IF you are diagnosed with cancer, you have a plethora of questions concerning every aspect of your condition… especially questions such as “why me?”, when I have been so smart with food choices and careful to detoxify, eating nutritiously all my life? How come others with toxic lifestyles can get away with a clean slate?
Why didn’t I know sooner? HOW DO I KNOW THAT THERE ARE NO DIAGNOSTIC OR LABRATORY MISTAKES?
Now what should I do – follow my doctors orders in spite of misgivings? Who should I trust?
Many rational doubts and questions are heaped on top of an initial diagnosis shock, as well as many family opinions and pressures because they truly care, as well as fear and worries about the future and outcomes.
Why is there so much contradiction amongst the experts – mainstream and alternative specialists alike? Which tests, cures, therapies, options should I choose or do I even get to choose? Do I have the legal right to choose?
Which doctors are telling me I don’t have time to think and what is their motive to say that?
Does leaving thorough research to family members make me feel secure?
etc…
Then you see that there is an incredible volume of information that you would like to digest and consider before making ANY decisions – even when your background may not have been in research or health or healing, but you know you can get your head around some of it, for sure. Then there’s the terminology that bowls you over: metabolic versus eclectic, complementary and alternative, holistic versus adjunctive, functional versus organic.
Overwhelm!
I’ve been in your shoes!
Therapies that sound good, outside of the pharmaceutically based Western mainstream commonly accepted methods, are often considered suspiciously or as downright quackery, and written up as such, by the very people you will have to depend on – but why?
Should you not also be suspicious of chemotherapy – which was NEVER studied in a double-blind cross-over clinical setting, after all? (possibly only on animals.)
How can such hyper-toxic liquids entering my veins be very successful or good for me, you ask? After all, given the hundreds of billions of private and tax research dollars that society has poured into ‘the cure’ over almost a century and especially since Nixon’s ‘war on cancer’… should these harsh chemicals not be perfected by now? Just how have these toxins been successful so far? What are the TRUE facts and numbers? Are they better than the placebo success rates?
Some alternative therapies are amazingly clever and in tune with nature and have yielded very good results (and often in dire circumstances as most alternative therapies are sought out by patients after all other Western mainstream therapies have been used and the patient is in nutritionally depleted and toxic shape!) Some alternative therapies are amazing but must remain under the radar – there is a valid fear of being seen as successful with alternatives by the Big Pharma / cancer establishment.
So you will want to read and learn a lot in a very short time.
You may want to see specialists that you may never have considered seeing before, such as naturopaths and/or a psychologist, for example, for a second opinion – not a second opinion similar to the first opinion – but a TRUE second look from within a different modality or informational paradigm.
This is not the kind of advice your GP would offer – so there are no shortcuts by just asking a quickie opinion in a 7 minute appointment used for other challenges as well.
You may want to gather a trusted small group of people around you – your team – and they will give you a sense of control and protection if you state the terms they are chosen on – while you remain the quarterback. One team member can come with you to each and every meeting and be an extra set of ears and take notes and be supportive and … hug you a lot.
At check-ups, tests and appointments you need to understand ALL your options and ask lots of questions – clipboard in hand, taking notes and showing how very serious YOU are in deciding what YOU need and that it is YOUR decision-making that will prevail, while you kindly but firmly concentrate on asking the questions and leaving all doors smilingly open…
Then there is always an opportunity for a de-briefing afterwards between you and the person who came with you – more ears and eyes mean more information to digest after each event – nothing wasted. YOUR team is working FOR YOU – each may even have a special niche – as well as YOUR best interests and empowerment.
Mainstream cancer agencies offer a luxury that often goes unnoticed. Decisions are made on your behalf with little or no input by yourself. Appointments are scheduled, transportation by volunteers is arranged, etc., and little is required of you except to show up, cope, have faith and follow orders. And your provincial Medical Plan in Canada and / or your American Medical plans pay for a large portion of this “health” care, to boot! That can be a real relief in the face of chaos, especially when you don’t want to be in control. If this resonates with you strongly – you may have found the type of cancer care just right for you – stick with mainstream care options.
In holistic / naturopathic / alternative healing in general, including cancer care, your health management requires some or a lot of personal responsibility. Also, your challenge is seen as a total-body problem and as multi-factoral in nature – hense the oft used word wholistic. Your return to wellness is perceived as complex and unique to you only and so therefore your therapy will be designed as such, too.
Few alternative therapies believe in toxic approaches – deeming them to be an unjustified premise to start with and not very effective. The “fighting for your life” and “war on the cancer cells” metaphores and mindsets may not always be considered healing, either! Working “with” your body in a mindfull, loving, determined manner may be more useful.
(Alternatives therapies worth their salt will not hide behind the “genetics” curtain either.) When alternative cancer therapy type gurus go on and on about toxins and poor lifestyle choices – then logic is missing there, too. When raw vegetables are going to cure you – then run like hell, too.
“Stress” as the often-sited culprit is about as vague and obtuse as describing thirst as the reason for alcoholism. This doesn’t diminish the huge amount of stress any diagnosis heaps onto an individual. A true “whole-istic” therapy must drill down to exactly the emotional / situational / shock / conflict that triggered the body’s extra cellular growth / deviation or malfunction.
Cells don’t deviate or proliferate for some vague or rogue unknown reasons in some of us and not in others – some toxic people remain in good health while hyper-healthy folks receive severe diagnoses. Pinpointing the exact emotional / situational / shock / conflict cause is no longer a mystery. It’s just a mystery to those you have dug their heels in, and side with surgery, chemo and radiation as the only way forward.
