An Important Cancer Treatment Breakthrough Is On Its Way To All Of Us

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I've had cancer 28 yrs. ago and suffered through 6 months of chemotherapy. Today I'm still cancer free but I know what chemo does to the body and what kind of suffering goes on just from being injected with that poison. This break thru could be nothing short of a miracle for all those cancer patients to come.
 
Mr NFLfan said:
I've had cancer 28 yrs. ago and suffered through 6 months of chemotherapy. Today I'm still cancer free but I know what chemo does to the body and what kind of suffering goes on just from being injected with that poison. This break thru could be nothing short of a miracle for all those cancer patients to come.
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I've seen the devastating affects of chemo, my younger sister went through it when she was only 10 but when it's your only alternative what can you do you know.

Congrats on being cancer free!
 
AkPatsFan said:
I've seen the devastating affects of chemo, my younger sister went through it when she was only 10 but when it's your only alternative what can you do you know.

Congrats on being cancer free!
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It isn't...but, that is a different thread.
 
AkPatsFan said:
It was back then.
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Back then it was the only one for my cancer. Radiation was in use then but radiation still is no cake walk. With chemo there is a lot of collateral damage to other healthy cells that reproduce rapidly and I thought that having cancer was the worst of it up until I started the chemo. One round every 2 weeks for 6months was about all I could take of that shit and I didn't know what I was going to do if the chemo didn't work.
I remember thinking towards the end of those treatments that death wasn't the worst thing anymore.
 
Mr NFLfan said:
Back then it was the only one for my cancer. Radiation was in use then but radiation still is no cake walk. With chemo there is a lot of collateral damage to other healthy cells that reproduce rapidly and I thought that having cancer was the worst of it up until I started the chemo. One round every 2 weeks for 6months was about all I could take of that shit and I didn't know what I was going to do if the chemo didn't work.
I remember thinking towards the end of those treatments that death wasn't the worst thing anymore.
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Now that you mention it, it was radiation treatment that she had, not chemo, my bad.

She had the treatment in the early 70's but her tumors came back in force in late 2011 and she passed away in early 2012. Hard to believe that she went 40 years and they came back but the dr. said it was probably from the radiation treatment she had back in the 70's.
 
Mr NFLfan said:
Back then it was the only one for my cancer. Radiation was in use then but radiation still is no cake walk. With chemo there is a lot of collateral damage to other healthy cells that reproduce rapidly and I thought that having cancer was the worst of it up until I started the chemo. One round every 2 weeks for 6months was about all I could take of that shit and I didn't know what I was going to do if the chemo didn't work.
I remember thinking towards the end of those treatments that death wasn't the worst thing anymore.
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I couldn't imagine the pain that you had to ordeal...that would suck ass.

I've had numerous relatives that did everything the specialists recommended...they had to go through many rounds of that shit. And, they still passed.

I'll take my chances with other methods...if that ever happens.
 
AkPatsFan said:
Now that you mention it, it was radiation treatment that she had, not chemo, my bad.

She had the treatment in the early 70's but her tumors came back in force in late 2011 and she passed away in early 2012. Hard to believe that she went 40 years and they came back but the dr. said it was probably from the radiation treatment she had back in the 70's.
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I'm sorry that you lost her Ak. unfortunately once you've had cancer your more likely to have it again not to mention that aging also adds to that. You got 40 more yrs. with her than you would have with out the treatments. That's kind of how I look at things now, so far I've gotten 28 and soon to be 29 more years of life than I ever thought I would. This new immune system treatment
would certainly make treatments a lot shorter for most with fewer nasty side effects. Really is a miracle treatment.
 
Mr NFLfan said:
Back then it was the only one for my cancer. Radiation was in use then but radiation still is no cake walk. With chemo there is a lot of collateral damage to other healthy cells that reproduce rapidly and I thought that having cancer was the worst of it up until I started the chemo. One round every 2 weeks for 6months was about all I could take of that shit and I didn't know what I was going to do if the chemo didn't work.
I remember thinking towards the end of those treatments that death wasn't the worst thing anymore.
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My dad at 67 chose to not go through any of this stuff and obviously passed.

To be fair he built himself an amazing life and had done everything he ever wanted to do except fishing in Alaska.

He was at peace with going.

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Cool thread, thanks for sharing

MD Anderson has done wonderful things at the forefront of research, kudos to the minds over there advancing medicine

A lot of changed in the field of CAR-T and checkpoint inhibitors since that article is written. Exciting stuff, companies are now moving into "off the shelf" meaning you can just take a vial at the hospital instead of complex engineering which takes weeks, and right on its heels there are publications now about gene editing and gene therapy.
 
