PANCREATIC CANCER

I will describe-scribe here some experiences we are aware of with Pancreatic
Cancer. A couple of years after I was first diagnosed a fellow teacher had
a friend who's father had Pancreatic Cancer. He had been in the UT hospital
twice in ten days not expected to live through the night. He did rally and
got home.
The son brought his father out one evening in early April and we talked a
little bit and he got some oil and got started, I believe with four
tablespoons a day.
I heard he was doing well and in late August I heard he had just had a
checkup and there was no evidence of cancer. The doctors felt they had made
a mistake. He couldn't have had cancer. The following February another
checkup and everything was clear.
I did not hear anything more for over a year. Then I heard he was back in
the hospital and the doctors were giving him a drug that they thought might
add a year to his life.
A short while later I heard that he had died. The person who told me that
told me that he had quit taking the oil. One cannot do that. This is a
lifetime proposition. The oil works in some way to enable the body to
defeat the cancer and if it is stopped the conditions that allowed the
cancer to develop in the first place will develop again. This is not
something like taking an Antibiotic for a sore throat and when the throat is
well stop the antibiotic.
Apparently he felt the oil really hadn't cured the cancer so he did not go
back to it again.


A number of years ago a lady stopped at a Greenhouse in Georgia operated by
our niece and nephew. She had a brother , 41, a truck driver, who had
developed Pancreatic Cancer and could no longer work.
My niece gave her a tape and she and her mother drove to her brother's that
night. He began using the flaxseed oil immediately, I think at four
tablespoons a day, and in three weeks the count had dropped from 560 to 280.
Three and a half weeks later it was 165. Normal is 100.
He had a standing appointment with his family doctor and was a week and half
late. When he walked in the doctor was quite surprised and said, "When you
didn't show up I assumed you had died. The doctor told him it was the first
time he had ever heard of a count going down with Pancreatic Cancer.
Then someone told him about a Japanese mushroom tea. If made properly it
can be helpful, but if not it can be very dangerous. He got some that was
not made properly and died of mushroom poisoning.


A number of years ago I learned of a man in Knoxville who had Pancreatic
cancer. His sister in law was telling me about him. She told me that it
had gone far enough that he was losing ground and his skin was the color of
a pumpkin. She said that he had listened to a tape and began using flaxseed
oil and today was the picture of health.
Then she told me that her husband, this man's brother, had just had the same
experience. I don't know any more details on those two situations.


While this may be early, and is not yet the full story it is exciting enough
that I am going to include it.

Last October I became acquainted with a member of another ship at a Navy
reunion in Indianapolis and we talked about the use of Flaxseed Oil in the
case of cancer.

In mid May he called me and told me that he had suddenly found he had very
advanced Pancreatic cancer that had spread to the liver and lymph glands in
the lower part of the body through the stomach wall.

The doctor said he had probably 3 to 5 months maximum. While this cancer
does not usually respond to chemo, there was a new one, Gemzar, that might
give him an extra 2 to 6 months. It would be his only chance to prolong his
life, according to the doctor.

The started Gemzar, but at the same time Bill began using 4 tablespoons of
Flax oil and cottage cheese per day. His tumor count was 2129 on May 18.
June 6 the count was 2780. Ho told me that 35 or below is normal. He was
unable to get out of bed by this time.

A week and a half ago he called me and told me that he had had blood taken
for a tumor count on June 27 and he had just found out that the count had
dropped to 1287, less than half of the high point. By this time he was out
of bed, gone shopping with his wife, mowed the lawn, gone to a tractor pull
and gone fishing. He said that his activities were getting back to normal.

He is getting blood counts every three weeks and this evening he called and
said that he had another blood sample taken July 18 and he called the nurse
and found the count is now down to 953. He feels great, has a great apetite
and is back to normal activity. He is excited and happy, and I am excited
for him.

I received a letter Aug 15 that gave his most recent count at 810.
I received a letter Aug. 24 that gave his most recent count at 504.2

There is no doubt that in the mind of himself and his family that the
flaxseed oil is the main cause of the improvement but the Gemzar may also be
helping. The doctor told him originally that the Gemzar might be able to
give him an extra 2 to 6 months.

He told me that in the last visit to the doctor a stomach and pelvic exam
showed that the stomach which had been rigid was now pliable and normal
feeling and the doctor thought that was great.

I will add that a few years ago a doctor told me that he had never heard of
a count coming down with Pancreatic Cancer. Another doctor told me two days
ago that the prognosis with Pancreatic Cancer was usually bad.

There is a sad proscript to this account. Bill discussed getting off the
gemzar but a daughter who is an RN got "bent out of shape" when he talked
about it so he stayed with it.

Chemo does kill cancer cells but it also destroys the immune system. Bill
stayed with the chemo and the count started back up again. The doctor
called different pharmaceutical companies to see whether there might be any
other chemo of which he had not yet heard and I don't know if anything else
was tried or if the doctor stayed with the gemzar but Bill passed away.

This doctor was well known and had a large practice and never spent time
with Bill other than to look at the chart and blood counts, write down his
directions and move on.

Cliff