Ok... Honest.
From one cancer warrior to another... do all the options on this 31 Day Challenge sort of make your head spin?
{Me too...}
Not only are we talking about the option of alternative cancer treatments as opposed to traditional, conventional methods. We are also opening up a whole new world of natural, non-toxic cancer therapies... with lots of options!
So, what might be best for your specific journey? Your particular cancer?
Should you try the Gerson Therapy? What about Chemotherapy? Or perhaps the Hoxsey Formula?
Maybe it should be the Cellect-Budwig Diet... Then again, what about radiation, or even surgery?
Too often on this cancer journey we are torn by recommendations, urgent and dire, that cause panic and debilitating stress in the midst of an already nightmarish situation...
What if we could combine the best of both worlds? Not have to choose one over the other? But instead be treated as an individual, integrating many of today's top cancer therapies, both conventional and alternative.
I wish I could tell you that place existed.
The cancer world is still very divided... between conventional, traditional treatments and alternative, natural therapies...
Each camp paints the other with an ugly brush.
The conventional wisdom would have us believe that all alternative doctors are quacks and can't be trusted.
The alternative holistics would have us believe that conventional doctors are in Big Pharma's pockets and, likewise, can't be trusted.
Who do you believe? Making my head spin I tell ya...
It would seem that it is very much up to the patient to make the overwhelmingly difficult choice of a primary course of treatment.
But the tide is gradually turning and The Truth About Cancer documentary has resonated for many.
This would be my very humble take on the world of integrative medicine... it is a powerful, potentially revolutionary force in the cancer world.
And here's why I believe that so strongly. When mom was first diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, her symptoms were pronounced and urgent... the mass on her pancreas had grown large enough to press in on her bile duct and pancreatic duct, effectively closing them off, trapping bile and digestive enzymes.
The pain was intense, and the jaundice was terribly alarming. Doctors performed an ERCP (surgical procedure under anesthesia) and inserted stents (small plastic tubes) to open the ducts and keep them open.
Mom's physical relief was almost instant. Even as our emotional world was collapsing with the news of her cancer diagnosis.
Her cancer treatment consisted of conventional treatments, chemotherapy and radiation. It was a year-long study in how not to battle pancreatic cancer... the nausea, vomiting, weight-loss, abdominal pain, complications... all signals that we were losing the fight, inch by excruciating inch.
So...in a nutshell, mom benefited immediately from conventional surgery to open her bile and pancreatic ducts... We believe she would have died if not for that life-saving surgery.
The truth is, however, that she did die of the cancer, while receiving the very best conventional treatments available to her doctors.
Mom's story is not unique... pancreatic cancer treatments just have not been able to breach the wall. Too many precious ones are losing the fight.
Yet, there are some pancreatic cancer survivors... Kathryn Hahn, Felicity Corbin Wheeler, Pamela Kelsey... all using alternative, natural therapies.
Perhaps that is why The Truth About Cancer and this 31 Day Challenge have kept me up at nights... What if mom had tried one of these therapies?
Could she have survived while integrating the best of both worlds? Surgery, yes... the stents saved her life... the Gerson therapy, or perhaps the Cellect-Budwig treatment to fight the cancer instead of the chemo? Perhaps...
Integrative Medicine...the best of both worlds... there is a Hope that pulls on our hearts... for each cancer warrior tonight, fighting when the news is grim, when their bodies are weak, when they just want to give up...
Holding you close in my prayers, knowing that Grace will be sufficient for every moment of the journey, don't give up...
Shoulder to shoulder, heart to heart, journeying together,
Always,
Jane
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Thursday, November 10, 2016
Friday, November 4, 2016
A Little Truth about Pancreatic Cancer...
...and a huge dose of Hope for those struggling hard right now.
That's what our 31 Day Challenge has been all about. Speaking Truth and Hope into the fear and hopelessness of a cancer diagnosis.
Before our Glorious escape this week past, we were taking a long, careful look at the cancer treatments discussed in The Truth About Cancer documentary.
(Which, by the way, is re-airing as we speak! Free! Click here to register!)
For a quick re-cap... here are some of our recent posts:
And that's just the beginning! There is so much more to share.
