Well isn't this just a kick in the nuts before Christmas...

[ichy]

Since you caught it early there's some time to combat it.

Along with the regular medicinal and chemo, DIET is important to battling cancer.

Cut the meats, eat more veggies, fruit, and highly ALKALINE foods every day for the best odds. Alkaline foods increases your body PH which helps fight/prevent/delay cancer. When caught early on, cancer cells can't grow in high PH environments. Normal PH is somewhere between 7-7.5, but when cancer patients die it is somewhere around 4. Cancer cells thrive in highly acidic environments. BTW, acidic in this context means the acidity after being processed by your body. So lemons seem acidic, but are actually alkaline after digested.

Beets and carrots are very good too. My recommendation is to mix 1-2 parts apple, 1 part beet, and ~1/3 carrots into a blender and make a smoothie. Very delicious and the apple removes the bitterness of the beet. Beets and carrots are highly alkaline.

Good luck.

Don't listen to this garbage. I doubt there's a single piece of evidence which shows that any of this idiotic advice affects pancreatic cancer survival.

 

[ichy]

Also there is more and more evidence that the best outcomes are at major medical centers with a lot experience - preforming more than 20 Whipple procedures annually.

This x100. Ideally you want a surgeon who specializes in pancreatic cancer and these are the sorts of people you'll only find at a big academic medical center. Whatever they do they should NOT go to a regular general surgeon and/or a private practice oncologist in the community.

If your parents can make it to Maryland then Johns Hopkins is probably the best place in the world for treating pancreatic cancer. Google Dr. John Cameron, it's no exaggeration to say that he is the best out there at what he does.

BTW, this is a great read: http://cancerguide.org/median_not_msg.html It was written by Stephen Jay Gould after he was diagnosed with "terminal" cancer. It's well worth the read. He lived another 20 years and died from an unrelated illness.

 

[disappoint]

Since you caught it early there's some time to combat it.

Along with the regular medicinal and chemo, DIET is important to battling cancer.

Cut the meats, eat more veggies, fruit, and highly ALKALINE foods every day for the best odds. Alkaline foods increases your body PH which helps fight/prevent/delay cancer. When caught early on, cancer cells can't grow in high PH environments. Normal PH is somewhere between 7-7.5, but when cancer patients die it is somewhere around 4. Cancer cells thrive in highly acidic environments. BTW, acidic in this context means the acidity after being processed by your body. So lemons seem acidic, but are actually alkaline after digested.

Beets and carrots are very good too. My recommendation is to mix 1-2 parts apple, 1 part beet, and ~1/3 carrots into a blender and make a smoothie. Very delicious and the apple removes the bitterness of the beet. Beets and carrots are highly alkaline.

Good luck.

There are lies, damned lies, and worst of all, statistics.

 

[CurseTheSky]

Sorry to hear it. 🙁 Best of wishes, I hope he pulls through.

 

[JTsyo]

Can a pancreas be transplanted?

Do you even need it? Can it be removed and supplemented somehow?

Best of luck to your father and whole family, OP.

 

[ichy]

Can a pancreas be transplanted?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancreas_transplantation

The short answer is yes, but it's not a treatment for pancreatic cancer. It would almost certainly shorten the life of a cancer patient rather than extend it.

 

[ichy]

Do you even need it? Can it be removed and supplemented somehow?

A Whipple procedure (the only real surgical treatment for pancreatic cancer) doesn't remove the entire pancreas. They've tried surgeries to remove the entire thing and it does more harm than good.

 

[bradley]

Don't listen to this garbage. I doubt there's a single piece of evidence which shows that any of this idiotic advice affects pancreatic cancer survival.

There's a lot of long forgotten science behind all of this. Head to Pubmed and you will find it.

Making your body more alkaline isn't a miracle cancer cure; but it will make your body more adept at dealing with cancer... giving yourself a fighting chance.

For instance, you'd help alleviate the burden and insults on the pancreas by supplementing it with alkaline juices, of which: the pancreas, gallbladder and liver all produce in copious amounts. This helps keep the common bile duct clearer with bile thinner and flowing.

Another suggestion would be to supplement with bicarbonate and digestive enzymes, further reducing the load on the pancreas.... again, which the pancreas creates in copious amounts to keep a neutral pH and digest food. This also increases available oxygen by removing the burden on the lungs which would otherwise struggle maintaining a neutral pH. etc etc.

 

[ichy]

That's absurd. If you actually increased your body's pH enough to fight cancer you'd also be killing yourself in the process. Alternative medicine is, as always, horseshit.

 

[Ichinisan]

That's absurd. If you actually increased your body's pH enough to fight cancer you'd also be killing yourself in the process. Alternative medicine is, as always, horseshit.

This. "Cancer cells" are made of the same stuff as regular cells.

 

[bradley]

That's absurd. If you actually increased your body's pH enough to fight cancer you'd also be killing yourself in the process. Alternative medicine is, as always, horseshit.

This is more than eighty year-old established research based on Otto Warburg's work, in which he won a Nobel Prize.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Heinrich_Warburg

This message will reach lots more people than you, so I don't mind you believing whatever.

 

[alkemyst]

My mother survived lung cancer, got hit with another unrelated tumor in her hip area (and the most untreatable kind if she still had her uterus)...

She just got done with her radiation a couple weeks ago and on the healing stage. She's doing well now, but scared if it's spread.

 

[tcsenter]

This is more than eighty year-old established research based on Otto Warburg's work, in which he won a Nobel Prize

Warburg was known for saying "Science progresses not because scientists change their minds, but rather because scientists attached to erroneous views die, and are replaced." How ironic that he ultimately would be referring to himself. lol

 

[PeeluckyDuckee]

Sorry to hear, best wishes to your dad. Stay strong and upbeat, however difficult that may be.

