My wife's peri mets were apparently necrosed by enhanced immune and metabolic treatment her first few weeks. We took a heavy duty first aid approach to what turned out to be mCRC,
started immediately, and then added daily chemo later. Based on more recent papers I've read, this approach may be useful to SRCC too.
We used Life Extension's articles to
immediately start "first aid for CRC" and gain important opportunities that conventional medicine hasn't recognized yet, within the first days and weeks. This worked well for us, despite confused information, delays, and some drs that gave up too soon or were too circumspect.
Our CRC first aid plan:
1.
Cimetidine and high potency immune supplements, with some extras beyond LEF to immediately launch an immune attack, reduce surgical mets and complications, and remove gross deficiencies e.g. vitamin D,
for example.
2.
Extra bloodwork. You can't measure, plan, treat or talk about what you can't see. We just order and pay cash for extra blood tests, most of the time. If you have better bloodwork, you can talk about them, better compare, and ask questions.
SRCC has had some light shined on its genetics in the last 7 years. MMP, BRAF and KRAS mutations are
more common in SRCC, perhaps even more defects combined at one time. These mutations individually have mild, off label adjuvants that have been discussed in the literature. These are adjuvants that we've used with
measurable successes combined with daily chemo.
CA199 is often associated with BRAF and KRAS mutations. If one takes a treat-the-marker(s) approach for CRC, CA199 is useful in the 20s and above (not the ~37 unit cutoff quoted for
initial pancreatic cancer
detection). Some mild but important treatment components we have used for CA199, are high(est) dose cimetidine and IV vitamin C with
daily 5FU based chemo. Although the Japanese recommended 800 mg cimetidine, we used 1600 mg per day for my wife for several years, where some guys may only tolerate 1000-1200 mg/day.
........................................................................................................................................................................[1201] Basically we tend to take the Life Extension recommendations from 2010 and customize (trim/add) them based on papers, labs and scan results. When I don't like the "standard" curve things are on, time to find a better one.