Showing posts with label pancreatic cancer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pancreatic cancer. Show all posts

Monday, March 15, 2010

Naltrexone and Alpha Lipoic acid for Pancreatic Cancer

In the latest issue of Integrative Cancer Therapies, a case of 3 patients with pancreatic cancer were treated with intravenous alpha lipoic acid and low dose naltrexone. What's astonishing is that the patients are still alive, 2 of which were already cancer free based on their PET scan.

This is an ongoing trial in a New Mexico Integrative Center.

I hope this study will be more available to all pancreatic cancer patients.

Sunday, March 02, 2008

Touching words

I had the pleasure of meeting a 67 year old mother who certainly looked younger than  her age.
She came to me because she had several mass on the pancreas and liver. 
It did looked like she had stage 4 pancreatic cancer.

The family have decided she not undergo biopsy or chemotherapy, however I asked her one question, which was "what do you want to do?" There was a pause for she hadn't made up her mind whether she wanted to do biopsy or not.

I told her that ultimately it must be your decision she is the master of her life not the family members
eventhough they are just looking out for her.

After we had the discussion on what she can do, while making the decision to do biopsy, she made a remark that really touched me.

She said, "I already feel better just talking to you?"

How can it get better than that?

What are the infinite possibilities for her to be healed of this condition?

Sunday, December 24, 2006

Its Christmas and I'm not exactly so happy, My patient just passed away a few days ago from sepsis. It was forthcoming, I knew it the moment the wife called in to tell me that her husband will go to the hospital because of infection in his T-tube.

Its so sad and ironic, that the last place people with cancer should go is the hospital. Its a sad and true fact. they are immunocompromised, any infection that they will get from the hospital will definitely make their life (not to mention the quality of life) shorter.

I hope the new year will bring better times for my patients, losing them this way is not what everybody wants.