Pancreatic cancer remains one of the scariest cancers out there. Very painful and fatal in almost every case. The survival rate is dismal. I have written before that if the resources available to Patrick Swayze and Steve Jobs were not enough to overcome this cancer, the rest of us don’t stand a chance. The […]
CAN WE PREVENT ONE OF THE DEADLIEST CANCERS?? There’s little hope for those with pancreatic cancer (although Dr. Peter Gonzalez is probably the best resource on this), but there is much we can do to prevent it. Obviously not smoking is a biggie. Possibly even more powerful is avoiding prediabetes and the resultant abdominal obesity. Prior studies […]
Smoking. Family history. Having a history of pancreatitis. Being prediabetic (biggie!). All help to cause pancreatic cancer. But this one’s going to surprise you. Chronic inflammation is never good for anything related to health. Heart disease? Probably THE major player. Osteoporosis? Sucks bones dry. Alzheimer’s dementia? Destroys brain cells. But what about cancer? Even here […]
US cancer institute funds trial of complementary therapy This doctors’ results in patients with pancreatic cancer is nothing short of incredible. It’s nice to see some of our tax money going to good research that may actually help us one day!! Read entire article here
Clearly, one of the scariest cancers we have is pancreatic cancer. Not only because of its dismal 5 year survival rate and how difficult it can be to detect, but also because of how common it seems. All this in combination makes pancreatic cancer a death sentence. I’m sure you know at least one person […]
