Well known personalities who have passed away recently (Renamed)

[red750]

Aussie TV personality of the 80's, Simon Townsend, host of Wonderworld.

[onetrack]

I'm quite surprised at how cancer is claiming so many of the recent deceased, well-known people. I always wonder if it's their lifestyle, diet or job that gives them cancer, or if they simply have genes that are receptive to acquiring cancer.

[facthunter]

OLD people get more cancers... Way back people died of other things. There's not many Cancers actually CURED. They consider 5 years a cure. I don't  think that's much of a cure, Stressful lifestyles don't help. While our lives have been extended  till about now, I don't see that trend continuing much longer and may be reversed.   Nev

[Grumpy Old Nasho]

Simon successfully beat a cancer way before this one, back in the sixties. The Liberal party conscription cancer. I should have adopted Simon's cure when I had the chance.

 

Ex conscripts view Simon Townsend as a brave soul who made good after the inhuman treatment he endured in jail, just bread and water for a number of weeks, in solitary confinement in a bare concrete cell.

 

I'm saddened by Simon's death at only 79 - R.I.P

 

Fortunately for Australia, all the Nazi Liberal party torturers of that time are underground, except for little Johnny Howard.

 

I once had cancer lite, stomach ulcer that turned cancerous. Easy to get rid of without much trouble, but still a bit scary.

[onetrack]

Alan Green, the founder of the Quiksilver surfing clothing and equipment brand, has passed away at age 77 after a brief battle with cancer.

 

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-16/surf-brand-quiksilver-alan-green-dies/104824096

[facthunter]

It's always called a "BATTLE with Cancer". Strange?  Nev

[facthunter]

There's many I know who've succumbed to it. Can be a dreadful time. Nev

[pmccarthy]

But it isn't a battle, you just have to take each day as it comes.

[facthunter]

Many of the treatments have serious  side effects. Nev

[Grumpy Old Nasho]

I applied my own remedy using natural cyanide, rather than chemo. I never told the specialist. He was shocked how well it cleared up, and only in three weeks.

[pmccarthy]

I went the chemo route. Still a bit buggered eight years later but happy to be here.

[red750]

I had surgery first, followed by chemo. Lost some important organs while drastically chamged my life, then chemo seriously affected my hearing, I'm sure created terrible tinnitus, and gave me vertigo, affecting my balance. But I get up every day, walk with the aid of a walker or shopping trolley if more than 20 metres, and can walk around the house or Men's Shed (a bit like I was drunk), and still drive, although some might think I shouldn't.

[Grumpy Old Nasho]

There'd hardly be any cancer if everyone crunched seeds between there teeth. Seeds have cyanide in them for fighting cancer, and instead we just throw seeds away. What do you do with apple seeds, spit them out? and orange seeds? Best to chew them up and get the good stuff into ya.

[onetrack]

A lot of seeds are poisonous, too. I'd be very careful about handing out uncontrolled medicine advice. I've got to 3/4 of a century, disease-free, without any need or desire, to crunch up and eat seeds of fruits.

 

Where's the peer-approved medicinal trial results that prove fruit seeds contain cancer-killing chemicals and are highly recommended to include in a healthy diet?

 

 

Edited Saturday at 02:10 AM by onetrack

[Grumpy Old Nasho]

Well, Chemo is more dangerous than seeds, and it's peer-approved so much it makes your hair fall out, weakens your whole body, and if you're not careful, it will kill you .. that's also peer-approved, they'll even tell you about a peer-approved "5 years", if you go into remission.

 

Seeds are a preventative measure, but they can cure cancer lite once you've got it. I'm living proof of that, and I'm way past the 5 years, something like 25 years. I'm not the only one either, I got the good word from other victims who are still alive many years after trying them. 

 

I look at fruit a different way now, a more wholesome way. The juicy flesh and skin is for fiber a cleansing, and the seeds are for disease prevention. I split the seeds with a knife and swallow them. In my juicer, the seeds get pulverised and the drink then includes the beneficial cyanide.

 

Another way is to powder the seeds and sprinkle it over your breakfast cereal.  

[onetrack]

What is "cancer lite"??? Doesn't sound like a very medical term to me, and I was under the impression there was only cancer, the disease, no divisions into various grades of the disease.

 

Yes, chemo is not ideal, and often has many side effects. The bottom line is the medical fraternity is continually improving the chemo drugs and reducing the side effects.

We've had radiation treatment for a long time and initially, it was terrible, it killed as many people as it saved - now, it's targeted and selective, and very effective.

 

My brother (84) has just had radiation treatment after prostate surgery (to remove a tumour) and he's had a poor opinion of doctors and medical treatments for decades.

However, he's changed his tune now, reckons the treatment he's been getting is fabulous, and he's recovered 100%, and feeling great.

