June 25, 2012 1 Comment
This has to be one of the best feelings in the world.
On June 22nd 2012, after 4 intense rounds of chemotherapy to treat his Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, Jake Bouma is told that he is Cancer-free.
You can almost feel the sense of happiness and relief that Jake and his partner share together as the doctor uses amazing technology to show how Jake’s’ body ” had a complete response to chemotherapy.” Read more of this post
June 13, 2012 1 Comment
Every cancer can be cured within 16 weeks, according to cancer specialist Dr. Leonard Coldwell. He even says that in extremely rare cases, some cancer can be cured within minutes, known as “spontaneous healing.” The trick is to change your body from “Acidic” to “Alkaline.” This alone is said to stop cancer from growing.
The process is explained by Dr. Coldwell in the following video:
January 19, 2012 10 Comments
Angela Zhang is on her way to curing cancer
What were you doing when you were 17 years old?
Probably not trying to find the cure for cancer, right?
Well this 17-year-old high school student is, and she is on a mission to save millions of lives.
Angela Zhang of Cupertino California says that she holds the recipe for curing cancer.
You probably are thinking ” how can a high school student have the knowledge to create such a cure?”
This is the exact same thing that her chemistry teacher along with scientists at the Stanford Laboratory were thinking.
Angela started studying doctorate level material on bio-engineering as a freshman in high school. She explained that it was confusing at first, but she eventually learned to decode the puzzling scientific language. A year later, Angela got herself into a lab at Stanford and started doing her own research.
According to CBS, this is what Angela is working on:
“Angela’s idea was to mix cancer medicine in a polymer that would attach to nanoparticles — nanoparticles that would then attach to cancer cells and show up on an MRI. so doctors could see exactly where the tumors are. Then she thought shat if you aimed an infrared light at the tumors to melt the polymer and release the medicine, thus killing the cancer cells while leaving healthy cells completely unharmed.”
When this was tested on mice, the tumors disappeared. The fact that her ideas became reality and this 17-year-old might have the cure to cancer is amazing. What an incredible accomplishment for such a young girl.
She actually cured a mouse of cancer!
Her concept has not been tested on humans yet, and supposedly it will take years to know if it will work on us. I would guess that scientists along with Angela are waiting to see how the mice react to this procedure years after it is done to see if it is safe to use on humans.
Angela entered her project in a science contest and won 100,000 dollars. She must be on to something.
Source: CBS news
January 12, 2012 5 Comments
Claire Osborne
Claire Osborn said that she is free of cancer after coughing up a tumor.
The 37-year-old mother of 6 was driving when she started feeling dryness in the back of her throat. She began coughing heavily, and hacked up a 3 quarter-inch tumor. She immediately went to her doctor and early tests revealed that she had a rare cancer.
Metastatic Adenocarcinoma.
This is a very aggressive form of cancer stemming in the back of the throat which is very hard to detect in its early stages.
At first, doctors told her she would need chemotherapy to kill the remaining cancer cells. They gave her a 50 % chance of surviving this aggressive cancer.
After telling her that she has a 50 % chance of dying, they ran a PET scan to find the lingering cancer, and it was gone.
Claire said:
“The consultant said: ‘It appears you have coughed up your cancer. Congratulations. I was totally flabbergasted, a coughing fit had saved my life.”
Amazingly, there was no cancer left.
Dr. Gary Walton, the surgeon that treated Osborn, said it was rare for a patient to cough up cancer, but not impossible.
“We suspect the tumor grew on a stalk in the back of her mouth which is very difficult to detect, somehow she dislodged this and the stalk snapped and she coughed up the tumor.”
Dr. Kim, head of mouth and throat cancer, made it clear that coughing up a tumor is very rare, but even more rare is that there was no cancer left behind.
“It’s very rare that these types of tumors don’t require any treatments” Kim said.
Kim estimated that fewer than 5% of people accidentally find out that they have throat or mouth cancer.
“Usually there are subtler symptoms, like difficulty swallowing or speaking” he said.
Doctors told Claire Osborn that she is very lucky to have coughed up the cancer early. If it wasn’t detected so early, it would have spread to other organs quickly because of its aggressiveness.
Osborn wants the world to know that if you are coughing frequently, be safe and get it checked out because you never know what can be in the back of your throat.
Source: mirror.com
January 10, 2012 4 Comments
In 1986, Jason Vale was diagnosed with Askin’s Tumor, a rare form of cancer.
The tumor rested in between his back and ribs, and it was causing liquid to build up in his lungs. Weeks after being diagnosed, Vale found out that the cancer had a mortality rate of 100%.
All of the people who suffered from this type of cancer tried the Chemo or radiation treatment and ended up dying (there were around 40 reported cases). Read more of this post
December 15, 2011 4 Comments
Jimmy Valvano was a college basketball coach who won the national title with NC State in 1983.
On March 3, 1993, shortly before his death, he spoke at the first ESPY Awards, presented by ESPN. While accepting the inaugural Arthur Ashe Courage and Humanitarian Award, he announced the creation of The Jimmy V Foundation, an organization dedicated to finding a cure for cancer. He announced that the Foundation’s motto would be “Don’t Give Up . . . Don’t Ever Give Up.” During his speech the teleprompter stated that he had 30 seconds left, to which Valvano responded, “They got that screen up there flashing 30 seconds, like I care about that screen. I got tumors all over my body and I’m worried about some guy in the back going 30 seconds.”
Jim Valvano died less than two months after his famous ESPY speech and after a year-long battle with cancer.
His tombstone reads: “Take time every day to laugh, to think, to cry.”
