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  • Gracie007 posted an update in the group The WeHeal Welcome Community

    If this were a pill, it would be a no-brainer.
    Less pain. Emotional stability. Nutritional guidance.
    It’s the things a cancer patient needs when coping with the side effects of cancer treatment, helping them “get through today.”
    While it’s not a pill, there is a type of medical care that’s been proven to help cancer patients and survivors…[Read more]

  • Eric Drew posted an update in the group The WeHeal Welcome Community

    “YOU ARE NOT A VICTIM FOR SHARING YOUR STORY! YOU ARE A SURVIVOR SETTING THE WORLD ON FIRE WITH YOUR TRUTH, AND YOU NEVER KNOW WHO NEEDS YOUR LIGHT, WARMTH AND RAGING COURAGE” Alex Elle

    • Jeff replied

      Chemo and radiation are not the final answers! There are other alternatives that work!

  • Eric Drew posted an update in the group The WeHeal Welcome Community

    This is an amazing breakthrough for all cancers! Great job Duke! http://www.cbs.com/shows/60_minutes/

  • Eric Drew posted an update in the group Colon Cancer Advocate Network

    A CASE STUDY WITH INFO FOR ALL CANCER PATIENTS – by Eric Drew
    One of my morning patient calls today was with a young man fighting metastatic colon cancer. He has been through major surgery to extract over a foot of his colon and 45 lymph nodes in the immediate area. He is now examining his options for the next phase of treatment and wanted my h…[Read more]

  • Eric Drew posted an update in the group The WeHeal Welcome Community

    A CASE STUDY WITH INFO FOR ALL CANCER PATIENTS – by Eric Drew
    One of my morning patient calls today was with a young man fighting metastatic colon cancer. He has been through major surgery to extract over a foot of his colon and 45 lymph nodes in the immediate area. He is now examining his options for the next phase of treatment and wanted my h…[Read more]

    • Jeff replied

      Yes Eric,that is the whole key,building up the immune system and detoxifying the body so that you have the tools to fight your disease!

  • Eric Drew posted an update in the group Colon Cancer Advocate Network

    Great treatment research with Todd today! Cant wait to see the summary of our findings. New Chemos, Kinase inhibitors, and many other trials!

  • Eric Drew posted an update in the group Colon Cancer Advocate Network

    Fluorouracil – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluorouracil
    Wikipedia
    Fluorouracil (5-FU) a medication which is used in the treatment of cancer. It is a suicide inhibitor and works through irreversible inhibition of thymidylate synthase.

  • Eric Drew posted an update in the group The WeHeal Welcome Community

    This guy was diagnosed with lung cancer, but the write up is about how bad this country is at servicing patients! Great read! Regardless of having great doctors and technology, with a failing system of delivering medical care mistakes are made and many fall through the holes! I was one of them in my opinion! Medical Care Excellent but the…[Read more]

    • Eric Drew replied

      John I relate to those words so much its almost like I wrote them. I definitely feel that upon my diagnosis and for a year after, my providers were not honest with me and gave me treatments that they knew would cause me great harm but had not chance of curing my leukemia. Very unethical, and this was at one of the largest most well renowned…[Read more]

      • Gracie007 replied

        Eric do you think that maybe the goal was to prolong your life long enough until there was a trial that would work?

        • Eric Drew replied

          Thank you Gracie! I don’t think they gave it that much thought to be honest. They are under orders to offer specific treatments and not discuss alternatives, so they were always in crisis mode and didn’t have time to advocate for patients. If that was their goal they did not vocalize this to me. I guess the biggest issue I have was the lack of…[Read more]