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The Pulse......
After reading about Mike 9or10's decision to forego any treatment because he was under the impression (probably by his oncologist) that his only options were chemotherapy and radiation......I feel it's important that people KNOW that times have changed and there are many new options that spare you the damaging side effects of chemo and radiation!
I have met literally hundreds of people - from all around the nation - over the past year during my cancer adventure. All of them have received a hopeless prognosis (doctors idea of your chances for survival..) from their hometown oncologists.
Even in Seattle - where we have the Fred Hutchinson Cancer research center - people are still being given the standard - failed and damaging treatment options - with no mention of the newer and safer options! Why? Because the older options produce more money right now and cost these centers more money to certify their oncologist in the newer treatments.
Many oncologists believe these newer treatments are still in the experiemental stages or in phase 3 trials - but they are not. They are readily being given and offered to those who find the right cancer treatment centers.
CANCER IS THE ONE CONDITION WHERE YOU SHOULD ALWAYS GET A SECOND OPINION!!
I am amazed at how manipulative local oncologists are with their patients in the beginning phases of diagnosis. They follow a psychological protocal - first they scare the crap out of the patient - this helps to create control over the patients decision making process for the next step - which is usually to rush the patient into chemo, surgery and/or radiation. The oncologists will be compassionate and sympathetic and will usually try to enlist the aid of the patients family in getting their way.
The oncologists may tell you that you are going to die but they will make you comfortable...They offer no information about your cancer - other than it's bad. They can't tell you where it came from, the national statistics on survival, the newest treatments, etc....They will avoid these conversations... They rush you into expensive treatment - knowing that the standard chemo's and radiation will be what ends up killing you....
They know no other way to deal with cancer...
THERE ARE NEWER CANCER TREATMENT CENTERS EVERYWHERE!
Offering the newest technologies, treatments, and safer variations of the older style treatments.
In the past few years there has been such an increase in cancer treatment options. These new treatments are available to cancer patients NOW.. Here are some examples:
Tarceva : an antibody type pill that was originally created for non-small cell lung cancers and Pancreatic cancers but is now being used on numerous types of cancers. You take one pill a day and the side effects are : rash - usually on the face, neck, mild diarrhea - in some people not all,.. This medicine binds to a certain receptor site in the cancer cell blocking it's action..It only works on those with a certain gene mutation.....BUT - they have found that it also works on more people (even those without the Mutation ) if they add Celebrex to the treatment.
Celebrex : Yes - this is the anti-inflammatory prescription NSAID that's usually prescribed for arthritis. Cancer researchers have found that the Cox 2 enzyme plays a big role in cancer. The Cox 2 enzyme - when over-expressed causes all kinds of trouble and can be one of the keys that determine if your cancer becomes malignant or not. They found that adding Celebrex to many cancer treatment regiments has increased the effectiveness of the treatment! They even found that taking this pill alone has reversed cancer! It also acts as an anti-angiogenesis - which stops the cancer from producing it's own blood vessles so it can't continue to grow.
Avastin: Is an anti-Angiogensis -it stops the cancers ability to form blood vessels
- so it dies.
Chemo : There are fractionated dose chemotherapies that don't burden your body as the old time standard chemos do. This is lower dose or smaller doses over a longer time period so your body doesn't break down and has time to heal. There are newer chemo drugs that don't produce many of the standard side effects like hair loss, weight loss and neuropathy.
Radiation: There are several new radiation machines which are designed to target only the cancer! One of these machines is called Tomotherapy. It is able to pinpoint the cancer and bypass the healthy cells and bone. Most hosptials around the country don't have this machine and wont upgrade to it because they don't want the expense....
I think Tomo has a website www.tomotherapy.com where they have a map of the US that shows where their machines are currently located.
Radio Frequency Ablation: This is cool because it is so close to some of the inventions of old time like the Rife machine. This uses Radio frequency to obliterate tumors in hard places like the lungs and liver. It is fast becoming the difference between life and death for many patients who suffer from primary lung and liver cancers and even those with metastatic disease there.
Monoclonal Antibody treatments
Cyber Knife surgery
Tumor seeding
etc...
Everything I've listed above is part of the new conventional cancer treatments. It's not alternative medicine at all. These and more are available to patients NOW!
Please please please! Before you accept any prognosis from your doctor and get rushed into something that will either remove your quality of life or kill you - GET A SECOND OPINION!
Call or text online :
The Cancer Treatment Centers of America
MD Anderson
I know the Cancer treatment Centers of America will work with your insurance to pay for a flight for you and a loved one to one of their facilities so you can be evaluated , scanned, and given the straight scoop on your cancer and several treatment options - that are always your decision to accept or pass on! I know they also have hotel rooms in their facilities that they allow you to stay at and bill you later for ($30.00 per night!) . I'm not sure about MD Anderson's policy on this...
There may be more of these types of newer treatments centers in the US now...Please do your homework and don't allow yourself and your loved ones to be manipulated into terror to make the wrong choices.....
To those of you who have not been diagnosed with cancer - my advice is to get good medical insurance now. It will be a huge factor in receiving the best and newest treatments out there.
Also - all being said about conventional treatments - Please consider alternative and complimentary treatments as well! Many of the newer conventional treatment have their origins in what was considered "alternative" not too long ago... Many of the alternative treatments are on the right track.
I have met literally hundreds of people - from all around the nation - over the past year during my cancer adventure. All of them have received a hopeless prognosis (doctors idea of your chances for survival..) from their hometown oncologists.
