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15 Feb ’12
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My neighbor and friend Phil has had a rough go of it over the last year. We were outside one day when I noticed a lump on the side of his neck. I asked him what it was and he said he didn't know, it had been there a couple weeks. I told him to go to the doctors.
It was lymphoma.
He had it cut out and went through some treatments with follow ups every 6 months I believe.
He had an appointment a couple weeks ago and his heart was going out of control so his doctor sent him to the ER, he stayed a couple days and they couldn't pinpoint the issue so they put him on some blood thinners.
Well he was helping with hanging the ceiling fans when he walked over to his house to use the bathroom. He came back and said I have to go the ER, why I asked? He was peeing straight blood.
So he went and turns out it's bladder cancer, they think the blood thinners caused the mass to rupture.
He went through surgery last week and they found some other lesions which thankfully turned up negative. He had his first treatment the other day and we were talking about it yesterday. They injected him with TB, didn't even know that they were using that for bladder cancer. Anyways I had asked him if he had ever heard of RSO since him and his wife both partake of MJ, he never had.
So I know we have a lot of people in the medical field on here, I've just have a brief understanding of it, have heard different opinions. We are a medical marijuana state, is it worth them pursuing researching it to go along with traditional treatment methods?
4 Mar ’12
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if i have to face something like this, i would def go that route
http://www.rethinkin.....longer.php
also
http://blog.phorever.....ible-pain/
Dr. Hardin B. Jones, a former professor of medical physics and physiology at the University of California, Berkeley, has studied the life expectancy of cancer patients more than 25 years, when he came to the conclusion that, despite popular belief, chemotherapy does not work.
He testified that most of the cancer patients treated with chemotherapy die a horrible death. Also Dr. Jones warns that patients treated with chemotherapy die much faster and more painful than many other patients who have selected different treatment.
“People who refused chemotherapy treatment live an average of 12 and a half years longer than the people who are receiving chemotherapy,”
6 Oct ’15
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We know quite a bit about cancer. My wife treated it for 15 years, hematology oncology (specializing autologous bone marrow and stem sell treatment) and radiation oncology.
Three things to look at, what kind, what stage, where is it. Then getting the right kind of treatment.
We have excellent healthcare in my area from cardio-thoracic to oncology which includes a Regional Oncology Center that serves about 22 counties...I hope I never need any of it...but I need to see what happens in the next year.
She has seen many people try many things...nothing notable has worked. Marijuana is wonderful for stimulating appetite when people go through chemo or radiation.
The most helpful thing she has seen is eating the healthiest diet you can once your in treatment and eating calorie dense foods.
If someone is willing to try something then go for it...you never know. There have been fads on a number of things for cancer: colloidal silver, some kind of special vinegar, all sorts of stuff...the only thing I have ever hear that should be avoided is citrus, especially grapefruit.
As for chemo working or not, depends on who you ask...I do believe there are many people alive today because of it...also true of radiation treatment...a lot to consider: type of cancer, stage, age, co-morbidities....and chemo is nothing to screw around with, a Dr has got to do it right and I question how many know what they are really doing.
...good luck.
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