If nothing else, my prayer is that you feel a Hope rising as you face the cancer foe. We have options.
Hear that loud... There are options in the fight. Amazing options. There can be Hope in the midst of all the hopelessness you may be feeling right now.
What we are sharing here is for educating, for information, for encouragement as we journey this cancer road towards health and healing and living our very best lives.
{Always, Always talk to your healthcare provider about your individual treatment plan. And always, always take a proactive role in the fight...you have everything...everything...to gain}
Graced to be in the fight together. You are precious. You are loved. And you are so much stronger than you think you are!
Join us tomorrow as we tackle the question, What would you do if you were diagnosed with pancreatic cancer... the answer might surprise you!
Much Love,
Jane
Wednesday, October 12, 2016
Interrupting your Regularly Scheduled Program...
... for this very IMPORTANT announcement!
The Truth About Cancer's Live Symposium is this weekend, October 14-16th and you can watch it live! For Free!
And that is like a HUGE thing, because the tickets to the Live event were expensive and they sold out completely (which is so sad since it's right here in my backyard, so to speak, and I was beyond excited but when I tried to get tickets they were already gone! So SAD I say!)
However, now I am Happy to share the link to this inspiring event... you can watch it live streaming in the comfort of your own abode. How Huge is that???
Click here to register... (I did say it was FREE right?)
Over the course of the 3 days, you will hear nearly 50 of today's most renowned and respected health experts. They will be sharing their extensive insights on how to protect your health and avoid and beat cancer and other diseases, with the power to change your life for the better almost immediately.
It is truly an amazing opportunity to hear for yourself what is happening in the world of natural, holistic therapies.
Here are just a few of the topics being covered:
Unlock the Power to Heal
P.S. I just have to say that God is good. When I was working on the posts for our 31 Day Challenge to share The Truth About Cancer documentary (that I had seen last April), I had no idea that there was even such a thing as the Live Symposium, much less that it would take place right smack-dab in the middle of our 31 day series... God's perfect timing! Amen and Amen
The Truth About Cancer's Live Symposium is this weekend, October 14-16th and you can watch it live! For Free!
And that is like a HUGE thing, because the tickets to the Live event were expensive and they sold out completely (which is so sad since it's right here in my backyard, so to speak, and I was beyond excited but when I tried to get tickets they were already gone! So SAD I say!)
However, now I am Happy to share the link to this inspiring event... you can watch it live streaming in the comfort of your own abode. How Huge is that???
Click here to register... (I did say it was FREE right?)
Over the course of the 3 days, you will hear nearly 50 of today's most renowned and respected health experts. They will be sharing their extensive insights on how to protect your health and avoid and beat cancer and other diseases, with the power to change your life for the better almost immediately.
It is truly an amazing opportunity to hear for yourself what is happening in the world of natural, holistic therapies.
Here are just a few of the topics being covered:
Unlock the Power to Heal
Cancer is Merely a Symptom
Cancer Killers - Getting to the Cause is the only "Cure"
The Present and Future of Non-Toxic Cancer Reversing Therapies
The Ideal Diet for Cancer
Diffusing the Cancer Bomb with The 7 Essentials System
Overcoming Advanced Cancer
Strike the Root: Attacking Cancer Stem Cells with Seed Nutrition
... and the list goes on and on. You can see the Live event schedule right here!
Some of the speakers include:
Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski
Chris Wark
Ocean Robbins
Dr. Joe Mercola
Mike Adams
Dr. Josh Axe
... and so many other amazing Doctors and Whole Health Advocates.
If you do nothing else this weekend, sign up to watch and allow yourself to feel the Hope that is rising. Cancer can be beat and the survivors are standing up to share their inspiring stories...
The Truth About Cancer Live Symposium was created and designed to give each and every one of us the options, education and encouragement we need to find health and healing and live our very best lives...
Watch and be INSPIRED!
In Grace, Always,
Jane
P.S. I just have to say that God is good. When I was working on the posts for our 31 Day Challenge to share The Truth About Cancer documentary (that I had seen last April), I had no idea that there was even such a thing as the Live Symposium, much less that it would take place right smack-dab in the middle of our 31 day series... God's perfect timing! Amen and Amen
Friday, May 13, 2016
Some Truths about Pancreatic Cancer...
