Miraculous Cancer Recovery Led Pastor to Inspire Others

Sixteen years ago, Diego Mesa was told his odds of living another year were 50/50. He beat the odds by stopping treatment and turning to a natural healing path.

Pastor Diego Mesa was living what he considered a healthy lifestyle when he was diagnosed with terminal kidney cancer that had a 50 percent risk of death in the first year. That was 16 years ago. Courtesy of Thea Valerie

Two years into treatment for terminal cancer, Diego Mesa threw his chemotherapy pills into the Atlantic Ocean along with medication he took for a side effect of the treatment.

A pastor at a megachurch in southern California, he’d had a reckoning of faith that was both painful and liberating. Mr. Mesa had already lived longer than half the patients suffering from his type of kidney cancer.