Update to Treatment – trying something new
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I’m thinking that the very worst thing that anyone with this cancer could do would be to ‘give up’! The problem is that most people believe what their doctor tells them…and if I had listened to Tom’s doctor in December of 2009 when he said “There is nothing we can do, radiation and chemo will not help, go home and get your affairs in order” then Tom certainly would be gone today. Instead I pulled Tom up with his bootstraps and told him to pack a bag, we were going for broke and we were getting some more oncologists involved – we went to Marshfield, Milwaukee and choose the Vince Lombardi Cancer Center in Green Bay to FIGHT this monster! And today we got some good news that the doctor feels that he may be able to get an internal stent in by the next tube exchange because the tumor is getting smaller.
Just goes to show that NO ONE should give up and if you don’t like the answers that you are getting from your doctors sometimes you just have to go for broke and get some other doctors involved in your care.
So Diane and Lily —- you go girls! And keep that FIGHTING spirit alive and KICKIN’ THAT cancer! You are correct, the power of prayers can do wonders!
Go with God and KEEP KICKIN’ THAT cancer!
Margaret
Lily, Lily, Lily……do we ever give up? NO. your MIL is wonderful!!!! This story gives so much hope for others, thank you so very much. Looking for the next installment and I am so elated!!!!
Here is the list of supplements :
Paw Paw Cell-Reg (17 mg)
Super Selenium Complex (200 mg)
Essiac Tea (sp?)Tai-Go (this is for energy level)
Liquid Life (Liquid vitamins)We got Great News that Diane’s cancer (my MIL) is now concentrated in one big tumor in her Liver’s left lobe and one small lesion in her right lobe. Her tumor was the size of a baseball in her liver with fingers going out into the bile ducts.
Diane is responding to her treatments so well that she is a candidate for bead radiation and chemotherapy that was not an option six months ago for her. The specialist that is doing this is the only one in this area (Cincinnati) that does it. It is millions of beads of radiation that are inserted in the veins, vessels, and arteries that feed the tumor to kill it. It is different than seeding. It is not routinely done for Cholangiocarcinoma since it is often ineffective. The doctor is willing to try it since Diane’s body has done so well with Chemo. (She has lost a lot of weight, and needed 1 blood transfusion and 2 platelet transfusions. She has been on chemo since Oct. 2010.) It is done in conjunction with a femoral artery angiogram to map it out and another later to do the procedure. They hope to virtually end the left lobes existence and the cancer’s existence with it. Of course there are dangers in this procedure also.
She will be continuing her regular chemo treatments while adding this new procedure. Chemo takes it toll and we are now going to push that envelope even farther with this added therapy. It is going to take a strength beyond what she has all ready been pushed to her limits, but not God’s limit, and we will look to Him for supernatural strength.
I wanted to share this with the community b/c we were told that this treatment isn’t tried often. If this works for her maybe it can work for others as well.
She is on Gem/Cis – 2 weeks on one week off since Oct. 2011 until now.
1 blood transfusion, 2 platelet transfusions.
She is also trying some supplements and teas that an herbalist told her would help. I will get the list from her and add it here when I have it.She has also been covered in prayer this whole time and we believe in the power of prayer over here
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