Posted on 01/31/2024 9:31:34 AM PST by dennisw
Medical pioneers are putting their Covid treatment expertise to new uses. For two cancer patients, that meant 'complete clinical response.'
With this article, I begin what I hope will be a series of reports on the use of inexpensive generic drugs for the treatment of cancer. In one of the few good things to come out of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, a growing number of physicians who pioneered effective early treatments for Covid-19 is now attempting to learn if safe, off-patent drugs can also work for cancer. So far, results are promising for drugs like ivermectin, mebendazole, and metformin, and supplements like melatonin.
I will write about this emerging movement from the the conference in Phoenix of the Front Line Covid-19 Critical Care Alliance this weekend, where cancer care will be highlighted. (I’m on a panel on censorship Saturday; join me there or watch afterward online.) Here now is the story of one patient and what it may mean for others.
John Ross was fifty-one years old when he was diagnosed, after more than a year of discomfort and growing unwellness, with Stage 3B colon cancer. A three- to four-inch tumor had almost completely blocked and broken through the organ wall; his surrounding lymph nodes were enlarged and presumed cancerous.
In May 2023, Ross started the traditional treatments offered by mainstream medicine—simultaneous radiation and an oral chemotherapy. He did not tell his mainstream cancer doctors that he was also taking, among other things, the repurposed generic drug ivermectin. The drug was famously—and wrongly—vilified as a horse medication during Covid, though it was in reality a Nobel Prize-winning “wonder drug” with huge untapped potential.
Ross and Dr. Mollie James, a functional-medicine physician who oversaw his nontraditional treatment, are modern-day medical trailblazers who might change the way cancer is treated. If they and others in a growing effort are successful, cancer care will be less painful, more affordable, and—the greatest hope—more effective. Practicing in a suburb of St. Louis, Dr. James had used ivermectin and other therapies to successfully fight Covid-19. (I wrote about her treatment of her brother in January of 2022.) She is now taking what she learned in the pandemic and turning it to cancer.
In his quest for the best care, Ross, who lives in Prescott, Wisconsin, went to two major cancer centers in the Midwest. He underwent a battery of blood draws and diagnostic tests and consulted at least a dozen physicians. But only Dr. James found and treated, he said, a low magnesium level, a Vitamin D level that was acceptable but too low, Dr. James believed, for challenging cancer, and, most critically, severe thyroid dysfunction. Nobody had tested for this, he said.
“I don’t know how you are standing here today—I’ve never seen blood this bad,” Dr. James told Ross after his thyroid result came in. First, she said, “I want to get you as healthy as possible before treatment.” Starting three weeks before radiation and chemotherapy, Ross began, along with ivermectin, infusions of high-dose Vitamin C and glutathione; major auto-hemotherapy, also called ozone therapy; and hyperbaric oxygen therapy, along with supplements like high-dose melatonin.
In the ensuing nearly six weeks of radiation and chemotherapy, oncologists, and others caring for Ross remarked repeatedly on how well he was doing. “Even the (radiation) technician, at the last week of treatment, made comments how this is so abnormal to have somebody that wasn’t dealing with any of the burns or anything like that,” including hair loss, Ross recalled.
The clincher, however, came in Ross’s MRI and CT scans in July of 2023. After twenty-eight radiation and chemotherapy treatments and nearly three months of the ivermectin protocol, “Ninety percent of his tumor had turned fibrous, meaning into scar tissue,” Ross’s wife, Roxanne, told me. “And the lymph nodes were half the size,” John added. An oncologist’s report called that an “excellent response.”
Dr. Mollie James, the functional medicine physician who treated John Ross. Dr. James has seen this outcome twice in almost identical colon cancer cases. Both were men in their fifties with advanced lower colorectal disease. One patient, John Ross, went the traditional route as well as taking the path offered by Dr. James. The other patient, who declined an interview for this article, rejected mainstream medicine and went with ivermectin and assorted other therapies.
The outcome for both, Dr. James said: “Complete clinical response with no surgery.”
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So if they say Ivermectin may cure cancer, does that mean they can start charging obscene high prices for it? Asking for a friend.
[[series of reports on the use of inexpensive generic drugs for the treatment of cancer.]]
Prediction: Ivermectin will cost $$ thousands in the near future
I’ve been telling people for years about ivermectin, mebendazole, and the rest of this stuff and sending them links to the relevant pubmed studies, but people are reluctant to believe it no matter how many studies you send them. They always say if those things were effective then why aren’t they already being used? I tell them big pharma has seriously corrupted the medical system but they just don’t want to believe it. Kinda stupid not to at least examine the many studies done on these off label drugs.
Ping
You can skip side effects prone metformin and substitute with the more effective and natural plant based Berberine.
Low magnesium is a common response to chemo. When my wife was on chemo they checked her magnesium before every infusion, so pretty much twice a month. She had to get magnesium infusions a couple of times to get it back up to speed.
I am not saying Ivermectin isn’t a miracle drug. I am saying if his Oncologists were not checking the Magnesium levels, that borders on malpractice.
