Posted on 12/08/2013 4:15:24 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Nick Wilkins was diagnosed with leukemia when he was 4 years old, and when the cancer kept bouncing back, impervious to all the different treatments the doctors tried, his father sat him down for a talk.
John Wilkins explained to Nick, who was by then 14, that doctors had tried chemotherapy, radiation, even a bone marrow transplant from his sister.
"I explained to him that we're running out of options," Wilkins remembers telling his son.
There was one possible treatment they could try: an experimental therapy at the University of Pennsylvania. He asked his son if he understood what it would mean if this treatment didn't work.
"He understood he could die," Wilkins says. "He was very stoic."
A few months later, Nick traveled from his home in Virginia to Philadelphia to become a part of the experiment.
This new therapy was decidedly different from the treatments he'd received before: Instead of attacking his cancer with poisons like chemotherapy and radiation, the Philadelphia doctors taught Nick's own immune cells to become more adept at killing the cancer.
Two months later, he emerged cancer-free. It's been six months since Nick, now 15, received the personalized cell therapy, and doctors still can find no trace of leukemia in his system.
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I’ve read that apricot kernals work pretty well against cancer.
My father passed away in October. He had just decided to stop chemo because he wanted to spend the year they gave him not to be constantly sick. He developed pnemonia and died within two weeks. I will never consider chemo...ever.
I came across these two finds after my father’s death.
Cancer Curing Tea
http://www.essiacinfo.org/
The Man Who Questions Chemotherapy : Dr. Ralph Moss
http://www.mercola.com/article/cancer/cancer_options.htm
I watched my girlfriend suffer through chemo and radiation (she already had surgery a few months before I met her), and then go through more surgery, radiation and oral chemo 18 months later when it was discovered that her cancer had metastasized to her cerebral spinal fluid.
It was believed that she was “cured” after her first round of treatment, but after her debilitating symptoms began and the metastases was diagnosed a year and a half after we met, it took her nine months of horrific suffering from the disease and side effects before she finally passed.
In her last month, when I could no longer give her the care she needed and she was moved to hospice, she gradually lost her mental capacity to the point where she began hallucinating, no longer knew my name or her own, lost the ability to move her right arm and her legs, and finally her ability to speak altogether.
She was a lady of consummate class and accomplishment — an award-winning, internationally renowned professional classical musician, a professor and head of the music department at a Boston area university. Watching her deteriorate and lose her musical abilities including the ability to play her instrument at all, was beyond heartbreaking.
She had a Cadillac health plan through the university where she had been on the faculty for 30 years, and was treated by the best doctors at the best hospitals in Boston.
If I am ever diagnosed with cancer, I will not go through any of that. Not that I could afford it anyway, since I am presently without health insurance and don’t know when I will be able to afford it again.
But even if I could afford it, I will not do it.
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Re the article’s title. We can’t cure the common cold.
Cancer is a *itch and a complicated one. I am very leery of anyone pronouncing a “cure.” A lengthy, monitored remission, perhaps lifelong, is the best one can hope after diagnosis of a systemic or metastatic cancer. Immunotherapy is very promising in this regard and holds out much hope as far as alleviation of symptoms and extended quality of life. It’s not a cure though, it’s a treatment. That word, cure, has caused more heartache and more billions to be thrown at it than anything outside of “poverty.”
Obama will do everything that he can to ensure that this technology is never produced.
if true, they will most likely shut it down.
can’t have old folks living long, now that the fedgov is supposed to cover the bills
If you can catch the common cold when it is a simple sore throat it is easy to kill. When you first notice that one side of your throat hurts, immediately get a dropper and fill your ear with hydrogen peroxide. In a few seconds it should start bubbling. If in two minutes it does not fizz, drain it and fill the other one.
One of them will fizz, generally the side with the sore throat. Let it fizz for about five minutes, then drain it. In four hours your cold is dead and gone.
Yes, I know it sounds stupid but I swear it works. Everyone who has tried it has been amazed that it works. Why does it work? Your guess is as good or better than mine.
RE: We can’t cure the common cold.
I don’t see the word “cure” in the title of the article.
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Asparagus has been touted as a cancer fighter as well.
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I once read that stage 3 colon cancer has a pretty good prognosis. Then there was Herman Cain who had stage 4 colon cancer. I pray that you do just as well. Stay strong!
RE: I know of someone who had this treatment. It seems very promising!
Now you’ve aroused my interest... how is that person doing healthwise?
So sorry to both of you for your losses.
My father pleaded for chemo, but doctors refused to give it to him. When we lost him to cancer, I decided that, if I ever was diagnosed, I’d try alternative treatments. Well, I was diagnosed. And the very first treatments I checked into were alternative treatments. In the end, I opted for chemo. There are many people who survive chemo and go on for many more years.
I’m not saying chemo is the only way. I’m not even saying it’s the best way. I’m just saying, don’t rule it out if you’re ever in the same position.
I hope neither of you is ever in that position. Hopefully this latest research will give us all a new way to fight it. Again, my deepest sympathies to you both.
Last I heard, the patient is doing OK. But, I’ll freepmail you more details in a moment.
“We can’t cure the common cold.”
Nor can we “kill” it. Hence, my post.
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