Answer: Has a 1% survival rate over 5 years
Question: Who is Alex Trebek
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shareWrong, it's 9% now. Much has improved since then albeit not as much but still something. Used to be 6 in 100 that survive but now up to 9 in 100. Still very slim chances but if he can pull through, he'll be a legend among legends for his 35 year career since 1984.
shareThanks for the encouragement -- my husband has neuroendocrine pancreatic cancer. They're always working on new drugs. They gave him five years six years ago. But they've hit the wall on the drugs they know work. They're going to start him on one that "shows promise." I'm praying he'll be one of the 9%.
Maybe the number of celebrities that are getting it -- Jobs, Aretha Franklin, now Trebek -- they'll work harder on finding a cure. In my lifetime, just the word "cancer" was a death sentence. Now when they want to give someone a death sentence in a TV show they always stipulate "pancreatic cancer." I hope Mr. Trebek and my husband both live to see that become history.
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shareThank you! I think a lot of the 9% are people whose doctors got all of it when they did the operation to take out 2/3 of the pancreas and the spleen. It does happen. My husband's doctor thought he'd gotten all of it, bragged that he did, then had to admit that some of the lymph nodes lit up like Christmas trees when he got the scan to see if there was any left.
Then they tell you it's "treatable." That only means that they have some drugs that work on it, but don't cure it. After awhile, you don't listen to what the oncologists say anymore because they don't talk the way that people do, and they're happy to prescribe drugs that will cause all kinds of side effects, but they don't want to tell you because they're convinced that will make you have them. So they keep you in the dark and treat you like a mushroom.
My husband was as healthy as a horse, except he developed a bit of heartburn. He'd been on a diet, so the doctors were thrilled with his weight loss. But he did have a hernia that the nurse practitioner diagnosed but refused to refer him even to have an ultrasound. He fiddled around for a year until my husband's friend told him these things can be serious, so he went in and had the ultrasound done. Imagine how much it grew and spread in that year while that moron dawdled? All that idiot had to say for himself was, "Wasn't it good that we found it when we did?" 🥺
I'm so sorry your husband's doctors dropped the ball on him this way, Destinata. I'm not a fan of the medical profession and system in general, exactly because of situations such as this.
We're learning so much about true healing and health, but the medical profession lags 20-30 years behind. That's way too long to lag behind when people's well being and even lives are on the line.
Don't give up hope. Look into solid alternative methods of dealing with cancer. No matter what, the most important thing is to not give up hope.
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My friend HarvardBarbie (her name on this site) just sent me a link to a place in Long Beach that might be a help. It seems we’re not out of options yet.
But at the moment, my husband is in the ER with flu-like symptoms. When they do the cancer surgery, they also take out the spleen, and that leaves the person with little with which to fight back. We’ll see if they admit him. An hour ago he said it looked like that. I’m disabled, but I get to take care of the animals. Indoor animals are one thing, but we also have a steer.... If you’re a praying person, please pray.
Oh Destinata, I'm so sorry your husband's in the ER now, and that you, being disabled on top of it, have to take care of all the animals. Maybe you can get a neighbour or friend to give you a hand with them?
Very happy to hear HarvardBarbie (I remember her) sent you a link to where he can get more help!
I am a praying person, and I've already and will continue to pray for you both.
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Thank you! Bill got discharged home. The good news was that it was his gall bladder; the bad news was they couldn't operate because the cancer had attached itself to it.
Bill didn't call those people today, but I sent them an Email hoping that might get the ball rolling sooner. I'll keep you posted!
When Steve Jobs got it, they wanted to surgically remove a tumor. Steve Jobs hired celebrity doctor Dean Ornish to coach him on a vegan diet instead. That lasted 9 months then he decided to go in for surgery after all. Guess it seemed to be making him worse. When doctors removed the tumor, they discovered it had spread to his liver. But based on the size and the fact that it was slow growing, it had almost certainly been there already when they examined him the first time. They had just missed it. Real competent bunch of people there. So he gets a liver transplant, and he's got some rare type of liver too, but he still gets one because he's Steve Jobs. Doctors put it in, tell him it he's cured. Month later he dies from a relapse of the tumor they removed in his pancreas, even though he was still taking their chemo. Moral of the story: Doctors only treat symptoms not causes.
But it gets better. Every health authority seizes on the news to proclaim that "Steve Jobs would have lived had he listened to the doctors instead of trying alternative medicine". "He lost his life because he delayed treatment". Seriously? Nobody said that until after the fact. They even tried to say he was good to go, all throughout the whole thing, when he clearly wasn't. What he tried to do with alternative medicine (i.e. diet and nutrition) is address the underlying condition, which ended up being the right approach since that's what eventually killed him, while the doctors just overlooked it completely. He knew more than the doctors. But he didn't know everything. I think he should have done the opposite of vegan, but we could argue that all day. The point is the doctors were absolutely wrongheaded about the whole thing and tried to scapegoat their enemies for their own failure.
You know, everything they tell you to do to be healthy, my husband did, all the way down to having that happy, chirpy outlook.
Jobs’ case sounds a lot like my husband’s brother who got very treatable prostate cancer. But the usual treatment is to cut the cancer out, zap it with some chemo or radiation, and he’s cured. They caught it in time. But that approach can leave a man impotent. Can, not assuredly, but he didn’t want to take the risk. So he had his sister look up a lot of alternative stuff which he fiddled around with until it was obvious it wasn’t working, so he went back to the people who knew what they were doing. He still didn’t want his prostate removed, so they implanted a bit of radioactive material that was supposed to kill the cancer.
Long story short, because he didn’t immediately go for the standard treatment he wound up with cancer throughout his body and he died. Like Farrah Fawcett, who didn’t want the treatment that would make her hair fall out — until it was too late and she realized it was only hair.
Hubby had the operation first thing, but they didn’t get it all. Now they’ve run through the regular treatment. Here’s where you go alternative, which Medicare doesn’t pay for. Why the heck so many young people want Medicare For All is beyond me — they obviously haven’t talked to anyone who’s been ON Medicare. But, as I said, HarvardBarbie just sent me some good info. We’re not out of options yet. Even the Medicare-approved one sounds good, but we’ve got a month before that starts, and I’d like to look into HarvardBarbie’s info first.
Life is def a bitch. Check this kids channel https://www.youtube.com/user/chrisbeatcancer, and also CBD.
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There are too many people who've been given 3-6 months at the most that do beat those odds. But in the future, when I see you, I will merely think of the black wings of death beating and hovering gleefully over what he hopes will be another corpse.
Apologies for the confusion. What I was mentioning was all SEERS (surveillance, epidemiology, and end results) combined. You are correct that he is in Stage IV which is categorized as distant (cancer has spread to distant parts of the body such as the lungs, liver or bones) instead of the pancreas alone or nearby structures or lymph nodes around the pancreas. This means he has a survival chance of 3%. My point still stands though 'if' he survives it. Like trying to win the lottery. We can only wish him the best in terms of health and luck.
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As she said: Too soon.
shareI) Way too soon
2) Really childish
3) You did not put your answer in the form of a question.
Total fail.
He's a trooper, though, and I admire his spirit in not letting this get him down :). He's in our prayers.
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