Colonoscopy can’t always prevent metastatic liver cancer
:-)
Laura’s mother (75) has cancer of the small intestine that spread to her liver. Her mom started having colonoscopy’s at the age of 50 and nothing showed up ever…
Unfortunately a colonoscopy test only looks into the rectum and colon
through a long, flexible, narrow tube – the colonoscope. It doesn’t detect anything in the small intestine because it never looks there. (The small intestine starts where the colon or large intestine stops, see picture below)
So there you are : well informed, doing what you have learned to prevent cancer and yet again you end up with metastatic liver cancer?
Again modern medicine focuses way to little on cancer prevention. How many times have you seen Dr. Oz and Dr. Drew promoting colonoscopy, Dr. Drew even going so far to film his own colonoscopy for everybody to witness?
Now this is great for the colonoscopy industry, but useless for Laura’s mother nor for my father who also had done colonoscopy tests without anything bad showing up…
Laura’s cancer story
Laura told her mother’s cancer story at 2 responses to metastatic liver cancer.
My mother who is 75 and has always been the picture of health was diagnosed with cancer of the small intestine which has metastized to her liver.
She had a colonoscopy a few months ago (she began having them at age 50) but nothing showed up.
Her liver is double the normal size now and she is jaundiced.
This has hit our family like a ton of bricks!
The Dr. gave her 2 weeks to live, but maybe more with chemo.
She is doing the chemo for my Dad’s sake. They have been married for 53 years, and he can’t imagine life without her.
She is in great spirits and has a wonderful attitude.
She told me that she is sad for us, her family.
She had a blood transfusion and it gave her so much more energy for a day and a half and then she became very tired again.
We are taking one day at a time–or at least trying to-and cherishing our time with her.
Comparing father’s metastatic liver cancer with Laura’s mother
Similar facts
- both are 75 years old when diagnosed with metastatic liver cancer
- both had done colonoscopy’s without anything showing up
- both have a life-partner they don’t want to leave behind
- both have an oversized liver
- both are easily tired
Differences
- Laura’s mom is in good spirits, father wasn’t.
- Laura’s mom knows her primary cancer. Father didn’t.
- Being in good spirits and knowing the primary cancer, Laura’s mom has better prospects to undergo chemotherapy. Father’s chemotherapy would have been too strong to survive as it would try to target all cancers (due to not knowing which the primary cancer was)
- father never had jaundice
- father was told he would live 3 to 6 months, which was an accurate prognosis
Please leave your hugs and prayers for Laura’s mother and family in a comment!
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As long as there is no bullet proof cure for cancer, it all boils down to Darwin's survival of the fittest. The best way to get ahead of cancer is:
- making sure you don't get cancer
- making sure your body has all it can get to kill cancer cells
Cancer prevention boils down to eating and living healthy, keeping a healthy mind in a healthy body.
Easier said than done in a world were your job stresses you out, car smoke pollutes your air, food is filled with residu's and water is polluted.
But if your life is dear to you, then you cannot use all the above as an excuse. Father had been smoking, had worked with asbestos and didn't eat much vegetables nor fruit. Father died with metastatic liver cancer in a way I wouldn't even wish my worst enemy.
When your life is dear to you, start doing all the things that our metastatic liver cancer survivors are doing:
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2. Use conventional medicine like chemotherapy, surgery and/or radiation therapy.
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- the healthier you are: the better you can fight of diseases and
- the healthier you are: the better chemotherapy could work for you
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- focus on less stress,
- more relaxation,
- more exercise (Jim's son is swimming twice a week for both exercise and relaxation),
- a healthy diet based on organic products
- make sure you have a hobby to pass your time doing something you love
5. Make sure you have money or good health insurance to buy what you need to better achieve all of the above.
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