One of the many truths I learned in The Truth About Cancer documentary was that cancer is now an epidemic in our world.
1 in 2 people born after 1960 will be diagnosed with some form of cancer in their lifetime.
And that truth was brought home only yesterday when a good friend called to tell me her 59 year old brother has just been diagnosed with colon cancer. 59 years old... I could hear the worry edging her voice... major surgery scheduled next week, prayers breathed into the uncertain silence...
They are just beginning the journey. This Cancer Journey.
What if they knew that their journey could end in healing, and life lived whole and healthy?
But where do you start? The cancer journey is fraught with more than enough uncertainty and fear. What if there was a place to lay out options... discuss possibilities... give hope?
The Truth About Cancer series was just such a place for me. The 9 episodes were filled with a wealth of information and have given me plenty to chew on...
Perhaps we could dive in deeper and find some of that hope?
I'm going to begin by breaking it on down and doing a little research.
Here are some of the topics discussed in the documentary... in the coming weeks I will be linking posts on each of these topics, leaning towards facts more than emotion. I want more than anything to share cancer success stories, but only if they are offering honest to goodness options... no snake oil salesman need apply here...
So here we go:
1. White Crack... the sugar connection
2. Dying to Have Known... the Gerson Therapy
3. Back to Basics... the Raw Food Diet
4. The Hoxey Formula... Biomedical Center Tijuana
5. The Cancer Crackdown... practicing evidence-based medicine
6. Tomography... using less radiation for detection is a good thing
7. Eat the Rainbow... the Juice Lady
8. The Wheat Grass Craze... Barley Life anyone?
9. Tea Time... Essiac Tea
10. Rigvir... a Virotherapy Superstar
11. Plant your Pharmacy... Phytonutrients and the real medicine found in plants
12. Hope4Cancer... a real success story
13. Aquaporins.... the horrific Chernobyl Disaster and the surprising cancer heroes
14. One Tiny Apricot Kernel... "Second Opinion" and Laetrile (B-17)
15. Cancer Starving Diets... The Good Kind, Ketogenic & Budwig
16. Cannabis Oil... jumping into a heated debate
17. "Victory Over Cancer" - one author's journey with his effective cancer therapy protocol
18. "Killing Cancer...Not People"
19. Ozone therapy... for more than just the Bends
20. Heating Things Up... Thermal Therapy
And these are just some of the topics I jotted down as I watched The Truth About Cancer... join me as we research, question and mull over these integrative therapies to determine if they are worth pursuing in this cancer journey.
Might there be a glimmer of hope as we lean in to this fight!
Graced to be traveling this road together...
Always,
Jane
1 in 2 people born after 1960 will be diagnosed with some form of cancer in their lifetime.
And that truth was brought home only yesterday when a good friend called to tell me her 59 year old brother has just been diagnosed with colon cancer. 59 years old... I could hear the worry edging her voice... major surgery scheduled next week, prayers breathed into the uncertain silence...
They are just beginning the journey. This Cancer Journey.
What if they knew that their journey could end in healing, and life lived whole and healthy?
But where do you start? The cancer journey is fraught with more than enough uncertainty and fear. What if there was a place to lay out options... discuss possibilities... give hope?
The Truth About Cancer series was just such a place for me. The 9 episodes were filled with a wealth of information and have given me plenty to chew on...
Perhaps we could dive in deeper and find some of that hope?
I'm going to begin by breaking it on down and doing a little research.
Here are some of the topics discussed in the documentary... in the coming weeks I will be linking posts on each of these topics, leaning towards facts more than emotion. I want more than anything to share cancer success stories, but only if they are offering honest to goodness options... no snake oil salesman need apply here...