Ping
Yeah, Ivermectin has been on cancer researchers radar for a long time, long before the Wuhan flu was ever a gleam in Fauci’s eye.
The discoverer was awarded the Nobel prize for medicine for it. It is inexpensive to produce. It has remarkable potential and that was recognized before the WuHan flu debacle.
What’s kind of interesting to watch, as a general “I’m against it” kind of thing, if one were to accurately measure the acceptance or participation in vaccines and inoculations over the last several decades this is almost exclusively a left wing phenomenon.
What has occurred in reality, I’m not entirely sure. Sane, sober individuals haven’t changed their opinion on vaccines in general. No, the problem was always and ever a reluctance by many - regardless of any political leanings - toward a very, very specific vaccine, that in point of order had never been tested, and further of a new technology. “Authorized for emergency use on an experimental basis” does not equal “Approved” no matter how many times they say it.
But the Narrative must be maintained. It is an article of faith amongst the left, brought about by constant repetition, that “vaccine deniers” are all right wing lunatics who should be confined to concentration camps.
[[ Starting three weeks before radiation and chemotherapy, Ross began, along with ivermectin, infusions of high-dose Vitamin C and glutathione; major auto-hemotherapy, also called ozone therapy; and hyperbaric oxygen therapy, along with supplements like high-dose melatonin. ]]
So what worked? Ivermectin or those various treatments? Or both? unclear what actually worked- I believe ivermectin likely helped- but when coupled with a bunch of stuff, it’s hard to know for certain-
More than you probably want to know about Ivermectin:
General info on use vs. Covid, etc.
https://www.barnhardt.biz/ivermectin/
Huge meta study
https://ivmmeta.com/
Doctors using it and protocols
https://covid19criticalcare.com/ivermectin-in-covid-19/
https://covid19criticalcare.com/covid-19-protocols/
https://vladimirzelenkomd.com/treatment-protocol/
Emory University has a very prestigious medical school. The Dean of Emory Medical School has Indian heritage, and co-wrote an article in the Times of India advocating using Ivermectin against Covid, among other things. This has gotten =ZERO= coverage in US media, including his hometown paper, the AJC, and his hometown news network, CNN.
Try to convince me that isn’t newsworthy - both his original article and the non-coverage of it by US media.
Link to the article discussed above, and Emory’s leadership page.
Existing affordable drugs could rapidly reduce Covid-19 cases and deaths in India
One of the authors appears below as Dean
https://www.med.emory.edu/about/leadership/index.html
Africa and Ivermectin
https://archive.is/2021.08.28-042601/https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1431339779703017477.html
The infographic there is excellent. Summary: The parts of Africa where Ivermectin is in widespread use to prevent a terrible parasitic disease, African River Blindness, also have very low Covid incidence.
Interesting Twitter account that has linked many Ivermectin and other med studies on Covid treatments.
https://twitter.com/Covid19Crusher
Discovery of Ivermectin. A National Historic Chemical Landmark per the American Chemical Society. Not something to be derided as “horse dewormer”.
https://www.acs.org/content/dam/acsorg/education/whatischemistry/landmarks/discovery-of-ivermectin-mectizan.pdf.
“The Story of Ivermectin” https://www.bitchute.com/video/ZqVlyy6YtNiz/
Good 24 minute summary.
Ivermectin and Cancer
https://communities.win/c/Conspiracies/p/12kFnAdfAW/ivermectin-cures-cancer-/
India’s Ivermectin Blackout - Part V: The Secret Revealed
https://www.thedesertreview.com/opinion/columnists/indias-ivermectin-blackout-—part-v-the-secret-revealed/article_9a37d9a8-1fb2-11ec-a94b-47343582647b.html
Ivermectin: enigmatic multifaceted ‘wonder’ drug continues to surprise and exceed expectations
https://www.nature.com/articles/ja201711.pdf
Testing in the 90s showed promise for some cancers but the researcher was killed.
“So what worked? Ivermectin or those various treatments? Or both? unclear what actually worked- I believe ivermectin likely helped- but when coupled with a bunch of stuff, it’s hard to know for certain-”
There’s many studies on pubmed showing ivermectin (and the other drugs in that category) are effective by themselves against cancer.
Kmk
"Abstract
"Melatonin is uncommonly effective in reducing oxidative stress under a remarkably large number of circumstances. It achieves this action via a variety of means: direct detoxification of reactive oxygen and reactive nitrogen species and indirectly by stimulating antioxidant enzymes while suppressing the activity of pro-oxidant enzymes. In addition to these well-described actions, melatonin also reportedly chelates transition metals, which are involved in the Fenton/Haber-Weiss reactions; in doing so, melatonin reduces the formation of the devastatingly toxic hydroxyl radical resulting in the reduction of oxidative stress." PubMed
This is all very interesting. Thanks.
Thanks for posting this.
My ex-brother-in-law had brain cancer, and he was using it but died anyway.
Kmk
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