Scared that the beast will come back

Hi Aoife,

You have every right to be scared that your cancer will return, nobody can give you a guarantee that it won't. Dont let it rule your life, take every day as it comes and enjoy living and don't look back. I was operated on for colon cancer in 2000 and went through 6 months of chemo. I have been clean since then but will be going for my annual check on 28th January. Although I don't want to think of it it is in the back of my mind that problems could be picked up, but I refuse to allow it to rule my life. Just keep thinking in a positive vein.

Regards and best wishes,

Terrence 

Of course it is natural to worry about the "Big C" making a reappearance and there is good reason to worry as well as good things to do to make sure that your worries never come true.

There is reason to worry because in order for cancer to appear, it had to get past your natural first line of defense in the first place - your immune system, and the odds are also very great that you had a liver that was functioning at less than 100%.  Furthermore, mainstream medical procedures, such as surgery, chemo and radiation do not really address the underlying causes that led to the cancer, but instead are targeted to get rid of the symptoms of those causes - the tumors, cysts, cancerous cells.

If the underlying causes are not addressed there is a very good chance that the cancer may come back at some point if the same conditions ever exist again that led to the cancer.  Which could be another way of saying that if a person has their cancer eliminated and then goes back to the same unhealthy lifestyle or circumstances that led to it in the first place, it may very well return.

To best protect against a repeat of cancer, my suggestion is to adapt a much healthier lifestyle that addresses toxins and contaminants in the body and your environment, a healthy diet, elimination/lessening of stress, fresh air, pure water, ample sunshine, and enough nutritional supplementation to make sure that your daily needs of vital vitamins, minerals (including trace minerals) and other nutrients are met.

Beyond that, take extra measures to rebuild and strengthen the immune system and to protect and regenerate the liver.

And I would suggest that you look to nature for your answers.  Regardless of what mainstream doctrine may tell you, God and nature are not quacks.

 For more information, I suggest the cancer fighting and immune boosting articles found here:

http://www.tbyil.com/articles.htm

Especially

A Natural Anti Cancer Protocol

One final note - no one, and I mean NO ONE, is genetically pre-determined to have cancer.  They may be predisposed to coming down with cancer more easily and cancer may run in their family due not only to genetic pre-dispositions and similar family lifestyles (such as diet).

 Regardless of family history, and regardless of your own history, you can keep cancer at bay through nature and a committed healthy lifestyle. 

Live long, live healthy, live happy!

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On 1/19/2008 struggling wrote:

i think everyone that has replied to this thread has/had a completely different kind of cancer then what my dad has but the message is still the same and i got a warm fuzzy feeling reading alot of what is written on this page. i think no matter how much you may not like it or how long "the beast" has been gone it is always a part of you. the memory, the feelings, the emotions of the experience (the good the bad and the ugly) will always be there. however that isn't neccessarily bad. you have a choice dwell on the negative and let that guide your life, or you take the negative learn from it turn it into positive and live every moment of you life to the fullest!!! cancer or no cancer everyone should live their life that way. life is far to short and it's a shame that it seems to take some really bad stuff to realize that sometime :)

i hope this all made sense i think i kinda babbled a bit but i kinda got a little lost in my thoughts there!

Be strong, be well, live fully

Renee

I finished chemo in eary july of 2006 for Colon cancer  and have had negative tests since then.  I always get anxious around test time and know that most of us do.I think time may help with some of this .  Recently I started to visit a therapist and it feels wonderful just to tell the story and voice my fears with no body having to buck me up. i say things I never would say to my husband - because I don't want him to worry needlesly.  What comes next is out of our control anyway,is'nt it.