A throat cancer sufferer has hailed his 'miraculous' recovery from painful sores and blisters after using a cream originally used to treat the udders of milk cows.
Luke Luetkemeyer, 63, from Las Vegas, Nevada, underwent radiation treatment for the cancer after he was diagnosed in May last year.
Shortly after starting, the school supervisor started to break out in painful blisters all over his face and neck, which persisted with each round of radiation treatment battling cancer in his lymph nodes.
His sores and blisters stemmed from the base of his neck to the sides of his face and behind his ears.
His wife Cindy, 61, a speech therapist, had read about a cream that is popular in Australia, MooGoo Skincare, which was originally used to treat the udders of milk cows and had reportedly helped others with eczema and blisters.
She ordered it online in September, and within a couple of weeks of applying it three times a day, his blistering side effects were barely visible in pictures.
Luke Luetkemeyer, 63, from Las Vegas, had radiation treatment for cancer after he was diagnosed in May last year but it gave him sores. His wife found a cream for cows' udders online which cleared up his sores as the radiation therapy cleared his cancer
Transformed: The cream cleared Luke's blisters within days (see before, left, and after, right)
Cindy said: 'I saw a difference within 24 hours. I know it sounds dramatic but it's true. I was astonished. It really was a miracle.
'My husband was in so much pain, and this cream completely turned his life around as he went through the radiation treatment.'
Luke's ordeal began in May, when he first noticed a lump on his neck while shaving.
However, it wasn't until he was at a retreat a few weeks later he realized it could be something serious.
'There was a doctor there and he told me I needed to go get it checked out,' Luke said.
'I happened to have a visit with my cardiologist and I showed him the lump. and asked him what he thought.
'He referred me to someone and the next morning they did a biopsy. Four days later they called me to come into the office.
'He told me I had throat cancer, which was of course a shock.'
Two days later, Luke and his wife were on their way to UCLA. He was told he had a tumor at the base of his tongue, around the size of half his little fingernail. The lump on his neck was a result of his lymph nodes being infected.
Luke was told he needed surgery, and the surgeons needed to cut a significant part of his tongue out, which could have a severe impact on his
