Metastatic liver cancer

Although most people already faint when they hear the word cancer, what you really don’t want to hear is a stage 4 cancer.

Stage 4 colon cancer means that the colon cancer has spread to other organs, generally that’s to the liver but it might as well go to the lungs or any other organ.

Most likely father’s metastatic liver cancer with unknown primary would have originated form colon cancer. But because a colonoscopy couldn’t be performed well due to a twist in the colon, we never heard the real answer to this question.

Yet we couldn’t be bothered much whether father would have had colon cancer or lung cancer (as he used to smoke when he was younger) or any other cancer for that matter, as a stage 4 cancer normally has no cure. For sure there is not much hope to go for chemotherapy if you are already 75 years old like in our father’s case. Rest assure: chemotherapy kills whatever it comes across to: both healthy cells as cancer cells. At 25 you can fight these utterly toxic chemicals, at 75 your body doesn’t have that much strength left…

Read more about stage 4 colon cancer in colon cancer staging.

I always loved the idea to combat black ants with red ants: kind of let them fight it out amongst themselves!

Biotech gets down and dirty with cancer

So it would be logical to fight cancer cells with other cells as well in stead of trying to kill all but the person himself through chemotherapy. Yet the chemical industry is a multibillion business, so no wonder they venture into all fields possible, including so called cancer treatments.

So I am very happy to see a complete different approach which you can read here. Basically the idea is using micro-organisms found in soil to combat cancer cells. Simple logic: let some little critter beat the other nasty little cancer critter!

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There is a taboo when it comes to cancer: as if you did something wrong and … gosh, what is more bad than having cancer that you wouldn’t go in the open with it?

But there is another reason I noticed now since Mom is above the knife and recovering in hospital. Her sister is visiting her a lot. Not like before when she was taking care of her husband suffering from kidney cancer.

This is something I always overlooked: it’s not only the cancer person that get’s isolated in palliative care at home: suddenly the whole family that takes care of the cancer patient becomes isolated. Mom has seen her sister the last few days more than in the 20 years she was taking care of her husband living with cancer. If you can’t let your husband 1 single second alone, then you are stuck, healthy but stuck…