What are people doing to beat stage 4 colon cancer

annad723 said:

Hi Bobby
Hi Bobby,

So happy to read your post. My name is Anna and I too am a Stage IV colon cancer patient. I was diagnosed in Dec. 08 so it's just about 2 years. Have been on various different chemos the whole time. Am involved in a clinical trial now. The nice thing about the trial is that it's oral medication. So glad not to be in a chemo room every week for 4-5 hours.

Have had success so I focus on that. I feel amazingly well and can't believe I'm a stage IV cancer patient. I agree to never give up because only God does have the final say. I know I cannot be cured but I hope to be managed and be here for my husband and 2 sons.

I get another scan on Wed. Am very scared about it as unfortuantely my CEA count has been on the rise. When diagnosed it was 2800 and had been down to 2 for the last few months. Last blood work showed it had risen to 10. So we'll see. I am not a candidate for surgery has I havel multiple mets on both lobes of liver. The colon cleared up immediately.

I don't really have any advice as to diet. I was very careful about what I ate prior to cancer. Whole grains, fruit, etc. etc. Gym five days a week and then boom Stage IV cancer. So forgive me if I don't buy into the food, exercise connection. I can tell you that since I got cancer I kind of eat whatever I want and have gained 30lbs. Oh well.

Stay strong Bobby. I'm always encouraged when I read about other people doing well. We have to support each other because only we understand what's going on.

I also hesitate to tell you I'm a die hard NY Yankee fan. Will you still be my friend??

Lots of love and hope-----------Anna

Anna
Thank you for posting and sharing your story. More people need to hear about survivors like yourself. You have a great story, great attitude and it just brought tears to my eyes.
Giants fan!
Marie

bruins1971 said:

Amen
Amen, Amen I say to you for with God all things are possible. I know not everyone believes in God and to each his own and I totally respect everyone's decision to choose what they believe. I however choose to believe that the Lord above who died upon a cross for my sins will heal me of this disease. I am so thankful for all that has happened to me since I was diagnosed. I have found the Lord ten fold and so far my treatments have been much easier than I expected. I am looking forward to knocking out these last 3 treatments and then we will see where I stand when I get my petscan sometime after my last chemo...

God is good

God continue to bless you.  Way I look at it, we are in a win/win situation! Xxxoo 

mikemcd said:

CANCER DIET

 

WHAT TO EAT?  I think I know your answer.  I have a rectal cancer tumor that I can feel with my finger. Sounds strange, but I have been studying it in great detail. I want to live.  Anyway, I can feel my tumor, completely.  When my tumor gets angry (active) it puts off ACID (tested with litmus paper) which feels like it wants to burn into my gluteus maximus.  Also my tumor "outgasses" (what I have researched to be hydrogen sulfide gas) when it is in this active phase.  It merrily bubbles the undifferentiated goblet cell mucus in my colon. (feels like tingling) Cancer wildly eats Sugar.  PET scans use radioactive sugars to find tumors in the body. Tumors can not eat "Ketone Bodies" The thing to do is go on a Ketogenic Diet. This is how they actually treated cancer before fluorouracil was invented in 1957.  Eat NO SUGAR. EAT NO CARBOHYDRATES. Take a sugar lowering drug, like metformin, or insulin. When I do this, my tumor "Goes To Sleep". stops outgassing, stops burning, takes about 2 hours. When I have that candy bar, it reawakens! Burns and bubbles like mad. This happens in about 20 minutes. Every time.  If you want to starve the thing, lower your blood sugar below 80. That's my advice.  Good Luck.  Mike

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Don't bite your fingernails... Just sayin'

Hi there

Whenmets went to my liver, I went on a Ketogenic Diet. It's not easy, but I believe it is the best thing for me right now. It's what I can do to fascilitate my body towards healing. I told both my surgical oncologist nd my radiologist and they said they " couldn't say' if that worked or not because there was not sufficient data. My onologist, whom I adore, thinks it's B.S. and tells me to eat the cookies I miss and have a glass of wine to boot. But I am working with a wondeful nutritionist who took me off sugar right away, and now I am on a ketogwnic diet. I got a wonderful e book I can share with you on the whole topic and how it's done. You can also google it. Let me know. I feel great and I am at my ideal wieght ow. And since you asked: I quit my stressful job, meditate and spend most of my time on a secluded farm...surrounded by nature and my animals.  More grateful to be alive than I have ever been and appreciating every moment. Some people never get that. Take care.