Even in Seattle - where we have the Fred Hutchinson Cancer research center - people are still being given the standard - failed and damaging treatment options - with no mention of the newer and safer options! Why? Because the older options produce more money right now and cost these centers more money to certify their oncologist in the newer treatments.
Many oncologists believe these newer treatments are still in the experiemental stages or in phase 3 trials - but they are not. They are readily being given and offered to those who find the right cancer treatment centers.
CANCER IS THE ONE CONDITION WHERE YOU SHOULD ALWAYS GET A SECOND OPINION!!
I am amazed at how manipulative local oncologists are with their patients in the beginning phases of diagnosis. They follow a psychological protocal - first they scare the crap out of the patient - this helps to create control over the patients decision making process for the next step - which is usually to rush the patient into chemo, surgery and/or radiation. The oncologists will be compassionate and sympathetic and will usually try to enlist the aid of the patients family in getting their way.
The oncologists may tell you that you are going to die but they will make you comfortable...They offer no information about your cancer - other than it's bad. They can't tell you where it came from, the national statistics on survival, the newest treatments, etc....They will avoid these conversations... They rush you into expensive treatment - knowing that the standard chemo's and radiation will be what ends up killing you....
They know no other way to deal with cancer...THERE ARE NEWER CANCER TREATMENT CENTERS EVERYWHERE!
Offering the newest technologies, treatments, and safer variations of the older style treatments.
In the past few years there has been such an increase in cancer treatment options. These new treatments are available to cancer patients NOW.. Here are some examples:
Tarceva : an antibody type pill that was originally created for non-small cell lung cancers and Pancreatic cancers but is now being used on numerous types of cancers. You take one pill a day and the side effects are : rash - usually on the face, neck, mild diarrhea - in some people not all,.. This medicine binds to a certain receptor site in the cancer cell blocking it's action..It only works on those with a certain gene mutation.....BUT - they have found that it also works on more people (even those without the Mutation ) if they add Celebrex to the treatment.
Celebrex : Yes - this is the anti-inflammatory prescription NSAID that's usually prescribed for arthritis. Cancer researchers have found that the Cox 2 enzyme plays a big role in cancer. The Cox 2 enzyme - when over-expressed causes all kinds of trouble and can be one of the keys that determine if your cancer becomes malignant or not. They found that adding Celebrex to many cancer treatment regiments has increased the effectiveness of the treatment! They even found that taking this pill alone has reversed cancer! It also acts as an anti-angiogenesis - which stops the cancer from producing it's own blood vessles so it can't continue to grow.
Avastin: Is an anti-Angiogensis -it stops the cancers ability to form blood vessels
- so it dies.
Chemo : There are fractionated dose chemotherapies that don't burden your body as the old time standard chemos do. This is lower dose or smaller doses over a longer time period so your body doesn't break down and has time to heal. There are newer chemo drugs that don't produce many of the standard side effects like hair loss, weight loss and neuropathy.
Radiation: There are several new radiation machines which are designed to target only the cancer! One of these machines is called Tomotherapy. It is able to pinpoint the cancer and bypass the healthy cells and bone. Most hosptials around the country don't have this machine and wont upgrade to it because they don't want the expense....
I think Tomo has a website www.tomotherapy.com where they have a map of the US that shows where their machines are currently located. Radio Frequency Ablation: This is cool because it is so close to some of the inventions of old time like the Rife machine. This uses Radio frequency to obliterate tumors in hard places like the lungs and liver. It is fast becoming the difference between life and death for many patients who suffer from primary lung and liver cancers and even those with metastatic disease there.
Monoclonal Antibody treatments
Cyber Knife surgery
Tumor seeding
etc...
Everything I've listed above is part of the new conventional cancer treatments. It's not alternative medicine at all. These and more are available to patients NOW!
Please please please! Before you accept any prognosis from your doctor and get rushed into something that will either remove your quality of life or kill you - GET A SECOND OPINION!
Call or text online :
The Cancer Treatment Centers of America
MD Anderson
I know the Cancer treatment Centers of America will work with your insurance to pay for a flight for you and a loved one to one of their facilities so you can be evaluated , scanned, and given the straight scoop on your cancer and several treatment options - that are always your decision to accept or pass on! I know they also have hotel rooms in their facilities that they allow you to stay at and bill you later for ($30.00 per night!) . I'm not sure about MD Anderson's policy on this...
There may be more of these types of newer treatments centers in the US now...Please do your homework and don't allow yourself and your loved ones to be manipulated into terror to make the wrong choices.....
To those of you who have not been diagnosed with cancer - my advice is to get good medical insurance now. It will be a huge factor in receiving the best and newest treatments out there.
Also - all being said about conventional treatments - Please consider alternative and complimentary treatments as well! Many of the newer conventional treatment have their origins in what was considered "alternative" not too long ago... Many of the alternative treatments are on the right track.
I still go shopping and get the kids to school. I still look the same and have even gained a little weight...(this is good for a cancer patient..--I keep telling myself...
)
My oncologist at the cancer treatment centers of America knows I am adamant about no chemo..So - she did some research into other options for me. She decided to try Tarceva because it's been used on squamous cell carcinoma which is what I have in my lymph nodes... I took it for a month but they couldn't tell if it was stopping the tumor from growing. I suggested to her that we add the Celebrex to my treatment after I had read some recent research on it. She also knew of the research and agreed to add it. I just got back from my check up and scans in Tulsa to see if the Tarceva and Celebrex combo stopped , shrunk or did nothing to my cancer.