I have pancreatic cancer. I’ve known it since September 2023. Mine is a rather rare form called neuroendocrine, or PNET for short. When it was discovered it was diagnosed via biopsy and measured at 1.5 cm. It’s in the body of my pancreas’s. Once it grows to 2.0 cm it will be cut out robotically at Moffit. I’ve had 3 scans since then and it hasn’t grown any, just sitting there. I’ll have another scan on July 14th. If or when it’s removed I’ll have about 40% of my pancreas left. Since it regulates blood sugar levels and produces digestive enzymes I may have to go on insulin and take digestive enzymes when I eat. If I come down with pancreatitis I may, as they’ve told me be rather uncomfortable to miserable. I was given the choice back when it was discovered to have it removed and decided against since it’s not giving me any significant problems. 2000 mg of Metformin is taking care of my sugar levels. I was told that PNETs don’t metastasize like other cancers but can at a much lower rate. I’m rolling the dice on that choice. If it spreads I’ll be in a world of crap. So far my scans show no spreading. Strangely my fire investigations partner has the same type of cancer. We worked together and inhaled some bad stuff during our fire investigations. Hers is in her liver, lungs, and spine. She’s in pretty bad shape. We wonder if it was something we got in to? When mine was discovered I thought it was the kind that killed my buddy in 2 months. It set me back and made me think about my family and the need to make sure they are taken care of. I wrote letters to my wife and son and re-revisited our financials. About 2 weeks later I found out what type it was and have to admit, I never thought I would be so happy to have any type of cancer. Crazy as it may seem to non believers I was at peace from the beginning. I’ve lived a blessed life and have no standing to complain about my condition. I’m 72. My cancer has made me more aware of how important my Christian faith means to me. Another positive is it got me to reach out to old friends from work, high school, and childhood days. It has been a blast reconnecting. I don’t know what my future holds, really none of us do. One thing I do know is I’m good with what ever comes along. Blessings and peace to everyone.
I have had it twice, once in a thyroid, and once, well where no guy definitely wants... I was one of the lucky ones (knock on wood), surgery to remove the tumor both times worked.. It's going on 10 years, and haven't (knock on wood again) had any new tumors or reoccurrences. I didn't do any treatments, just the surgery My little brother on the other hand, had one of the rarest types of cancer. He tried to battle it the non-chemical way, but being the cancer it was, it spread quickly and throughout.... He decided to live his last of his life trying an experimental treatment Duke University was working on. He still passed on, but he lasted a lot longer than expected, and most of that was pain free... And the docs at Duke got a lot of good info from him and the treatment... But overall Cancer just sucks, sucks for the person who gets it, and sucks for the family around them... Just sucks...
We know who holds our future! I greatly appreciate your attitude which flies in the face of ‘winners and losers’ and whether ‘lucky or unlucky’ the railings against how ‘unfair’ cancer is because some are so diagnosed and others don’t (even though we’re all time-sensitive). We’re all passing through (passing on) and who knows but that we all might be *living* with cancer and some of us just don’t know it. Autopsies performed on some of the longest-lived people on earth at the time (1970) revealed some were riddled with undiagnosed cancer. And the older they were the more cancer they had. Were they killed by cancer or were they just living with cancer ? https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S004681778280097X
For all our fighting we don’t appear to be winning the War on Cancer and why it may not matter in the long run … The dirty secret of the entire war on cancer is that early detection and intervention do not likely save lives. You’ve probably heard that the survival rates from cancer that are detected and treated early are better than when such screenings and interventions did not exist. But in actual fact, you are merely looking at the same trajectories at an earlier point in the progression. In other words, if you are destined to have terminal cancer that takes 15 years from its inception until you die, then if I detect that cancer 3 months after its inception instead of 5 years after its inception, the survival rate from detection looks different. In the former, the patient lives 14 years and 9 months; in the latter they live 10 years. And if you state survivability in those relative terms, then it does indeed look as if a patient lives longer with earlier detection and intervention. In point of fact, the patient lived 15 years in both scenarios. Reversal of Damage — EDI
I’m out of this discussion. I’m laying in the hospital as I type due to cancer . You can have your dumbass opinions, think that the medical field is just not as smart as you, take your ivermectin, whatever. But yes.. sadly I’ve known many who have refused treatment due to its harshness on the body who died FROM cancer. You are just looking to argue from an asinine point of view just like you do with viruses. I’m not engaging anymore in your whack job fantasies.
Thanks brother. I’ll be fine. It’s after effects of surgery. Cancer has been eradicated. Now dealing with putting the body back together . Not fun but part of the process. I have been on this board forever and never have blocked anyone.. not even gator jo…. But I blocked DD. He brings nothing but left field ideas on modern medicine. Often time insulting or dismissive of those going through hard times.
For the record, I do not endorse Ivermectin or other ‘miracle cures’ endorsed such as in the article below. That said, I’m growing increasingly skeptical of the notion that cancer is essentially the body attacking itself … The Genius of Your Body:
Translation: “HOW DARE YOU start a thread entertaining alternative perspectives on cancer which include the possibility of the non-necessity of harsh treatments while I’m lying in a hospital bed recovering from the harsh effects of cancer treatments!” Sorry, but I’m immune to emotional hostage-taking.
All I’m gleaning from this thread is that for the OP to believe a disease is real, it takes someone close to him to get afflicted by it.
Why are you lying ? I’ve never come close to suggesting that cancer is not real and it didn’t take knowing someone who had it to convince me.
And my point is that you’re confused or simply lying and I’m leaning to the latter. My point in divulging people I’ve known is that I’m no stranger to the suffering that attends cancer.
So what do you think of viral diseases - COVID, measles etc? Why are they not real? Actually , please don’t answer. We already know.
Evidently, you think cancer is real because you know someone close to you who had it. You think other diseases aren’t real because you likely haven’t lost someone from those diseases. That’s my point.
