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Jennifer…came to see me three months
ago. She was suffering from severe
abdominal pain and nausea. She was extremely jaundiced; even
the whites of her eyes were yellow. She came asking me about her
pancreatic cancer and what I could do about it. As she looked half
dead sitting in my office, there was little I could
suggest.
First of all, I do not treat
cancer.
I explained that to her, then I
tried to review everything she had done up to the present, what
doctors she had seen, imaging performed, therapies undertaken, etc.
It was hard to sit there and talk to her and not be alarmed at her
appearance.
The word cachexia comes to mind
(emaciation, wasting away). She said she was through with all
medical intervention and they had sent her home to die. All I could
do was to offer some nutritional support to help ease her pain and
suffering. I explained when stem cell mutate they produce an enzyme
called malignanin which eats healthy tissue.
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