Six Miracle Cancer Survivors (2/3)

— Continued from PART 1 (Case studies of Sharon Belvin & Charles Burrows) —

Here are some of the selected 6 cases (courtsey: Forbes) which everyone muse read & appreciate their willpower…

	Joseph Rick 48 years old / Los Angeles / Melanoma The story: High school social studies teacher Joseph Rick spotted a purple pimple on the small of his back in 2002. Soon it had spread into his colon. Nine surgeries and 40 chemo rounds over two years failed to stop it. By fall 2004, dozens of tumors riddled his body. Doctors gave Rick, then 43, four months to live. Rick bought a grave site for himself and went home to his condo to die. By December, his weight had plummeted to 90 pounds from 240. He could barely walk.
The Recovery Rick heard about a new immune-system-boosting drug being tested at UCLA, similar to the one Sharon Belvin received. A week after his first infusion, visible brown tumors on his neck and thigh began to fade, and his appetite returned. By March, his tumors had shrunk 25%, and by early 2006, they were gone. When he could go back to work, he broke into tears watching the sunrise. But Rick’s drug, from Pfizer, failed to beat chemotherapy in a final stage trial last year. It remains in earlier stage human trials, but it is not clear when or if it will be approved.
	Jamie C. Spencer 57 years old / Yakima, Wash. / Pancreatic cancer The story: Jamie Spencer had a summer from hell in 2001. Her son was murdered during a mugging. She lost her job and her health insurance. And after months of strange symptoms like painful blisters on her back, she was diagnosed with inoperable pancreatic cancer. The tumor snaked around the portal vein supplying blood to the liver, making surgery impossible. “They said I had less than a 2% chance of surviving,” she recalls.
The Recovery Her only shot was if doctors could shrink the tumor enough so surgeons could operate. Oncologist Vincent Picozzi at Virginia Mason Medical Center put her on a radical regimen: three months of heavy-duty chemotherapy with two drugs, followed by a fourth month that combined daily radiation with infusions of a third chemo drug. She lost her hair, but the tumor shrunk. A nine-hour operation in March 2002 removed the rest … But just in case, she got more chemo. Now, she has been cancer free for seven years. “It was a miracle that the treatment worked,” she says. Researchers are now testing a similar regimen in mid-stage human trials.

You can now help various Cancer affected people with little donation. Please note that these donations would be used towards the betterment of facilities for the Cancer patients. Come, let’s help humans…

— CLICK HERE for Part 3 (Case studies of Jan Lesser & Barbara Bradfield) —

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4 Responses to “Six Miracle Cancer Survivors (2/3)”

Shriver Says: June 4th, 2009 at 8:33

I am in a frenzy over fathers day coming up. My dad is soo cool let me tell you. No really I haven’t the slighest clue what to get him for fathers day. Most years I don’t really get my dad anything for fathers day. He didn’t provide anything for me, I mean I paid for my college myself, bought my first car myself, oops this isn’t my appointment with my shrink. I know im slap happy people just tell me what hobbies your fathers have for this coming holiday please please. Actually I just need your opinions on what to get dad for fathers day.

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