You should look into fasting. My wife was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer 10 years ago. We made some significant lifestyle changes, but the biggest thing was she did 5 day fasts during many of her chemo rounds (one day prior, during intensive administration and her two day pump, then two days after). Significantly reduced side effects, as there was a human study for already back then. Efficacy studies were only on mice at the time, where fasting only was as effective as chemo, and both together were dramatically more effective. N of 1, but she's alive and cancer free against very long odds.
It would also cool if you did a non medical intervention review. We're both researchers and did all our own research. There was a good number of things either with trials or solid epidemiological evidence. She started meditating much more. We dramatically changed our diets, super strictly avoiding inflammatory foods like any refined grains, any added sugar, etc, for 2-3 years and remaining pretty strong since. She continued to exercise 4+ times a week. Also she started on a number of supplements. We found oncologists to mostly be poor to mediocre, with either no knowledge of what their patients could do to increase their chances aside from drugs or actively denied the research we brought (I'm a PhD statistician and we both have tooons of experience in modern casual analysis. We represented the literature accurately).
More voices sharing what folks can do themselves would be incredible! Note I'm saying in addition to medical treatment! Her colon surgeon took out a heroic number of lymph nodes (a large number of which were positive), for example. Her survival could just be due to that and standard treatment of course. But the evidence says she improved her odds!
Yeah I've looked into fasting and it's legit, it makes chemo side effects milder and may make it more effective.
The high rates of cancer after bereavement, and a few other data points, have also convinced me that your mental state can directly affect immune function, at least for the worse. so I'd expect anything that keeps you from despair to have literal health benefit in cancer.
This article underscores how difficult metastatic cancer can be, but it also gives a lot of hope. Knowing that complete responses are becoming more common with new therapies, particularly in blood cancers and some solid tumors, is encouraging.
The section on intralesional and intratumoral treatments really caught my eye as I had Lu-dotatate smart radioactive treatment that probably healed me of a 2cm bone metastatic prostate cancer. I say that because I have so far no recurrence of PSA for more than 5 years after treatment and have calculated that form one cancer cell, an observable PSA should occur after 4years on my doubling time of 2months (see my essay #8).
You should look into fasting. My wife was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer 10 years ago. We made some significant lifestyle changes, but the biggest thing was she did 5 day fasts during many of her chemo rounds (one day prior, during intensive administration and her two day pump, then two days after). Significantly reduced side effects, as there was a human study for already back then. Efficacy studies were only on mice at the time, where fasting only was as effective as chemo, and both together were dramatically more effective. N of 1, but she's alive and cancer free against very long odds.
It would also cool if you did a non medical intervention review. We're both researchers and did all our own research. There was a good number of things either with trials or solid epidemiological evidence. She started meditating much more. We dramatically changed our diets, super strictly avoiding inflammatory foods like any refined grains, any added sugar, etc, for 2-3 years and remaining pretty strong since. She continued to exercise 4+ times a week. Also she started on a number of supplements. We found oncologists to mostly be poor to mediocre, with either no knowledge of what their patients could do to increase their chances aside from drugs or actively denied the research we brought (I'm a PhD statistician and we both have tooons of experience in modern casual analysis. We represented the literature accurately).
More voices sharing what folks can do themselves would be incredible! Note I'm saying in addition to medical treatment! Her colon surgeon took out a heroic number of lymph nodes (a large number of which were positive), for example. Her survival could just be due to that and standard treatment of course. But the evidence says she improved her odds!
Yeah I've looked into fasting and it's legit, it makes chemo side effects milder and may make it more effective.
The high rates of cancer after bereavement, and a few other data points, have also convinced me that your mental state can directly affect immune function, at least for the worse. so I'd expect anything that keeps you from despair to have literal health benefit in cancer.
This article underscores how difficult metastatic cancer can be, but it also gives a lot of hope. Knowing that complete responses are becoming more common with new therapies, particularly in blood cancers and some solid tumors, is encouraging.
The section on intralesional and intratumoral treatments really caught my eye as I had Lu-dotatate smart radioactive treatment that probably healed me of a 2cm bone metastatic prostate cancer. I say that because I have so far no recurrence of PSA for more than 5 years after treatment and have calculated that form one cancer cell, an observable PSA should occur after 4years on my doubling time of 2months (see my essay #8).