That article is 4 years old now. What has happened since?
 
aloyouis said:
That article is 4 years old now. What has happened since?
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There have been a cascade of checkpoint inhibiting immunotherapy drugs approved for use over the last 5 years.

blog.dana-farber.org

What Cancers Can Immunotherapy Treat? | Dana-Farber

Immunotherapy for cancer is a form of treatment that uses the body’s immune system to combat cancer. It is being applied to a wide range of cancers.
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Immunotherapy has been approved for the treatment of the following cancers:

Bladder cancer
Breast cancer
Cervical cancer
Colorectal cancer
Esophageal cancer
Head and neck cancer
Kidney cancer
Leukemia
Liver cancer
Lung cancer
Lymphoma
Melanoma
Prostate cancer
Skin cancer

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chevss454 said:
There have been a cascade of checkpoint inhibiting immunotherapy drugs approved for use over the last 5 years.

blog.dana-farber.org

What Cancers Can Immunotherapy Treat? | Dana-Farber

Immunotherapy for cancer is a form of treatment that uses the body’s immune system to combat cancer. It is being applied to a wide range of cancers.
blog.dana-farber.org blog.dana-farber.org
Immunotherapy has been approved for the treatment of the following cancers:

Bladder cancer
Breast cancer
Cervical cancer
Colorectal cancer
Esophageal cancer
Head and neck cancer
Kidney cancer
Leukemia
Liver cancer
Lung cancer
Lymphoma
Melanoma
Prostate cancer
Skin cancer

Google Scholar

scholar.google.com scholar.google.com
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I had a good friend that had stage 4 lung cancer and was put on Immunotherapy (Keytruda) for 2 yrs. His prognosis without treatment 6 wks to 3 months. He went 3 yrs and what ended up taking him was covid.
 
imapig said:

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Oh boy.

I am seeing my GP on Friday. He received all of the scans of my back/spine. That issue under control rn.

However, he is concerned my lymph nodes in the chest images are enlarged.

This is a common Irish issue and for my family.

Fun shit.

I am ordering the club fitting session at PXG and the lift kit for the Wrangler tonight. Fuck it. I am not worried but, again, fuck it.
 
I've been exploring intermittent fasting for about a year and a half now. It's fantastic stuff, not just for cancer, but to give your body and your hormones a chance to cycle through some things, most notably atophogy (which people still confuse with atrophy).
 
Something I just recently learned that there is an actual blood test out there that can detect if you have cancer and where the cancer is located. It can detect up to 50 different cancers, but one cancer it won’t detect his brain cancer. However, I feel the cancers that I can detect like lung cancer colon cancer, liver cancer, pancreatic cancer, and even skin cancer is worth the $950 out of your pocket. Not everybody can afford $950 but maybe in a couple years of saving that could mean you can afford it. Treat it like the best birthday present, you ever gave yourself I’m planning on doing it at the end of the year because right now I have other financial obligations that I need to deal with first. I’ve also learned that eventually many doctors think that insurance companies will pay for this test down the road because they can see a huge savings and preventative care costs and it would be extremely beneficial to these insurance companies to start paying for these tests. Something tells me that the pharmaceutical companies don’t want people to have easy access to this test.

Anyways, here’s a link and do some research and you’ll find out like I did that this might save your life because if they can detect cancer before it becomes an actual tumor or it is so minuscule that the treatment will be just a minor procedure instead of a major one like losing a organ, going through chemotherapy or radiation therapy, and taking a shit ton of pills. Right now everybody knows these kind of treatments do tremendous damage to our bodies so we can find a way to limit the damage. This will increase our odds of surviving cancer and living a healthy life and not a disabled life like many others have to go through after extensive therapies…. After seeing my mom, die of cancer right in front of my eyes and seeing how horrible cancer is it renewed my focus on learning as much as we can about cancer.

Finally, July 2020 I took a A1c test and I failed miserably. I was at 9.7 and when I went home my blood sugar was 390 I was totally caught off guard by this. I also learned that cancer loves sugar and refined carbohydrates and so forth yesterday I talk to my doctor and I’m 40 pounds lighter. My A1c was no 5.9 which is considered prediabetic and her eyes were beaming and she congratulated me on the monumental feet of getting my A1c back to a safe area, I told her I’m not even done yet. I got more weight to lose because I’m going to hike the Appalachian trail and I got a lot more work ahead of me and she love my attitude. But in the end I told her I am 56 years old and I understand about cancer the older you get the odds increase and I have every intention of doing what I can to help my body and prevent cancer and diet is the best thing you can do to start off with. Even if you have a genetic disposition towards certain cancers, you can still eat a certain way to make life miserable for cancer to grow. One more thing and that is fuck cancer and fuck you cancer and fuck you cancer..


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