Living with Cancer
This page is designed to provide information for people who have cancer - their families, their friends and those people who have cancer that they know - all of whom, have to make important decisions about their lives, when presented with a diagnosis of cancer.
It is based on my own personal experience of dealing with GP’s, oncologists and cancer care teams over many years, who deal with cancer people every day, beginning with the often life-changing reports of their investigative findings to cancer people, which may have taken 3-6 months to conclude. And this relationship then continues with months and months, often years of what is referred to as - “treatment options” - many of which simply don’t work and most of which have horrendous side effects, which adversely affect the daily lives of those who have unwittingly taken these options on offer. and their families.
The ‘get things moving’ philosophy of cancer care teams everywhere, serves to keep them extremely busy, by cancer people desperate to ensure that their lives are not short-lived, grasping at all and everything that is offered to them.
Well, it needn't be that way - there are many things you can do for yourself - armed with more information on the subject - even while you may be underfoing surgery, chemo or radiotherapies - in order to help to boost your immune system.
Yet another friend dies from an infection he was too weak to fight, after two years of cancer "treatment".
Vitamin C - once the villain - now the darling in the treatment of cancer.
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Vitamin C can help prevent leukaemia and other blood cancers
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ADT for Prostrate Cancer and link to Dementia gains new Evidence
Androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) is a common treatment for prostate cancer, which lowers testosterone. A recent analysis has found substantial evidence linking ADT to dementia.
Is there a right and a wrong in conventional cancer care?
What are the principles concerning the distinction between right and wrong with regards to conventional cancer care?
The medical response to cancer is to put you onto a conveyor belt of limited choice.
When will we stop accepting this fait accompli as conventional wisdom and when will doctors be allowed to do the same?
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The question oncologists never ask a patient managing their own cancer naturally.
They just don’t want to know, as whatever it is you may be doing does not conform to their expectations of your illness pathway and anything outside of that simply confuses them.
Or does it?.............
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At last, a new model on cancer.
Is this the common sense way to deal with cancer?
A paper published recently in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in the US - states that the ecosystem of a healthy tissue landscape lets healthy cells outcompete ones with cancerous mutations;
Just another prostrate cancer diagnosis, followed by the usual 2 years of life changing procedures, which ravaged his immune system.
Just a month ago the cancer spread to his pelvis, which required a replacement hip.
Whilst recovering from the operation, infection set in, from which he never recovered.
Living with Cancer one day at a time - at the cellular level
When a diagnosis of cancer is confirmed personally by your oncologist after months of clinical procedures, it always comes as a shock........ Read more.......
American Cancer Society, Komen Foundation deny link between bras and breast cancer
Would you believe that two of the nation's most prominent cancer organizations are completely disinterested in a common wardrobe practice that studies suggest could be a leading cause of breast....... Read more........
Radiation makes Cancer 30X more malignant
Following on the heels of recent revelations that x-ray mammography may be contributing to an epidemic of future radiation-induced breast cancers, in a new article titled, "Radiation Treatment Generates Therapy Resistant Cancer Stem Cells From Aggressive Breast Cancer Cells,".......... Read more.....
Evolution, not just mutation, drives development of cancer
Solving 'Peto's Paradox,' new model shows selection pressure of healthy tissue keeps cells with cancerous mutations in check...........
We need to learn how to manage cancer ourselves as we get older, because the chances are, so many of us will be diagnosed with it.
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Cancer + Meditation = Mind/Matter.
Your mind is an essential tool in the process of managing and overcoming your cancer.
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'Give up dairy products to beat cancer’
A leading scientist, who has been fighting breast cancer since 1987, says the disease is overwhelmingly linked to animal products 'As a scientist, all I can do is tell the truth based on the evidence,' says Dr Jane Plant......
Newest study reinforces the prostate-cancer fighting abilities of a tomato-rich diet
While it's important to eat a range of fruits and vegetables to help maintain overall health, a recent study has found that tomato consumption is particularly ideal for men wishing to reduce their risk of prostate cancer....... Read more......
Olive oil: The key to curing cancer?
Extra virgin olive oil (EVOO), long-known for its heart health benefits, has now been identified for its rapid destruction of cancer cells. While scientists have proven that the oleocanthal compound found in EVOO causes cell death in cancer cells, they have been unable to provide an explanation for this phenomenon until now.......... Read more.......
Estimating the global burden of cancer in 2013; 14.9 million new cases worldwide
Researchers from around the world have worked together to try to measure the global burden of cancer and they estimate there were 14.9 million new cases of cancer...........
What are you doing?