Pancreatic Cancer

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PANCREATIC CANCER

 

I will describe-scribe here some experiences we are aware of with Pancreatic

Cancer. A couple of years after I was first diagnosed a fellow teacher had

a friend who's father had Pancreatic Cancer. He had been in the UT hospital

twice in ten days not expected to live through the night. He did rally and

got home.

The son brought his father out one evening in early April and we talked a

little bit and he got some oil and got started, I believe with four

tablespoons a day.

I heard he was doing well and in late August I heard he had just had a

checkup and there was no evidence of cancer. The doctors felt they had made

a mistake. He couldn't have had cancer. The following February another

checkup and everything was clear.

I did not hear anything more for over a year. Then I heard he was back in

the hospital and the doctors were giving him a drug that they thought might

add a year to his life.

A short while later I heard that he had died. The person who told me that

told me that he had quit taking the oil. One cannot do that. This is a

lifetime proposition. The oil works in some way to enable the body to

defeat the cancer and if it is stopped the conditions that allowed the

cancer to develop in the first place will develop again. This is not

something like taking an antibiotic for a sore throat and when the throat is

well stop the antibiotic.

Apparently he felt the oil really hadn't cured the cancer so he did not go

back to it again.

 

 

A number of years ago a lady stopped at a Greenhouse in Georgia operated by

our niece and nephew. She had a brother , 41, a truck driver, who had

developed Pancreatic Cancer and could no longer work.

My niece gave her a tape and she and her mother drove to her brother's that

night. He began using the flaxseed oil immediately, I think at four

tablespoons a day, and in three weeks the count had dropped from 560 to 280.

Three and a half weeks later it was 165. Normal is 100.

He had a standing appointment with his family doctor and was a week and half

late. When he walked in the doctor was quite surprised and said, " When you

didn't show up I assumed you had died. The doctor told him it was the first

time he had ever heard of a count going down with Pancreatic Cancer.

Then someone told him about a Japanese mushroom tea. If made properly it

can be helpful, but if not it can be very dangerous. He got some that was

not made properly and died of mushroom poisoning.

 

 

A number of years ago I learned of a man in Knoxville who had Pancreatic

cancer. His sister in law was telling me about him. She told me that it

had gone far enough that he was losing ground and his skin was the color of

a pumpkin. She said that he had listened to a tape and began using flaxseed

oil and today was the picture of health.

Then she told me that her husband, this man's brother, had just had the same

experience. I don't know any more details on those two situations.

 

 

While this may be early, and is not yet the full story it is exciting enough

that I am going to include it.

 

Last October I became acquainted with a member of another ship at a Navy

reunion in Indianapolis and we talked about the use of Flaxseed Oil in the

case of cancer.

 

In mid May he called me and told me that he had suddenly found he had very

advanced Pancreatic cancer that had spread to the liver and lymph glands in

the lower part of the body through the stomach wall.

 

The doctor said he had probably 3 to 5 months maximum. While this cancer

does not usually respond to chemo, there was a new one, Gemzar, that might

give him an extra 2 to 6 months. It would be his only chance to prolong his

life, according to the doctor.

 

The started Gemzar, but at the same time Bill began using 4 tablespoons of

Flax oil and cottage cheese per day. His tumor count was 2129 on May 18.

June 6 the count was 2780. Ho told me that 35 or below is normal. He was

unable to get out of bed by this time.

 

A week and a half ago he called me and told me that he had had blood taken

for a tumor count on June 27 and he had just found out that the count had

dropped to 1287, less than half of the high point. By this time he was out

of bed, gone shopping with his wife, mowed the lawn, gone to a tractor pull

and gone fishing. He said that his activities were getting back to normal.

 

He is getting blood counts every three weeks and this evening he called and

said that he had another blood sample taken July 18 and he called the nurse

and found the count is now down to 953. He feels great, has a great apetite

and is back to normal activity. He is excited and happy, and I am excited

for him.

 

I received a letter Aug 15 that gave his most recent count at 810.

I received a letter Aug. 24 that gave his most recent count at 504.2

 

There is no doubt that in the mind of himself and his family that the

flaxseed oil is the main cause of the improvement but the Gemzar may also be

helping. The doctor told him originally that the Gemzar might be able to

give him an extra 2 to 6 months.

 

He told me that in the last visit to the doctor a stomach and pelvic exam

showed that the stomach which had been rigid was now pliable and normal

feeling and the doctor thought that was great.

 

I will add that a few years ago a doctor told me that he had never heard of

a count coming down with Pancreatic Cancer. Another doctor told me two days

ago that the prognosis with Pancreatic Cancer was usually bad.

 

There is a sad proscript to this account. Bill discussed getting off the

gemzar but a daughter who is an RN got " bent out of shape " when he talked

about it so he stayed with it.

 

Chemo does kill cancer cells but it also destroys the immune system. Bill

stayed with the chemo and the count started back up again. The doctor

called different pharmaceutical companies to see whether there might be any

other chemo of which he had not yet heard and I don't know if anything else

was tried or if the doctor stayed with the gemzar but Bill passed away.

 

This doctor was well known and had a large practice and never spent time

with Bill other than to look at the chart and blood counts, write down his

directions and move on.

 

Cliff