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Mantra of the Vigilant Healer
“I do not sweeten truth to soothe the masses. I extract it raw, like honey from the golden comb, yes, but never diluted. I am the pulse between humbling justice and universal mercy, the voice who names what others disguise. In every diagnosis, every decree, I divinely serve the sacred, unmasked, unbought, and to aid in the healing of the broken."
Cancer, Radiation Treatment, Chemotherapy, and Hospice
I dedicate this medical journey for anyone to have to ponder the sole decision when faced with the diagnosis of cancer and what is the best course of treatment plan, regarding such a prolific journey and what methods to heed when subjugating the body to its path to reach remission, eradicate cancerous cells, to prolong life, to decrease the metastasis, or to assure the essence of quality acceptance when in the terminal stages.
As a Director of Nursing for a private funded Jewish Senior Assisting Living and Rehabilitation Center, my primary duties are to oversee a vast population of its geriatric patients and terminal ill residents. Moreover, a practicing licensed APRN for Mental Health in the state of New York.
And what I encounter the most for family members is, could they have done anything different to have deterred the life of their loved ones, friends, or simply an acquaintance. Before I really give you my medical view, we must come to an understanding of just what cancer is.
Cancer (Cancer refers to any one of a large number of diseases characterized by the development of abnormal cells that divide uncontrollably and could infiltrate and destroy normal body tissue. Cancer often can spread throughout your body.
Cancer tends to be the second-leading cause of death in the world. But survival rates are improving for many types of cancer, thanks to improvements in cancer screening, various treatment plans, and prevention.
Cancer is primarily caused by changes, better words, and mutations to the DNA within cells. The DNA inside a cell is bundled into many individual genes, each of which contains a set of commands telling the cell what functions to perform, as well as how to grow and divide, the body is fascinating and can function when not under stress, under illness, or complied with drugs or alcohol.
In a pure state, the body can heal itself, let me clarify that, I am speaking about non-sub dermal trauma, such as cuts, scraps, or light abrasions. It can regenerate new cells and circulate our blood flow through the chambers of the heart, lungs, and to rid our body of toxins through or filtration system (the kidneys) it maintains our glucose level utilization our pancreas… we are all born with such fascination organs, tissue, ligaments, tendons, bones, and muscles.
What happen when the fundamental of our daily lives are turned to a fighting battle from within, our internal breeding ground of healthiness has been comprised with the words, “you have cancer” after a biopsy of malignant diagnoses has been proven. From that point, the mind has many questions to ponder; a treatment plan, which if it is caught in time to begin the measure of treatment, the initial stages, has it progressed, or has not metastasized to other cells, organs, and can or will you get through this unplanned life altering ordeal.
To be diagnosed with cancer in the new millennium does not hold the same death sentence as of old when the medical communities were still trying to allocate less invasive treatment, enlisting the most common forms of treatment from chemo, radiation, or surgically removing its hindrance. Scientists’ perfecting their FDA equations to approve various medications that can deter such an unexpected fate of existence.
Take those components into consideration and I will outline some notions, anyone who knows of someone, or who is living with cancer themselves.
The Major Components To Diagnose Cancer Is From Various Sources
The first advice for anyone is to have a health check yearly with fasting blood work. For men, I will always recommend a prostate exam and a colorectal exam.
Blood work can advise your Physician or Nurse Practitioner, and in lieu of certain types of cancer if, by heredity, you are susceptible to cancer or can become predisposed.
During a physical exam, your doctor may look for abnormalities, such as changes in skin color or enlargement of an organ, that may indicate the presence of cancer.
Most physicians would order a complete blood work up, such as urine and blood tests, which in part may help your doctor identify irregularities that may or may not be caused by cancer. For instance, in people with leukemia, a common blood test called complete blood count (CBC) may reveal an unusual number or type of white blood cells.
Then you have Imaging tests, these ordered tests will allow your doctor to examine your bones and internal organs in a noninvasive way. Imaging tests used in diagnosing cancer may include a computerized tomography (CT) scan, bone scan, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), positron emission tomography (PET) scan, ultrasound and X-ray, among other tests.
The most feared testing no one wants to hear, if they need to biopsy the tissue and send it to pathology.
During a biopsy, your doctor collects a sample of cells for testing in the laboratory. There are several ways of collecting a sample. Which biopsy procedure is right for you depends on your type of cancer and its location. In most situations, a biopsy is the only way to definitively diagnose cancer, a sure prognosis to see if the cancer is benign (not becoming cancerous a benign lung tumor) or malignant (the term literally means growing worse and resisting treatment).
