Posted on 01/04/2026 6:09:13 AM PST by Twotone
Cancer doctors have grown accustomed to good news. Over the past three decades, lung cancer deaths have plummeted by 40%. Breast cancer mortality has dropped 44%. Prostate cancer deaths have fallen by half.
Colon cancer, once a leading killer, now claims 50% fewer lives than in 1990. These victories represent billions in research funding, surgical innovations, targeted therapies, and nationwide screening campaigns—the sum total of modern medicine’s war on cancer.
Yet one malignancy refuses to follow the script.
Pancreatic cancer—the silent executioner lurking behind the stomach, wrapped around vital blood vessels, often symptomless until the final act—is not only resisting our best efforts but advancing. Between 1999 and 2023, deaths surged 70%. By 2030, it will become America’s second-leading cancer killer. The five-year survival rate hovers at a grim 12%, virtually unchanged in fifty years. For most patients, the diagnosis equals a death sentence within six months.
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Sugar... Sugar is consumed by pretty much everybody... And it isn’t going anywhere. We all like it and we all consume it and it likely plays some part in pancreatic cancer numbers.
Yeah, had me totally confused, too. But it’s a damn good article and well worth reading, thanks.
I didn’t realize they had made that much progress against several other kinds of cancer. That’s encouraging.
Recently diagnosed pre-diabetic, Type II at 63 and was told everyone should eat like a diabetic. How many times did I have a cheeseburger and fries and then a dessert? 210 on a 5’8” body but have lost 30 lbs.
If a person is obese, chances are they’re well on their way to Type II.
Human genes evolved over several million years without access to sugar and grains from farming. Avoid low quality carbs such as wheat & rice & sugar to avoid chronic illness such as diabetes or cancers. Also our ancestors did not have fridge full of snacks. They walked a lot to find food. Never ate many meals in a day. That 16 hour fasting brings you closer to needs of your genetic structure.
I work in the water industry. Water, which we are all about 70% makeup, is essentially the fuel of life. We only get so many outs when we step into the batter’s box. All the other risk factors we go through in life are those little balls and strikes that God gets to call in the hand that he delt us. When I go to people’s homes it is amazing what I see when it comes to water effects on the human body. Let’s take a real quick example of Parchment Michigan. A Little over a year ago the metrics on their public reporting of water quality was nothing less than astounding. Their PFAS level was at I believe 28,000. Parchment Michigan is right next to Kalamazoo Michigan in the middle of the state. They get their water out of the Kalamazoo River basin River sediments because they are powerful aquifers left behind by the glaciers that came out of Canada thousands of years ago. In their wake, those glaciers did a lot of grinding up of organic materials and especially things like arsenic where there is a streak that runs right through that same area in parchment. When we would go to customer’s homes for visits in parchment we would be shocked if someone in that household had not died of cancer or did not just have surgery to remove cancer from their colon, stomach or liver. The people with pancreatic cancer you don’t get to meet very often because generally they’re dead pretty quick. To fix the issues of the high cancer rates (which the 1972 water standards in the United States leave ample opportunity for municipalities to keep delivering the crappy water they deliver to homes in their their local pipe system) they hooked up to the city of Kalamazoo and their water system on virtually the same Kalamazoo River sediments but since they relocated the wells the water is pumped from, the extremely high levels of PFOS PFAS are no longer reported. They use the same reporting standard as Kalamazoo. Nobody in Kalamazoo drinks the water coming out of the tap. They know. Most people don’t know what is in their water. 10% of the communities I go to in small towns are starting to find lead in the water. They don’t have to report it to the people whom they serve (after all we all understand government is there to protect us :-)) and it is the municipalities command to deliver potable water. If you are on a municipal water system I highly encourage everybody to spend a little bit of money, or even a lot of money if you want really awesome water, and as a bare minimum get a large catalytic carbon tank that will treat all of the water in your home. Not just for drinking and cooking but Even more for the water we shower and bathe and wash our hands in. The chemicals they mentioned such as the trihalomethanes and other things like certain acids that are listed as byproducts of treatment absorbed directly into your skin and most of them are highly cancerous. They are mostly byproducts as a result of the municipalities putting chlorinated compounds into the water that are there not to protect us from bacteria but they are there to protect the pipes from leaching lead from the pipes into the water. So what the government does to try to protect us most of the time has an equal and opposite effect that is almost equally as horrible and sometimes worse. Want to post a link after I ramble on here and it would be wise to click the link and plug in your ZIP code. If you have PFOS, any amount of it, in the water you just need to remember the government tests for five types of people are PFOS/PFAS/PFAX AND THERE ARE OVER 12,000 TYPES. They test for five, there are 12,000. Let that sink in a little bit. Arsenic, not a problem. Lead in the drinking water system, no problem as long as they are under the 90% rule. Cancer causing agents, those are okay and so are herbicides and pesticides, you’ll be shocked at what you find. Use the magnifying glass to search by zip code.
https://www.ewg.org/tapwater/system.php?pws=MI0003520
Interesting evidential medical results being reported on pancreatic stage 4 from treatment with ivermectin and fenbendazole
Plenty studies reported on X
For instance, where I live the local water utility stopped filtering the water and instead chooses to treat the water with chemicals to bring it up to code. The flying squadron I worked for on the local military base will not take that water on their flying missions so they have a dedicate water line in order to filter it. They have to change the filters every two months it's that bad.
