5 Myths About Nutrition

Posted on June 4, 2023 by Ken
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The human mind has magnificent power it can empower us, or it can enslave us.
It can take us to the deep end of torment or take us to the heights of great euphoria.
We just have to learn how to manifest that power and put it to good use. 
The mind can conceive anything we think of anything we imagine, anything we visualize. 
The mind is indeed powerful; it is the transformative thoughts of our mind that will take us to our destination; the destination of either greatness or failure. As Albert Einstein once said, ” the true sign of intelligence is not knowledge, but imagination”. Your mind has to arrive at the destination before your life does, change your mind, change your life. 
Even Romans 12:22 states, “Do not conform to the patterns of the world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind”. Everything starts in the mind and the world
is responding to who you believe you are. If you want to be great in all aspects of your life, start thinking of yourself as one with greatness within and manifest the power of your mind.

The Power of the Hustle.
Is one of the keys to achieving massive success in life and getting where you want to be; you can’t just sit around and expect things to happen as they wouldn’t. Things just don’t work out by chance, you have got to have a map, a plan, and a sense of direction. Your dreams aren’t going to come true, if you do not hustle. It has to be o% talk and 100% walk. Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
So, Get out there my friend. 
You have to stay focused, stay humble, and always hustle your heart out.
Hustle like there is a fire in your belly, hustle till you become the boss of you, hustle till everyone knows your name, hustle as David slew Goliath, hustle on a consistent and persistent basis. You can manifest the power of the hustle within you, think outside
of the box and make it happen. 
All you need is your “why factor”, that thing that gets you up in the morning and pushes you towards achievement and making things happen. The bible says that knock and the door will open and seek and you shall find. You see, friends, hustle is not the lazy, but for the hungry. Get out there and hustle!  Never Give Up | Cancer Quick Facts (solitarius.org)
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U.S. States With The Highest Cancer Rates – WorldAtlas

In 2016, Cancer rates in the US are highest in the eastern side of the country. Kentucky
had the highest incidence with 512 people out of 100,000 developing the disease every year. One of the poorest states in the nation, it has not sufficiently invested in cancer prevention and detection; therefore, the state also has the highest rate of deaths from cancer. Kentucky was founded on the tobacco industry, a legacy that remains today as nearly a quarter of the population smokes cigarettes. This smoking habit explains why lung cancer is higher here than any other state in the nation.
The second highest cancer rate is found in Delaware where 490.6 out of every 100,000 residents will develop the disease annually. After being named as one of the states with the highest rates of cancer, Delaware increased its screening and prevention programs which has helped to improve survival and diagnoses rates. Common cancers here are colorectal and prostate. Both can be prevented through early detection.

Number 3 on the list is Pennsylvania.
In this state, the incidence of cancer is 483.1.
Cancer is one of the most common chronic diseases here and the second leading cause
of death (after heart disease). The most commonly diagnosed type of cancer is prostate followed by lung, breast, and colorectal. Lifestyle behaviors are again to blame, residents here report high tobacco use and unhealthy diets.

The other states with the highest cancer rates include New York (482), New Jersey (479.5), Louisiana (477.5), Minnesota (475), Iowa (470.2), Arkansas (470) and Connecticut (469).  

The U.S. states with the highest smoking % were October 26, 2022

In 2022, States With the Highest Cancer Rates | Stacker # Bold Print.

West Virginia, 23.8%; #7
Kentucky, 23.6%; #1
Louisiana, 21.9%; #3
Ohio, 20.8%; #14
Mississippi, 20.4%; #11
Alabama #27 and Arkansas 20.2% (tie); Ark #4
Tennessee, 19.9%; #26
Missouri, 19.6%; #29
Indiana, 19.2%.  #43

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Source:  These 5 myths about nutrition are actually hurting your health Story.
Wellness is defined as the state or quality of being in good health. Wellness culture, on
the other hand, is more complicated. According to Christy Harrison, registered dietitian nutritionist and author of new book “The Wellness Trap,” wellness culture is more about the belief that our bodies cannot function or regulate well enough on their own and require products, diets or self-discipline to do so.

“Wellness culture posits certain behaviors as the path to achieving (moral goodness),” Harrison tells TODAY.com, adding that it promotes a standard for taking care of your body that can be unattainable — or even harmful.
Wellness culture has exploded in the last decade, in part thanks to social media, and
is reaching an increasingly younger audience, Harrison says. But many of the beliefs circulating online, especially those around nutrition, have little to no evidence to back them up. Here are some of the most pervasive nutrition myths that wellness culture has tricked us into believing, says Harrison, and why you should ditch them immediately.

We need to “detox” our bodies.
The word detox — to rid the body of toxins or substances — has been co-opted
by wellness culture, according to Harrison. Whether it’s from sugar, solid foods or
social media, these so-called detoxes are touted as ways to cleanse the body.

“It’s a very harmful wellness trend,” says Harrison, adding that detoxes usually involve extreme or restrictive behaviors. Juice cleanses, supplements and fasting are all marketed as ways to detox the body, says Harrison, even though the body is designed to detoxify itself. “Your liver and kidneys are great at removing toxins in your body without any intervention from you,” says Harrison. 

Extreme cleanses won’t make these organs work better, she adds, and they certainly
aren’t a necessary maintenance measure. “Wellness culture kind of views the liver and kidneys as being like filters in the sink that get clogged with gunk,” she says. “A lot of
the language is about needing to detox or clean them out to make them work properly.”

But this simply isn’t true, she stresses.
“Unless you have liver or kidney disease or rare cases of acute poisoning … you don’t have to do anything for your liver and kidneys to function,” she adds. Concerns about toxins pushed by wellness culture are often overblown and fraught with misunderstanding, says Harrison. “There’s this scaremongering about toxins in our food and our environment that we need to supposedly detox from regularly,” she says.  NOTE: I DISAGREE 

The juice cleanse “cure”
Juices have evolved from an easy way to drink your produce into a panacea that can heal or reverse a range of ailments, says Harrison. “There’s no good scientific evidence behind (juice cleanses), yet they’re still being touted as a cure-all,” she adds. A red flag with any wellness trend, says Harrison, is if it’s promoted as a cure or a way to help with a wide array of diverse conditions.  NOTE: JUICING DOESN’T CURE ANYTHING IT TREATS YOUR BODY!

Celery juice in particular remains a popular trend among wellness influencers and celebrities, she adds, with many claiming it provides benefits like rapid weight loss, improved gut health, higher energy levels and clearer skin. “There’s probably a dozen chronic health conditions celery juice is purported to help or even cure,” she explains,
such as autoimmune diseases, skin conditions, allergies or digestive disorders. 

But the research supporting these assertions is profoundly lacking, she adds.
While fruits and vegetables provide the body with vitamins and nutrients, juicing them doesn’t enhance these benefits, TODAY.com previously reported. Juices can be a great addition to a diet alongside whole, nutritious foods, but drinking them as a substitute
or a cleanse really isn’t worth it. Celery: Ask Health Professionals Q & A (msn.com)

“Clean eating is always better.”
Wellness culture has created an obsession with the cleanliness and purity of what we put into our bodies, says Harrison. It’s even spilled over from food into personal care, beauty and home cleaning products. The premise of clean eating is to focus on eating whole foods, avoid processed foods, cut back on sugars, limit saturated or trans fats, and limit or avoid alcohol and caffeine. 

It’s one thing to try to get more nutritious foods in your diet, but clean eating is often problematic in disguise, Harrison says. Some clean eating diets involve eliminating entire food groups (like grains or dairy, for example) and overly restrictive behaviors, says Harrison. What’s most worrisome, she adds, is how this can lead to disordered eating habits or full-blown orthorexia.

Orthorexia nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by an obsession with healthy
eating and associated restrictive behaviors, according to the National Institutes of Health.
It often involves a fixation with the cleanness of foods, TODAY.com previously reported.

Although it is not yet formally recognized as a mental disorder, the term orthorexia has been around since 1998, per the National Eating Disorders Association, and rates have been on the rise since. “Research is still limited, but there’s some evidence showing that it’s quite high in health-conscious populations,” says Harrison. “For example, the overall prevalence of orthorexia in exercising populations was a staggering 51% according to a systematic review published this February.

All processed food is bad
The moralization of food — or labeling certain foods as “good” or “bad” — is one of the most harmful aspects of wellness culture, says Harrison. “There is no good versus bad food,” she explains. Some foods are more nutritious than others, but this binary fails to capture the full picture of a food’s nutritional value.

Assigning moral value to foods can also create guilt or shame around eating them, Harrison adds — phrases like “guilt-free” or “cheat meals” reinforce this. “Demonization of processed foods and sugar are the biggest ones,” says Harrison.  “It makes people feel like if they eat any of those foods, that they’re going to have immediate health consequences or they’re poisoning themselves.” 

Not only is this a myth, she adds, it can lead to disordered eating tendencies.
Processed foods are those that have undergone some processing from their natural state, which includes anything from candy and cookies to tinned fish or canned vegetables, TODAY.com reported previously. One step up from these are ultra-processed foods, which have undergone extensive transformation and have been linked to increased risk of certain cancers.

Harrison acknowledges that while research suggests eating too much processed food or sugar can be associated with poor health outcomes, she doesn’t believe it warrants the level of fearmongering around certain foods pushed by many in the wellness industry.
“It’s not like the people having the best health outcomes in those studies are always eating zero sugar or zero processed foods,” says Harrison.  Moderation is key — the occasional bag of chips or candy bar is no reason to fret.

There’s a supplement for that
No matter your ailment, you can probably find a supplement somewhere claiming to fix it. Wellness culture often pushes the idea that taking vitamins and dietary supplements is a more “natural” solution to attain good health, according to Harrison.

However, the benefits of dietary supplements for the general population have been widely contested. And research continues to show the vitamin pills and gummies advertised to keep us healthy might not do much at all, TODAY.com previously reported.

In addition, supplements can be harmful for a number of reasons, says Harrison. They can come with unpleasant side effects and even health risks in high doses. Another downside is that the supplement industry in the United States is largely unregulated, she adds.

Vitamins and dietary supplements are regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as foods, not drugs. The FDA does not approve the safety or
effectiveness of supplements, nor the accuracy of their labels, before they
are sold to the public, TODAY.com previously reported.

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Chloe Mustaki: Resilience

Posted on June 4, 2023 by Ken
SET FOR INTERNATIONAL DEBUT AFTER CANCER BATTLE 

CHLOE NAOMI MUSTAKI (BORN 29 JULY 1995 in Lima, Ohio.) 
 IN AUGUST 2014, CHLOE MUSTAKI WAS DIAGNOSED WITH HODGKIN’S LYMPHOMA. THIS IS A TYPE OF BLOOD CANCER IN THE LYMPHATIC SYSTEM. FIVE YEARS ON, MUSTAKI HAS EARNED HER FIRST SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CALL-UP TO THE IRISH WOMEN’S NATIONAL TEAM.
IRELAND TAKE ON UKRAINE IN THEIR SECOND EURO 2021 QUALIFIER AFTER BEATING MONTENEGRO 2-0 EARLIER THIS MONTH. IN WHAT IS SET TO BE A RECORD CROWD AT TALLAGHT STADIUM TOMORROW, 8 OCTOBER, IRELAND ARE AIMING TO REACH THEIR FIRST EVER MAJOR INTERNATIONAL TOURNAMENT.

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RECEIVED HER FIRST SENIOR-CALL UP AFTER AN INCREDIBLE JOURNEY. NEWLY APPOINTED MANAGER VERA PAUW AND ASSISTANT-MANAGER EILEEN GLEESON HAVE TAKEN NOTE OF MUSTAKI’S IMPRESSIVE FORM. MUSTAKI SIGNED WITH SHELBOURNE FC IN MARCH EARLIER THIS YEAR.
SHE WENT ON TO CAPTAIN IRELAND AT THE WORLD UNIVERSITY GAMES
TEAM DURING THE SUMMER, WHERE DESPITE BEING THE LOWEST RANKED UNIVERSITY TEAM IN THE TOURNAMENT, MUSTAKI CAPTAINED THE SIDE TO
A FOURTH-PLACE FINISH.

The 24-year-old started her playing career at Park Celtic before making the move to
St. Joseph’s as a teenager. Attending St. Andrews College, the midfielder then made the switch to Peamount United winning the first ever Women’s National League in 2011.
A supremely talented footballer, Mustaki received International Player of The Year at
U17 level. However, in what was supposed to be one of the best times in her career.
2014 proved to be one of the hardest periods in her life.
Mustaki had captained the U19 international team to history as they became the first-
ever Irish side to qualify for the U19 European Championships, unbeaten through their
six qualifying games.
They were drawn into a heavyweight group with outsiders giving them no hope. Ireland were pitted against previous winners England and Sweden as well as the runners-up from the tournament two-years prior, Spain.

The results?
Republic of Ireland 1 – 0 Spain.
Republic of Ireland 2 -1 England.
Republic of Ireland 2 -1 Sweden.

The Netherlands eventually beat Ireland and ended the dream, as they went on to win the tournament. Ireland were history-makers and defied all odds. Yet something was not quite right with Mustaki. She felt she had let her team-mates down. Her performances at the European Championships were below the expectations and high standards she had set previously.  
The lively midfielder is known for her box-to-box prowess and ability to control the game. Her energetic performances in midfield are also a key facet to her game. Yet in Norway something was off – her energy levels were shot.After returning back from the competition and at a loss to understand why she didn’t perform to her usual high standards, Mustaki went back to her daily routine. 

