How to survive secondary liver cancer
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How come Trish, Dan, Jim’s son and Ray survived secondary liver cancer? We will present you the common factors in their metastatic liver cancer treatments and more important, the common factors in their lives.
- more people can find our metastatic liver cancer site
- more people can share their cancer stories and
- you learn more about how to treat and care for secondary liver cancer
How to survive cancer?
So what are Trish, Dan, Ray and Jim’s son doing right? Most likely they are doing everything right and that’s why you need to get all the help you can get :
- normal medical cancer treatments or the latest new cancer treatment
- loved ones that care
- professional care takers that care
- … in one word: you need an holistic cancer treatment approach meaning: you need to do everything right.
What do our secondary liver cancer survivors have in common?
- they all ended up at our website: meaning they are actively involved in looking for answers for themselves and generous in helping other walking the same road
- an upbeat attitude, a thankful attitude, being in good spirits (don’t get them wrong: they all felt devastated at the moment they heard the cancer diagnosis, Trish hated the doctor who gave her the cancer diagnosis for 6 months after he delivered her diagnosis…)
- cancer treatments: chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy and Jim’s son even gets alternative cancer treatments
- some have chemotherapy side effects, other’s don’t
- they don’t know everything but they know they can dream
- they exercise or at least know they should
- they are less than 50 years old
- they love what they are doing
Mind over matter
Secondary liver cancer survivor Trish summarizes it all when she answers survivor Dan:
I will get to your 31 months, no problem
That’s the spirit! …
People with a strong spiritual lifestyle, deeply religious people or said in simple words: people who believe in better things to come
will reach there goals more easily than skeptical people.
Unfortunately those who believe that a better life will come after this life wont focus on surviving the cancer in this life. When my father died of metastatic liver cancer, we all said he will now be in a better place without pain. What we did was making the journey to that better place as "good as possible".
The cancer survivor however has a different believe: he believes he is going to live, just like Trish says: I will get to your 31 months, no problem.
More mind over matter: placebo over medicine
You must have heard about the placebo effect.
A placebo is an inactive pill that has not medical treatment value. However in clinical trials patients taking placebos cure more easily than patients not taking any medicine. Sometimes the placebo even cures the disease better than the drug that it looks like.
Again there is only one explanation for this: mind over matter.
Like above, people getting cured with a placebo are again people who believe in better things to come. In this case the people trust the placebo and believe they will be cured after they take the placebo.
Holistic cancer treatment
What does holistic mean?
Holistic deals with the whole person, the whole physical body + spiritual and mental aspects.
It’s here where the fundamental problem of modern medicine cancer treatments exists.
Take father’s cancer diagnosis:
"Metastatic liver cancer with unknown primary"
I asked the oncologist what all that meant for father’s possible chemotherapy and the oncologist answered:
- if the primary cancer was a prostate cancer, I would suggest prostate cancer treatments
- if the primary cancer was a lung cancer, I would suggest a treatment for lung cancer
- if your father had a stage 4 colon cancer, I would love to treat him with Xeloda chemotherapy for colon cancer
- but…
- I don’t know what cancer your father has, so I can only do a chemotherapy so aggressive that it hopefully kills all the cancers without killing your father…
- so…
- I suggest to consider not giving any chemotherapy treatment
Modern medicine acts only on facts
My mother phoned me to tell my father had cancer at the exact moment me and my hubby where visiting the island of Kos in Greece.
Amongst others, Kos is the birthplace of Hippocrates, who is regarded as the father of modern medicine.
I was utterly disgusted to hear that Hippocrates had a hospital where he didn’t allow to treat pregnant women because… they had a 50% chance of dying when delivering in those days…
Meaning that our modern medicine is based on the doctor deciding who will get his treatment and who wont get it.
Would Hippocrates allow cancer patients into modern day hospitals?
It became all clear to me then:
our so called health care
focuses only on disease symptoms treatments
In other words:
- modern health care is inspired by Hippocrates: a person who didn’t feel like treating everybody
- modern health care decides who will get treatment (in the US, that’s the person who can pay for it, which again is NOT ALL people)
- modern healthcare is little interested in the whole person, it only looks at known diseases with treatments (father had an unknown primary cancer and didn’t get cancer treatment)
- modern health care gives little importance to disease prevention,
let alone…
- modern health care gives little importance to promote a lifestyle to make and keep a person as healthy as ever!
Conclusion
Modern health care is great when you fall and your arm is broken, they can fix it back quite well.
Modern health care falls short when it comes to preventing and treating cancer.
To survive secondary cancer
you need to do everything right!
Mind and matter
Jim summarizes it all:
I have to admit that I think the complimentary cancer treatment is helping with the chemotherapy.
I don’t know but something seems to be working.
I would say, in order to survive secondary liver cancer you need to:
- use modern medicine to your benefit: if a chemotherapy works, then undergo the treatment
- believe you are going to live it through
- use ALL the extra help you can get
A strong body with the right mind-set or the good spirit has always the best chance in surviving any bad situation, be is stranded on a rubber boat in the middle of the ocean, be it surviving secondary liver cancer.
To keep your physical body strong you need to:
- breath in fresh air
- eat healthy, organic food free from any poisons
- eliminate stress
It’s only now after reading Jim’s cancer story that I add "eliminate stress" to my metastatic liver cancer treatment and prevention list. Stress is a killer, is both related to our physical lifestyle and spirit AND: we are so used to stress that we forget stress is a killer.
To keep your spirit strong, you need to believe in what you want the rest of your life to look like. You need to believe ‘in living’ as firmly that you believe ‘the sun will rise tomorrow morning’.
Secondary liver cancer survival summarised
We are blessed to share the stories of 4 secondary liver cancer survivors and learn how they keep on living their lives. We thank Trish, Ray, Dan and Jim and wish they keep us updated to inspire others walking the same cancer road.
We would love you to add your story:
- so more people can find this metastatic liver cancer site and
- you get even more cancer stories to learn from.
To survive cancer you need all the help you get:
- all the help from people that surround you
- all the help when it comes to physical cancer treatments
- all you can help yourself to believe you will reach a stage you are completely healthy again
We love to inspire your quest in secondary liver survival with the extremely powerful words survivor Trish wrote:
I think in all the time I have been on chemotherapy treatment (20 months now), I have always believed that a cure will eventually be found.
And if I can stay strong and healthy enough till it’s found, I like to believe that I will be one of the first survivors of secondary metastatic liver cancer.
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My father is suffering from secondary liver cancer from unknown primary. Doctors have given up on him, but we haven’t. Chemo, they say has not worked. Please help us if you can!
Hi Robert,
I just now read your request. I’am a stage 4 liver cancer patient. My cancer was in the eye and traveled to the liver as of August 2008. Currently I’am undergoing a Trial with the chemo directly injected to 1/2 the liver. I had 2 sessions and my cancer has stopped growing and multiplying…
Hi, Robert! Hope your father is reacting well to a new treatment. My own father has also adenocarcinoma in the liver with unknown primary source and will be starting chemo soon. In the meantime, he runs high fever every day and when it drops, he keeps sweating for long hours. (I am talking about getting rid of A LOT OF sweat. He cannot sleep because of this, and his whole nervous system is a mess. Has anyone suffered or heard of this before? Are there any natural remedies to help out?
A friend of mine has just recently been diagnosed with metastatic liver cancer originating in the bile duct. Does anyone have any suggestions for alternative treatments he has just started chemo and has reacted well with no sickness, but his calcium levels keep raising. Is there anything to do for this?
Thank you for this site!!