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Cucu me said:

Great news artist49

Can you share more about your diet,please. Also did you have chemo or radiation after surgery?

I'm on diet too, but I'm not sure is it the right one.

Thanks

I had chemo but no radiation after surgery. My diet is a mishmash of cancer

fighting foods  - black raspberries, whole lemon, flaxseed, shallots, garlic, turmeric,

tomato paste, carrots, variety of nuts,  sesame, pumpkin and sunflower seeds,

wild salmon, organic chicken and eggs,  wild rice, granny smith apples,

1 date and fig a day,  mushrooms, kale, collards, beet greens, spinach, purple

potatoes,  all colorful veg, all cruciferous  veg, green tea, avocado, sweet potato.

You probably get the idea. I include a little of almost everything   every day.

If you have any questions, just ask.

Cucu me said:

Thanks for the replay

Good and healthy one. Dairy?

I'm eating no diary, no meet, exept fresh chicken, no sugar, etc.

Dry fruit yes and more than one per day, also I eat nuts, honey.

Organic when posssible.

It's hard, omg, especially after chemo, but I'm trying.

Recently no turmeric, can not make myself to take it.

Otherwise I'll drink it with almond milk with a bit of olive oil and black peper.

No dairy, sugar, only rarely a little pasture fed beef,

1 dried date a day, and I forgot to mention hempseed-

I sautee shallot, garlic and greens in a little coconut oil,

then sprinkle on turmeric and black pepper , add tomato paste

sauce (enhanced with  liquid stevia and nutritional yeast and

a spice like  oregano etc, Then I add 2 tbs. hempseed   for

protein and some seasalt. This is part of breakfast. 1st part

is my black raspberry lemon etc. smoothie. Ask me anything.

pinky104 said:

ayostacey

Nothing in this life is certain.  I was found to have a big uterine polyp, which my GYN assured me would most likely be benign. It wasn't. Instead of the robotic surgery I was supposed to have at another hospital, the GYN/onc my GYN referred me to  came in to the room where I was getting prepped for surgery and told me he couldn't do the surgery robotically after all.  He finally had looked at my CT scan done in another hospital where I was working at the time, and he saw how extensive my cancer was.  It had spread from the uterus to both ovaries and the small intestine.  I was told ten days later than I had stage IVb, the highest possible stage, of UPSC, a very aggressive cancer.  I read a few months ago in a society of gynecological oncologist's report that in that stage, I had a 9% chance for five year survival. At the time my oncologist told me that he didn't like to discuss odds of survival because if your cancer had a 90% survival rate and you were in the other 10%, what good would that 90% chance be to you?  I started preparing myself for living a lot shorter life than I had previously expected.  I was sure the cancer would kill me.  I know my little brother thought that.  While I was in the middle of chemo, he was the one who dropped dead, of a heart attack at age 57.  He hadn't been to a doctor in years and was a strong guy who nobody ever thought would die young. My mother, my father, and my maternal grandmother had all survived cancer.  My mother had breast cancer twice, ten years apart. She died of pneumonia at 90 in spite of having a number of other very serious medical conditions throughout her life.

Here I am today, 5 years out, almost 67 years old (next month) still alive and with no evidence of disease.  I have a mass in my peritoneum, but I've had CT scans 3 times and a PET scan once, and the mass hasn't grown. My GYN/Onc wasn't sure what it was at first, but he no longer feels there's any chance it might be cancer. A nurse in his office told me it could be a fluid collection from having had my lymph nodes removed. My GYN/onc isn't going to do any more scans unless there are new symptoms.

My feelings are that if you expect the worst, things will either be what you expect, or, if not, will only turn out better.  On the other hand, look at what happened to me. I had a 91% chance of dying, and here I am in spite of the odds. Nothing in this life is for certain.   

What a great post!!  I'm stage IVbUPSC as well, and I'm two years out.  Should have one foot in the grave according to statistics, but I'm basically asymptomatic and my day to day life is just fine.  One day, one step at a time.  Things are not always what they seem.  Good for you for reminding us!!