{Just thought you should know that.}
However, I'd like to think my research skills aren't too terribly rusty. These past 6 years since mom's pancreatic cancer diagnosis have seen us digging in deep as we combed the internet, the literature and the well-schooled brains of each of her specialists for hope and healing.
We have asked questions, read journals and most importantly, we have talked endlessly with other pancreatic cancer patients.
Here, on the blog, and on our website, we have "met" hundreds of fellow cancer warriors... and the question is always, always:
What treatments are you using??? How are they working??? What more can we do???
And we've shared cheers and prayers from the trenches of this cancer battle ... agonized over the failures and rejoiced over the victories.
Until I realized that the victories almost always ended in agonizing failures.
... I can't even. type. that... My heart simply breaks...
All these precious ones that we have lost in the past 6 years. Lost to a cancer whose survival rates with the current Gold Standard treatment have hardly changed at all in over 40 years. 40 years!!!
{I'm shouting... forgive me...}
For those who have followed our journey from the beginning (you are blessing to me...my peeps! I love you, truly), you have probably noticed the shift in our focus...
Conventional, Traditional treatment was mom's mainstay (Chemotherapy and Radiation). She implicitly trusted her doctors, and I believe, now, that they truly didn't have anything else to offer her.
As we have knelt with, prayed with, and walked with so many pancreatic cancer patients since, I have lost count of the tears we have shed as the Conventional, Traditional treatments for this cancer have failed. Over and over again. Utterly devastating, heart achingly personal...
* 71% of pancreatic cancer patients will lose their fight in that first year.
* 93% of pancreatic cancer patients will never make it 5 years out.
2 years ago we dipped our timid toes into uncharted water with this post Back Roads and the Journey Less Traveled that began to explore Alternative Treatments for pancreatic cancer.
And since that post, we have pushed the envelope and shared countless stories about Alternative and Integrated Therapies... Why the shift? Perhaps Albert Einstein (or was it Benjamin Franklin??) said it best:
Remember the statistics from yesterday? The statistic I repeated above?? The one about pancreatic cancer survival rates not changing in over 40 years?? With the current traditional therapies??? That statistic??
{Shouting again... Sorry}
40 years of conventional pancreatic cancer treatment... and nothing has changed. But tomorrow we will get up and do it all over again...
Ok, so here's the thing. I don't know if the Alternative, Integrated therapies are working to change the story of pancreatic cancer treatments... But I do know that there are pancreatic cancer survivors sharing their stories...
Sharing their stories of success. Of walking away from this disease whole.
And that is what resonated with me as I watched The Truth About Cancer documentary. The pancreatic cancer patients who shared their stories, using alternative methods.
And here are the top 3 alternative pancreatic cancer treatments that I heard repeated time and time again through-out the documentary (in no particular order) :
In the days ahead we will meet Pamela, and Kay and others and learn how these treatments worked in their particular cases and what exactly it means to turn to Integrated Cancer Therapy.
And here's a secret... there are more than these 3 alternative pancreatic cancer treatments. I just (unscientifically) presented the 3 that seem to be first up in targeting pancreatic cancer. Targeted treatments that amazingly don't seem to be breaking the body to heal it.
Perhaps there is a little Hope rising this night?
In Grace, Always,
Jane
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