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Two weeks later she visited her GP to have a prescription renewed and blood test taken.

After being called back for a second set of tests, a chest X-ray showed a six centimetre tumour in her chest. Mustaki was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Like anyone, she was scared. Mustaki took time out of college and began chemotherapy sessions, which she described as torture. 
These sessions began in September and carried on every two weeks through to February. After a long and grueling period, she received the news she was cancer free. Unconceivable relief, unimaginable reassurance. Astonishingly, Mustaki kept football in her life during her treatment. She felt if she let go of football, she would have lost everything.
Within five weeks of being given the good news, she was back playing for UCD Waves, under the management of now Republic of Ireland assistant-manager Eileen Gleeson. Since then, Mustaki has continued to make her barnstorming comeback. She was part
of the UCD Waves team who made it to the FAI Cup final in 2017. 

Mustaki cruelly missed out on the final the last time UCD Waves made it to the final,
in 2014, as she was undergoing chemotherapy. Now, Mustaki is set to finally realise
her dream of representing Ireland at senior level after a long and grueling journey.
Had illness not interrupted her career, there is no doubt Mustaki would have several
international caps already however she is still young. 
 Mustaki says she feels “great now” and has never been in a better place.  “Obviously,
it was a tough time in my life back then but I got through it and am for the better now, health-wise everything’s perfect, thank God “I think it’s changed me for the good and the bad, to be honest. “It’s definitely made me stronger, it’s interesting seeing what life can bring in terms of good and bad.”
On her future: “I just moved to London a few weeks ago for work. “In terms of football
I’m looking to sign for a club in England soon so not sure where that’ll be but hopefully,
it’ll bring me forward and improve my quality of football.”

Inspirational Chloe Mustaki Overcame Injuries And Cancer

The Republic of Ireland bowed out of the Pinatar Cup over the weekend but Chloe Mustaki can hold her head high. The 26-year-old Shelbourne standout earned her first Irish cap in a much-changed side that lost 1-0 to Russia. She was named Player of the Match in the aftermath.
Mustaki was born in America but spent most of her childhood in Cabinteely in Dublin. She played for Park Celtic and St Joseph’s as a youngster. Having made her Women’s National League debut for Peamount at the age of 16, she couldn’t have thought it would take ten years to break onto the national stage.
Speaking to RTÉ Sport, Mustaki tried to put into words what it felt like to put on the green jersey. “Everyone came up to congratulate me after the game, and I think everyone knows how much it means to me.” “Not just the ACL, but the lymphoma when I was younger as well. Finishing my under-19 career and then two weeks later being diagnosed with cancer,” she said.

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Mustaki was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma days after captaining
the Republic of Ireland under-19 side at the European Championships in 2014. 
That Irish team made it to the semi-finals of the competition but ended up losing
4-0 to the Netherlands. But Mustaki knew something wasn’t right.
She went to her GP two weeks after the tournament to see what was wrong,
citing a lack of energy.  She recalled her cancer diagnosis speaking to the Irish Times in 2016: (My GP) rang me the next day and told me that something was up. He said he’d like to take another set (of blood tests). At worst I thought I might be anemic or something.
I went in for a consultation with my mom. He explained what he thought was going on.
I remember getting quite upset because I could sense something was serious. 

Then he sent me for a chest X-ray.
There was a six-centimetre tumour in my chest. Mustaki endured a tough couple of months of chemotherapy, losing her hair and suffering from the ill effects of Hodgkin’s. Eight months later, she was back out on the pitch. She still trained with UCD Waves during the 2014-2015 season and watched her teammates win the FAI Women’s Cup
final as Áine O’Gorman paraded her shirt number at the Aviva Stadium.
She spent the next few seasons between the Women’s National League, the Division 1 Féminine in France and the FA Women’s Championship. However, her career in England at Charlton barely got going, as she suffered a serious ACL injury training with the Republic of Ireland squad in early 2020. That sidelined her for the best part of a year until Shelbourne came calling for her once again. Mustaki was a feature of the Women’s National League winning side last year.

Mustaki’s Long Road
Her performances for Shelbourne caught the eye of Vera Pauw, and she earned her way back into the Republic of Ireland squad for their La Manga adventure in the Pinatar Cup. Ten years after her league debut and nearly eight years since her cancer diagnosis, she wore a senior jersey for the girls in green for the first time.
“Emotionally everyone knew how much it meant to me,” she told RTÉ. It was a strange feeling on the bus on the way back to the hotel, reading messages on my phone from family, friends and everyone around me.” “Knowing how much it meant to me and congratulating me for sticking to it. I’ll probably think back to that night forever. It was a night and day to remember.” The Republic of Ireland will get to feature in a third-place playoff against Wales this week. It’s given them an opportunity for a runout before the World Cup qualifiers return in April.
While Chloe Mustaki is proud of her crowning night after all she’s had to endure,
she’s looking forward to being involved more in the Irish set up in the coming months. 
“I absolutely want to be in every single camp over the next year and a half as we prepare for the World Cup, but I have to be proud of how far I’ve come.” Chloe added, “Seven months ago, I was struggling to get through training sessions, pain-free, with Shels. I’ll do my best to be involved but there are so many talented players involved at the moment.” 

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Being open and honest about it, my salary was halved’ – Mustaki’s football focus. 
CHLOE MUSTAKI’S STORY is well-documented at this stage.

Republic of Ireland international Chloe Mustaki on her move to Bristol City, football and identity, and chasing the World Cup dream. The Republic of Ireland international has beat cancer and serious injury to represent her country on the biggest stages, now finding herself on the cusp of realising the World Cup dream and enjoying Championship football with Bristol City.
Mustaki, who can operate in defence or midfield, made the move across the water from Shelbourne this summer; her first goal for her new club last weekend putting the wind in her sails ahead of Tuesday’s historic World Cup play-off against Scotland at Hampden Park [KO 8pm, live on RTÉ 2]. It’s fair to say it’s been a whirlwind few weeks, but the 27-year-old Dubliner is enjoying the journey, back to her brilliant best after a devastating ACL injury in 2020.
“It was a bit of a leap of faith to go full-time for me because, I don’t know, it was just never something I really thought I would do at a younger age,” she explains. “It was a big change for me but I’m actually loving it so it was a great decision in the end. “When I tore my ACL, things changed for me a bit. I had to work really, really hard to come back from that.
I think just the time and effort that I put into that made me think. 

‘Why not go and try full-time football for a couple of years?’
“I just thought, ‘Flipping hell, why not?’ I’ll be working until whatever age
I’ll be working to, so why not take a few years out and give football everything?
Obviously if I hadn’t had my Hodgkin’s Lymphoma diagnosis, maybe I would have taken that leap of faith a bit earlier, but life happened the way it happened, and I just found that this was the right time to give it a go.
“Obviously women’s football is growing at an alarming rate now.
So it’s maybe something I might be able to do for longer than a year or two, depending on how the form  goes.  “I have my undergraduate, my Masters, everything I need under my belt to feel comfortable. I have everything I need to fall back on if it doesn’t work.” They were the big factors. A smaller one was her feeling that full-time football was “necessary” for the progression of her international career, the standard having “sky-rocketed” of late.
 “We’re really far off at the moment in Ireland,” she frowns at one point.
But back to leaving the day job. Mustaki was working full-time in recruitment before her move to Bristol, having previously studied Commerce and French and International Management.

This is a free shot, of sorts.
“It definitely made me feel a lot calmer about walking away from a full-time job,” she nods. “Being open and honest about it, my salary was halved walking away and that’s a massive thing to do. But you’re only young once and I won’t get this opportunity again.
I’m coming into my late 20s now, so it was now or never. “What harm in enjoying myself for a few years? If I can save some money, fair enough. And if I can’t, then I’ll put in the work once I’m done with football to make up for lost time.”

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TOM MAHER / INPHO Mustaki on the ball against Finland.

She’s doing so at the minute on the flipside. Perhaps ironically, injury absentees may offer an opportunity to add to her four senior Ireland caps next week, while she has played in each of Bristol’s four Championship games so far this season, helping them to the top of the table. The mental adjustment has been tricky though, Mustaki admits. You’d imagine she had more time before, but she weirdly had less than she had imagined while settling in.
“But now I have got used to my surroundings and I have most of my things set up, I’ll be able to have more time mentally to go out in the evenings and enjoy my time away from football,” she smiles, planning art classes and cookery classes, with her new car as a help. “That’s the main thing. It’s always a worry. Because my time was always split between academics and football.
 The idea of playing football full-time and having everything riding on how you perform, how you train, whether you win or lose on Sunday – that was a massive deal for me and kind of the reason why I didn’t push it early on. “I need to be careful and to make sure that I have outlets outside of football that can keep me happy if a result doesn’t go our way or if I don’t perform the way I hope to perform.”

So she’s never wanted football to be the whole of her identity?
“Pretty much,” she nods. “The way I was brought up, my parents were very academically focused and were making sure I got that degree under my belt. “If you think about it, I’m 27 and when I was finishing up school at 18, women’s football just wasn’t where it is now. That’s only eight or nine years ago. The idea of taking that leap of faith and not getting that degree under my belt was just not possible. The idea that I could make good money in football at the age of 18, it just wasn’t realistic.
 You were talking 0.5% of women who were able to make a life-long career and were able to save enough money. So for me, it just wasn’t even an option in my head. “But the past five years, so much has happened in women’s football. It’s sad for me because I feel like I’m probably on the later stages of that and I probably won’t get the full rewards of it. But it’s fantastic for someone like Jess Ziu, at 20/21, and in four or five years’ time, there will hopefully be major money in the women’s game. 
So it is really exciting for girls who are finishing school now. But eight or nine years ago, realistically I felt I had to get a degree or two under my belt before I could even think about going full-time.” Time and time again during the interview, she comes back to the fact that women’s football is “exploding” at the minute and that World Cup qualification would be a watershed moment for the game in Ireland. 

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ANDERS HOVEN / INPHO Mustaki (6) captained the U19s at the 2014 Euros.

It would mean a first-ever major tournament for the senior women’s team,
Mustaki having skippered the U19s on their historic run to the semi-finals of the 2014 European Championships. “My memories from that tournament are very mixed. On one end, I captained the girls to a European semi-final so it was definitely a defining moment of my career, something I’ll cherish for the rest of my life.
“But then on the back of that, I got a diagnosis of Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. I’ve very mixed emotions when I think back to that tournament but it was a hugely proud moment for me and having the likes of Katie [McCabe] in that squad, and Clare Shine, and other girls as well. An unbelievable experience, I’ll never forget it all round but mixed emotions.” 
Here’s to more positive ones.

And Mustaki and co. will embrace it.

With that comes pressure, but pressure is a privilege. 
“We can’t shy away from the fact that it’s going to be the biggest game of all of our lives,” she concludes. “We dream of being in this position. This is exactly where we wanted to be when we started the campaign. “We were so close to the Euros a couple of years ago. So much investment, time and effort has been put in that we’ll give it our best shot next Tuesday. I don’t think we feel too much pressure, we feel ready for it, we’re doing everything we can to prepare in advance of that.

“Look, it’s a game that we’ll cherish. Hopefully it will be a good result.”
She’s played in every age group for Ireland and was made to wait for two years for her senior bow because of these issues. The 26-year-old, who was born in America in Lima, Ohio and raised in south Dublin spoke about how much it meant to her this weekend.  “Everyone came up to congratulate me after the game, and I think everyone knows how much it means to me,”
“Not just the ACL, but the lymphoma when I was younger as well. Finishing my under-19 career and then two weeks later being diagnosed with cancer. Coming back from that and then being so close to my first senior cap and then tearing my ACL. “Emotionally everyone knew how much it meant to me. It was a strange feeling on the bus on the way back to the hotel, reading messages on my phone from family, friends and everyone around me.

“Knowing how much it meant to me and congratulating me for sticking to it.
I’ll probably think back to last night for a long time. “It was a night and day to remember,” she added. Under Vera Pauw Ireland’s women’s team are on the verge of a play-offs for a major tournament, this hasn’t happened since 2008.
I’ll probably think back to last night for a long time,” she said. “I am really proud of myself, and I don’t really pat myself on the back too much. I need to focus on being happy where I’m at. “As competitive individuals we always strive for the next step.

On this Cancer Survivors Day, I am excited to announce,
“I am now a Breakthrough Cancer Research ambassador!”
Welcome to the Breakthrough family @CMustaki
 Fantastic to have you on our team 🙌 💙

Amazing Chloe 🙌🏼 
Fantastic well done 👏👏 @BreakthroCancer
 #BreakthroughCancerResearch #MakeMoreSurvivors

@BreakthroCancer
 is an Irish medical research charity focused on poor prognosis cancers.
They aim to make more survivors, like me, and continuously drive for new,
better, kinder, smarter ways to diagnose and treat cancer. 👌❤️

Find out more about the charity on their website.
What is Immunotherapy? | Cancer Research Institute
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Is Climate Change Happening

Posted on June 3, 2023 by Ken
Climate change: How do we know it is happening and caused by humans?
Scientists and politicians say we are facing a planetary crisis because of climate change.

But what’s the evidence for global warming and
how do we know it’s being caused by humans?

How do we know the world is getting warmer?
Our planet has been warming rapidly since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution.
The average temperature at the Earth’s surface has risen about 1.1C since 1850. Furthermore, each of the last four decades has been warmer than any that preceded it, since the middle of the 19th Century.

