Check them out here. Or use the search bar to find survivors of specific cancer types.

I also created a coaching program for cancer patients and anyone who is serious about prevention called SQUARE ONE. It contains the step-by-step strategies used by myself and many others who have healed cancer with a holistic approach using nutrition and natural non-toxic therapies.

Watch SQUARE ONE Module 1 here

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This Post Has 7 Comments

  1. Jacky Manchester

    Dear Chris,
    Thank you so much for these interviews, they are so outstanding, and encouraging to folks, even those without a life-threatening condition. My family had lots of cancers, 7 deaths from conventional treatments, refusing to even consider alternative, even when encourage them to add it to the protocol. No no no, the doctor says……..
    Because of my family history ( no female cancers) I, a great grandmother am considered at risk. I don’t have a completely pure diet, absolutely NO JUNK food, but I trust the Lord Jesus, eat right, live clean, nave a happy and content nature now, endowed by the HOly Spirit, and what else can I say. I appreciate what Billy went through, and his spirit now. I will get his book, I have yours too , and many others. Have you read THANK GOD I HAVE CANCER and his follow up, THANK GOD I HAD CANCER, written by a pastor, great book I called his home after I read it, the book was old his son talked to me, the pastor beat cancer, but had alzheimers. We trust in Jesus, we belong to HIm, my body is His to do with what He will and I will glorify Him forever.
    I am your friend and promoter, Jacky Manchester 60years born again.

  2. Jennifer

    Thankful Billy is here to tell his stories. A good reminder to Never give up. And always resist the darkness. Shine ur light Billy. God loves u.

  3. Nicholas Dinardo

    Excellent video and testimony. I was forced to take a couple Covid vaccinations three years ago to keep my job. Since then, I developed I lymphoma & pneumonia that almost killed me. Had me in ICU in the hospital for 10 days. Took me eight months before I could take a full deep breath again. All along they’ve been telling me I have lymphoma & want me to take chemotherapy.I’ve been very sick. I went on chemotherapy for a short time and did not like what it was doing in my body at all. I got sicker from that and I had more health problems in a few weeks of taking it. Then I had from the lymphoma they say that I mysteriously developed. I’ve been using Life Wave Stem Cell activation Patches that wake up your stem cells and boost your immune system so my own body fights the cancer. They take a few months to work actually after three months the terrible rash I had developed from the Covid vaccinations finally disappeared. Period. I was very healthy before the vaccinations. I’m in my 60s, but I’ve worked hard and exercise all my life. At work some days I would climb, 500 to a thousand stairs. Usually about three or 400 though. I was always told by those around me how amazing the shape I was in for a man in the 60s. I was in good condition and I was thankful for it, but after my second Covid shot, things went downhill fast. I had breathing issues blood clots that went away on their own thank God. Skin problems. Chronic fatigue and depression. One cold after another cold after another cold, which was strange because I hardly ever got sick. I mean, I would go sometimes two years getting maybe one cold. Then I developed pneumonia and it almost killed me. Dr kept telling me I had lymphoma.
    I had an operation three months before the Covid shots and there was no lymphoma in my system at that time actually four months after my operation I was forced to take the shots to keep my job. I’ve almost died a few times since then, but I am now getting healthier and healthier with good diet my stem so patch therapy. I’m taking some horse medication believe it or not. Ivermectin & Fenbendazole,B-17 which is illegal to buy in Canada. Another one of the pharmaceutical company decisions because they know it’s anti-cancer. Anyway, I am getting better getting healthier. The few weeksI was on the chemotherapy. I felt like I was being poisoned.

  4. Tasha L

    Awesome interview. Thanks so much to both of you for sharing this.

    I had a friend who did a video about my cancer healing story, and then she posted it on YouTube. It had about 60,000 views until last year when it was removed by YT for being “medical misinformation”. The video was just me telling my story.

  5. Najie Culley

    He did the right thing and I am so glad he followed the path he chose. I was diagnosed with Triple Negative Breast cancer and this was after an ultrasound, needle biopsy which came back inconclusive and a lumpectomy which confirmed cancer. I then went in for a partial mastectomy. That is when I learned that I had TNBC. I had none in my lymph nodes and they think they got it all but then proceeded to tell me I needed rounds of Chemo and Radiation for preventative measures. I said no thank you I will do the rest on my own. I came home and began researching what I needed to do and guess who popped up on my email. Square One/Chris Werk. For me that was sign this is what I need to do. I have followed it for years. I have no sign of anything and I continue eating clean and have not had sugar in four years in June. No one knew for a long time that I even had cancer. Didn’t want to talk about it. Now a few know and the want to know what I did. I feel guilty saying anything because my chemo and radiation would have been for preventive measures. Showing up on email was a God send for me. It has changed my life for the better and just wanted to drop in and say thank you. I just wish everyone realized there are alternative methods to cure cancer. I think it is getting closer now than ever before. Again thank you!!

  6. Sheila

    You are amazing, Billy! Your story is so incredibly inspirational! GOD bless you! Thank you for bravely sharing your story to help others see that there is hope and a better way to truly heal. Keep shining your light!

  7. Inga

    What a beautiful and inspiring story! When he said, “It was a strong and overwhelming feeling,” it was definitely GOD in direct communication with him. Thanks for sharing your story, Billy!

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