So here we go:
1. White Crack... the sugar connection
2. Dying to Have Known... the Gerson Therapy
3. Back to Basics... the Raw Food Diet
4. The Hoxey Formula... Biomedical Center Tijuana
5. The Cancer Crackdown... practicing evidence-based medicine
6. Tomography... using less radiation for detection is a good thing
7. Eat the Rainbow... the Juice Lady
8. The Wheat Grass Craze... Barley Life anyone?
9. Tea Time... Essiac Tea
10. Rigvir... a Virotherapy Superstar
11. Plant your Pharmacy... Phytonutrients and the real medicine found in plants
12. Hope4Cancer... a real success story
13. Aquaporins.... the horrific Chernobyl Disaster and the surprising cancer heroes
14. One Tiny Apricot Kernel... "Second Opinion" and Laetrile (B-17)
15. Cancer Starving Diets... The Good Kind, Ketogenic & Budwig
16. Cannabis Oil... jumping into a heated debate
17. "Victory Over Cancer" - one author's journey with his effective cancer therapy protocol
18. "Killing Cancer...Not People"
19. Ozone therapy... for more than just the Bends
20. Heating Things Up... Thermal Therapy
And these are just some of the topics I jotted down as I watched The Truth About Cancer... join me as we research, question and mull over these integrative therapies to determine if they are worth pursuing in this cancer journey.
Might there be a glimmer of hope as we lean in to this fight!
Graced to be traveling this road together...
Always,
Jane
Thursday, October 30, 2014
Mapping the Best Plan for Pancreatic Cancer Treatment
Our series is coming to a close... we have mapped a journey through both traditional and alternative treatments for pancreatic cancer.
So many cancer patients are struggling hard with these decisions...
Do we take the conventional, traditional approach that our oncology doctor is advocating.
Or do we listen to some of the alternative, holistic methodology and treat our cancer the natural way...
Our very lives tremble in the balance on decisions we make today.
The. Hardest. Decisions...
What if it were possible to blend the best of both worlds? Traditional and Alternative?
Might I share a whisper of Hope to those on the hard road of this cancer journey...
There are survivors. Moms. Dads. Sisters. Brothers. Friends. Family.
They have survived and thrived and are journeying past the diagnosis of pancreatic cancer. Is it not the hope of our hearts?
Meet Chris. She was diagnosed with Stage IV Pancreatic Cancer in 2008. She was told she had 6 months to live. A second opinion confirmed the devastating diagnosis, offering little in the way of Hope. Chris wasn't ready to give up. She was ready to fight. She just needed to find a healthcare team that was up to the battle. She chose Cancer Treatment Centers of America.
In this unique Medical Center, patients receive state of the art treatment with the latest technology has to offer in conventional care (chemo, radiation and surgery) along with the time-honored techniques of naturopathic medicine to strengthen the immune system and naturally manage the grievous side effects of cancer treatment.
Chris chose to use a uniquely blended treatment plan for her cancer. This included traditional chemotherapy as well as a nutritional program (juicing), naturopathic support (herbal supplements), acupuncture and massage, as well as several other services specifically fine-tuned for her case.
I encourage you to click here to read her story. (even if you never check other links, please, please, be encouraged by her journey... click the link for Chris...smile)
Because when you've finished her story, you can read about Roger, and Sybil, and Cissy, and Peggy...
Survivors. Thriving after Pancreatic Cancer... Hope to Hurting Hearts.
CTCA is quick to point out that their results may not be typical or expected.
BUT, to Chris and Roger and Sybil and Cissy and Peggy... they are living out their results every day... Grateful, Alive and so Generously Paying It Forward, Spreading Hope for each one of us caught in the living nightmare of this pancreatic cancer journey.
So what makes Cancer Treatment Centers of America so different?
They are what we would consider an Integrative Cancer Center. Integrating the best of the traditional cancer treatments with the holistic, naturopathic techniques that support the whole body and encourage the natural self-healing process.
And they are not the only Cancer Centers beginning to incorporate this Integrative Management Plan...
The Block Center for Integrative Cancer Treatment
Pangaea Clinic of Naturopathic Medicine
The Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Integrative Medicine Services
The Integrative Medicine Center at MD Anderson Cancer Center
And the list goes on... I could not say that each Integrative Cancer Center uses the same philosophy... some tend to lean more towards the naturopathic (alternative) approach and others still lean towards traditional treatment with a small nod toward the nutritional aspect of cancer care.
If this type of cancer treatment plan intrigues you... then let your research begin.
Call the Centers. Talk to their teams. Ask Questions. Lots of Questions... Do more research...
This is where the Knowledge you have gained by learning about the different approaches to pancreatic cancer treatment pays off in Power...
