Guest guest Posted July 25, 2004 Report Share Posted July 25, 2004 , My husband has been diagnosed with Stage IV colon cancer. He's had 2 resected tumors and now on chemo. The suggested reading you've seen here is good...we have those books. Our Oncologist is very progressive and, along with taking an aggressive and positive stance on the chemo, he's endorsed organic foodstuffs for my husband plus juicing...he gave that a 'big' thumbs up. On www.mercola.com you can find references to the best juicers (we have the Omega). So we are both on this diet now. My husband goes off of it occasionally tho'...he's an old fashioned swede and has trouble being as strict as I am. Plus he's having the usual trouble eating, fatigue and stomach trouble during chemo. I spoke with a couple from California recently about this too. The fellow had Stage IV colon cancer also at age 35...he had everything resected (several colon tumors) and including liver tumors...went on and off chemo for a year and then on an all organic diet...low animal fat and with aggressive juicing. He also did all he could to thoroughly detox his system. His wife is a Natural practitioner and he was an ex-Marine (and determined to beat this). He is still around now 9 years later. Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 26, 2004 Report Share Posted July 26, 2004 Hello , We agree that the surgery and chemo have a definite place in all this as well as the diet. My husband is 57 years old (yes, a swede) and it seems hard for him to change or to commit to and totally believe in the dietary/detox/probiotic regime. He's agreed to go to a Naturopath after chemo but right now I'm afraid the chemo is currently turned up so high I'm wondering how he'll make it through. We'll have to give the doc feedback on that. Plus he's having tremendous problems with digestion and appetite. He's only actually doing this halfway (he eats lunch at work, eats out occasionally and still on the ice cream, etc.)...so I don't know how this will go. I think it must be much easier for a younger person to make these kinds of large changes in lifestyle. The organics weren't a hard change to make...they are expensive but the sacrifice was not much in our eyes. The guy from California was a serious case....the tumors had eaten through his colon and he had only 65% of his liver left after resection. His recovery was quite a story... So glad to hear your husband is responding so well. I have heard some local accounts of persons with various forms of cancer responding well to this who are under the care of a Naturopath. Take care, Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 26, 2004 Report Share Posted July 26, 2004 Regarding appetite problems during chemo, we've found some excellent suggestions on the site: chemocare.com. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 26, 2004 Report Share Posted July 26, 2004 Regarding appetite problems during chemo, we've found some excellent suggestions on the site: chemocare.com. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 26, 2004 Report Share Posted July 26, 2004 Regarding appetite problems during chemo, we've found some excellent suggestions on the site: chemocare.com. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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