These conclusions come from analyses of millions of measurements gathered in different parts of the world. The temperature readings are collected by the weather stations on land,
on ships and by satellites.

Multiple independent teams of scientists have reached the same result –
a spike in temperatures coinciding with the onset of the industrial era.

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Turkey was one of the places hit by devastating wildfires.

Ohio river drought 1908 – Bing images
Scientists can reconstruct temperature fluctuations even further back in time.
Tree rings, ice cores, lake sediments and corals all record a signature of the past climate.
This provides much-needed context to the current phase of warming. In fact, scientists estimate the Earth hasn’t been this hot for about 125,000 years.

How do we know humans are responsible for global warming?
Greenhouse gases – which trap the Sun’s heat – are the crucial link between temperature rise and human activities. The most important is carbon dioxide (CO2), because of its abundance in the atmosphere.

We can also tell it’s CO2 trapping the Sun’s energy.
Satellites show less heat from the Earth escaping into space at precisely the wavelengths
at which CO2 absorbs radiated energy. Burning fossil fuels and chopping down trees lead to the release of this greenhouse gas. Both activities exploded after the 19th Century, so it’s unsurprising that atmospheric CO2 increased over the same period.

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There’s a way we can show definitively where this extra CO2 came from.

The carbon produced by burning fossil fuels has a distinctive chemical ring nature.
Tree rings and polar ice both record changes in atmospheric chemistry. When examined they show that carbon – specifically from fossil sources – has risen significantly since 1850. Analysis shows that for 800,000 years, atmospheric CO2 did not rise above 300 parts per million (ppm).
But since the Industrial Revolution, the CO2 concentration has soared to its current level of nearly 420 ppm. Computer simulations, known as climate models, have been used to show what would have happened to temperatures without the massive amounts of greenhouse gases released by humans.

What does net zero mean?

Is the UK on track to meet its climate targets?
They reveal there would have been little global warming – and possibly some cooling – over the 20th and 21st Centuries, if only natural factors had been influencing the climate.
Only when human factors are introduced can the models explain increases in temperature.

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The number of weather-related disasters has increased by a factor
of five over 50 years. What impact are humans having on the planet?

The level of heating Earth has experienced already is predicted to cause significant changes to the world around us. Real-world observations of these changes match
patterns scientists expect to see with human-induced warming.

They include: The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets melting rapidly?
The number of weather-related disasters has increased by a factor of five
over 50 years Global sea levels rose 20cm (8ins) in the last century and are still rising
Since the 1800s, the oceans have become about 40% more acid, affecting marine life.

But wasn’t it warmer in the past?
There have been several hot periods during the Earth’s past.
Around 92 million years ago, for example, temperatures were so high there were
no polar ice caps and crocodile-like creatures lived as far north as the Canadian Arctic.
That should not comfort anyone, however, because humans were not around.
At times in the past, sea level was 25m (80ft) higher than the present. A rise of 5-8m
(16-26ft) is considered enough to submerge most of the world’s coastal cities.

There is abundant evidence for mass extinctions of life during these periods.
And climate models suggest that, at times, the tropics could have become “dead zones”,
too hot for most species to survive.
These fluctuations between hot and cold have been caused by a variety of phenomena, including the way the Earth wobbles as it orbits the Sun over long periods, volcanic eruptions and short-term climate cycles such as El Niño.
For many years, groups of so-called climate “sceptics”
have cast doubt on the scientific basis of global warming.
However, virtually all scientists who publish regularly in peer-reviewed
journals now agree on the current causes of climate change.
A key UN report released in 2021 said it “is unequivocal that
human influence has warmed the atmosphere, oceans and land”.

Analysis: Record-Breaking Ocean Temperatures – TaiwanPlus News
Also, the world’s oceans are warmer this time of year than any other
year on record: Wild Scandinavia: Fire and Ice Season 1 Episode 3 Video  
How many glaciers in glacier national park – Search (bing.com)
Remember the Ice Age Ended 11,000 years ago and The Glaciers
are still melting not over night?

More on climate summit top strapline
The COP26 global climate summit in Glasgow in November is seen as crucial if climate change is to be brought under control. Almost 200 countries are being asked for their plans to cut emissions, and it could lead to major changes to our everyday lives.

Six ways the UK could tackle climate change
Why the COP26 climate summit is important
What will climate change look like for you?
Will the UK meet its climate targets?
How extreme weather is linked to climate change
IS Climate Change Really Happening – Bing video

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Goreham vs Gore Goes Viral –  https://youtu.be/mtHreJbr2WM – Search (bing.com)
Opening up the Climate Change Science Debate says Friends of Science (prweb.com)

Steve Goreham – YouTube is a speaker, author, and researcher on environmental issues as well as an engineer and business executive. He is a frequently invited guest on radio and television as well as a freelance writer. He’s the Executive Director of the Climate Science Coalition of America (CSCA), a non-political association of scientists, engineers, and also citizens dedicated to informing Americans about the realities of climate science and energy economics. CSCA is the US affiliate of the International Climate Science Coalition.

Steve’s first Book was Climatism! Science, Common Sense, and the 21st Century’s Hottest Topic (New Lenox Books, 2010), a complete, in-depth discussion of the science, politics, and energy policy implications of the man-made global warming debate. Steve continues to be astonished every day by unfounded claims of looming global warming catastrophe.
His newest book, The Mad, Mad, Mad World of Climatism (New Lenox Books, 2012), was written to bring the latest facts to the reader, but to also poke fun at mankind far down the primrose path of global warming fantasy.
Steve Goreham. – Search (bing.com) holds an MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois and an MBA from the University of Chicago. He has more than 30 years of experience at Fortune 100 and private companies in engineering and executive roles. He is a husband and father of three and resides in Illinois.

Willy chats w/ Wayne Allyn Root, John Lott and Steve Goreham.
Sunday Night LIVE w/ Billy Cunningham 7/24/22 – Bill Cunningham …
WebJul 24, 2022 · 01:48:51 – 7/24/22: Books (stevegoreham.com)

“The governments of the world have adopted Climatism and discarded reality.
Acres of solar cells sit idle at night and on cloudy days. Thousands of 300-foot-high wind towers interrupt the vistas of coastline, field, and hill, standing motionless for two-thirds of their existence. Thirty percent of America’s corn crop is burned up on U.S. highways, while people in developing nations struggle to get enough to eat. Billions of dollars in government subsidies are spent each year to fund solar, wind, and biofuel industries, which could not compete and would not exist without these subsidies. Yet, these renewable sources supply only a pitifully small amount of the world’s energy needs.
All this in the absurd attempt to control a trace gas and stop global warming.”

—Climatism!, Chapter 13  
William Daniel Cunningham (born December 11, 1947) is an American radio
and television talk show host, conservative commentator, attorney, and entrepreneur. On the radio, he hosts The Big One Show with Bill Cunningham, heard weekdays on AM 700 WLW in Cincinnati, and Sunday Nights with Bill Cunningham, a program syndicated nationally by Premiere Radio Networks. (Both WLW and Premiere Networks are subsidiaries of iHeartMedia, Inc.)

Uncovering the Truth About How Long EV Batteries Really Last (msn.com)

13 Things You Didn’t Know About Alaska That Will Surprise You (msn.com)

Big Oil’s Dirty Deception: 10 Electric Car Myths Unveiled (msn.com)

Wild Scandinavia: Fire and Ice Season 1 Episode 3 Video  

Climate Change is a Hoax

 👇💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥
The climate emergency narrative is fortunately starting to crumble.

The #ClimateScam is being exposed for what it truly is:
a government excuse for higher taxation, wealth redistribution, and control over a reduced compliant peasant population. Interesting! Why do our politicians think they know more than an astrophysicist regarding climate? #ClimateCult #ClimateScam

More truth:

Astrophysicist, Piers Corbyn, dispels the fairytale that carbon dioxide controls world temperatures: Humans have a tendency to believe anything that emanates from an authoritative figure. This aspect of human behavior remains consistent throughout various contexts. “If you only listen to those who share your ideas you’re not thinking, ⚠️⚠️⛔️⛔️🤜you’re a fanatic.”

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Independent scientists not taking government money,

Money is the place to start when you don’t understand scientific advice. And all control is based on a false narrative. Is truth now a thing of the past & falsifiers a thing of the future … Astrophysicist, Piers Corbyn, “The problem with the current climate change narrative is that it’s false…. We need to debunk this climate hoax. I am for protecting the planet but not with such absurd and harmful ideology. 🌍🌎🌏🌞

Stephen Hawking’s famous theory of how black holes die could mean
our entire universe is doomed to evaporate, a new study found (msn.com)

The communist Zionist NWO central bankers are utilizing manipulated data and the corrupted scientists they finance to target the energy manufacturing and food production of western freedom based nations with dictatorial controls‼️  Its a POWER GRAB based on a LIE‼️

I’ve been saying this for years: data shows temps preceding CO2 fluctuations is more common than the other way around.
We’ve known this for years. Carbon dioxide is the literal food of plants, one of two primary components to photosynthesis – which generates oxygen. Without significant CO2 levels in the atmosphere, humans don’t exist. Cultural marxists want human depopulation, death, and enslavement.

Turn down the world then?

Or accept we are not God?

C02 does NOT affect earth’s temperature.
We’ve been told a pack of lies for decades now. Absolutely correct‼️👇🏼
I thought there was almost universal agreement between scientists on climate change? Just another lie from elites for the purpose of manipulating reality to line their pockets somehow. “The problem with the current climate change narrative is that it’s false.
It claims that carbon dioxide controls world temperatures, whereas actual data
shows that it’s world temperatures which control the carbon dioxide concentration.”


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Net Zero is Net Nonsense

See what three degrees of global warming looks like – YouTube
Is it ethical to push a false narrative if you’ve been genuinely taken
in by it and base your entire political ethos on it?
Maybe, but it doesn’t make it right. Just like covid – the globalists ’solution’
on climate is a con based on lies. #ClimateScam  #co2isyourfriend  #co2betterfertilzerthanmanure #co2lifegivinggas #scienceisneversettled

🚨Stop the Climate Scam. Climate Scam Inc:
🤡 .@JohnKerry
🤡 .@BillGates
🤡 .@ProfKlausSchwab
🤡 .@algore
🤡 .@wef
🤡 .@UN
🤡 .@IPCC_CH
🤡 .@EU_Commission
🤡 .@MikeHudema
🤡 .@JoeBiden
🤡 .@DNC
🤡 #Climate #Scam

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Climate change is an IQ test to see how dumb / obedient you are.

Bottomline: Astrophysicist Piers Corbyn dismisses the fairytale that
carbon dioxide controls the world’s temperature: #AdmitTheyLiedToYou

“The problem with the current narrative about climate change is that it’s wrong.
It claims that carbon dioxide is controlling the world’s temperature, when the actual
data show that the world’s temperature is controlling the concentration of carbon dioxide.”

Please watch and share and don’t comply with the nonsense.
Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=o8rGb87p260…

For more content like this, visit: https://wide-awake-media.com #ClimateScam #ClimateCult #NetZero
MUSIC ALWAYS MAKES EVERYTHING BETTER
Burt Bacharach A Life in Song 720p – video Dailymotion
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Science Based Nutrition™

Posted on June 3, 2023 by Ken
About Us | Science Based Nutrition

Science Based Nutrition™ is an innovative, science-based look at nutritional strengths & weaknesses through an individual’s blood test as well as other objective diagnostic tools. This objective approach can offer a clear plan for determining and monitoring nutritional recommendations.

Setting the Standard of Objectivity in Nutritional Healthcare. No general screening test
is more efficient, effective and affordable than a comprehensive blood chemistry panel.
It allows the healthcare provider to establish a baseline of biomarkers to track the health and nutritional needs of their patients. Getting a comprehensive blood test is essential to understanding a patient’s current health. Science Based Nutrition – YouTube

Science Based Nutrition™ has been helping doctors provide state of the art healthcare to patients for over 25 years. With hundreds of doctors across the U.S. using our program, patients can easily gain access to a Doctor that uses our patented system to deliver the highest quality nutritional healthcare using objective documentation.
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Van D Merkle DC, DABCI, DCBCN, CCN
 
Dr. Van D. Merkle is a Certified Clinical Nutritionist and a Doctor of Chiropractic.
He has practiced in the Dayton, Ohio area for over 40 years. A Diplomate on the Chiropractic Board of Clinical Nutrition and a Diplomate on the Chiropractic Board of Internists, he is also a member of The International and American Association of Clinical Nutritionists. Dr. Merkle has been host of the live, call-in talk show “Take 2 Healthcare” formerly known as “Back To Health, Your Guide to Better Living” for over 25 years and frequently speaks to local groups and professionals around the country.

Dr. Van D. Merkle is President of Science Based Nutrition™
Is the creator of the patented Science Based Nutrition™ program.  Dr. Merkle has been in chiropractic practice for over 40 years and is Board Certified in Clinical Nutrition and is a Diplomat of the Chiropractic Board of Internists and Diplomat of the Chiropractic Board of Clinical Nutrition.

On August 7, 2007, the United States of America granted Science Based Nutrition™
a patent for a ‘System and Method For Medical Diagnosis’, the computerized analysis
system that is used in every Science Based Nutrition™ report.
Science Based Nutrition™
5795 Far Hills Ave, Dayton, OH 45429 · 
(937) 433-3140

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Andrew R. Dyer, D.C., D.A.B.C.A., D.C.B.C.N.

