Metastatic liver cancer

350 alternative cancer treatments in one book summarized in 5 simple steps:

 

1. get all the help you can from modern medicine
    
2. add to that any alternative cancer treatments
    
3. have positive attitude
    
4. lead healthy lifestyle
    
5. find relaxation procedures because stress is a killer!

 

My Christmas present and New Years resolution

 

Today I received an ebook in my email : 350 alternative cancer treatments from Karon Beattie. It starts like this:

 

The reason alternative cancer treatments are not more widely known…
has little to do with their alleged therapeutic ineffectiveness and
far more to do with political control and the therapy marketplace.

 

Now ask yourself: why is so much money be spend on cancer research and just so little results do show up? Wouldn’t it be cheaper and much easier to interview each and every cancer survivor and ask about his cancer treatment?

 

Or should we ask ourselves: isn’t cancer just a symptom of an unhealthy society and/or unhealthy lifestyle?

 

But if you came here for cancer treatments, for sure you have no use in this philosophical questions. You want a cancer treatment and you want it now.

 

That’s why I say: get all the help you can find and use anything that works.

 

Like Jim says in like our Jim’s son successful secondary liver cancer treatment post

 

I don’t know but something is working.

 

In other words: treat cancer not only as an isolated disease, but equally approach it as a symptom shouting that something was wrong with your general lifestyle.

 

When your loved one has cancer, the universe could be telling you to change your lifestyle for the better in order to prevent cancer yourself.

 

For all I know, after father was diagnosed with metastatic liver cancer, I am eating much more organic vegetables and much less red meat.

 

350 alternative cancer treatments

 

Karon Beattie gathered 2000 cancer stories from cancer survivors and wrote down the cancer treatments they used.

All in all 350 cancer treatments to be exact of which I will list 3 examples. You will quickly notice what returns is already listed in my 5 cancer treatment points above.

 

Alternative breast cancer treatment

 

The Four Corners approach with Poly-MVA:
 

• Destroy anaerobic (Cancer) Cells
   
• Improve the Immune System
   
• Detoxify the Body
   
• Reverse Acidosis (Low body pH)

 

This involves taking Poly-MVA (8 tsp/day), Biobran/MGN-3 (3 grams/day), Coral Calcium (9 capsules/day), Liver Support (6 capsules/day) and 9 capsules of Q-gel for a total of 135 mg a day (equivalent to 450 mg of CoQ10).

 

I am sure there must be an equally healthy diet that can supply you with the food supplements above. The main idea is to improve the immune system by all means you can. Which boils down to a healthy lifestyle.

 

Changing your lifestyle should be more drastic than paying your local pharmacist a visit in order to buy food supplements

 

As long as there is no cancer cure, then the only defence your body has against cancer is your body’s immune system:

• athletes have strong bodies, people that don’t move have weak bodies
   
• people under immense stress have weak bodies (what explains the high amount of heart attacks at a way too young age with people under stress)
   
• people eating organic food are much stronger than people eating food containing pesticides

 

Alternative prostate cancer treatment

 

The Dr. Budwig Flaxseed Oil and Cottage Cheese (FOCC) Approach:

 

This approach involves FOCC and the avoidance of margarine and other hydrogenated oils that are found in processed food and restaurant meals.

 

Flaxseed is exactly what Dr. Oz promotes as well. And you most likely heard Dr. Oz advising people to use oil in stead of solid fats.

 

It’s not too difficult to conclude that obese people with unhealthy eating habits consuming lots of solid fats have less resistance to treat cancer.

 

Alternative lung cancer treatment

 

The Hallelujah Acres Diet by Dr. George Malkmus:

 

This is a vegetarian approach that has helped people with a wide variety of diseases.

 

Hallelujah Acres proclaims the simple message of God’s original plan for the care of the physical body. This plan includes the lifestyle features of humanity’s first home in paradise:
 

• a living plant-food diet,
   
• vigorous exercise,
   
• fresh air,
   
• pure water,
   
• sunshine,
   
• proper rest
   
• and those other factors that promote physical well-being.

