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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.

 

 

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 :

 

 

What do our secondary liver cancer survivors have in common?

 

 

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

 

hippocratesMy 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:

 

 

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:

 

 

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:

 

 

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’.

 

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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:

 

 

To survive cancer you need all the help you get:

 

 

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.

The best cancer treatment: having a healthy body

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:

 

 

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:

 

1. Believe there is a cure : believe it like you believe the sun will rise tomorrow.

 

2. Use conventional medicine like chemotherapy, surgery and/or radiation therapy.

 

3. Add to that alternative cancer treatments to boost your immune system and overall health:

 

 

4. Follow an holistic health approach: having a healthy spirit in a healthy body:

 

 

5. Make sure you have money or good health insurance to buy what you need to better achieve all of the above.

 

6. Surround yourself with as many loving and helpful creatures you can find: according to pancreatic cancer patient Patrick Swayze:

 

"you gotta have a dog"

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10 Responses to “How to survive secondary liver cancer”

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  3. Robert Bruno Jr. on July 20th, 2009 3:35 am

    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!

  4. Gaby Misura on September 15th, 2009 11:32 pm

    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…

  5. Mary F on September 18th, 2009 8:25 pm

    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?

  6. Marcie Ridings on October 30th, 2009 10:32 pm

    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!!

  7. reyna on March 14th, 2010 10:51 am

    My best friend has been diagnose with cancer matastTIC to liver . She ’s had her first quemo las week but now she is having an infeccion on her legs why is this , does anyboby know why.

  8. Secondary Liver Cancer on April 9th, 2010 1:22 pm

    Dear Reyna,

    Your doctors should be able to explain you what kind of infection your friend has.

    A side effect of chemotherapy is that it reduces a person’s immune system, which make it easier for infections to surface.

    Again, ask the doctor, or ask your friend’s GP to ask the doctors.

  9. Linsey on May 7th, 2010 10:25 pm

    My mother-in-law was diagnosed with secondary liver cancer of unknown primary orgiin about 6 weeks ago. She was quite symptomatic at the time so the oncologist suggested starting aggressive chemo quickly. The metastatic cancer of the liver is quite extensive, leaving no option for resection. Her liver function tests have been good, but now her blood counts are starting to drop. She recieved second opinion at Mayo who also told her the same devastating news…her and my father-in-law are losing hope!!!! MY BIGGEST FEAR! I desperately would like them to seek a naturopathic Doctor, however when I present this I need it to seem not too overwhelming but most importantly hopeful! We live in Wisconsin, however travel is an option. Looking for a suggestion of an Alternative Therapy Cancer Center…Also, is it recommended to continue this aggressive Chemo along with alternative methods? I read throughout my research that often individuals do not have conventional treatment often live longer than those who are treated with conventional treatment such as chemo? As you can tell my mind is running in circles!

  10. Secondary Liver Cancer on May 14th, 2010 12:04 pm

    If you can’t bake a cake, you can’t tell others there is no way they can bake a cake, can you? However that’s what doctors who cannot cure secondary liver cancer say… “I can’t cure it, so nobody can.” As narrow minded as it gets.

    Dear Linsey,

    Hugs to you and we know what happens with your mind when you hear your loved one has secondary liver cancer, add to that with unknown primary: exactly what my father had.

    At that time, doctors said that there is no cure. Now when you take away a person’s hope, sure the person won’t cure. And who of the few secondary liver cancer survivors got this “there is no hope” news? All of them!

    Statistics are against us, but we are human beings, not mathematical figures.

    Most doctors don’t know any survivor, so they don’t know where to start. Now you do!

    All of our survivors do have chemotherapy but add to that first and foremost the believe that they can beat it.

    The best advice is not trying this or that and putting your hopes in one miracle cure. If that cure existed, we would all know and be using it.

    The key is doing everything right, and your best outcome is to find a doctor who is treating a secondary liver cancer survivor. Again: one doctor won’t be the miracle doctor, but if you find a team of people that want to go the extra mile and have positive experiences in treating cancer, you are much better of than listening to your “of the mill doctor that doesn’t know there are survivors”.

    Apart from believing, you need to do everything to boost the immun system and the overal healt: both that are under severe attack due to th side effects of chemotherapy.

    Wish I could point you to a doctor that is trating secondary liver cancer survivors, maybe one day Jim or the others can share their doctors with us.

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