Dr. Dyer joined the Take2Healthcare team in September of 2005 but before that…
Dr. Dyer completed his Bachelor of Science Degree in biology at Carroll College in Waukesha, Wisconsin in 2001.
Then it was on to National University of Health Sciences in Lombard, Illinois
for his Doctor of Chiropractic training. During the four-year program at NUHS,
another Bachelor of Science Degree in Human Biology was also earned.
He completed his Doctor of Chiropractic degree in April of 2005.
Dr. Dyer has been a licensed Chiropractic Acupuncturist in Ohio since November 2009 and completed the 300+ hour training course and examination to earn the distinction – Diplomate from the American Board of Chiropractic Acupuncture. In 2017, Dr. Dyer completed another 300+ hour course in Clinical Nutrition to earn the distinction – Diplomate from the Chiropractic Board of Clinical Nutrition.
In the years to come, Dr. Dyer will be committed to bring safe, effective,
non-drug care to all those who seek his services. He is also serving as the
immediate past President of the American Board of Chiropractic Acupuncture group.
He has been a frequent co-host of “Take 2 Healthcare” also formerly known as
“Back to Health: Your Better Guide to Living” for the last 16 years.
He enjoys seeing patients of all ages and mapping out a treatment plan for them with
in any of the three disciplines (nutrition, acupuncture, chiropractic) that he practices.
* Dr. Dyer is available as a guest speaker for civic, church and local groups who desire
an expert on nutritional, acupuncture and chiropractic healthcare.
Dr. Dyer’s Article on CoQ10 in Nutritional Perspectives

Call the office to discuss further details.
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(937) 433-3241

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American Academy of Thermology Physician Member Certified

Dr. Natalie N. Yahle
Doctor of Chiropractic

Started with Take 2 Healthcare after graduating from Logan College of Chiropractic in
Saint Louis, Missouri in 2010.  At Logan she received her Doctor of Chiropractic while
also earning a bachelor’s degree in Life Sciences.  She also earned a bachelor’s degree
from the University of Dayton completed 2007.
Dr. Yahle achieved the status of American Academy of Thermology Physician Member Certified in 2018.  Becoming Member Certified indicates that she and Take 2 Healthcare are consistent with policies and procedures established by accepted internationally peer reviewed medical panels from the American Academy of Thermology.  She earned her certification in thermal imaging (thermography) through the International Academy of Clinical Thermology in 2011 and offers a vast array of thermal imaging services from breast to full body.
Dr. Yahle has competed in many athletics including volleyball, cross country, basketball, and track.  She continued her track career at a collegiate level competing in the heptathlon and mid-distance events.
Dr. Yahle and her husband have 3 children and enjoy exercising, walking her dog, and cooking!  Contact the office if you are interested in having Dr. Yahle speaks at a public event or group!

Common topics include:
Breast Cancer
Thermography
Diabetes
Weight Loss
Hormones
Heart Disease
Testimonials

Take2 Healthcare on the Radio
95.7 FM Saturday 11am until 12 pm
A 78year old patient came into Take2 Healthcare with prostate cancer.
When he came in his Prostate Specific Antigen test was at 119. After 5 months his PSA
test came back at 90. The patient has had no chemo, radiation, or hormone therapy.
How? Listen now and find out! Radio Shows – Take 2 Healthcare

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Why is the Science of Nutrition Ignored in Medicine? | T. Colin Campbell | TEDxCornellUniversity – YouTube 777,000 views Dec 3, 2018 Bing Videos
Professor Campbell is a well-established researcher and author.
His popular book (co-authored with his son, a physician) titled The China Study (2005) has been translated into more than 50 foreign languages and has sold well over 2 million copies. His second book, Whole (2013), was a New York Times best seller.
Campbell has conducted experimental research on the effect of food and nutrition on the development of cancer and related diseases. His research program was relatively large, and his findings were published in more than 300 peer reviewed professional papers.
He also participated as a member of several expert panels on health of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Institutes of Health and related public agencies.
He has been in his professional career for more than 60 years.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx | Bing Videos

What Happens To Your Body When You Eat Ginger Everyday – YouTube

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Boosting Immunity

Posted on June 3, 2023 by Ken
Killer T cells (green and red) can attach to cancer cells (blue, center) and kill them
by releasing toxic chemicals (red), a move scientists have dubbed ‘the kiss of death.’
© NIH/Flickr Search Results for Brain Cancer | Cancer Quick Facts (solitarius.org)

Intratumoral IL-12 delivery empowers CAR-T cell immunotherapy
in a pre-clinical model of glioblastoma IL 12 Glioblastoma – Bing video  
A novel immune-based, gene therapy approach is entering phase 2 trials (ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT04006119) for glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) after promising preliminary safety and efficacy data. Despite encouraging results in several tumor types such as melanoma, colorectal, and lung, immunotherapies have yet to show any significant benefit in patients with brain tumors. The new technique by Ziopharm hopes to reverse that trend. 
“The brain is built to not be touched by our own immune system; it’s encased in the
dura and the blood brain barrier,” said Katy Peters, MD, PhD, neuro-oncologist at the Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center and associate professor of neurosurgery at
Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina. “In glioblastoma patients, white blood cells at diagnosis are sequestered in the bone marrow. This is our biggest hurdle — the immune cells are essentially unable to reach the tumor,” added Dr Peters.
There has been some recent evidence1,2 showing that immunotherapy treatment for melanoma or lung cancers can actually boost the immune response against metastatic disease in the central nervous system, but a general consensus remains that GBMs are fraught with an immunosuppressive environment.

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“[There are] several chemicals produced by GBM that make an immunosuppressive environment in general,” said Vyshak Venur, MD, medical oncologist at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance and assistant professor at the University of Washington School of Medicine. “Glioblastoma also has a low mutational burden — unlike melanomas and lung cancers — which compounds this low response to immunotherapy,” he added.
GBM typically has a low tumor mutation burden and is considered immunologically “cold.” Several studies with PD-1 inhibitors, both alone, and in combination with drugs such as bevacizumab, have shown no significant benefit in patients. The Ziopharm approach uses an adenovirus vector encoding IL-12 — injected directly into the tumor —
in an attempt to boost immune recognition of the tumor.

“IL-12 can really be thought of as a master regulator of the immune system — it’s this molecule that [the] immune system uses as an alarm bell. If you have an infection, the
way that you recruit your immune system to a point of danger is via IL-12,” said Laurence Cooper, MD, PhD, CEO at Ziopharm.
Crucially, in contrast to most other gene-therapy approaches that use a viral vector, the production of IL-12 can then be “switched on” by the patient taking the small-molecule drug veledimex orally.
“This virus unpacks the IL-12 molecule, but it delivers it under the control of the switch
of a drug, so we can control the amount. If the immune response becomes too much, for example triggering a cytokine release syndrome (CRS), we can back off,” said Dr Cooper.

Researchers have been trying for years to utilize immunotherapy approaches:
against brain tumors with little success so far — so how unique is the Ziopharm approach?
“It is very innovative; what’s unique about this approach is that it is 2-pronged, where they are delivering the IL-12 to the tumor cavity itself and then using this activator of the IL-12 to control it,” said Dr Peters.
Updated results from an initial phase 1 study of the work using the IL-12 inducible therapy as a monotherapy (ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02026271) and a dose-escalation sub study in combination with nivolumab (ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT03636477) were presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology ASCO20 Virtual Scientific Program earlier this year.3

The data presented from 21 patients show a reasonable safety profile and evidence
of some preliminary immune effect, such as slightly increased cytotoxic T-cell counts in the peripheral blood.
“The study is very well done and concluding it’s safe is a good result for a phase 1 study. I’m not sure it’s reasonable to ask for significant efficacy data at this point, but that’s the reason that they are doing phase 2, which will give us a more robust idea of efficacy,”
said Dr Venur.

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“The first thing they show is they can do it safely. They are injecting a viral vector with
a gene activated along with a drug that can cause side effects. They were able to show
it’s safe and that some people see benefits,” said Dr Peters.
The presentation also featured 2 case reports of patients who
had partial responses on the combination therapy.
“One of the patients they showcase in the ASCO presentation had great response even up to week 36, which is very good for a patient with advanced GBM. These are early days, but it’s a promising approach,” said Dr Venur.
Despite a generally positive safety profile, there were still some concerns that two-thirds
of the treated patients displayed CRS, although all but one patient had grade 2, not grade 3, CRS.
“We are always worried about this effect [CRS] when we are stimulating a nonspecific immune response,” said Dr Venur. “This may be a barrier for this approach going forward, but we are really managing these side effects better, and we’ve learned a lot about these from [chimeric antigen receptor T-cell] treatments, for example,” he added.

Interestingly, the current situation with the COVID-19 pandemic may provide new information about treating CRS, which may be translational to managing the condition
in patients treated with chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) therapies.
“Given the situation with COVID-19 right now, where CRS is a significant concern, a lot
of new research is going into CRS — and we are going to learn more about it and how to suppress it. It’s an exciting paradigm,” said Dr Peters. “We are currently good at managing it and we are getting better,” she added.
Another hurdle that the therapy will have to navigate is dexamethasone.
Patients with glioblastoma are typically given dexamethasone to both control the symptoms of the tumor itself, such as brain swelling and edema, but also to control treatment side effects.
“Therapy itself can also cause swelling — radiation for example, radiation necrosis, swelling — and we use dexamethasone here, too,” said Dr Venur. “One big challenge
is that all of these patients are on dexamethasone as an immunosuppressive agent,”
who noted that this could affect the efficacy of the IL-12 therapy.

“I think it’s going to be a real problem to minimize steroids in these patients,” said
Dr Peters, who also noted that the authors of a 2019 paper showing preliminary results acknowledged this after observing an overall survival (OS) of 6.4 months compared with 16.7 months in patients who received more than 20 mg of steroids and for those who got less than 20 mg, respectively, on days 0-14 of the treatment.4
“They showed a big, big difference in OS in that paper. Steroids are a ubiquitous drug in our population — we’ve only got so many tools in our toolbox. It’s a necessary evil at the moment, and they will have to contend with this issue moving forward,” added Dr Peters.
“There is a huge drawback to steroids, as they handicap the immune response, but the need of this is being challenged. We are asking if patients really need all of these steroids. Many patients can go onto our clinical trial with low to negligible amounts of steroids,” said Dr Cooper, noting that Dr Chiocca, one of the lead clinical investigators of the trial,
is conducting investigations on this specific topic.

The aforementioned phase 2 trial expects to recruit 30 to 40 patients with recurrent or progressive GBM. Patients will receive an intratumoral injection of the IL-12 gene therapy, daily oral veledimex, and the trial will use infusions of the PD-1 antibody cemiplimab-rwlc every 3 weeks.
“We expect to have data from these patients within this year and next,” said Dr Cooper. “With the monotherapy, we have a median OS of 16 months, so we already see improvement. In the phase 2 trial, we will ask the question of whether we can
get past 16 months of OS.”
The gene therapy is also being trialed in children with diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG), which is almost universally fatal, and where there is a huge unmet need for new treatment approaches. A phase 1/2 trial (ClinicalTrials.org Identifier: NCT03330197) of the human IL-12 vector (transcriptionally regulated by the oral activator veledimex) as a monotherapy has begun, with the first patient recently treated at Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago. The trial hopes to recruit up to 12 patients in total to evaluate the safety and tolerability of the therapy in pediatric DIPG patients.

References
Queirolo P, Spagnolo F, Ascierto PA, et al. Efficacy and safety of ipilimumab in patients with advanced melanoma and brain metastases. J Neurooncol. 2014; 118(1):109-116. doi:10.1007/s11060-014-1400-y
Goldberg SA, Schalper KA, Gettinger SN, et al. Pembrolizumab for management of patients with NSCLC and brain metastases: long-term results and biomarker analysis from a non-randomised, open-label, phase 2 trial. Lancet Oncol. 2020;21(5):655-663. doi: 10.1016/S1470-2045(20)30111-X
Chiocca EA, Lukas RV, Chen CC, et al. Evaluation of controlled IL-12 in combination with a PD-1 inhibitor in subjects with recurrent glioblastoma. J Clin Oncol. 2020;38(15_suppl):2510-2510. doi:10.1200/JCO.2019.37.15_suppl.2020
Chiocca EA, Yu JS, Lukas RV, et al. Regulatable interleukin-12 gene therapy in patients with recurrent high-grade glioma: Results of a phase 1 trial. Sci Transl Med. 2019;11(505):eaaw5680. doi:10.1126/scitranslmed.aaw5680
IL-12B & IL-12A Molecule Background

Interleukin 12 (IL12) is also known as p70, and is an interleukin that is naturally produced by dendritic cells, macrophages and human B-lymphoblastoid cells (NC-37) in response to antigenic stimulation.IL12 is a heterodimeric cytokine, containing IL-12A (p35) and IL-12B (p40). IL-12 is involved in the differentiation of naive T cells into Th1 cells.
It is known as a T cell-stimulating factor, which can stimulate the growth and function
of T cells. It stimulates the production of IFN-γ and TNF-α from T cells and NK cells and reduces IL-4 mediated suppression of IFN-γ. IL-12 plays an important role in the activities of natural killer cells and T lymphocytes. IL-12 also has anti-angiogenic activity, which means it can block the formation of new blood vessels.
 IL-12B & IL-12A Protein – ACROBiosystems

Intratumoral IL-12 delivery empowers CAR-T cell immunotherapy in
a pre-clinical model of glioblastoma – PubMed (nih.gov) 

Integrative Oncologists Providing Holistic Cancer Treatment Options for Early,
Late-Stage, and Metastatic Cancer | Envita Medical Centers

‘Masked’ cancer drug stealthily trains immune system to kill tumors while sparing
healthy tissues, reducing treatment side effects (msn.com)

Report links toxic substance to cancer deaths in at least six baseball players:
‘What happened to exercising caution?’ (msn.com)

An investigation showing a possible link between brain cancer and artificial turf  strengthened a key argument among champions for natural grass — that nature does it better. The Philadelphia Inquirer reported on examinations into the deaths of six former Philadelphia Phillies, who spent much of their baseball careers playing on fake turf at Veterans Stadium, which was open from 1971 to 2003.
These players died in their 40s and 50s from a rare form of brain cancer, glioblastoma. 
They played atop an artificial field made in part with so-called forever chemicals that are linked to cancer. While experts can’t say for certain that the field caused the disease, the reports are leading to more scrutiny of fake grass around the country.  
“We don’t know what those chemicals are doing to us — what happened to exercising caution when we’re talking about human health?” Kyla Bennett, a former scientist for
the Environmental Protection Agency, said to the Guardian, which also reported on the deaths. Bennett now works for Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. 

