The result of my biopsy is in and…
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I’m sorry to hear that.
While it is your body and your life and I fully respect that (in all of its implications,) I would say a both/and approach might be good.
Both improve diet, exercise and lifestyle and first chance–if it doesn’t do more harm than good–kill it before it grows. Cancer can metastasize lightning-fast and spread just so once it hits the lymph glands.
And don’t give up hope regarding diabetes either. They have portable monitors now that provide continuous readouts of blood sugar levels (albeit, only for Type 1s and those who use insulin. Perhaps the technology will advance to include both Types.)
And Metformin has done wonderful things for diabetics (living testimonial here) and researchers think additionally, Metformin may be a cancer preventative as well.
Oh, and never forget all the progress made in organ transplantation and organ prostheses in the past Century. Pancreases may be next on the list of human Lego pieces and with what they can do with stem cells, body parts may one day be just like Doritos (“Crunch All You Want! We’ll Make More!”)
Recently, on Disney+, I have been watching the National Geographic series Year Million, which is about advances in technology, life extension, Transhumanism, The Singularity, and all of the social, political, and economic implications,
The program was pointing up the use of micro amounts of Selenium to kill cancer cells and also the possibility of tiny nanobots fighting and killing cancer cells and making repairs to the body one cell at a time from the inside out! Another possibility the program brought up was splicing out genes that would create cancerous mutations, so they never arise in the first place, both for the current gene owners and their progeny!
In some ways at least, it is a wonderful time to be alive and solving the rest of the problems means showing up…and being there to show up. And anything worth doing is worth doing forever if you can swing it!
Please keep thinking these good thoughts too and let us all know how you are doing in your struggle.
I think option 2 is the better approach for now but would qualify that with defining what the interval of the monitoring on “a regular basis” is. Then I think you should book the next (say) 6 or 12 dates for the check-ups now. My accountant is stage 4 for last 3.5 years (and as Hitchens said, there is no stage 5) has managed to get specifically engineered treatment based on his genetics and type of cancer. He ignored his “back pain” for too long before he went to the doctor. He believes if he went when the pain started he would be OK now. He was (in his words) expecting to be dead by now but has not got any worse (or better) since starting the treatment. I sincerely hope it remains a per-cancerous condition and if constantly monitored it should never became more than that. My tattoo artist gave me a 50 year guarantee on the tattoo I got for my 55th birthday. So good so far!
My first checkup is to be in 2 months. I will do my best to keep it every 2 or 3 from then on.
The surgeon says I have one major thing going for me: I never smoked t0bacco. Maybe 10 maryjanes in college, but that’s it.
As I said above, I’m a 74 y/o diabetic and probably wouldn’t make it to 90 under any circumstances. If I can hang on till my mid-80’s somehow, it should count as a healthy dose of luck.
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