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Ask HN: A friend has brain cancer: any bio hacks that worked?

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Re: Ask HN: A friend has brain cancer: any bio hacks that worked?

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Post by neom »

droideqa wrote: post #72

I am not a doctor at all, but I found these via Google scholar. 1. Ruta graveolens extract[0][1] 2. Terpenes[2] 3. Metformin helps temozolomide[3][4][5] 4. Tumor treating induced fields (magnetic fields like you originally said) [note: published after your paper, and your paper wasn't cited by it][6] 5. Ibrutinib[7] --- [0]: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/jo... [1]: https://www.mdpi.com/142…

re: #4, they seem to be quite different. The paper OP referenced is considerably more novel, paper [6] here is incremental improvement on existing technology (TTFields).

Re: Ask HN: A friend has brain cancer: any bio hacks that worked?

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Post by cjbillington »

yread wrote: post #63

become an professor and try some immunotherapy like prof. Long and prof. Scolyer? https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-69006713

As of his latest scan in November, 18 months post surgery, Scolyer's cancer hasn't recurred [1]. Average time to recurrence post-surgery is 6 months.

Don't want to leap to conclusions prematurely, but that might be some progress.

[1] https://x.com/ProfRAScolyer/status/1859179205885673877

Re: Ask HN: A friend has brain cancer: any bio hacks that worked?

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Post by wizzwizz4 »

d--b wrote: post #59
aetherspawn wrote: post #24

My mother has “frozen” breast cancer for 15 years using oral bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis). To give you the short version of the story about how it works for HER: taking bloodroot causes the cancer to shrink too small to take a biopsy, but not go into remission, and when she stops taking it per the doctors advice, it gets very large and they start talking about surgery. Nobody really understands how it works and…

Thanks, worth a shot, it can't hurt

According to Jake Seliger, it can hurt. https://jakeseliger.com/2024/07/29/more-isnt-always-better-d...

Re: Ask HN: A friend has brain cancer: any bio hacks that worked?

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Post by jo6gwb »

Google Richard Scolyer: Top doctor remains brain cancer-free after a year. A year after undergoing a world-first treatment for glioblastoma, Australian doctor Richard Scolyer remains cancer-free.

Check out Sonalsense - https://www.sonalasense.com/for-patients. Requires specialized machine not in US as of last year.

Dr Mitchell Berger out of UCSF is the GOAT.

Re: Ask HN: A friend has brain cancer: any bio hacks that worked?

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Post by ausbah »

I know when someone’s faced with certain death they’ll do almost anything they can to survive if only for a little bit longer, but this thread full of personal antectodes and largely non-reproduced effects from random pubmed articles is the hackernews equivalent of essential oils or smth

Re: Ask HN: A friend has brain cancer: any bio hacks that worked?

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Post by Loughla »

deegles wrote: post #43
IAmGraydon wrote: post #32

The occurrence of GBM is about 3 out of every 100,000 people. If you happen to know 4, is there some commonality? Do you all work together in the same industry? Do they all live in the same town?

My aunt is in her 70s and has 5 friends currently with cancer. My belief is that it's downstream effects from Covid wrecking people's immune systems and their ability to naturally fight cancer. Time will tell.

Not even thinking about environmental factors then?

Re: Ask HN: A friend has brain cancer: any bio hacks that worked?

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Post by Pigalowda »

I’m sorry you’re having to deal with your friend’s suffering. Unfortunately there’s no hack that will help with GBM in any meaningful way. The best thing you can hope for is that the pathologist made a mistake and it’s Astrocytoma rather than GBM.
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