Esophagus Cancer?
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Look into this as an alternative - 11 - Try Vitamin C therapy. A few years ago a cancer specialist came out with a paper that said the best cancer/infection fighter found to date was Interferon. At the time it was $15,000 a gram. The paper also said that Interferon was a by-product of the natural breakdown of Vitamin C in your body. Shortly after that the FDA tried to make Vitamin C by prescription only. Guess why? The FDA has the RDA for Vitamin C set at 64 mg a day, just enough to ward off scurvy. Linus Pauling, who got a Nobel Prize for his work with Vitamin C and a second Nobel Prize for Organic Chemistry, said that 1000 mg a day should be the minimum and 2000 mg a day if you are sick or smoke. He played tennis almost daily until the day he died at 96. 39 Personally, I got sick twice a year for 2 weeks at a time, for more than 20 years, with something to this day the doctors have no idea what it was, but for a week in the middle of those 2 weeks I was flat on my back. I started Vitamin C therapy once I gave up on the doctors. I took enough to be asymptomatic for those 2 weeks. 40 Too much and I got diarrhea and too little and I got sick. Within a narrow range, and it followed a bell curve over those 2 weeks, I was not sick. At the height I was taking 40,000 mg a day and 300,000 over the 2 weeks. After 2 years of that I have not been sick since – more than 15 years. Vitamin C acts as a natural diuretic so you need to drink a lot of water and watch your body in total, but my kidneys did not dissolve as the doctors predicted, or get massive kidney stones as other predicted. (If you find this useful, copy it and give it to a friend. 41 Somebody got to Yahoo and they delete this as soon as they find it) I did not dissolve my bones as some predicted or completely calcify my joints as others predicted. I had no side effects at all. It might be something to consider.
My son was diagnosed at 17 with stage IV abdominal sarcoma. He chose to fight his disease and has done well for the past two and a half years. He has had months of chemotherapy and three major surgeries. The only discomfort he has ever had is when he is in treatment or has had the surgery. That lasts about five days a month.
Not all advanced cancers are the same. My son currently is asymptomatic . . which means that he hangs out with his friends, takes college classes, and does what he wants the majority of time. He also still has inoperable cancer in the pelvis and he's living with it.
You and your friend may be unaware that in some cases it is possible to live with cancer by finding the right combination of meds.
My sons type of cancer gives a 15 percent chance, if that much, we basically don't pay any attention to statistics. They are meaningless as each patient is an individual.
All I can tell you is this . . if my son had not undergone intensive treatment two years ago he would have died within a month or two. He had multiple large tumors, one the size of a volley ball, which had seeded into the abdominal cavity. He had tumors on the chest wall,diaphragm, spleen, liver , lungs, large and small intestine, and lymph nodes. He had malignant ascites with over 30 pounds of fluid. He also had three blood clots and ended up in ICU for three days. That was two years ago. He responded immediately to treatment which led to more options. So, after chemotherapy and three surgeries he has a remaining inoperable tumor the size of a walnut. He will,hopefully, live with that until such time as surgery becomes an option.
It is the treatment that has allowed him to live this long.
I wish your friend well. The path he has chosen will not be easy, but at least he has you by his side to ease his journey.
my friends husband died of esophageal cancer 5 years ago. she told me just the other day, that right before he died, he told her he regretted doing the treatments, and would have preferred to died without the agony the chemo caused him.
My uncle has esophagus cancer and refused the treatments... they gave him 5yrs if he did the treatments.. it's going on 10yrs since he refused. it's really up to your friend... some people don't believe in treatments... and others do. some people react different to the treatments also. if the do one surgery it can actually spread the cancer and he will have to go through more... you never know... but he might have a chance of living longer without them..
hope this helped..
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