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What does clean living mean? Living in small towns away from pollution? Washing produce more thoroughly?
They mean thinking about your diet, exercise, mental welling and other health issues. It doesn't literally mean 'clean' as in 'not dirty'.
I created this account on July 28, 2014 [1] - I had(have?) stage IV Colon Cancer with liver metastases. I did a FOLFIRI regime with cetaximab, then a colon resection with a general surgeon. My oncologist was great (ucsf medical center) - but the surgeon refused to address my liver mets - they were too large and distributed. My wife found out about a specialist at Sloan-Kettering in Manhattan that uses something calle…
I created this account on July 28, 2014 [1] - I had(have?) stage IV Colon Cancer with liver metastases. I did a FOLFIRI regime with cetaximab, then a colon resection with a general surgeon. My oncologist was great (ucsf medical center) - but the surgeon refused to address my liver mets - they were too large and distributed. My wife found out about a specialist at Sloan-Kettering in Manhattan that uses something calle…
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Are you kidding me????? My dad was diagnosed with a very rare type of stomach cancer called GIST at 42. The average survivability at that stage for GIST at that time was 6-12 months. Zero patients lived more than 5 years. He was given experimental(at the time) drug called Glivec as it was being tested specifically against GIST and it was literally one of these "there's nothing else, so might as well". He lived anothe…
Consider that a 40 year old today can live 40+ more years. so even 4 extra years with experimental treatments is small relative to potential life expectancy without cancer. 4 years is still optimistic given that stage 4 survival for major cancers instill in the 3-20% range depending on the cancer. Speaking of the number 4, awesome my comment already at -4, which is the cap.
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CAR-T therapy is absolutely how we imagined the “genetic age” would be. However, its applications to liver cancer (as well as other solid tumors) are far away from clinics. Some cancers haven’t seen much progress in the last 30 years. For example, uveal melanoma is a death sentence, same as 30 years ago. Liver metastases don’t give you any chance.
Similarly, glioblastoma (a brain cancer) is still a death sentence. My dad died of it a little over 5 years ago, lasting about a year and a half from initial diagnosis. Maybe a year later, John McCain came down with the same thing. In a weird way it was comforting to know that all the money and power in the world didn't make any difference in the outcome.
I wonder if someone could give me feedback on this. I heard that basically all cancer cells switch over to aerobic respiration, ie fermentation, and that in this metabolic mode they can use glucose and the amino acid glutamine as fuel but not ketones. So some people have treated their cancer by eating zero carbohydrates and taking a special drug that disables glutamine, doing so intermittently, and they have seen inc…
The incredible stories that you hear are often true (stage 4 cancer remissions do occur) but usually involve selection bias. Usually it is hard to know what exactly worked, and it isn't going to work for everyone else.
If you are interested in looking more deeply into complementary cancer treatments I would recommend looking into the work of Ralph Moss.
If you are interested in more of the history behind the different cancer treatments that we have today, "The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer" is a fantastic book about it. Probably my favourite book of all time, a lot of parallels with the themes in this article about prevention being a huge contributor, and how recently we've had some success in very targeted cancer drugs.
I created this account on July 28, 2014 [1] - I had(have?) stage IV Colon Cancer with liver metastases. I did a FOLFIRI regime with cetaximab, then a colon resection with a general surgeon. My oncologist was great (ucsf medical center) - but the surgeon refused to address my liver mets - they were too large and distributed. My wife found out about a specialist at Sloan-Kettering in Manhattan that uses something calle…
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This sounds like something insurance will either refuse to cover for being expensive or make you try 5 other approaches first before agreeing to cover it, at which point it'll probably be too late.
Unlikely. It will rule out treatments that are unlikely to work, saving money. What we are seeing is Simpson’s paradox. Genomics and precision medicine allow you to segment populations at a higher resolution then before.
I created this account on July 28, 2014 [1] - I had(have?) stage IV Colon Cancer with liver metastases. I did a FOLFIRI regime with cetaximab, then a colon resection with a general surgeon. My oncologist was great (ucsf medical center) - but the surgeon refused to address my liver mets - they were too large and distributed. My wife found out about a specialist at Sloan-Kettering in Manhattan that uses something calle…
Which software? :o Curious!
Thank you for sharing, by the way.