Many believe Rene Caisse (pronounced "reen case") is one of the greater heroines of the past century. In fact, she was a hero in the true sense.This modest Canadian nurse discovered a natural herbal forumla that she claimed helped Cancer suferrers, yet she took no money for it and died in relative obscurity.She helped restore hope to the hopeless, and many claim she restored health and life where only death was left. She helped hundreds both in body and soul — such was her giving way.Rene didn't feel herself a writer so she never wrote an autobiography. She did, however, write a 39 page booklet entitled "I Was Canada's Cancer Nurse" which was published in the seventies. Additionally, a collection of her writing and interviews was published posthumously in the Bracebridge Examiner.She wrote a brief biography of her family and their settlement in Bracebridge, which you can read in her own words (click here) . 

 A Great Discovery

    In the 1920s a fateful encounter with a prospector's wife who had survived breast cancer opened the door to the helping power of the four Essiac herbs. She tells it here in her own words (click here) .

 Initial Treatments Held Promise

    The initial Essiac treatments were so promising, a group of doctors assisted her in setting up a test lab and clinic in Toronto. Both cancerous mice and patients showed remarkable progress. She tells it again here in her own words (click here) .

The Bracebridge Clinic

    She was invited by the Bracebridge Town Council to open her clinic in the old British Lion Hotel. Her lease payment, as stipulated by the Council, was $1 per month. It was here she ran a Cancer Clinic from 1934 to 1942. She tells us in her own words (click here) .

    Rene Caisse passed from this world on the day after Christmas, 1978, at 90 years of age. This obituary was published for her in the Bracebridge Examiner.