Posted on 09/07/2016 3:33:50 PM PDT by MarchonDC09122009
All true, except they ultimately did do a PET scan. Anyway, we worked this one over enough. I did read all the posts, and this is a good thread. Thanks.
Praise god, and so very glad for all of you.
What a strong woman and family.
RE: “And then she came home to our then six and two year old sons the day before Thanksgiving.
And she is still going strong today.”
Some forms of cancer are hereditary. I suppose that you view these people as "defectives" and should be sterilized or murdered, so that they don't breed....right?
Absolutely NO cancer is "preventable" through whatever you imagine is going to stave it off! Prostate cancer, if you are a male, is a cancer that you WILL get at some point in your life....if you live long enough.
Leukemia, in all of it's forms, hits without warning and no matter what one eats, exercises one does, WILL strike any age, any sex, any age.
Many people who have NEVER smoked, been around smokers, have lived and eaten well/whatever YOU might consider "correctly", get LUNG CANCER!
I can go on, but hope that these few examples have shamed you and put you in your place...in a corner, wearing a gigantic dunce cap!
And no onto heart disease and strokes.
These also run in families; at least the predisposition to it does. Yet there are many people who eat all the wrong thing, are fat, and never exercise at all, who NEVER have any heart problems at all!
Consider yourself BUTT-HURT in the extreme; you stupid, uneducated, sorry excuse for a human being.
Tony Snow comes to mind.
God, I miss him.
But Tony was "famous"; there are many others whom nobody but their family and friends know, who go through the same horrible thing! :-(
People have died from different kinds of cancers for millennia and sadly, there's still NO cure for most of them.
I still miss Tony also. I still remember crying the morning the news came that he had died....and the surprise I felt at shedding tears for someone I had never met. He was a wonderful man.
Oh, bite me. I had Hodgkin’s disease when I was 20. Not enough time for questionable eating habits to cause that.
If you want to blanket-call other people ignorant, go to DU. I’m sure you’ll be welcome there.
Your ignorance and arrogance are stunning.
My FIL had the same disdain for people with a certain infirmity. He died with it.
My stage 3 lemon-sized adenocarcinoma tumor had 7 lymph nodes wrapped up in it. The surgery and 6 months of chemo was really rough. We knew that the avastin was damaging my liver, and we kept dosing it. 6 weeks after finishing chemo, I had an esophageal bleed, survived that after ICU and surgery and 6 units of blood, slowly regained health, over time, recovered fully, cancer free, and went to the gym today for my usual workout 9+ years later, no recurrence. Yes Chemo is dangerous. Yes it can kill you and nearly killed me. Yes, you can experience complete recovery. Watch for the miracles. I love my life.
Guess what? You do not have it all figured out, and you are not providing much hope to those who need it. Cancer attacks the mind, the body, and the spirit. It takes faith, willingness, great suffering, courage, endurance, and just plain hard work to recover. Cancer is not something the body has, it is something the body does. Nobody chooses to have cancer. Those who are diagnosed benefit from a support network around them encouraging and supporting the fight. That is how you can be helpful in the fight against cancer. Anyone can pray for a cancer survivor, for complete healing. That is the greatest gift you can give to a person stricken with the disease. Be a positive inspiring supportive force for good. That is how you help people who have and survive cancer. Hope this info is helpful to you. Cheers.
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”A growing body of scientific evidence clearly shows that most cancers can be prevented, not through new medical breakthroughs or miracle drugs, but simply through the way we live,” writes the American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR)
BykrBayb,
you ridicule those whose parents also died of cancer. You erect fake strawman arguments to unjustly bully others. That is your way.
I will NOT respond to fake arguments I never said.
The big three killers are largely preventable.
My way is one of hope.
These multitude of PhDs, say of 4 cancer victims, 3 would still be alive. More optimistic sources have mentioned 97% vs 3%.
So if some of you get angry enough to join the group of 3,
your children will be grateful for trying,
and please send me a smile in twenty years.
Sincerely.
This is common sense to be good stewards of our bodies. . Again, how would you explain the millions of childhood, especially babies with cancer.
God have mercy on you.
Tell that to the husband and children who lose3 their wife/mother to breast or ovarian cancer, who had a great diet all of her life, exercised, never had an abortion and was a virgin at the time of her marriage ( and yes, such people DO indeed exist! )and neither drank nor smoked and never did any illicit substance.
You can do EVERYTHING that you imagine will stave off cancer; however, if you are a man, at the age of 50, 5 out of 10 men will get prostate cancer, at 60, 6 out of 10, at 70, 7 out of 10, at 80, 8 out of 10, at 90, 9 out of 10 men WILL get it. Fortunately if caught early enough, this is THE most survivable cancer their is.
What the bleeding hell do Doctorates in Philosophy ( that's what a PHD is; diddums ) know about cancer and it's treatments and/or preventions?
And just WHY do YOU imagine that YOU are an "expert" re all types of cancers?
Your "way" is the way of "faddists" and utter MORONS, who believe that they are smarter than everyone else, which is delusional in the extreme!
SPOT ON !
Sorry to have such high expectations but we should have made a lot more progress after four/five decades and trillions of dollars and yet, the go-to treatment options are still chemo, radiation, and surgery. Just a guess about the trillions (how about “A LOT OF MONEY”).
As for treatment, one clear vulnerability is its ability to metastasize. It is usually over once it spreads because it becomes a multi-front war and multiple organs are compromised. Second is the fact that it can grow so quickly. Early detection is critical!
The body's housekeeping function should take care of cancer and that is where I believe that the real cure lies. And maybe there is some kind of marker on a cancer cell and the body's immune system can be trained to attack it. Maybe antibodies grown outside the body that are trained to attack the cancer cells and are reintroduced to the body? Or simply boosting the body's immune system would be sufficient. Immunotherapy?
You also made my other points, by acknowledging how tricky cancers are, especially when they metasticize. Cancers ARE genetically-adept, mutating and becoming resistant to treatments over time. This is why immunotherapy and targeted treatments are so promising, because the body's own immune system can be very powerful in warding off cellular over-growth.
Yes, a significant number of dollars have been spent over the past half-century, but progress has been made. The body of knowledge surrounding cancer has advanced exponentially. New ways of treating cancers have emerged, followed by new medicines. There are success stories for many patients.
But cancer research and success isn't a goal line; it's a journey. There isn't a one-size-fits-all treatment. Sometimes, we learn things that make us change course drastically in our approach to treatment. If it were easy, we'd already have done it.
So, just now and after 50 years other treatments are becoming available. Yeah! Okay, good news and finally! Keeping with my high expectations, whats up next? There are probably hundreds of types of cancer and people are suffering.
Again, the Achilles heel for cancer is preventing it from spreading. Or at least, that is the biggest bang for the buck (IHMO)... and maybe the hardest. Maybe the immune system can be tasked.
Have to fund the immigrants. This is genocide.
Doctoral programs in Molecular Oncology and Tumor Immunology and Cancer Biology are quite common. You strike me as an ignoramus.
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