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Drywallguy, your wife is fortunate to have a partner engaged with managing her cancer. For me, my wife is the advocate and catalyst that allows me to successfully manage my late stage cancer as a chronic disease. Lalisa is my blessing and you… your wife’s.

My short response, one I am happy to elaborate should you feel value, is that I believe an ‘integrative’ approach, combination of western and eastern medicine has been the key to my success. Both western and holistic practices can be beneficial. I am now in my eleventh year, managing Stage IV colon cancer through surgeries, various chemo/targeted regimens, diet (superfoods, herbs, etc.), second opinions and what I call, a few other common sense, critical success factors. My goal is to ‘reset’ the clock and manage this disease until a cure is found. I’ve had intermittent remissions, including a three year span and am now currently in remission (NED), since January 2022, following a 24 month, phase 2 clinical trial. This integrative approach has proven lifesaving.

Holistic, like so many things, has become convoluted over the decades. Holistic medicine simply treats the "whole person" rather than focusing on a single symptom. It emphasizes the connections between the mind and the body, avoids the overuse of drugs (NOT THE ELIMINATION), and has borrowed such practices from Eastern traditions. The combination of Holistic and Western medicines come to life in an Integrative approach to what I simply call … managing late stage colon cancer as a chronic disease. More and more cancer organizations and physicians, these past 11 years, are realizing the same. Drywallguy, sounds like your wife used western medicine with ‘surgery.’ Maybe time for her to expand western medicine beyond surgery, combining Holistic techniques that focus on the entire health of mind and body and going the … ‘Integrative approach’. I guess this has Not been a short response. I wish you and your wife well.

It sounds like a tough situation, as every adult has the right to make their own decisions, but sometimes low weight itself is a health crisis. Hopefully you will share this with your wife: My personal experience is that my weight dropped severely after surgery. Although I like to eat mostly natural, whole foods, I resorted to eating anything that I could keep down or that would increase my weight. That included ice cream and tasty little 50 cent pies they sell at Walmart. After a while my weight stabilized, and I was able to go back to a more healthy diet. Sometimes one needs to balance the risks and benefits of a diet strategy, and for me, gaining weight was the biggest benefit.