The Power to make an intelligent, well-thought out decision for your care...
The Powerful Perspective of Priorities... for as you have read, and listened and prayed... the goals most important to you will have surfaced... and the decisions will follow...
Integrative Cancer Care... Perhaps it just may be the best of both worlds... It may or may not be the right choice for you. However, now we know that there are choices.
Here it loud and clear...
There are options for this pancreatic cancer journey... And Hope...
Praying hard as decisions are made, and battle lines are drawn in this fight for our very lives.
Trusting in Grace to guide us safely through, Always,
Jane
So many cancer patients are struggling hard with these decisions...
Do we take the conventional, traditional approach that our oncology doctor is advocating.
Or do we listen to some of the alternative, holistic methodology and treat our cancer the natural way...
Our very lives tremble in the balance on decisions we make today.
The. Hardest. Decisions...
What if it were possible to blend the best of both worlds? Traditional and Alternative?
Might I share a whisper of Hope to those on the hard road of this cancer journey...
There are survivors. Moms. Dads. Sisters. Brothers. Friends. Family.
They have survived and thrived and are journeying past the diagnosis of pancreatic cancer. Is it not the hope of our hearts?
Meet Chris. She was diagnosed with Stage IV Pancreatic Cancer in 2008. She was told she had 6 months to live. A second opinion confirmed the devastating diagnosis, offering little in the way of Hope. Chris wasn't ready to give up. She was ready to fight. She just needed to find a healthcare team that was up to the battle. She chose Cancer Treatment Centers of America.
In this unique Medical Center, patients receive state of the art treatment with the latest technology has to offer in conventional care (chemo, radiation and surgery) along with the time-honored techniques of naturopathic medicine to strengthen the immune system and naturally manage the grievous side effects of cancer treatment.
Chris chose to use a uniquely blended treatment plan for her cancer. This included traditional chemotherapy as well as a nutritional program (juicing), naturopathic support (herbal supplements), acupuncture and massage, as well as several other services specifically fine-tuned for her case.
I encourage you to click here to read her story. (even if you never check other links, please, please, be encouraged by her journey... click the link for Chris...smile)
Because when you've finished her story, you can read about Roger, and Sybil, and Cissy, and Peggy...
Survivors. Thriving after Pancreatic Cancer... Hope to Hurting Hearts.
CTCA is quick to point out that their results may not be typical or expected.
BUT, to Chris and Roger and Sybil and Cissy and Peggy... they are living out their results every day... Grateful, Alive and so Generously Paying It Forward, Spreading Hope for each one of us caught in the living nightmare of this pancreatic cancer journey.
So what makes Cancer Treatment Centers of America so different?
They are what we would consider an Integrative Cancer Center. Integrating the best of the traditional cancer treatments with the holistic, naturopathic techniques that support the whole body and encourage the natural self-healing process.
And they are not the only Cancer Centers beginning to incorporate this Integrative Management Plan...
The Block Center for Integrative Cancer Treatment
Pangaea Clinic of Naturopathic Medicine
The Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Integrative Medicine Services
The Integrative Medicine Center at MD Anderson Cancer Center
And the list goes on... I could not say that each Integrative Cancer Center uses the same philosophy... some tend to lean more towards the naturopathic (alternative) approach and others still lean towards traditional treatment with a small nod toward the nutritional aspect of cancer care.
If this type of cancer treatment plan intrigues you... then let your research begin.
Call the Centers. Talk to their teams. Ask Questions. Lots of Questions... Do more research...
This is where the Knowledge you have gained by learning about the different approaches to pancreatic cancer treatment pays off in Power...
The Power to make an intelligent, well-thought out decision for your care...
The Powerful Perspective of Priorities... for as you have read, and listened and prayed... the goals most important to you will have surfaced... and the decisions will follow...
Integrative Cancer Care... Perhaps it just may be the best of both worlds... It may or may not be the right choice for you. However, now we know that there are choices.
Here it loud and clear...
There are options for this pancreatic cancer journey... And Hope...
Praying hard as decisions are made, and battle lines are drawn in this fight for our very lives.
Trusting in Grace to guide us safely through, Always,
Jane
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