 

Now we all know that paradise was created when the ozone layer was still thick enough. Nowadays too much sunshine will increase your risk of skin cancer. Other than that:

 

• "hallelujah" is a religious interpretation to keep a positive attitude and to focus on believing what you are doing. A person is both mind and body, something modern cancer treatments seem to overlook when they start cutting away breasts from breast cancer patients.
   
• fresh air, pure water is something that modern society has almost eliminated on our planet
   
• vigorous exercise is surely something we all need when we work from our chair
   
• proper rest, relaxation and only a small doses of healthy stress is what lots of us only dream about

 

Dr. Malkmus also writes:

 

I consider BarleyGreen the single most important food I put into my body each day… The second most important food in my diet is carrot juice.

 

Needless to say that Dr. Malkmus is trying to sell you BarleyGreen and…. this took me a bit longer to figure out…: he is also selling you a Champion Juicer Nice try Dr.Malkmus :-).

 

What’s important however is to focus on how modern life is so far away from what our body had evolved to. By focusing more on our body, we surely will become more healthy.

 

Alternative cancer treatments summarized

 

Reading 350 alternative cancer treatments from Karon Beattie this Christmas period
is going to remind me 350 times that a healthy lifestyle:

 

• is needed to prevent cancer
   
• is one of the factors to consider when treating cancer or any disease for that matter

 

This book is just one of the many works I will be indulging myself in this holiday period, so next year I will be inspired to write you more about alternative cancer treatments and especially ways to prevent cancer.

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Read our clear information about symptoms of advanced colon cancer, who is at risk, polyps, colon cancer prevention and Melanie’s sister’s colon cancer survivability story. Treating colon cancer is often a lifestyle. Preventing colon cancer means changing your lifestyle.

 

Advanced colon cancer symptoms

 

Colon cancer can be present for several years without noticeable symptoms. Advanced colon cancer symptoms vary according to where in the large bowel the cancer is located.

 

 

Symptoms of cancer in the right colon

 

Because the right colon is spacious, colon cancers located here can grow to large sizes before they cause any symptoms.

 

Due to the slow loss of blood over a long period of time, right-sided cancers cause iron deficiency anemia.  

 

Iron deficiency anemia causes:

 

• fatigue,
   
• weakness and
   
• shortness of breath

 

Symptoms of cancer in the left colon

 

Colon cancers located in the more narrow left colon most likely cause partial or complete bowel obstruction causing the following advanced symptoms:

 

• constipation,
   
• narrowed stool,
   
• diarrhea,
   
• abdominal pains,
   
• cramps, and
   
• bloating.

 

Rectal bleeding or bright red blood mixed with your stool may also indicate a growth near the end of the left colon or rectum.

 

Other symptoms that could point out an advanced colon cancer (or at least are alarming that something is seriously wrong with your health) are:

 

• abdominal distension: your stomach sticks out more that normal
   
• change in frequency or character of stool
   
• unexplained, persistent nausea and/or vomiting (this is what father had before he was diagnosed with metastatic liver cancer, although it was not clear father had colon cancer)
   
• unexplained weight loss
   
• sensation of incomplete evacuation after a bowel movement
   
• stools appearing reddish, dark cranberry or black in color for weeks.

 

Why you need to know these advanced colon cancer symptoms?

 

If you have blood in your stools combined with other of the above symptoms, then insist on further tests.

 

Do not end up like Trish, one of our metastatic liver cancer survivors:

 

About 2 years before I was diagnosed, I had blood entwined with my stool (excuse me). The doctor then said: saying it was probably a hemorrhoid. No further cancer tests were done.

 

Again: be aggressive when asking for a proper (and not a probable) diagnosis when you have any of the above advanced colon cancer symptoms.

 

It’s utterly a shame for the medical industry:

 

• on TV: colonoscopy is strongly promoted to prevent colon cancer performing early detection using colonoscopy colon cancer on healthy people when:
   
• unhealthy people like Trish showing colon cancer symptoms do not get the colonoscopy!

 

Polyps

 

 

• it may take five years or more for a polyp to reach a 1/2 inch (1 cm) diameter
   
• it normally takes such a polyp 5 to 10 years or more to turn into cancer
   
• it will then take again about 5 to 10 years before the advanced colon cancer symptoms are clearly visible.