He still does everything he wants to do without problems, goes on holidays in his Landcruiser and caravan, and is enjoying life.

 

He was that wrapped in his cancer treatment, that he went and had his right knee reconstructed as well! After 7 weeks, he reckons he's never walked so good in the last 25 years, as he does now.

[facthunter]

Everyone's cancer is peculiar to them. It's defined by where it occurs but if it metastasises it goes to the lymph gland and  spreads to near places as well. YOUR cells grow in an unregulated way because they are damaged.. Thats what I've been told. IF the particular chemo substance can be checked against your cancerous cells the effect can be better for you if they work more specifically. Like antibiotics which are often broad spectrum and if used a lot cease to do much. eventually.   If your Cancer survives the surviving cell types will have resistance to that Particular Chemo. and it will become less effective  so they will have to try something else. There's one treatment where it boosts your own immunity and that can work for quite a while. Avoid stress, alcohol and sugar and try to improve your general health and not lose a lot of weight  IF you get emaciated, it's not helpful. Nev

[old man emu]

I recently heard that research is progressing into the development of anti-cancer vaccines. Also known as therapeutic cancer vaccines, are a type of immunotherapy that trains the immune system to attack cancer cells. They are already being given to pubescent girls to protect them from cervical cancer. 

 

I don't know if the type of cancer is one organ is the same as that in another, so I don't know if there is a one-size-fits-all vaccine. If not, then we can expect that success creating a vaccine to stop one type will enthuse researchers to find the vaccine for the next one, and so on.

[facthunter]

The cancer cells are yours which have gone wrong and grow in a random way that destroys function..  Nev .

[red750]

Cancer is a group of diseases involving abnormal cell growth with the potential to invade or spread to other parts of the body. These contrast with benign tumors, which do not spread. Possible signs and symptoms include a lump, abnormal bleeding, prolonged cough, unexplained weight loss, and a change in bowel movements. Wikipedia    

 

My late wife was first diagnosed with thyroid cancer and almost lost her voice. She was operated on and heer voice was very raspy for a while, like Neville Wran, but returned after 3 months. Later it was found in the womb and she had a histerectomy. Then it was diagnosed in her endometrium. She was treated with chemo and radiation including radiation targeted at the source of cancer using a radioactive isotope. She was informed by her oncologist that she was clear, and would no longer need to see her. Within 3 months she was back in hospital where it was detected in her chest. She passed away a couple of weeks later.

 

With my bladder cancer, once diagnosed, the bladder was removed along with my prostate and pelvic lymph nodes, to prevent it spreading. In recovery, I had nine weeks of chemo. This kills fast growing cells. Fast growing cells include white blood cells, and blood tests before each treatment identified my blood was too weak to proceed, so I required a couple of blood transfusions. However, it did ensure that I have been able to lead a somewhat normal life for almost 11 years.

 

The side effects? I now pee through an opening in my belly, called a stoma, into a plastic external bladder stuck to my belly with an adhesive barrier. Total permanent erectile dysfunction (nothing works).With lack of use your manhood starts to atrophy after six weeks, so I've read, so you can imagine what happens after 11 years. My manhood is now smaller than an acorn.

 

 

[Grumpy Old Nasho]

3 hours ago, onetrack said:

What is "cancer lite"???

Non aggressive cancer.

[facthunter]

A lot of us may have cancer which is later picked up during an Autopsy when you die of something  else. Cancer treatment is often very traumatic as well as facing the obvious risks to your life . The word, "CANCER" is feared by most people.  When I had it 1987  Melanoma, (deep and bad) People stopped seeing me as they don't know what to say. I was only 47.. Nev

[Grumpy Old Nasho]

1 hour ago, facthunter said:

People stopped seeing me as they don't know what to say.

Funny you should say that, in itself it's a terrible affliction.

 

My Aunty, a hundred miles away, had inoperable cancer and neither my Mum or I knew what to say or do. I plucked up the courage to call her and just started engaging in typical conversation, talking about anything but the topic of cancer - big mistake! I should have talked about it and at least comforted her by letting her know we had her in our hearts. She was 66 only.

 

Mum joined in, at my urging, she was her sister after all, but neither of us felt adequately equipped to say the right things to a dying person. I guess it's whatever we feel we would like to be said to ourselves.

[facthunter]

A good rule there and it's a difficult situation as you say. My reaction at the time was disappointment. Their discomfort is of far less a degree than My Predicament. There was one exception who came a long distance to drop in and talk, and .not related or particularly close to me either. I was very DOWN at the time because if you have a hint of Cancer CASA (AVMED) just cancel your licence and did it to Me at the commencement  of  a Perth trip. No warning given.   They got it WRONG anyhow. I'm STILL HERE No chemo  or radiation ever carried out.. Nev

[facthunter]

They DUG A large Piece of my back out, though. MUST have got it all. The biopsy was bad. Nev