We should never accept that a specific chemo treatment, for example, when applied to two near-identical patients under identical circumstances can result in two different outcomes – I call this science-fiction! Yet in orthodox medicine and in some of alternative medicine this outrageous nonsense abounds! …And when in doubt, just blame everything on those genes and toxins and cooked meats (please hear my sarcasm)!
Your new path may open doors never known to you! You may want to incorporate methods that are the bare basics: maybe some serious detoxification in some cases, rebuilding the immune system in some cases, using some of the right therapies for you to reduce the cancer cells / the tumour itself and embracing significant ways to work with the body-mind connection and, out of necessity, to discover and work with the underlying emotion(s) / conflict(s) that propelled your health challenge in the first place.
(So, you see, it is much more than becoming an organic vegan. seeing a homeopath and taking weekly meditation and yoga classes as they would have you believe at some ‘integrated’ clinics!)
As you assemble a team – possibly – they surround you with support, unconditional love and work hard on your behalf. You design the “wish” list while not being pressured by anyone… you’re the boss.
First, if tumour marker tests were not immediately requested, either by your G.P. or the specialist you were referred to, then you will have to ask for it yourself. It’s your right to have these measured. All information should come back to the G. P. – either automatically or by his/her or your request. If neither the test and/or results were ordered, you’ll have to be given a damn good reason as to why not. Seriously! Maybe tumour markers are not known to that particular doctor or maybe they don’t know which ones to requisite, but there is NO excuse for NO markers right from the outset.
Hand-in-glove with a cancer diagnosis comes this request for these very inexpensive, simple tumour bio-marker tests. This is a bio-chemical way of keeping track of where your cancer is at – less guessing by everyone and therefore somewhat empowering to the patient. It is telling that some cancer clinics may take these tests from time to time and doctors and specialists would just as soon let you forget these worthy tests exist… and they will then not be forwarded to you, nor do you then have a choice as to which tests are taken.
Biopsies as the definitive answer ARE NOT GOOD ENOUGH. As one Vancouver lab worker explained to me privately… “the lab is busier and more chaotic than the post office at Xmas! What did you expect?”
Well, I expected exactness and perfection. When my late husband was initially diagnosed with cancer and the tumour was smaller than the size of his pinky fingernail, he was given a semi-faulty cancer diagnosis by biopsy. Some months later another biopsy showed ‘the possibility’ of cancer cells but by then his cancer had spread throughout his esophagus and some chest tissue, such that it was closed to any swallowing! A follow-up biopsy, when his cancer had spread to include most of his vital organs except for his heart and lungs, they gave him the ALL CLEAR! No Cancer cells were found in that last biopsy!
(Each time the biopsy was performed by an incredibly skilled and briliant specialist.)
And even the first biopsy got the specific type of cancer tissue wrong!
The tumour marker tests are a necesaary back-up piece of information – a God-send.
SHUT DOWN for now:
There is a cancer urine marker test that is inexpensive and accurate and useful for exoderm type tissue tumours (most cancers). I’d use this if I wanted a test without a cancer agency involvement – or as a great back-up / second opinion test – read about it at: http://www.navarromedicalclinic.com
Here are the more common tumour markers below so you can familiarize yourself with them and choose what you need and ask for them – you’ll want more than one – as many as you deem appropriate.
AFP (alpha feto-protein) measures the level of the AFP protein (found in everyone’s blood). Higher levels are associated with pregnancy, fetuses, young children and malignancy. It can be elevated with primary tumours of the liver, endodermal tissue and with non-seminomatous testicular germ-cell tumours. It can also show elevated levels pancreatic cancers, gastric cancers, colonic cancers, and bronchogenic cancers
CA 15-3 – uses cancer Antibodies for measuring and is a particular protein that is shed by breast tumor cells, making it useful as a tumor marker to follow the course of therapy. It is elevated in about 30% of women (or more) with localised breast cancer and in about 75% of those with invasive breast cancer (cancer that has metastasised) and may also be elevated in people with other cancers and conditions such as colorectal cancer, lung cancer, cirrhosis, hepatitis and benign breast disease.
CA 19-9 useful to help differentiate between cancer of the pancreas and bile ducts and some other conditions; used to monitor responses to pancreatic, gastric, hepatic and colorectal cancer treatments and to watch for recurrence.
CA 125 – used for detecting high risk ovarian cancer and tracking treatment and therapy (80% sensitivity) and uterine cancer (60% sensitivity).
CEA – an enzyme immunoassay using a monoclonal antibody against glycoprotein produced by immature and / or malignant cells originating – in the gut. Elevated levels are associated with carcinoma of the rectum, colon, lung and breast. Smokers can have a higher “normal” range than non-smokers and not have cancer.
DM/70K – used for detecting ovarian cancer (70% sensitivity), gynecologic malignancies and cancer of the lung and breast.
hCG (human Chorionic Gonadotropin) – used to measure hormones made by the placenta during pregnancy or to diagnose trophoblastic disease or germ cell tumors such as of the testicular and ovarian and some lung cancers.
LASA-P a biomarker useful in a wide range of malignancies which measures alterations in the surface membrane (lipid associated sialic acid).
The least accurate is the PSA test for prostate challenges – and to discount a possible bladder, urethra, ureter infection, which can also cause high PSA numbers, one could ask for several other tests to discount this possibility: HCG(beta), CEA and NMP22.
More easy-to-understand tumour marker details and graphics at:
https://www.antibodies-online.com/images/news/biomarkers-cancer-types-ORIGINAL.jpg?_ga=2.179074916.1934972224.1554388993-1245202843.1554388993
and
http://www.tc-cancer.com/tumormarkers.html
and
http://www.medical-labs.net/whole-list-of-tumor-markers-and-their-sites-386/
and a graphic at
https://twitter.com/haneen_maghrabi/status/482781630843465728
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