 

Because colon cancers develop mostly from polyps, removal of these polyps during colonoscopy is an effective way to prevent colon cancer. Looking at the growth rate of polyps above, a colonoscopy every 5 years does makes sense.

 

Different types of colon polyps seen during colonoscopy

 

However it makes more sense to do a regular simple test of the stools to see whether there are unwanted traces of blood that are not noticeable by the naked eye.

 

Who is at risk to get colon cancer?

 

 

Colon cancer prevention using colonoscopy gets overshadowed when you notice that the red areas on the map above are the areas with the most colon cancer.

 

It shows that colon cancer is a disease from the western lifestyle. An easy-consumption-oriented lifestyle that ignores exercise and healthy food is logically a lifestyle that equally promotes the consumption of colonoscopy as a prevention.

 

In the US, 106.000 new colon cancer cases arise. In the UK the yearly number of new colon cancer patients is 35.000. 80% of these people are older than 60.

 

Knowing how the US is struggling with obesity, you need to know that obesity can increase the risk of cancer of the colon by up to 33%.

 

It’s utterly a shame for the medical industry and it’s society that obesity is not aggressively prevented, yet colonoscopy get’s overly promoted… I think by now you get an idea that society is not helping you too much.

 

Therefore you need to educate yourself. Again it’s sad that in school we spent so many hours getting maths… Did any of you ever get a course titled: good health?

 

Colon cancer prevention

 

The best way to prevent colon cancer is not getting born in the west, not being male and not getting old

 

Since smokers, drinkers, sedentary and obese persons are more likely to develop colon cancer, changing your lifestyle could drastically prevent your risk for getting colon cancer.

 

• people smoking more than 20 cigarettes a day are 250% more likely to develop polyps compared to similar non smokers
   
• people drinking have an 87% increased likelihood of having polyps compared to non drinkers
   
• people both smoking and drinking are 400% more likely to develop polyps compared to non smokers and non drinkers

 

What you eat is utterly important to prevent colon cancer: diets low in fruits, vegetables, protein from vegetable sources and roughage are associated with a higher incidence of polyps. And polyps can turn into colon cancer as you read above.

 

To prevent colon cancer your lifestyle should include :

 

• daily exercise
   
• a diet high in calcium like diary products (milk, yogurt) tofu, cabbage, bok-choy…. The government’s recommendation for adults ages 19-50 is 1000 mg of calcium per day. One cup of milk has 296 mg calcium.
   
• a diet high in vegetables (not the fiber but the ‘phytochemicals’ in vegetables prevent cancer. Phytohemicals are natural chemicals that plants produce to protect themselves against bacteria, viruses and fungi. These chemicals like flavonoids and phenolic acids are considered to reduce the risk of cancer with humans.).

  Mathematicians amongst us can use the list below to calculate how much veggies they need to eat to get enough calcium:

   

• a quarter cup of sesame seeds has 351 mg calcium
   
• a cup of boiled spinach has 245 mg calcium
   
• a cup of boiled collard greens has 266 mg calcium
   
• 1 tablespoon of blackstrap molasses has about 137 mg calcium
   
• one cup of raw kelp has 136 mg calcium
   
• 2 tablespoons of raw tahini -sesame seed butter- have 126 mg calcium
   
• 2 cups of boiled broccoli have 124 mg calcium
   
• 1 cup of boiled chard has 102 mg calcium
   
• 1 cup boiled kale has 94 mg calcium
   
• 2 ounces (60g - 12 nuts) of Brazil nuts have 90 mg calcium
   
• 2 cups of raw celery have 81 mg calcium
   
• 1 ounce (30g - 23 nuts) of almonds has 75 mg calcium
   
• 1 medium papaya has 73 mg calcium
   
• 2 tablespoons of flax seeds have 52 mg calcium
   
• 1 medium orange has 52 mg calcium
   
• a diet with limited meat, fat or protein as these products appear to sit and break down in the gut into cancer causing compounds - carcinogens -
   
• a diet high in tomato or better, high in concentrated tomato products
   
• a diet high in turmeric: the spice responsible for the distinctive yellow color of curry

 

Conclusion: I don’t talk about "a quick fix" like colon cleanse, colon cleansing or a calcium diet supplement, I do talk about a change in lifestyle and recognizing the needs of our body.