Therefore I refuse to consume it. I purchase bottled water, which yes, has microplastics, but I also filter it. It's the only way to keep it clean and pure as possible. I still have to bath in it, as well as wash my clothes, but if I could ever afford to install a filtration system on my unit (I rent) I would do so in a heartbeat. I know I'd be changing filters often but it would be worth it. You should see the lime that builds up in my kitchen sink. It's disgusting.
What follows s a pay wall that blocks what is probably the most interesting part of an interesting article.
I alerted the Mod. earlier to resolve the duplicate with different titles. Seems the errant one got pulled.
Most interesting, but probably the part most Americans would be unable to incorporate into their lives: a monastic retreat & lifestyle. :-)
I think I’ve been lucky to mostly have had well water here in the NW, both at my old home in OR & now in ID. I know the local residents complain bitterly about the city water, which has a strong bleach smell to it. And it’s very expensive, too.
...and that population is..?
I also wonder about the explosion in artificial sweeteners that may cause problems for the pancreas as well.
I don’t know about pancreatic cancer but our bread made with modern processed wheat has inflammatory effects on our stomach. It also attacks the good gut bacteria in our intestines.
Ping
I grew up on a street with 7 families. Three of the people who were adults when I was a child have since died of pancreatic cancer. Two in the same household. To me that points to something environmental.
The Population That Achieved Zero
For thirteen years—from 1994 to 2007—a urologist named Haris Aidonopoulos from the University of Thessaloniki conducted an unprecedented epidemiological study. He didn’t recruit volunteers or analyze databases. Instead, he traveled repeatedly to an isolated peninsula in northern Greece where 1,500 men live in medieval conditions, following dietary and spiritual practices unchanged since the 10th century.
Mount Athos—the “Holy Mountain”—remains the world’s only male-only autonomous monastic state, a UNESCO World Heritage Site where 20 monasteries cling to cliffsides above the Aegean Sea. Women have been prohibited for 1,000 years. Cars are banned. Agriculture is organic by necessity. Monks rise before dawn for prayer, eat two modest meals daily, fast 180-200 days annually, and sustain themselves through manual labor—gardening, construction, food preparation—until death.
Dr. Aidonopoulos examined hundreds of these monks personally, documenting cancer incidence across thirteen years. His findings, reported by CBS 60 Minutes and The Independent, revealed something medicine had never witnessed: a human population that eliminated pancreatic cancer.
#1. Zero lung cancer cases. Expected: 50-100.
#2. Zero bowel cancer cases. Expected: 75-100.
#3. Eleven prostate cancer cases. Expected: 80-100. (An 87.5% reduction.)
#4. Zero pancreatic cancer cases. Expected: 30-40 based on age-matched populations.
Beyond cancer, the monks demonstrated “virtually no heart disease,” “virtually no Alzheimer’s,” and average lifespan of 87-89 years—6-11 years beyond Greek and American averages. The in-monastery physician, Father Ermolaos, reported being “not very busy” because his charges remained “in excellent shape” into advanced age.
Follow-up quality-of-life studies published in peer-reviewed journals (Merakou et al., 2017, Quality of Life Research) confirmed superior mental health scores (Mental Component Summary 56.4 ± 5.8) compared to general Greek men, despite lower physical comfort scores reflecting manual labor’s toll. The monks’ Sense of Coherence scores (65.7 ± 6.5) indicated exceptional life meaning and stress management.
Between 1999 and 2023, deaths surged 70%.
studying THAT should provide some clues ...
People use to die from other things before diseases like cancer got to them.
“… a sugar that humans don’t have a long genetic blueprint for metabolizing…”
We have been metabolizing fructose since we started eating fruit and honey. Sucrose, a dimer of fructose and glucose, particularly in the huge quantities that we eat nowadays, is the new kid on the block, having been commercially available for only about 500 years. Sucrose is quickly broken down into glucose and fructose in the stomach. The stomach also quickly breaks down simple starches, such as those found in grains, into glucose. Cereal agriculture has only been around for about 10,000 years, so it’s a relatively new addition to our diets, too.
The pancreas is adapted to provide the enzymes for protein and fat digestion, and to help regulate the glucose metabolism we use for energy. It’s not designed to handle the huge load of glucose we get from sugary or high-carbohydrate foods that make up the modern diet.
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