What is artificial turf? 
Artificial turf, also known as synthetic turf or fake grass, is exactly what it sounds like —
a surface made from synthetic materials, primarily plastic, that is designed to mimic the look and feel of real grass.  
Modern forms of artificial lawns include green synthetic grass over crumb rubber,
which is often made from old tires, according to the Center for Environmental Health. 
Veterans Stadium had a form of artificial turf that was popular for fields built in the 70s
and 1980s, the Guardian reports, noting that all artificial turf contains forever chemicals.
Because those chemicals break down very slowly. 

Why are the fields still a concern? 
Faux-grass fields remain popular in the U.S., with about 1,200 being added each year to the existing 12,000, according to the Guardian. Athletes from school age to professionals play on them. Forever chemicals, also called PFAS, have possible links to increased risks for cancers throughout the body, the American Cancer Society reports.
The health impact of the more than 9,000 PFAS so far discovered is still being studied. 
Experts, including Bennett, don’t understand why fields with forever chemicals are still being made. “Is artificial turf easier? Yeah, you don’t have to mow it, but that doesn’t
mean it’s right to use it,” she told the Guardian. 

The Brain Cancer That Keeps Killing Baseball Players (nytimes.com)
In 2013, when Daulton learned he had glioblastoma, The Philadelphia Inquirer did an analysis of 533 players who also wore a Phillies uniform during the 33 seasons the team played at Veterans Stadium. The brain cancers of Daulton, McGraw, Vukovich and Oates appeared to represent an occurrence that was about three times the rate of the general male population, the analysis concluded. But the study had limitations related to adjusting for age and yearly cancer rates.

Professor Rebbeck, the Harvard epidemiologist, was then at the University of Pennsylvania, and he assisted in the study. He told The Inquirer that the seemingly elevated risk to baseball players could have resulted from chance.
In an interview after Daulton’s death, Professor Rebbeck said scientists still did not know much more. “It’s either just random chance bad luck or there is something there, but we just don’t have the science to pick it out yet,” he said.

The baseball deaths fit within established patterns in the general population: Glioblastoma is more common among men than women, and the risk increases with age. The scrutinized baseball deaths have occurred within the highest-risk age range of 45 to 70, according to the American Association of Neurological Surgeons. An estimated 12,390 new cases of the cancer were expected this year, according to the American Brain Tumor Association.

Researchers also note that while the players’ cancers have been identified as glioblastomas in news media accounts, all may not, in fact, have been identical tumors. Many other variables make it difficult to make a connection between baseball and brain cancer.
Among the former Phillies who died, not all played together at Veterans Stadium or remained with the team for the same length of time. The Philadelphia Eagles played and often practiced in the stadium, on the same artificial surface, but the N.F.L. team has reported no unusual occurrence of brain cancer.

This in memory of Tug McGraw, along with five other former Phillies players—
David West, John Vukovich, Johnny Oates, Ken Brett, and Darren Daulton—were
all diagnosed with, and later passed away from, glioblastoma.

The research continues. 
Most scientists use words like “link” and “suggest” to describe the relationship
between forever chemicals, artificial fields, and cancer. “There is no way to now say,
‘If these chemicals are there, they are causing the tumors,’” Dr. Henry Friedman,
a neuro-oncologist at Duke University, told the Guardian.
He treated two of the Phillies. For their part, artificial turf makers told the Guardian
their products “meet and exceed” health standards and that they benefit communities. 

The Mystery 0f Cancer Cluster @Erin Brockovich.
Cancer Cluster in Clyde Ohio – Search (bing.com)

What can I do to help? 
For natural grass advocates like Bennett, the information cited by the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Guardian, and other news outlets is reason enough to ban artificial turf. 
Organizations like Turfgrass Producers International are a great resource to learn about the health benefits of natural grass — for the body and the planet. A little research can equip lawn lovers with solid facts to take to school boards and other officials who may consider installing an artificial field. ‼Re. THE SOUTH SLAVS: Sofia, Bulgaria’s capital,


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Tim McDonald NED

Posted on June 2, 2023 by Ken
Tim McDonald #DonateLifeMonth @tamcdonald

NED (No Evidence of Disease)
This is a picture of a true winner. It’s easy to win at sports, games, etc.
Yours was a tough win. Congratulations my friend. And if you knew me,
you would know I don’t impress easily. I assure you. You sir, impress
the hell out of me.

Also, a picture of a leader. Lead on! 👊

It still feels weird to say. When I was told 2.5 years ago that I had 3 years to live, I didn’t believe them, but also never thought I would be able to say it. I ended up getting treated
at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa. One of the top 10 cancer centers in the US. But still advocated for myself and pursued a liver transplant at URM Strong Memorial Hospital
in Rochester N.Y.

Are they based in the US or Canada?
Liver Transplant hospitals in North America – Search (bing.com)
My best suggestion is to connect with one of about 15 centers in NA who perform liver transplants. Toronto General, URM (Rochester NY), Cleveland Clinic, Univ of Pittsburgh, Washington University – St Louis do more than all the others combined.

When you are down and all the odds are stacked against you, remember one thing,
you are not a statistic. You are a remarkable human capable of unimaginable things.

Let the world feel your heartbeat 💓 #relentless #resilience
#fightcrc #strongarmselfie #stage4 #colorectalcancer #donatelife

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May 30 2023 Today is 2 weeks to the day I was given a new lease on life.

Hopefully one that will remain cancer free. 
 It’s all possible because of a #livingdonor like Beth and the amazing transplant team
led by Dr. Hernandez at URM Strong Memorial Hospital. #FightCRC #ShareMyLiver



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TCups Mom @TcupsMom
I had a doc tell me I was going to die and I want comfort care on Jan 22 when
both my kidneys and liver shut down. I regained full mobility and new docs can’t
figure out why it happened or why my numbers don’t make sense to this day.

Yes. In my colon and all over my liver. Not a candidate for resection.
I’d suggest URM Strong Memorial Hospital or University of Pittsburgh.
Happy to connect you with URM. And check out

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The Heartbeat That Changed the World | HuffPost Impact

“Let the world feel your heartbeat.” Wow, that’s a beautiful statement. Thank you.
Today, and every day, from now on, I will strive to let the world feel my heartbeat.


Tim’s Liver (timsliver.com) hear, hear. and congratulations to you.
I have also lived beyond my “expiration date;” and wonder if I would have accepted
the statistics as my fate. Tim McDonald was diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer with
metastases to his liver in November 2020.
One oncologist told Tim he had three years to live. Another oncologist told Tim his life expectancy would be “in the five-year range.” When Tim went to Moffitt Cancer Center
in Tampa, his doctor didn’t discuss his life expectancy, but rather how they could fight
Tim’s cancer. 

July 11 2022 Colon Cancer Patient, Tim McDonald, Needs a Liver Donor –
WE Have Cancer (wehavecancershow.com)
July 12 2022 Tim McDonald needs a liver donor. You might be the match. –
Man Up to Cancer (captivate.fm)

Initially told he would be on chemo ( Folfoxfiri and then Folfiri) for life and was not a suitable candidate for liver resection, Tim learned about Colontown through Man Up
to Cancer and was put in touch with Dr. Hernandez who performs liver transplants at University of Rochester Strong Memorial Hospital. 

In March 2022, Tim had his donor meeting, and he believed obtaining a live donor for his stage IV colorectal cancer living donor liver transplant surgery would be the relatively easy part. Fifteen months later, Tim said finding a liver donor was more difficult and frustrating than he thought it would be. 

On April 3, 2023, while celebrating his wife’s birthday on a cruise, Tim learned that he now has a liver donor, and he will be undergoing stage IV colorectal cancer liver transplant surgery on May 16, 2023. More than a week after learning Tim’s transplant team found a donor for him, April 12 was another big day for Tim when he rang the bell signaling the end of chemo treatment, something he never expected he would get the opportunity to do. 

Preparing for Liver Transplant Surgery 
Tim’s story is a little different from Carole’s since he was responding well to treatment without the devastating effects that Carole’s treatment caused to her liver.  With a colon resection surgery completed in March 2022 and other concerns addressed, Tim was relieved to receive the results that everything was OK, and he could continue on toward liver transplant surgery. His donor search officially began. 

Although an optimistic and patient person by nature, Tim was surprised that the search for a liver donor took longer than he anticipated. Out of everyone he knew who had liver transplant surgery, finding his donor took the longest. When he received news of his liver donor and was given a living donor liver transplant surgery date, Tim learned that he needed to be off chemotherapy for four to six weeks, so his body could recover from surgery more quickly. 

His final chemo treatment placed him firmly in that four-to-six-week window,
and Tim was able to ring that bell, something he never thought he would be able to do since he believed he was on chemo for life. Tim’s pre-op visit is scheduled a week before his surgery.
He will get a chest x-ray, a CT scan, and more blood work. All of his other screening had been done during a two-day evaluation in December 2022, when Tim’s transplant team initially believed they had found Tim’s donor. 

At that time, he had the stress echo test, and the initial meetings with everyone working
on him and his care team. They took 27 vials of blood, the most blood Tim said he has ever had taken. Tim is prepared. He has been eating healthy, not drinking or smoking. He feels he has prepared his body to go through surgery most effectively and to recover quickly. Finally, he knows how important it is to walk and move post-surgery. 

Potential Donor Disappointments  
For stage IV colorectal cancer live donor liver transplant surgery, candidates need to get their own donor (directed donor), where the donor needs to call the transplant team at the facility the recipient is being treated, give the name of the person who needs the liver, and date of birth. During his donor search, Tim specifically did not ask anyone he knew – not friends, family, or even acquaintances – for a liver donation because he didn’t want them to feel obligated or pressured. 

Over the past 15 months, Tim met or had people reach out to him who attempted to become donors for him. His research revealed that most people average five to seven potential donors before they find their donor match. There were at least nine people –
but probably 10 – that Tim knew of who were screened as a potential donor beyond the
initial phone call before he found his match. 

To paraphrase Mike Tyson,
“Everybody’s got a plan until they get punched in the face.”
“I think getting cancer is getting punched in the face. I think going through this donor process and not knowing that a potential match – why they weren’t, and why they’re not anymore – is a punch in the face. And every time you get that, you need to figure out how you can react to it.”
–Tim McDonald, stage IV survivor and liver recipient scheduled for live donor liver transplant surgery on May 16
Ultimately Tim realized the only thing he can control is his reaction, not the situation. He no longer focuses on the control he thought he had, but instead focuses on his reaction to the news he is getting. So although he has received disappointing news while waiting for his liver donor to be found, Tim no longer felt depressed or resentment. He kept moving forward.
   
The Silver Lining
While he was patiently awaiting his own liver donor, Tim realized there was a need for people who may not be donor matches for him, but who could help others. He created a site, Share My Liver, in an effort to help guide others who have stage IV colorectal cancer with unresectable metastases to the liver to find their donors. The same week Tim found out that his transplant team had located a liver donor for him, the first confirmed match on Share My Liver came through. Tim is overjoyed.

Meeting His Donor and His Happily Ever After
Tim had an hour-long conversation with his live donor, and he is looking forward to meeting her and her husband for dinner in person when he travels to Rochester, New York, for his surgery. What Tim is most excited about with his liver transplant surgery is that this surgery provides the highest projected rate of long-term survival compared with any other treatment.  
 

Roberto Hernandez-Alejandro, MD, FACS, FRCSC,
On Tim and Living Donor Liver Transplants…

In May, Roberto Hernandez-Alejandro, MD, FACS, FRCSC, Professor of Surgery; Chief, Division of Transplantation, Hepatobiliary Surgery, University of Rochester, will perform Tim’s live donor liver transplant surgery at Strong Memorial Hospital, Rochester, New York. Dr. Hernandez is looking forward to helping Tim become cancer free. According to Dr. Hernandez, “Liver transplantation is for a specific and a very narrow population who has stage IV colon cancer.

Tim has fallen into this small population of people eligible for a liver transplant from a living donor. Imagine having a 30% chance of being cured instead of surviving to five years with a 5% to 10% chance. With liver transplantation, there is a 50% chance of surviving at 10 years. This is a huge difference and also factors in the quality of life of liver transplantation as well.” 