 

Colon cancer treatment

 

We already mentioned 2 of our readers and their colon cancer treatments:

 

• Colon cancer spread to liver
  Jim’s son who just recently started his colon cancer chemotherapy and is in good spirits.
   
• Lisa’s father’s colon cancer spread to his liver
  Lisa’s father still not in remission after 130 counts of colon cancer chemo for stage iv colon cancer.

 

An third example how a secondary liver cancer - colon cancer treatment looks like illustrated by Melanie’s cancer story (commented at Colon cancer spread to liver) :

 

Hello,

 

Here is “our” cancer story…..

 

My older sister at the age of 47, was diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer in 2004.

 

Full blockage, emergency surgery to remove the tumor and part of her colon.

 

She came out of surgery with a colostomy bag.

 

2 lymph nodes involved.

 

After 6 months of chemotherapy for colon cancer she was “cancer free”. Colon reconnected.   

 

Check ups through April 2006 : still cancer free.

 

Then unfortunately she became complacent and did not make any follow up visits……

 

December 9, 2008

 

After suffering in silence on and off for a year, the pain became unbearable. She has now been diagnosed with a 15cm tumor on her liver, which is colon cancer. (Not sure of the stage)

 

Port is in place and new cancer treatments with chemotherapy set to begin on the 17th to be given every 2 weeks.

 

Chemo for colon cancer - drugs prescribed:

 

• Avastin,
   
• 5-FU and
   
• Irinotecan [a widely used chemotherapeutic agent for the treatment of colorectal cancer].

 

This chemotherapy treatment aims to shrink the tumor enough to take it out.

 

Doctors have not given any time line for shrinkage of the tumour or survival.

 

They have informed us:

 

• if all goes “WELL” and
   
• the tumor shrinks due to the chemotherapy treatment and
   
• the tumor can be removed by surgery then…

 

… it will still be a new way of life, since these tumors tend to return time and time again.

 

I was the main caregiver the first time around and will be this time with more support (thank God).

 

I feel that is important for me:

 

to be able to voice my concerns and
hopefully help anyone else going through the fight with cancer,

 

so I will try to keep up posting as best I can.

 

Thanks for listing to all my ramblings

 

Melanie

 

Thanks Melanie,

hugs and prayers for you and your family,

we wish you well!

 

Symptoms of advanced colon cancer summarized

 

Colon cancer can be prevented by changing your lifestyle in exercising more, eating more vegetables and less meat and less fat.

 

Colon cancer treatments often involve surgery and chemotherapy. Frequent follow ups are a must as the colon cancer most likely will return.

 

Blood in the stool or lasting abdominal discomfort are often symptoms of advanced colon cancer. Once you notice this, do insist in getting a proper diagnosis.

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Jim updates us how his son’s secondary liver cancer treatment even surprises his oncologist… Jim’s son is one of our 4 secondary liver cancer survivors we recommend you read about at how to survive secondary liver cancer.

 

Jim summarizes his son’s secondary liver cancer treatment as follows:

 

• My son is staying positive and we are looking after him so he can get well.
   
• His aunt also treats him with relaxation procedures three times a week.
   
• I think the complimentary treatment is helping with the chemo.
   
• I don’t know but something seems to be working.

 

A holistic cancer treatment involving:

 

• positive attitude,
   
• known cancer chemotherapy treatments
   
• the more care-takers the better (his aunt is a professional cancer nurse who nursed herself through breast cancer) and
   
• relaxation procedures!

 

 

Stress is a killer

 

It suddenly strikes me that mother started burning aroma-therapy oils in water over a tea-light candle when father was nursed inside the living room.

 

Question for Jim: please explain more about the relaxation: what kind of relaxation therapy is it and why exactly is it used?

 

I mentioned in how to survive secondary liver cancer that stress is a killer and that mind matters when treating cancer, treating any disease or being in survival situations.

 

When father was diagnosed with cancer he was both angry and utterly sad: 2 feelings that could be dealt with in a positive way with relaxation. But the main thing in treating cancer is:

 

use all help you can get:
mental help, physical help and lots of help from loving care-givers.

