yes, but unlikely. apparently cure chances go up with surgery even with fully necrotized tumors so I'll probably have to do it anyways, which makes me nervous since it is SURGERY and all surgeries are scary.

Well at least you don't have to get both your tits removed......

'i.e. Christina Applegate reference'

so wait, if the tumor is techinically still the same size, i'm guessing "necrotization" refers to some sort of percentage or count of malignant cells in the tumor mass?

either way, glad to hear it!

He just said 20,000 to 2000

What those numbers mean, non-specified.

Hopefully it means that......

lol at least I back my stupid shit up with sources

But Pigs are yummy, and fix thyroid problems.....

(your pic)

-Anth

yeah, I've heard a great deal about this stuff. also some olympic swimmer guy has this and is not getting it treated or something, those are basically the two pieces of news people have been funneling me.

this immunotherapy stuff would be tertiary care though, or after the chemo cycle if the tumor is still around. I'm going in about an hour to get my bleo done, but I've been feeling bad all day because I can REALLY feel the tumor today. the cocksucker is breathing with me, and that really really fucking grosses/stresses me out. I hope that means it's dying and not growing, but I feel really terrible today.

Fuck, I don't mean to sound crude, but have they considered amputatation or is the tumor too big still?  My grandma had thyroid surgery because of abnormal cells.

Have doctors be honest/up-to-date with you whats going on; that way you can choose your best course of treatment (it is your body) with objective knowledge?

Maybe the best course is injecting your own granulocytes (or a close healthy family member's) into that lame-ass tumor?

A young dude like you might have some good effects.

Best of luck man,

I'd want to be a doctor if I could afford to be.

I actually feel honored you would go through all that length for me. XD  I-I'm finally being noticed at GW O_O people quoting my posts and everything lol

Don't feel too bad...America's health system sucks; it's a fact and many people here are too young to know it yet (or no really bad experience like in my case).  I believe if people would step in on FDA approval on supplements and such, it can be better, but that would be financially inefficient (because of more protocol work).  Plus, lets face it, the more tests that you get to PROPERLY diagnose something isn't cost efficient (especially with cheap insurances like from my school or medicare where they get much of their money from the drug companies), so I had to fix my thyroid myself by LOTS of research (And yes it took some careful OBJECTIVE symptom analysis after each supplement I took....magnesium ended up being a big no-no for me despite other thyroid suffer's advice, but calcium and iodized salt; not sea salt cuz that is high in magnesium a good yes-yes.  My neck tissue cured up in a matter of a week.  And my osteporisis shoulders dropped down 5 INCHES and stopped popping/crackling w/o pain and I can play the piano like a maestro again.

The calcium at the time had to come from fortified OJ since I was lactose intolerant at the time.  I had a goiter and everything but these damn docs danced around the cattlepole just because my TSH was 'normal' (do research; there is horrible faults with this protocol; thus, why it is RIGHT to question cancer protocol).

If I didn't jump on the ball with my own stuff, I would have been disabled and had to quit school (MM).  So to that, I say, thank God to the internet, but you have to be SMART with holistic practices.

Then like really GOOD insurances sent my girlfriend to the best doctors from near-death from all her problems as a baby and a 15 year-old and she is as healthy as a horse (only 110lb compared to one :P.  (Her mom had to flip a finger to a LOT of MD's as well!!)

Just keep all this in mind is all I ask..

-Anth

I actually feel honored you would go through all that length for me. XD  I-I'm finally being noticed at GW O_O people quoting my posts and everything lol

There are some 'truths' and some 'whem stuff' in a post like this.

Yes Vit C. and yadda w/e helps boost the immune system does work.  And yes, it is usually the impaired immune system is what causes horrible diseases (and there are many proven things and many unproved that impair it).  A lot of it is mainly genetic as well (despite nutrition).  An impaired immune system pretty much is the 'cause' of any disease.

However, like saying aspartame causes cancer (and holistic sites are funny in this), http://www.rense.com/general77/lowdoses.htm
one site saying even 'low doses' that people drink daily when given to mice got cancer.............Ummmm....a dose of anything a human consumes daily to a mouse is lethal.

My grandparents (whom are both like been doing this for years) drank LOTS of diet pop, and never got cancer.....it's in the genes.

It's when you know doctors are being protocol dummies (or are being lazy) that you need a new opinion (from whomever).

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080627/cancer_trial_080627/20080628/

http://watch.ctv.ca/news/clip63507#clip63507 for the video clip.

This is the most promising trials of a new cancer cure using immunotherapy.  Basically, (I remember seeing this as a teen on the news like 7 years ago about this dude finding a cancer-proof mouse, but seeing it again now made me very impressed the work that he has done) he isolated the granulocytes from the mouse and transfused them into tumor mice and found the 100% cure rate of cancer in mice.

The trials started early this month, but the FDA has approved the experiment, it is the most promising thing I've ever seen in cancer cures and other disease treaments.  Pretty soon, we may have a cancer vaccine.