The Screening Process for Donating a Liver
When someone decides to donate a liver, it’s not as simple as a phone call or email that puts them on a list. Tim’s experience is that screening is a two- or three-month-long process per potential eligible donor.

The screening process entails:
An initial phone call
An evaluation phone call
Blood work
Sending medical records
Colonoscopy
CT scan
Liver ultrasound

This screening process occurs one person at a time and one step at a time. There are
never multiple people being screened to become a donor for the same recipient. While the process is methodical, it is also stressful to the recipient who is waiting to learn of a match.

Interesting Facts About Stage IV Colorectal Cancer Liver Transplant Surgery.

Right Side vs. Left Side
So far, Dr. Hernandez says that his team has done fewer right-side colon cancer live donor liver transplant surgeries compared with left-side colorectal cancer transplant surgeries. Right-side colon cancer is typically more aggressive, so the liver transplant team needs to be more cautious with people who have colon cancer on the right side. 

Liver Transplant Surgery in the United States
Liver transplant surgery for people with stage IV colorectal cancer has only been performed in the United States for the past five years. To date, more than 40 live donor liver transplant surgeries have taken place.
“We need to educate people that this is a possibility that exists. Physicians and patients may think a liver transplant is the last resort. If a patient is diagnosed with stage IV colorectal cancer with metastases only to the liver, then we can meet and generate a plan. First the patient will be treated with chemo. Next the primary tumor will be removed. Then we can begin the work of setting up the process for living donor transplantation.” 

–Carole Motycka-Mancini  – Search (bing.com)
As someone who had all but run out of options:
Carole recommends consulting your physician team to find what fits best
for you and the opportunities that exist for your particular cancer profile.
“Five years ago, it was just me. Today, there are more than 40 of us who
have transplanted.” 

People who donate their livers go on to live a completely normal life. Their liver regenerates. If you donate the right side of your liver, you don’t grow a new right side,
but the left side grows to compensate for the portion missing from the right side.
The liver can regenerate anywhere from 80% to 105%, according to Dr. Hernandez.
Dr. Hernandez’s final suggestion is not to lose hope.
If a person is told they are not a candidate for stage IV colorectal cancer liver resection surgery, they should not hesitate to seek out a second or third medical opinion if they feel they need it. Dr. Hernandez has seen people who were told they had unresectable tumors in their liver, but when he reviewed imaging, he saw these tumors could be resected.

To Learn More: 
Many organizations accept organ or tissue donations.
If you’re interested in donating for someone specific such as Tim through the University
of Rochester. Medical Center Liver Transplant Program, or Carole through the Cleveland Clinic Transplant Team, be sure to contact the potential recipient’s hospital’s transplant team for more information and instruction on how to proceed and get screened to give a second chance at life to people with stage IV colorectal cancer.  From Stage 4 Cancer to CANCER-FREE: Guy Tenenbaum Success Story – YouTube

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Riley Faith Cancer Story

Posted on June 1, 2023 by Ken
Family throws party for Upstate girl battling cancer (wyff4.com)

SIMPSONVILLE, S.C. (WYFF) – Riley was diagnosed with stage four adrenal cortical carcinoma in September 2020 and got the alarming news. This Simpsonville family is asking for global prayers for their 4-year-old daughter battling a rare form of cancer.
1 in a million people and even less common in children. “We noticed she was gaining weight and we were alarmed by how much weight she was gaining,”

Riley’s father Matt Steep said. Adrenocortical carcinoma, stage 4…started in both adrenal glands, moved to lungs then liver, part of liver removed. Now in the portal vein in the liver & getting bigger. Follow her parents and Mimi & their Facebook pages: Team Riley Faith | Facebook & Riley Faith | Facebook

“They found her tumor on her adrenal gland,” Riley’s grandmother Tiffany Page said.
“It was the size of two grapefruits.” Page says they visited doctors all over the East Coast, but says some told them the tumors were inoperable. In September, she says they found doctors who could remove tumors on Riley’s adrenal gland, as well as three tumors in her lungs.

Riley’s family says she also went through four rounds of chemotherapy and had countless tests, scans and blood work done. Her father says the chemotherapy didn’t seem to be working. Page took to social media to share Riley’s story and ask for support.

They’ve gotten support from people all around the world over the last several months.
The saddest thing in the world is a child suffering with an awful disease.

Dear Heavenly Father, we humbly ask that you please have mercy on this
poor child and her family and if possible, relieve them of this horrible burden.

Heart Breaking.💔  Lord, restore this baby from the top of her head to the bottom of her feet 👣. Give her back a long-full life and ease her pain. Amen 🙏

“When I found out she had cancer, I felt extremely helpless,” she said. “Like I couldn’t fix the problem.” Page says she started asking for global prayer. She says they’ve since gotten support in the forms of cards, messages and care packages from people around the world. While they continued to receive prayers, Riley’s family searched for doctors who had other treatments available.

Steep says they connected with other families through social media who
were going through the same thing, and found a hospital in New York.
Steep says his daughter started immunotherapy in December.
They make a road trip up to the hospital in New York every three weeks and are due back this weekend. Right now, he says she still has some extremely small tumors, but they’re asking everyone to keep praying for Riley.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — March 23, 2022. 
Upstate girl with cancer receives prestigious service award (wyff4.com)
Riley received the award in Gov. Henry McMaster’s office at the State House in Columbia. Gov. Henry McMaster on Twitter stated, “Riley Faith is an inspiration to us
all and represents the very best of South Carolina. Her story is courageous, and she serves as an example of how we can all make the world a better place. Congratulations, Riley!”   Upstate girl with cancer receives South Carolina’s most prestigious service award (yahoo.com)

Riley Faith Steep of Greenville, received the Order of the Silver Crescent Award Tuesday,  Watch | Facebook the state’s most prestigious service award, for creating “Riley’s Cozy Comfy Mission.” Riley Faith’s parents are Matthew and Rachael Steep. “Nobody’s promised tomorrow,” Steep said. “Every day everybody wakes up, you just never know what life’s going to bring.” Riley needs a miracle from God to survive.

I am just trying to form a prayer team to help Riley. #RileyFaith

You can follow Riley’s journey here.

Upstate 5-year-old with cancer starts mission to help other kids in hospital

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Please pray for Riley and her family. That is Riley’s dad in the picture.

Her mom stayed home with the other children.
Her parents’ prayer group on Facebook is Team Riley and Riley Faith.
Just lifting her up to God and asking for others to do the same.
Riley loves sloths. See the sloth around her neck.

Riley Update:
Riley got a blood transfusion on May 31, 2023. She said it felt cold going in,
so, I’m cold blooded. It was given to her through an IV since her port was removed.
She had more energy afterwards. She wants to try to go to school tomorrow.
That is wonderful news to hear. She looks so good too & I love seeing her smile.
I’ve been praying for Riley and will continue! God bless. 🙏🏻#Faith #GodIsGood

Please pray she sleeps tonight. Riley loves animals, reptiles, and bugs.
So she meant that she is cold-blooded like a hummingbird and reptile.
She loves all of God’s creatures both big and small. If you want to send
a card to Riley Faith, the address is:
Riley Faith, PO Box 7052 Spartanburg, SC 29304.

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Riley turned 7 years old on May 6, 2023

She does not realize how serious her cancer journey is.
She loves Jesus, Sloths, Zoos & Art.

Offer her prayers 🙏 & smiles. 😊☺🙂😇

Despite her own health concerns, the child and her family started (2) Faith over Fear for Riley Faith | Facebook “Riley’s Cozy Comfy Mission.” Riley collects donations of sheets, stuffed animals and coloring books for other children being treated for cancer at Prisma Health Children’s Hospital. The family hopes to someday turn Riley’s mission into a nonprofit organization. You can find more information on Riley Faith’s Facebook page 
if you would like to donate. 

You can also find a list of sheets and other items on her Amazon wish list.
Riley Faith’s Birthday Parade – YouTube

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Molly’s Kids: A global prayer for Riley Faith (wbtv.com)

Dear father: please go to YouTube Kenneth E. Hagin, The Authority of the Believer, Part 1. He was born with a deformed heart & blood disease. Drs. said he would never reach his 17 birthday. God’s Word healed him. He had an anointing 4 cancer.

Have your daughter listen https://youtu.be/k4FJ4bJkyeo

Heavenly Father…. Hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done….
We beseech you Lord to touch this girl and restore her to health! We love you and
we know your plan is perfect, we know that if we pray and have faith, it will be done!
We ask in Jesus’ name Amen

Lord, I firmly believe that You have the power to heal this child. You are greater than this disease. You are the author of her life, and You are fully able to bring her back to normal. Touch her now with Your healing hands, God. Remove the affliction from within her body. Enable her to rise up and walk again. Bring the smile back to her face.
In Jesus name I pray
Lord Jesus, I come before you, just as I am, I am sorry for my sins, I repent of my sins, please give a miracle healing to Faith. , Amen Jeremiah 17:14 … Heal me, O Lord, and
I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved, for you are my praise.
Team Riley Faith | Simpsonville SC | Facebook Amen 🙏

How to Pray For a Miracle Healing | Divine Intervention | Will God Heal Me?

New 2023 Lauren Daigle Christian Songs  Ultimate Lauren Daigle Full Album.

Always remember, where there’s life, there’s hope.
And hope makes us never to be ashamed. We can always rest in hope.
Sent more of Jesus’s Mighty Heavenly Host with healing in their wings
to war on behalf of Riley. They only need our love + faith.

Fast Freddy @FastFreddyy · May 26

Answering Many prayers through others !
Can I ask, have you looked into Turkey Tail Mushrooms ? They are amazing !
1000 ML of Turkey Tail mushrooms (x two a Day) 500ml of Vitamin C with each dose !
It is a Cancer killer at high speed It will supercharge the Turkey Tail Mushrooms !

Please look into this ! The results are Amazing !!!!!

I have personally watched it happen and it’s amazing what I can say.
I pray for you Riley, May the lord lay his healing hands on you.
God Bless you all.

Simpsonville girl uses art to cope with cancer diagnosis – Bing video
This is a child that I have been following her cancer journey since she was 3.

She is a beautiful little girl who just graduated from Kindergarten.
She will tell you she is a world famous artist.

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Dr. Ryan Cole Vaccine and cancer @drcole12

Has been consistently cautioning that those who took the vaccine are more likely to encounter an aggressive form of turbo cancer. I extend my best wishes to you and your daughter. If she has taken the jab, I encourage you to conduct thorough research and consider becoming an advocate, raising awareness among other parents. It is challenging to convey this without potentially causing distress to you and others who may not wish to discuss the vaccine.

Regrettably, there has been an increase in stage 4 turbo cancers across various age groups.
This little girl needs you to learn this information.
Look up “alternative health care for cancer”.

Radical Remission: Surviving Cancer Against All Odds: Turner PhD, Kelly A.: 9780062268747: Amazon.com: Books
Mistletoe and the Emerging Future of Integrative Oncology: 9781938685330:
Medicine & Health Science Books @ Amazon.com

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Sometimes even anemia can result if the liver is malfunctioning.
Scientific Proof That Our Thoughts Can Heal Us – YouTube

The liver regenerates. I have been reading up on it & her chance of survival is high with
a living donor that donates a partial liver. The doctors in Houston & Austin are amazing.
Please contact them. Save her life.

There are numerous cures for cancer.
Cannabis Oil Success Stories | Facebook Hoxsey Method (You Tube)
Dr. Burzynski- http://discoverhealthinfo.com
Vitamin B17 (Amygdalin) Laetrile ~ Oasis of Hope
Oasis of Hope Stage 4 Treatments – Bing video
Google My Cancer Story Rocks and look into Fenbendazole.
Scientific Proof That Our Thoughts Can Heal Us – YouTube
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Congrats. MyKayla #2023class

Posted on June 1, 2023 by Ken
Cannabis Oil Cures Little Girl’s of Leukemia Within 6 Days! – YouTube

I remembered reading this article back in November 2012 when MyKayla Comstock
was only 7 years old. So naturally I followed this story from Erin Purchase and the Brave Mykayla | Facebook page, Until This Past Weekend when MyKayla Graduated on time with her #2023class Congrats. MyKayla, Erin Purchase and Grandma Suzanne.

My First Wowza Moment when I began blogging in Solitarius.org was back in November of 2012 when Erin Purchase with Brave MyKayla story broke about a 7 year with Leukemia going into full remission within 6 days using Cannabis Oil.

Dr. Donna Seger, the executive director of the Tennessee Poison Center and a professor at Vanderbilt University, said cannabis has no effect on liver or kidney function, and it does not cure cancer.

Dr. Seger said she has several concerns about a 7-year-old taking pills filled with cannabis oil because there is little research on its long-term effects on children. Cannabis could have potentially negative effects on cognitive development in children since it affects cognitive ability in adults.

Mykayla in Milwaukie, Oregon was an ordinary 7-year-old girl living through an extraordinary ordeal. Had been was diagnosed with intermediate risk T-Cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia and battling leukemia since June, when a basketball size tumor was discovered in her chest. Now Mykayla is in the middle of another battle, and in the national spotlight, over whether children should be able to use marijuana to mitigate the crippling effects of chemotherapy.

A newly registered member of the Medical Marijuana Program, she has consumed
a daily gram of cannabis oil, encapsulated in a pill, since shortly after her diagnosis.

