Surviving pancreatic cancer
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Not many patients are surviving pancreatic cancer after the second year of their diagnosis, no matter whether they are taking chemotherapy or not treating the cancer with any known cancer treatment.
What happens when pancreatic cancer treatment no longer work?
When there are no more pancreatic cancer cures available, the medical world kind of leaves you in a bitter cold. You become a terminal cancer patient and doctors prefer to put their efforts and attention in curing patients.
This means you can still get cancer treatments, but they will only try to improve your quality of life. Where quality of life with chemotherapy side effects most often boils down to living longer therefore not in a better shape.
Palliative care
The new word in a pancreatic cancer end stage will be called"palliative care".
When a cancer patient has received different cancer treatments and they do not work, then over time the cancer tends to become resistant to all treatment.
At this time it is important to weight the cost and benefits of new treatment against possible downsides. For father the choice was:
- die because of cancer or
- die because of the side effects of chemotherapy
It may come to a point where you just have to plan on surviving as long as you can with the odds against you.. This is likely the most difficult time in your battle against pancreatic cancer.
Hospice and palliative care
What is important is living your life in the best comfort possible.
You do need to seek hospice and palliative treatments during this time.
Palliative treatments will help relieve the symptoms of your cancer, especially the pain it involves, and its main purpose is to improve your quality of life.
It’s quite hard to talk about quality of life when one of your body organs is shutting down…
At some point you may benefit from hospice care in the hospital but most of the time, this can be given at home.
Pancreatic cancer survival : gemcitabine is no miracle cure
Like what we thought about the other "miracle cancer cure" Xeloda – which is a chemotherapy in a pill – gemcitabine is no miracle cancer treatment either.
According to Dr. Tempero, gemcitabine improved survival duration in comparison with 5-fluorouracil (5-FU), with 6-month and 12-month rates of 46% and 18% vs 31% and 2%, respectively. 5-FU would have been the chemotherapy of choice is father would have opted for chemotherapy.
The best way of surviving pancreatic cancer is combining:
- conventional chemotherapy while
- boosting your immune system with alternative cancer treatments.
As long as conventional drugs don’t promise pancreatic cancer cures, your best defense in surviving pancreatic cancer lies in your own immune system.
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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:
- 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:
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. Use alternative cancer treatments to boost your immune system and overall health:
- the healthier you are: the better you can fight of diseases and
- the healthier you are: the better chemotherapy could work for you
4. Follow an holistic health approach: having a healthy spirit in a healthy body:
- 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.
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"