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Haha gl maes I recommended checking out an ND and I got shit on.

I know......

It's the ignorance in society that plagues us.

There are quacks everywhere, and it's usually the stupid, desperate, or poor that trusts them.

ND, MD, chiropracter etc. etc.,  you have to find the best of the best especially in alternatives to get results....but they work.  Not some garage door freak on quackbusters.

-Anth

cancercured at yahoo groups maybe a good support group to join.

It's somewhat holistic (and I only recommend, but highly recommend, with a really GOOD ND).

However they had a lot of success.......w/o side effects of chemo.  I self-treated my thyroid problem (no goiter woot!) because I know doctors are protocol idiots (and I have a lot of personal relations whom are physicians who confess----And even a stepmom who is a cancer doctor that KNOWS she has a thyroid problem just sitting there waiting for her TSH numbers to go up so the docs would finally treat her.....if ever).

I love to laugh at my physician when he was like "how did you lose 25 lb's in 3 weeks?" and I reply "I went back to eating meat, salt and carbs :P" And he just glazes back at me in confusion......BOOYA!!!
PWNED~!

Likewise, you can PWN cancer as well man.  Just be smart and remember, docs HAVE TO follow protocol.  I thought I was going to die and I fell asleep with a 91.8 temp (and temporary blindess plus all the symptoms in the world from my hypothyroid), but with lots of research I figured out how to fix it.....was a miracle.  For good or for worse, it is you to decide what is best as the patient.

I'm no hippie, or a stupid rep.  Just use your wisdom......

-Anth

You need Iodine for proper thyroid health.  There is little to no Iodine in spinach.  Try taking kelp granules (sprinkle it on salads or whatever it has a salty taste) as 1/2 tsp has 100%DV of Iodine.  You don't get thyroid problems from eating too much vegetables...it's either a deficiency (iodine) or eating foods that upset it (lots of soy...etc).

Also it's possible to overdose on some vitamins/minerals because some of them are toxic at high doses but these are usually pretty high and this really only happens when people take too many supplements.  Unless you eat like 3 full bags of spinach a day then you shouldn't be worried (even I eat a lot of greens in my smoothies).

Well, one theory with spinach is since it has become iodine deprived from soils is that it does leech iodine throughout your body.

However, you have to realize it's a calcium vs. magnesium ratio (about 2 to 1).  And too much magnesium disrupts the active hormone T3 uptake.

According to the second statement, yea you can eat lots of veggies, as long as you get enough calcium (which I wasn't).  However if spinach really DOES leech iodine from the body, you can only eat so much of it.

Plus, not all salt is iodized anymore........

Just to help....

but you can try LIFT if the trials pass (we won't know for 3 months).

Immuno-therapy has cured 2 out of 17 advanced melanoma in Great Britain by using increased dosages of patient's own white blood cells in the immune system.

Basically, it's the same idea, but focused on granulocytes.  Some people genetically have more, some don't.  My family thankfully doesn't have cancer (maybe I should be a donor), but we still have thyroid problems (but my family all were White Europeans eating too many damn vegetables as well!!! Lol)  My mom doesn't have a thyroid problem and she's a booze-hound that doesn't eat lots of veggies.

Just to defend the Holistic dude a bit:

There are good holistic doctors out there.  GOOD ND's are VERY successful at treating thyroid problems.  But they are the types that do 9000 blood tests that tell you what you need nutritionally to straighten your body out.  IMO, they are no more so called "quacky" as a acupuncturist or chiropractor.  As for curing cancer, the principal is the same, boost the immune system.  Fruit and Veggie diet is a good way to do this (not enough to cure....just help), but eat enough iodized salt (the government added this to our table salt for a reason heh ​.  W/e restores the balance.

Holistic medicine is a double-edged sword.

The problem is it is NOT FDA approved, so you really don't know what is in a supplement.

However, if you have a blood test done and you know you are deficient in say Vit C (Yes, proper diet and vitamins DO help prevent disease and cancer. It's all about immune buffing.), then a Vit C tab is good.  Usually, I'd prefer just to drink OJ.  But self-perscribing can be dangerous because you can overdose on a Vitamin as well.

I decided to eat healthy (lots of spinach and stuff), and I ended up with a goiter (It's horrible)!  My physicians were like 'duh, there is nothing wrong with eating that much spinach' (so IMO, regular docs can be just as "quacky"), but after reading that too many veggies and soy (especially dark leafy stuff) can cause goiters in some people.  Once I stopped, and started eating animal products/salt products again, the goiter cleared right up.  It took awhile for the hormones to straighten back up, but I'm healthy has a horse (as far as I can tell) again. My point is mix the evil with the good.

Too Health-nut "Goods" = Goiter aka Thyroid Problems

Too Much (Smoking, drinking, Fatty Foods, etc.) "Evils" = Most likely cancer.

Basically how much you abuse either side hastens the rate.  (I got it pretty fast eating 2 bowls of spinach a day and a subway club with lots of veggies)

It's a horrible balancing act.