 

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Is Xeloda ‘the’ new cancer treatment?

 

• Jim’s son is undergoing chemotherapy with Xeloda and Oxaliplatin
   
• Xeloda was suggested by our father’s as a "smart" chemotherapy pill

 

Xeloda seems to be a new cancer treatment (FDA Approved in 2005 for the treatment of stage 3 colon cancer).

 

It was the last oral cancer treatment drug father’s GP suggested saying:

 

"you could most likely be doing your father a favour using Xeloda".

 

Our GP had another patient who was using Xeloda as an oral colon cancer chemotherapy with ‘positive’ results. Positive meaning that his cancer patient was feeling better using Xeloda, although I have no clue whether it has cured him or not.

 

Xeloda sounded very promising as a new cancer treatment when the doctor explained us how Xeloda works:

 

Once Xeloda finds a cancer cell, only then "it will transform" and attack the cancer cell.

 

I imagined it was a kind of "Pacman": a smart drug that knows which cells to kill and which cells not, resulting in better cancer treatments with lesser chemotherapy side effects.

 

The cold shower came when the oncologist said:

 

Although you can take Xeloda orally, it’s a chemotherapy pill.

 

In other words: Xeloda is still a chemotherapy with most likely disastrous side effects of the chemotherapy for your already weak father.

 

After this cold shower we went back to Google and found out that Xeloda is not as "Pacman" nor as "smart" as we imagined it to be:

 

Xeloda is a chemotherapy pill that will be changed in the body to 5-fluorouracil ( 5-FU).

 

Oral colon cancer chemotherapy Xeloda sold by Roche is
capecitabine that gets enzymatically converted to 5-fluorouracil in the tumor.

Xeloda undergoes three enzymatic steps and
two intermediary metabolites (5′-DFCR and 5′-DFUR)
to form 5-FU.

 

At this point, the oncologist’s cold shower explanation made suddenly much more sense:

 

5 FU was the anticancer drug father would have been given by the oncologist when father would have agreed in the first place.

In some patients with colon, rectum, or breast cancer, 5-FU does stop cancer cells from growing and does decrease the size of the tumor.

Father’s last cancer joke was more in the sense of: 5FU? F… you…

 

Xeloda and Oxaliplatin cancer treatment questions for all

 

We would love to get feedback from Jim and all other (Xeloda) chemotherapy users about:

 

• the Xeloda results, both from the chemotherapy pill as from the intravenous chemotherapy
   
• the chemotherapy results (how long was the chemotherapy treatment to reach which positive result?)
   
• is it true that Xeloda and Oxaliplatin induce hiccups and if so, are there any treatments for that?
   
• what other side effects of chemotherapy did you have and how did you deal with them?

 

Jim’s son secondary liver cancer treatment

 

Read Jim’s first contribution at : Colon cancer spread to liver. Thanks for updating us Jim and:

 

We wish you well Jim and family!

 

I would like to post an update on my son.

 

He is taking Xeloda and Oxaliplatin intravenous. He was recently told that the tumour in the bowel had shrunk from 1.4 to 1.1cm and the liver cancers were receding.

 

The oncologists were extremely surprised (they actually said the improvements were significant) and have now decided to give him a second round of chemo.

 

He was originally told that if the first round of chemo made no improvement that would be it.

 

He is on the second round now and after these three he will be going onto Xeloda orally for a time (we don’t know how long).

 

The other thing is that the oncology dept and hospital have been marvelous and very caring.

 

Conclusion from report of last scan:

 

“Internal improvement post chemotherapy in the form of decrease in the size of lung lesions as well as liver metastasis and primary site at sigmoid colon”.

 

He is still gaining weight and eating well and has no sickness whatsoever and no hair loss; he even looks healthier now than he

did prior to diagnosis- albeit he gets tired sometimes.

 

He is also staying
positive and we are looking after him so he can get well.

 

His aunt also treats him with relaxation procedures three times a week.

 

I have to admit that I think the complimentary treatment is helping with the chemo. I don’t know but something seems to be working.

 

I will keep you posted.

 

I have so much faith that
this is going to work.

 

Jim

 

Jim’s son is our 4th metastatic liver cancer survivor sharing his secondary liver cancer treatment above.

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