Opinions are like assholes; everybody’s got one. I see newly diagnosed individuals posting on social media cancer pages asking, what do I do now? Then there are the accompanying comments from who knows who opining with what kills cancer. This vitamin, this food, this additive, and that therapy are touted as the end all be all of cancer cures.
Here is my opinion based upon my experience with prostate cancer so far.
I can’t tell you what kills cancer. I will tell you that your expedition is yours and yours only. Take it from Bruce Lee, “Research your own experience, absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is specifically your own.”
What works for one person may not or probably will not work for you. We are as unique as our DNA and our DNA determines how we assimilate and metabolize what we absorb from our environment through our senses.
I am convinced that cancer is manifested through what we have ingested through our sight, sound, smell, taste, and feel. During our lifetime we have absorbed evil that we cannot unsee or unhear. We have inhaled and touched carcinogens. Do you know that your skin is your largest organ?
https://www.healthline.com/health/largest-organs-in-the-body
We have consumed food, drinks, and medicines containing who knows what. Over time the residue of these toxins has metabolized as cancer. How you move forward will determine your future.
Our sixth and the most significant of our senses is our common . . . sense. How you navigate your new paradigm will depend on your ability to make decisions. Those decisions, good or bad, depend on the strength of your common sense.
You will be faced with many decisions, decisions that you will not want to make. To make good decisions you must be armed with good information. Good information will enable your common sense to make the best decisions.
If you are a social networking person you will be inundated with everything that cures cancer. It amazes me that if everything touted in these posts worked there would be no cancer. I can read only a few posts before I am sickened by the arrogant ignorance espoused and the gravity of the outcomes of these opinions. It reminds me of a group of high handicap golfers giving golfing advice, don’t listen.
Seek out credible information from multiple credible sources. Obtain second or more opinions from medical professionals. When you are satisfied that you have sufficient data from which to decide, then use your common sense, decide, and don’t look back.
Investigate, read, research, learn and decide. To paraphrase Ronald Reagan, trust but verify. You are unique. Do not rely upon any one therapy, there are hundreds. Dr. Mark Hyman (founder and medical director of The UltraWellness Center) says that if you breathe clean air, drink clean water, you rise with the sun and go to bed with the sun, consume clean live foods you will not need additives.
Had you been living Dr. Hyman’s advice you probably would not have gotten cancer. The task now is can you change your lifestyle to breathing clean air, drinking clean water, rising with the sun, going to bed with the sun, and consuming live foods.
I’ve blogged about this before but when you find yourself in a hole, quit digging. When you are diagnosed with cancer or any disease, it’s time for a lifestyle change. What have you been doing that got you here? Odds are that whatever therapy you choose to combat your disease stopping what got you there might be a good supporting therapy.
Evaluate what you consume through your five senses. Eliminate those that are toxic.
Follow the money. When evaluating credible sources, consider priorities given to cancer research funding.
From the Lancet, “To get a clearer picture of where cancer research funding is spent, we collected and compiled data covering public and charitable cancer research investments, globally, between 2016 and 2020, inclusive. This amounted to US$24.5 billion (£19.7 billion) of investment across 66,388 research grants. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-06-billions-spent-cancer-globallybut-money.html
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanonc/article/PIIS1470-2045(23)00182-1/fulltext
“Results of the Southampton and Queens study showed that treatments such as surgery receives just 1.4% of funding and radiotherapy only 2.8%, meaning little direct benefit for patients.” https://www.southampton.ac.uk/news/2023/06/billions-spent-on-cancer-research.page
“Although pre-clinical research has inherent value in improving the knowledge and understanding of cancer, there are usually lengthy delays translating this to patient benefit, with time lags up to 17 years cited.”
Do you have 17 years to wait for effective cancer therapies? Is the purpose to cure cancer or make money? Is there any emphasis on curing and preventing cancer or is it the priority to develop therapies to generate billions of dollars?
Monitoring cancer treatment efficacy
After you’ve made your decision and set your course on a therapy it’s time to measure its efficacy. If it’s not working, why not? I picked up a golden nugget of advice from Dr. Andrew Huberman Ph.D. during his podcast where he hosted Dr. Mark Hyman, “Improve Vitality & Reverse Disease” by Dr. Mark Hyman on the Andrew Huberman podcast. Dr. Huberman said that “The goal of good science is to isolate the variables.”
Knowing that your therapy is not working is not enough. You’ve got to know why it’s not working. You’ve got to isolate variables to identify what is inhibiting and what is contributing to your therapy. You’re at the fork in the decision-making process and as Yogi Berra gave directions to his home, “When you come to the fork in the road, take it.” Take the fork and immediately evaluate its efficacy. It’s a process that also involves time. Your lifetime is at stake in this efficacy/therapy process. Do not choose poorly.
I chose robotic prostate surgery. My cancer was described as “aggressive” by both my initial urologist and my second opinion urologist. My decision for surgery was based on the many therapies that I instituted in the several weeks prior.
Fasting, consuming only fruit and vegetables, alkaline water, losing 45 pounds, taking additives like oregano, garlic, magnesium, vitamin C, zinc with quercetin, Turmeric, Ivermectin, and Fenbendazole, exercise, prayer, and this Blog were all incorporated in my therapies to destroy my cancer.
The idea was to increase my immune system to enable my body to heal itself. One month before my scheduled surgery I contracted an upper respiratory infection. I was miserable. This reinforced my decision to have surgery. I reasoned that if my immune system could not fight off a respiratory infection it had little chance of killing cancer.
The surgery was a cinch. The respiratory infection kicked my butt! While I was up and walking immediately after the surgery it took over two months to stop producing mucous and phlegm from my lungs and sinus. I enjoyed no pain or incontinence from the surgery. It was a miracle. Prayers do work.
My next hurdle is my upcoming PSA
A Gleason score of 4+5 equates to an aggressive cancer. Did my surgeon extract all cancer cells from my body? Fortunately, there was no cancer found in my adjoining lymph nodes but did my surgeon manage to cauterize escaped cancer or did these aggressive devils manage to abscond to surrounding tissues to rise again?
Prior to the proctectomy PSA levels are not an indication of aggressive cancer levels while post-surgery PSA levels reveal the continued presence of cancer. It’s a waiting game as PSA present in my body during surgery are flushed then testing to determine if new PSA reveals the need for more therapy. Regardless, this will be a lifetime process to monitor my progress.
Regardless, life goes on. It’s not about the years in your life but the life in your years. Three weeks to the day of my surgery I enjoyed a beautiful afternoon on the golf course with three wonderful gentlemen who cheered me on as I tried to find my swing.
Life with Cancer 
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