In the laboratory, doctors look at cell samples under the microscope. Normal cells look uniform, with similar sizes and orderly organization. Cancer cells look less orderly, with varying sizes and without apparent organization, moreso erratic in their premature course.
The Cancer Diagnosis
Once cancer is unfortanley diagnosed, your doctor would most likely refer you to seeing.
An Oncologist (Medical Oncologists treat cancer using chemotherapy, hormonal therapies, biological therapies, and other targeted treatments).
Hematologist (Is a doctor who specializes in researching, diagnosing, treating, and preventing blood disorders and disorders of the lymphatic system (lymph nodes and vessels) will work to determine the extent (stage) of your cancer. Your doctor uses your cancer’s stage to determine your treatment options and your chances for a cure.
These specialists will determine staging tests and procedures, which may include imaging tests, such as bone scans or even X-rays, to see if the cancer has spread to other parts of the body.
The stages of cancer are indicated by the numbers 0 through 4, which are often written as Roman numerals 0 through IV. It saddens me because higher numbers indicate a more-advanced cancer. In addition, some cancer advances faster than others.
The Three Most Common Cancers In Men, Women, And Children In The U.S.
Men: Prostate, lung, and colorectal
Women: Breast, lung, and colorectal
Children: Leukemia, brain tumors, and lymphoma
Pancreatic cancer is one of the most aggressive cancers in existence. It kills quickly and causes multiple painful and dangerous symptoms including stomach pain, biliary obstruction, bleeding, ascites, and more.
Pancreatic cancer had the lowest one-year survival rate in men (23.7 per cent) and women (25.3 per cent) and for five-year survival in both men (6.4 per cent) and women (7.5 per cent). Generally, those who are diagnosed at an earlier stage have a better chance of survival. Those are some very discouraging statistics, if I am allowed to mention.
As cancer goes, glioblastoma is one of the worst types you can be diagnosed with.
What Is The Fastest Cancer To Kill You
Probably about the fastest is a type of lung cancer called small cell lung carcinoma where, untreated, death is usual in weeks, in addition, acute leukemia, untreated, can kill in days, although, weeks is probably more likely. With treatment, I would have to agree with the statistics that both pancreas and brain (glioblastoma multiforme) have horrible prognoses, and a grim reminder for anyone who’ve watch their loved one suffer under such a fate
Various Way To Combat Cancer
Surgery, the goal of surgery is to remove cancer or as many of the cancer cells as possible.
Chemotherapy uses drugs to kill cancer cells.
Radiation therapy, uses high-powered energy beams, such as X-rays and protons, to kill cancer cells. Radiation treatment can come from a machine outside your body (external beam radiation), or it can be placed inside your body (brachytherapy).
Bone Marrow Transplant, a bone marrow transplants are also known as a stem cell transplant. Your bone marrow is the material inside your bones that makes blood cells. A bone marrow transplant can use your own cells or cells from a live donor.
Besides Bone Marrow transplants, most doctors are researching how stem cells can aid in fighting some cancers from progressing. That is why I strongly advocate a woman who have just given birth to keep the sacred placenta, it is a mecca that holds stem cells and can be refrigerated or frozen. Most hospitals use placenta stem cells in various research.
A bone marrow transplant allows your doctor to use higher doses of chemotherapy to treat your cancer. It may also be used to replace diseased bone marrow.
Breakthrough Information To Battle Cancer(s)
A groundbreaking study conducted by Children's Hospital & Research Center Oakland is the first to reveal a new avenue for harvesting stem cells from a woman's placenta, or more specifically the discarded placentas of healthy newborns. The study also finds there are far more stem cells in placentas than in umbilical cord blood, and they can be safely extracted for transplantation.
Furthermore, it is highly likely that placental stem cells, like umbilical cord blood and bone marrow stem cells, can be used to cure chronic blood-related disorders such as sickle cell disease, thalassemia, and leukemia.
For more information on Children's Hospital & Research Center Oakland, I have enclosed the link below
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090623091119.htm
(cited 09-14-25-K.)
K. Director of Nursing, APRN
Please take care of your heart, mind, body and feed spiritual enlightment to the core of your beautiful soul, we are all in this combative universal fight, we need divine unity in these peril times, not separation of embracing minds.
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