The leukemia quickly went into remission, says an unapologetic parents, in the months that followed she has been able to cope with the debilitating symptoms associated with
her traditional cancer treatments. – The Daily Beast

But Purchase said she wasn’t afraid to give her daughter the pills that summer. She was
a little nervous about determining the right dose. She and her fiancé, Brandon Krenzler, who helped raise Mykayla since she was 3 years old, started MyKayla on .07-gram doses.

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Cannabis Oil Pills Helped Child Go into Cancer Remission, Mom Says
An Oregon mother credits cannabis oil pills with child’s cancer remission.

By SYDNEY LUPKIN

Nov. 27, 2012 — When 7-year-old Mykayla Comstock was diagnosed with leukemia
in July, it was less than three days before her mother filed Oregon medical marijuana
paperwork so the child could take lime-flavored capsules filled with cannabis oil.

The decision to give Mykayla the capsules came naturally to Erin Purchase,
MyKayla’s mother, who believes marijuana has healing power, but doctors
aren’t so sure it’s a good idea.

“The first doctor was not for it at all,” Purchase told ABCNews.com.
“She was rude and she told us it was inappropriate. “Basically, she blew
up at us and told us to transfer to another facility.”

They found a new doctor, who knows that Mykayla takes about a gram of cannabis oil
a day — half in the morning and half at night — but he doesn’t talk about it with them.

“This is our daughter,” Purchase, 25, said. “If they don’t agree with our personal choices, we’d rather they not say anything at all.”

It’s legal for a minor to enroll in the Oregon medical marijuana program as long as
the child’s parent or legal guardian consents and takes responsibility as a caregiver.

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And Mykayla is not alone with Grandma Suzanna.

There are currently four other patients enrolled in the Oregon medical marijuana program between the ages of 4 and 9, six between the ages of 10 and 14, and 41 between the ages of 15 and 17, according to the Oregon Public Health Division. Severe pain, nausea, muscle spasms and seizures are among the top conditions cited for medical marijuana use.

Mykayla first started to feel sick in May, when she developed a rash, cough and night sweats. By mid-July, doctors found a mass in her chest and diagnosed her with T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia a few days later. The family relocated from Pendleton,
to Portland, Ore. to be near Randall Children’s Hospital for treatment, which included chemotherapy.

At first, Mykayla is not responding well to her treatment, and doctors said she might need a bone marrow transplant. Then she started taking the cannabis oil pills. her mother said. By early August, Mykayla was in remission and the transplant was no longer necessary.

“I don’t think it’s just a coincidence,” Purchase said. “I credit it with helping —
at least helping — her ridding the cancer from her body.”

Before Mykayla was diagnosed, Purchase had read about another young boy with cancer who received cannabis oil for nearly two years because his parents believed it kept him alive so much that they defied doctors’ orders and broke Montana law to give it to him.
She said she knew it was what she would do for her children if they ever got sick.

Cash “Cashy” Hyde died Nov. 14 at four years old, but his
parents say he was never in any pain because of the oil.

Read more about Cash and his parents.

Purchase said she, too, uses medical marijuana. She said it has helped with
her kidney and liver disease since 2010, adding, “I feel that it saved my life.”

However, Dr. Donna Seger, the executive director of the Tennessee Poison Center and a professor at Vanderbilt University, said cannabis has no effect on liver or kidney function, and it does not cure cancer.

“If it does anything, it decreases immunity,” she said. “It doesn’t fight cancer.”

Dr. Igor Grant, who directs the University of California Center for Medical Cannabis Research in San Diego, said he’s never studied marijuana’s effects on children and it’s
not clear how the pills will affect Mykayla’s development if she takes the drugs daily for
a period of months or years.

“It’s always a tricky issue prescribing a medication of any kind to developing organisms because they may be more sensitive to the effects, specifically if the prescription drug has an effect on the brain,” Grant said.

He said there have been basic laboratory studies that suggest pot slows cancer cells’
ability to change, but those studies are only theoretical. They include no clinical data
and or animal data.

The American Academy of Pediatrics opposes treating children with medical marijuana.
“The issue is that marijuana isn’t a medicine,” Dr. Sharon Levy, of the AAP, told the Oregonian.

Seger said she has several concerns about a 7-year-old taking pills filled with cannabis oil because there is little research on its long-term effects on children. Cannabis could have potentially negative effects on cognitive development in children since it affects cognitive ability in adults.

But Purchase said she wasn’t afraid to give her daughter the pills last summer. She was
a little nervous about determining the right dose. She and her fiancé, Brandon Krenzler, who helped raise Mykayla since she was 3 years old, started MyKayla with .07-gram doses.

“It took a while to get her adjusted to it,” Purchase said. “She acted more funny when she first started taking it and after a while gained tolerance. Now, when she takes it, you can’t even tell. She’s very normal.”

Purchase said she knew she’d done the right thing the day Mykayla missed a dose of her cannabis oil pills and her 17-month old sister walked into a room holding string cheese. The smell made Mykayla so sick that she threw up on the spot.

“She actually asked for her dose,” Purchase said, adding that she’s less perky without it. “She doesn’t use pain pills or nausea pills. She has not even lost a single pound since her diagnosis.”

Dr. Michel Dubois, who works in NYU Langone’s Pain Management Center, said using cannabis is still controversial because of its side effects and addictive qualities.

“This is a new ethical problem because you’ve got a medication, which is known to have psychoactive effects, approved by the parents and given to a child,” he said, adding that the child doesn’t have much choice in the matter.

(Psychoactive drugs disrupt communication in the brain and alter normal awareness,
behavior and mood, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse.)

Dubois said it would be better to give a child other drugs for nausea because the cannabis oil likely contains at least 50 or 60 different chemicals with unknown long-term health effects. If Mykayla’s life expectancy is limited, her risk of toxicity will also be limited. However, if she is expected to make a full recovery, Dubois said there is a worry that
cannabis oil will add health problems later on.

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MyKayla Graduated With Her Class #2023 on time 👏

And Dr. Dr. Michel Dubois said cannabis shouldn’t be used for more than a month or two.
Although Mykayla’s doctors told Purchase she was in remission on Aug. 6 when her blood cell counts returned to normal, Mykayla will undergo two and a half or three more years of chemotherapy so that she can one day be officially cured, Purchase said. That could mean years of more medical marijuana.

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Guy Tenenbaum Success Story

Posted on May 31, 2023 by Ken
Stage 4 Cancer Success Story: You Have to See This! – Search (bing.com)
Guy Tenenbaum had stage 4 cancer. He is now cancer-free!
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For many years, Guy dealt with numerous health problems, including:
• Type II diabetes
• Hypertension
• High cholesterol
• Joint and bone pain
• Chronic inflammation
• Weight problems
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After repeatedly insisting on a PSA (a protein that can be produced cancerous
tissue in the prostate) test, doctors discovered that Guy had serious cancer.
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They told them that there was nothing they could do for him and that he only
had a few months to live.
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Guy then searched out other options and opinions. Other doctors told him the same story.
But he did not give up hope—he did not accept what doctors told him was his fate.
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Guy then decided to take his health into his own hands.
He began to study everything he could on cancer.
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Then, he discovered the realm of natural medicine and fasting. He fasted for 45 days.
During his fast he consumed natural cancer-killing nutrients.
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There are two key takeaways:
1. Prolonged fasting helps induce autophagy
2. Low or no-calorie nutrients and herbs are vital along the way
to increase the cancer-killing power of fasting.
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Guy consumed:
• Green tea
• Ginger
• Turmeric
• Pepper
• Salt
• Protein supplements
• Vegetables
• Garlic (whole and supplements)
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Today, Guy is healthy and cancer-free!
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What Is Stage 4 Metastatic Cancer?
By Jennifer Welsh 
Updated on May 03, 2023
Medically reviewed by Benjamin Leach, MD

Table of Contents
Symptoms
Causes
Diagnosis
Cancer Staging
Treatment
Palliative Care
Prognosis
Frequently Asked Questions

Stage 4 cancer is the most advanced stage.
Meaning cancer has spread to other parts of the body. You may be able to live for years with stage 4 cancer, but the prognosis often isn’t good. Rather than focusing on curing
the cancer, treatments work to slow or stop growth, relieve symptoms, and help you
live longer and enjoy a high quality of life.1

When cancer spreads to organs away from the original tumor site, it’s said
to metastasize. That’s why stage 4 cancer is also called metastatic cancer.

Stage 4 Cancer Treatment
Verywell / Julie BangStage 4 Cancer Symptoms

This article gives an overview of stage 4 cancer.

It explains what it is, how it’s diagnosed, possible treatment options,
and what you should know about survival rates. The symptoms of metastatic cancer depend on the type of cancer and, more importantly, also where the metastases have occurred.1 In some cases, there are no symptoms at all, so it’s possible to have stage 4 cancer and not know it.

Most of the time, a cancer that reaches stage 4 affects not only the part
of the body where it originated but the areas where it has spread to as well.

Common Symptoms of Metastatic Cancer
When cancer spreads to:
It may cause:
Lungs
•Shortness of breath (dyspnea)
•Cough
•Coughing up blood
•Chest pain
Liver
•Pain
•Weight loss
•Yellowing of skin (jaundice)
•Abdominal swelling and fluid (ascites)
Bones
•Pain, especially severe back pain plus numbness in a leg
or loss of bowel or bladder control
•Fractures, especially without injury
Brain
•Headaches
•Dizziness
•Nausea
•Problems with speech or vision
•Trouble walking
•Confusion
•Seizures

Stage 4 cancer also can cause more general symptoms, such as extreme fatigue and lack
of energy. Some people become so tired and weak they have trouble doing everyday things.
They may even need help with getting dressed or other routine tasks.2

Hearing your healthcare provider call a liver tumor “breast cancer” may sound strange. But stage 4 cancer is diagnosed based on where the original cancer is located, not where
it has spread. So, breast cancer that has spread to the liver will be called stage 4 breast cancer with liver metastasis—not stage 4 liver cancer.

Causes
Cancer diagnosed as stage 4 has spread to an organ or a part of the body
away from the original tumor. For this to happen:

Cancer cells break away from the tumor. They find their way into the bloodstream or,
less often, the lymphatic system—a network that helps transport white blood cells and
clear harmful substances from your system.
Cells are carried in the blood or lymph fluid to another part of the body.
They attach to the tissue there. Once they’re attached, the cells grow while
simultaneously fighting off the immune system.

The cancer’s spread will often begin in the same region where the original cells were found. For example, breast cancer may spread to lymph nodes under the arm.

Common ways that cancer metastasizes include:1

Lung cancer to adrenal glands, bones, brain, liver, and the other lung
Breast cancer to bones, brain, liver, and lungs
Prostate cancer to adrenal glands, bone, liver, and lungs
Colorectal cancer to liver, lungs, and peritoneum (lining of the abdomen)
Melanoma to bones, brain, liver, lung, skin, and muscle

Stage 4 Cancer and the Lungs
Because cancer cells that break away from the original tumor travel through
the body via the bloodstream, the lungs are a common site of metastasis since
blood always filters through the lungs.

Diagnosing Stage 4 Cancer
Oncologists are doctors who specialize in diagnosing and treating cancer.
Many of the same tests and procedures used to diagnose earlier stage cancers
can be used to diagnose stage 4 cancer.

Biopsy
A small amount of tissue from the suspected area of spread is removed.
This could be something like breast tissue, skin, or even bone marrow.

It is examined under a microscope for signs of abnormal cells.

 What Cancer Looks Like Under a Microscope

Imaging Tests
Images make it possible to view the inside of the body to check a tumor.
They help to identify where it is, how large it is, and how it’s affecting other
organs and blood flow.

Tests used to diagnose cancer include:

X-rays
Computerized tomography (CT) scan
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
Ultrasound
Positron emission tomography (PET) scan

Lab Tests
Many tests that are run to analyze blood, other body fluids,
and biopsied tissues can be used to diagnose cancer.

Endoscopy
Endoscopy is a procedure in which a tube or wire with a small camera
attached is used to look at and take pictures of internal organs.

This procedure can also help guide a practitioner as they perform a biopsy.

 Different Types of Endoscopy

Cancer Staging
Stage 4 cancer is the most advanced stage of cancer based on what is known as
the TNM system in which aspects of the cancer are graded on a numerical scale.3 
The letters T, N, and M refer to specific features of a cancer:

T refers to the size of the tumor and whether it has spread to nearby tissue or organs.
The T rating ranges from 0 to 4.
N refers to whether the cancer has spread to lymph nodes. These are scored from 0 to 3.
M stands for metastasis. There are two M stages: M0 means there’s no spread, while
M1 means cancer cells have metastasized.

Taken together, the TNM score will help you and your healthcare team to understand
how the cancer has progressed and what treatment options are available.

An M score of 1 automatically classifies cancer as stage 4. Still, prognosis of an M1
case varies depending on the T and N classifications of the cancer.

Substages
Some stage 4 cancers have sub-stages. For example, stage 4 prostate cancer maybe
labeled as stage 4A. This means it has spread to lymph nodes near the site.

Stage 4B means the spread is farther away, and the cancer may have reached bones or distant lymph nodes.4

Treatment
Stage 4 cancer usually can’t be cured. In addition, because it’s usually spread throughout the body by the time it’s diagnosed, it is unlikely the cancer can be completely removed.

The goal of treatment is to prolong survival and improve your quality of life.