 

[bononos]

That's absurd. If you actually increased your body's pH enough to fight cancer you'd also be killing yourself in the process. Alternative medicine is, as always, horseshit.

If its horseshit then some advanced countries incl Japan would not be allowing such treatments on public dime.

 

[LegendKiller]

There's a lot of long forgotten science behind all of this. Head to Pubmed and you will find it.

Making your body more alkaline isn't a miracle cancer cure; but it will make your body more adept at dealing with cancer... giving yourself a fighting chance.

For instance, you'd help alleviate the burden and insults on the pancreas by supplementing it with alkaline juices, of which: the pancreas, gallbladder and liver all produce in copious amounts. This helps keep the common bile duct clearer with bile thinner and flowing.

Another suggestion would be to supplement with bicarbonate and digestive enzymes, further reducing the load on the pancreas.... again, which the pancreas creates in copious amounts to keep a neutral pH and digest food. This also increases available oxygen by removing the burden on the lungs which would otherwise struggle maintaining a neutral pH. etc etc.

I am for this provided that the person does everything in *COMBINATION* with modern medicine.

Steve Jobs did this shit without modern medicine. I had a coworker do the same with colon cancer, it came back and now he has a colostomy bag the rest of his life.

Don't be stupid.

 

[Charles Kozierok]

That sucks. 🙁 Hoping for the best for your dad.

 

[LegendKiller]

If its horseshit then some advanced countries incl Japan would not be allowing such treatments on public dime.

A lot of countries support stupid things that ultimately prove silly.

 

[bradley]

Life Expectancy in Years

Rank________Overall____Male____Female
1......Japan......82.7......79.0.........86.1
30.....USA........78.7......74.7.........82.7


Total Health Care Expenditure (WHO)

Rank________PerCapita______GDP%
1.......USA.......$7,164............15.2%
24.....Japan.....$2,847.............8.3%

 

[LegendKiller]

Life Expectancy in Years

Rank________Overall____Male____Female
1......Japan......82.7......79.0.........86.1
30.....USA........78.7......74.7.........82.7


Total Health Care Expenditure (WHO)

Rank________PerCapita______GDP%
1.......USA.......$7,164............15.2%
24.....Japan.....$2,847.............8.3%

So you are saying there is a perfect correlation between life expectancy of a pancreatic cancer patient and some "alternative" treatments?

Your attempt at correlative conclusions is silly and not grounded in anything. There are dozens of reasons why the US has a problem with life expectancy and HC expenditures and none of them relate to "alternative" medicine.

 

[Pulsar]

This is more than eighty year-old established research based on Otto Warburg's work, in which he won a Nobel Prize.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Heinrich_Warburg

This message will reach lots more people than you, so I don't mind you believing whatever.

Just shut the hell up, ok? His 'research' happened 80 years ago. Seriously. If it had any validity regarding the treatment of cancer, doctors would be USING it. They gave him a nobel prize for enzyme respiration. Not cancer treatment.

You have a engine that runs on water too?

Sorry to hear it Exterous. Good luck.

 

[CottonRabbit]

Cut the meats, eat more veggies, fruit, and highly ALKALINE foods every day for the best odds. Alkaline foods increases your body PH which helps fight/prevent/delay cancer.

Your kidneys are remarkably adept at removing excess base. Short of vomiting and dehydrating yourself at the same time, you are not going to appreciably increase your body pH.

Normal PH is somewhere between 7-7.5, but when cancer patients die it is somewhere around 4.

Tumor pH is ~6.5.

Cancer cells thrive in highly acidic environments.

Tumors have acidic pH because they make the acid themselves through their uncontrolled metabolism. The pH is a byproduct, not a cause. Cancer doesn't happen just because your body became more acidic for some reason.

BTW, acidic in this context means the acidity after being processed by your body. So lemons seem acidic, but are actually alkaline after digested.

Lemons are pH neutral (citric acid provides the H ion to offset the metabolized anion). Oranges are alkaline (potassium citrate instead of citric acid, no H ion).

Sadly, there are no silver bullets for the vast majority of cancers. Best wishes to the OP's family.

 

[ichy]

If its horseshit then some advanced countries incl Japan would not be allowing such treatments on public dime.

Do you even know what kind of a pH range the human body can have?

 

[ichy]

So you are saying there is a perfect correlation between life expectancy of a pancreatic cancer patient and some "alternative" treatments?

Your attempt at correlative conclusions is silly and not grounded in anything. There are dozens of reasons why the US has a problem with life expectancy and HC expenditures and none of them relate to "alternative" medicine.

Bingo. Japan has a higher life expectancy than the US because their people aren't nearly as fat as ours! Diet make a difference over the course of decades and healthy eating makes you less likely to get cancer/heart disease/etc, but once you have cancer eating more fruit isn't going to do jack shit.

 

[BrightCandle]

Bingo. Japan has a higher life expectancy than the US because their people aren't nearly as fat as ours! Diet make a difference over the course of decades and healthy eating makes you less likely to get cancer/heart disease/etc, but once you have cancer eating more fruit isn't going to do jack shit.

Chronic diseases in general are correlated strongly with inequality. Turns out healthy eating and healthy lifestyles go hand in hand with equality. Which is the reason the USA is one of the sickest countries in the western world, despite paying 6x as much on health care compared to Japan, who incidentally have the fairest society in the rich countries. Their diet is better but that is likely because they do a lot less stress eating and in general look after and trust each other more.