An oncologist will treat the cancer depending on its type, where it has spread, and
other factors. Some of the options include surgery, medication (targeted therapy),
immunotherapy, and chemotherapy.5

Surgery
Surgery typically is not used to treat stage 4 cancer. However, if the sites of spread are small and there aren’t very many of them, they can be removed along with the primary tumor. In these instances, surgery may relieve symptoms and help prevent the cancer
from spreading even more.

Targeted Therapy
Some cancer cells can be treated with medications that
target specific proteins or genetic mutations.

These drugs work in different ways. For example, some help starve a tumor
of its blood supply, while others block signals that prompt cancer cells to divide.

Testing can determine whether your tumor could respond to any of
the available targeted therapy drugs.

Immunotherapy
Immunotherapy relies on drugs that use your immune system,
including blood proteins called antibodies, to attack tumor cells.

Immunotherapy drugs exist for many types of cancer, including bladder, breast, colon
and rectum, kidney, liver, lung, and blood (leukemia, lymphoma, and multiple myeloma).6

 How Immunotherapy Works for Cancer

Palliative Care
Stage 4 cancer treatment often includes palliative care. The goal of palliative care is
to improve quality of life and increase comfort. It is provided by a team of healthcare
providers and social workers who work with seriously ill patients.

It is not hospice or end-of-life care. Rather, palliative care is designed to relieve pain,
ease stress, and help a person with advanced cancer to cope with symptoms.

Palliative care may be used in stage 4 cancer pain management. One example might be
the use of radiation therapy to shrink a tumor that’s causing pain or interfering with body functions.

This type of care may also include counseling to help people manage mental
and emotional issues that arise with chronic or life-threatening illnesses.7

 How Palliative Care Is Used in Cancer

Stage 4 Prognosis
In many cases, stage 4 cancer can’t be cured. However, this is not true of all cancers.
Stage 4 testicular cancer, for example, is highly curable. Lymphomas are highly curable
regardless of stage.

How stage 4 cancer is likely to progress (its prognosis) depends on the type of cancer.
Some advanced cancers are very aggressive and fast-growing. Some may have fewer
treatment options than others. The outlook for these cases is not likely to be positive.

However, remember that even when stage 4 cancer can’t be cured, it isn’t necessarily
terminal—in other words, it doesn’t necessarily mean that the end of life is near.

People with stage 4 cancer often live many years after diagnosis, which
is why it’s more accurate to describe it as “advanced” or “late stage.”

Survival Rates
One aspect of the prognosis for cancer is called relative survival rate.
This refers to the overall percentage of people with a certain diagnosis who are likely
to live a specific amount of time. This can be further broken down by stages of cancer.

The rates for advanced cancers are based on statistics published in the National Cancer Institute’s Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program database.8

SEER does not use TNM to classify cancers. Instead, it uses three stages—localized, regional, and distant—with “distant” generally meaning the same thing as stage 4.
It refers to cancer that has spread far beyond the original site.

Five-Year Survival Rates for Distant (Stage 4) Cancer
Cancer Type: Relative 5-Year Survival Rate
Leukemia* 65.7%
Non-Hodgkin lymphoma* 63.9% 
Thyroid 53.3% 
Prostate 32.3% 
Melanoma (skin) 31.9%
Breast (female) 30.0%
Uterine (endometrial) 18.4% 
Kidney, renal pelvic 15.3%
Colon and rectal 15.1% 
Bladder 7.7% 
Lung and bronchus 7.0%
Pancreatic 3.1% *
Lymphoma and leukemia are staged differently from other cancers. The non-Hodgkin lymphoma number is the stage 4 survival while the leukemia number refers to the five-year survival rate at any stage. *Relative 5-Year Survival Rate Sarcoma’s – Search (bing.com)

Other factors that affect the prognosis for stage 4 cancer include age, overall health, smoking history, and performance status (PS).9 PS is how well a person is able to perform everyday tasks. It’s based on a classification system that uses a scale of 0 to 5.10

Remission
It doesn’t happen often, but some cancers can go into remission even if they are stage 4. Breast cancer is one such example.

Remission is when the signs and symptoms of cancer have gone away to the point where doctors declare the patient has been successfully treated.11

Remission rates for stage 4 cancer vary. Even if a stage 4 cancer patient goes into remission, the cancer will probably come back. In cases like these, the stage 4 remission may instead be termed no evidence of disease (NED).6

Summary
Stage 4 cancer, sometimes called advanced cancer or late-stage cancer, is cancer that has metastasized (spread) to other parts of the body from the original site. This happens when cancer cells break away from the primary tumor and enter the bloodstream or lymphatic system.

Symptoms of stage 4 cancer mainly depend on which organs are affected, though there may be no symptoms at all.

The prognosis for stage 4 cancer, often described in terms of survival rate, typically is not good. However, it does vary among different types of cancer. The treatment goal is not to cure stage 4 cancer, but to ease symptoms, improve quality of life, and try to keep it from progressing.

Survival rates for some cancers are low.
But they are improving. For instance, compared to breast cancer average life expectancy statistics of the 1980s, those after 2010 nearly doubled.12 With next-generation targeted therapies and immunotherapies, as-well-as those gains are likely to continue.
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To Sweden with LOVE

Posted on May 30, 2023 by Ken
Tess Meyer makes approximately $45,000 per year as a consultant in
Sweden and pays a 33% income tax. © Courtesy of Tess Meyer

I moved from the US to Sweden after struggling with burnout.
Now I have 6 weeks of paid vacation per year and rarely work overtime.
Story by htowey@insider.com (Hannah Towey)

Tess Meyer, a 30-year-old consultant from California, moved to Sweden after struggling with burnout. Now she rarely works overtime, gets six weeks of paid vacation a year, and got a free master’s. But it took her two years to secure a full-time job and her salary is lower than it was in the US.
This story is part of a series called Millennial World, which seeks to examine the state of the generation around the globe. This as-told-to essay is based on an interview with Tess Meyer, a 30-year-old consultant from California and author of the blog Sweden and Me. She has chosen to omit the name of her employer due to the company’s media policy.

The following has been edited for length and clarity.
I’m originally from Burbank, California, and moved to Sweden four and a half years ago. My partner and I currently live in Malmö, a city on the southernmost tip of the country
30 minutes away from Copenhagen, Denmark.
Before this, I was living in the US working 50 hours a week and feeling burned out.
When I was 23 years old, I left my corporate job at a company I’d been with for four
years and moved back in with my parents.

That’s when I started researching happiness. If you type in “happy” into Google, Scandinavian countries are consistently ranked as the happiest countries in the world.
So, in 2016, I decided to come out to the Nordic region and spent two weeks traveling around to Copenhagen, Stockholm, and Helsinki to figure out if I could see myself living there someday.
I connected to the way of life and the values of Swedish society — specifically, the focus on sustainability and not letting stress rule your life. The work-life balance here is incredible. It’s not about working late to get that gold star. In Sweden, if you work late, your boss might flag that your workload is too high, or that you’re not capable enough to do your work within work hours. 

As a Swedish resident, I was able to get a free master’s degree
My partner, who is also American, works in the video-game industry.
Back in the US, he worked for PlayStation. They don’t have an office in Sweden,
but a lot of other video-game studios do, so he was able to get a job offer pretty quickly.  
His company sponsored both of our residencies and work visas, so we had the ability to live and work in Sweden full time. Once we moved here, we went to the immigration and tax agencies and filled out all the paperwork. It took around three months to get everything settled.
I started looking for work, but ended up going back to school. I applied twice for a one-year master’s program at the local university. The first time, I applied as an American resident and got accepted. It would have been about $13,000, which isn’t that bad by American standards.
But then I applied again a year later as a Swedish resident with a Swedish social-security number. The same program accepted me again — except this time, it would be completely free.

The unemployment rate in Sweden is 7.5%, according to April 2023 data. Jacek Kadaj/Getty Images
It took me two years to find a full-time job. © Jacek Kadaj/Getty Images

The unemployment rate in Sweden is 7.5%, according to April 2023 data. 
After graduation, it was difficult to find a job — it took me two years. I have both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree from the US and a 2nd master’s degree from Sweden.
I’m also a native English speaker, which is attractive to a lot of companies here.
It’s incredibly tough to get into the Swedish job network.
It’s about who you know, and culture fit is really important to the companies here.
I eventually was able to get a job at a major consulting firm, where I’ve been for two and a half years now. I met the team at a university career fair, where they invited me to lunch and an informal interview, and then I formally applied. So it was very much about who
I knew and my relationship with them before I even submitted an application. But before that, I had probably put out about 100 applications and networked as much as I could.

I know a lot of other very intelligent expats who also have master’s degrees and can present themselves well who have a hard time in the Swedish job market. It’s definitely dependent on the type of work you want to do. If you’re coming here with a tech background or as a developer, you’re going to find a job instantly.
Personally, I was looking for work within human resources, but I didn’t know Swedish labor laws or the Swedish language, so that eliminated a lot of jobs that I could go for. Also, a lot of companies here are good with their recruitment pipelines with the university students. They occasionally hire students two years in advance.

My salary is lower than it was in the US, but the cost of living is more affordable 
My salary here as an American can feel very low, but I feel wealthy in Sweden. You don’t need to make a lot of money to live a good life. Back in the US, I was making $60,000 a year before taxes and that was almost eight years ago. Here, my annual salary is around $45,000 a year before taxes.
Compared to my friends in Sweden, that’s a competitive salary. The country has a very short salary scale. It’s all about income equality, so you don’t see these huge ranges that you might see in the US. 
The cost of living in Sweden, especially where I live, is very affordable. I have a two-bedroom apartment that’s slightly over 800 square feet and we pay around $1,000 a month. We don’t need a car because there’s great public transportation and you can bike everywhere. Healthcare in Sweden is basically free — outpatient-visit costs are capped at $125 a year and prescription-drugs costs are capped at $246 a year. 
Eating and drinking out can be a little expensive because there’s a value-added tax.
When I eat out here, I’ll pay similar prices to what I did in LA, but of course,
my salary isn’t as high.

Meyer goes into the office one to three times a week. "I love work from home," she told Insider. Courtesy of Tess Meyer
I rarely work overtime and employee well-being is prioritized.
© Courtesy of Tess Meyer

Meyer goes into the office one to three times a week.
“I love to work from home,” she told Insider.
In the office, it’s quiet around 4:30 p.m. every single day. I never get meetings
after three o’clock on Fridays because people are getting their weekends started.
It’s very normal to take a long lunch or to leave to go to an appointment,
get your hair cut, or to go to an exercise class. Well-being is prioritized.
Also, if you ever need to show up late or miss work or leave early because of your kids,
it’s never questioned. No one blinks an eye — you’re expected to be an involved parent.

I very rarely need to work overtime. I work in consulting, which is typically one of the
most demanding industries when it comes to work-life balance. I have friends who work
at the same firm in the US who have much more demanding schedules.
There’s just a real sense of trust that everyone will do the work that the company assigns them. And if you need to do that early in the morning or late at night because you have a family commitment, that’s great, that’s on you. It’s not a micromanaging and performative culture where you have to sit at your desk even though you’re not doing anything.
If I’m done with my work and it’s 3:30 p.m., then I’m going to leave, and nobody
worries about it.

Sweden's Annual Leave Act gives workers the legal right to take at least four weeks of consecutive paid vacation between the months of June and August. Courtesy of Tess Meyer
I get six weeks of paid vacation every year and I use it all.
© Courtesy of Tess Meyer

Sweden’s Annual Leave Act gives workers the legal right to take at least
four weeks of consecutive paid vacation between the months of June and August.
In Sweden, after you work for a company for a full year, you are legally guaranteed 25 days of paid vacation and you can take up to four consecutive weeks of paid time off during the summer. In fact, you actually get paid a slightly higher salary during your vacation days.
My company gives us six weeks of paid vacation per year, and I take all of it. I personally haven’t taken four weeks in a row because as an American, I’m like, what would I do for four weeks without work? So I take two or three weeks here and there while spreading out long weekends throughout the year. Also, if you don’t take the full 25 days, you can roll over up to five days to the next year. 
I spend the majority of my vacation visiting family and traveling around Europe.
I have a work phone and a personal phone, so unless there’s something happening at the office that I had been actively involved in, I won’t even bring my work phone with me.
For nine out of 10 trips, my work phone stays at my apartment, turned off.
Because I made such drastic changes in my life and moved across the world to improve my work-life balance, I’m very protective over it. I’ve actually had multiple Swedish colleagues tell me that they aspire to be more like me when it comes to setting boundaries.
My motivation is just so high because I gave up being near my family, higher salaries,
the friendliness of Americans, and the amazing nature in the US to move here.

I’m not sure if we will eventually move back to the US After our five-year mark,
we will apply for Swedish citizenship and still retain my US citizenship.
The way I think about it is that my career is just one pillar of my life.
My relationship with my partner, my friends, my family, my wellness and
personal development — all of those things also need time and attention.
I felt like working in the US, you could only focus on your career and one or two other pillars — that was the most I had space for. Now I really feel that I have the space to manage more of those pillars, which feels good.
I’m not sure if we will eventually move back to the US. We really miss being close to family. It’s hard having a 12-hour flight and a nine-hour time difference between us.
We love living in Europe, and we are different people after having lived here for almost five years. It doesn’t help to see the political climate in the US and the shootings.
It’s horrific watching the news. If we’re planning to have a family in the future, the paid parental leave in Sweden is 480 days. That’s over a year and a half. Just to give that up would feel like a huge sacrifice.

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