Another Round of Tests and Looking Good

 Alrighty, this post is

1) full of good news

2) for nerdy people like me

An overview of my labs and MRI is that

THINGS ARE MOVING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION! 

Praise the LORD!!! I AM ON THE ROAD TO HEALING!!!!

So, here are the details…

Chromogranin A
Chromogranin A is a protein found in the secretory granules of neuroendocrine cells, and is a tumor marker test that helps evaluate effectiveness of treatment.

Because I took a screenshot of a larger sheet where I am tracking my lab results it doesn’t show the dates, so I am listing them below. What you are seeing in the image below are my results as follows

8/22/24 - 103.8          10/1/24 - 105.1          12/6/24 - 121.4          1/16/24  - 91.9

So, as you can see, these numbers are within range for the first time since we started to track them.  The goal is to keep them there!  We will be testing the terrain again in March.

Circulating Tumor Cells (CTC)

This lab is in Germany and we overnight my vials of blood to them.  There was a problem with the first vials we sent so I had to draw a second time.  Thankfully, we got the results in time for my appointment with Dr. Cochran. So, for context sake, the very concerning range for CTC is around 400 and above.  Around 400 is an indicator that the cancer is preparing to metastasize.  I am grateful I never got there.  We are establishing a trend so another test will confirm the trend, and in the meantime we are very happy with what we are seeing here. We will be testing the CTC again in April

MRI

So, I haven’t been graphing the MRI results and I just did that yesterday.  I was thinking that the tumor has “only” shrunk by 2mm, but I am happy to see that there is actually a shrinking of 4mm in length.  While that may seem insignificant, it is REALLY significant because conventional medicine doesn’t believe tumors shrink or go away… well until it happens.  So, that makes it feel more significant to me.  I will let out another breath of relief once we see the thickness start to recede.  I believe that is coming. We will be doing the next MRI in June.

Dr. Cochran is pleased with my results and he was planning on having me continue with what I am doing.  I asked him about a couple of things that I have been seeing and many of my well meaning and loving friends have brought to my attention. And here is where we landed on those things.

Fenbendazole
Fenbendazole is an animal drug for dealing with worms.  Many people online have been claiming it has cured their cancer. Dr. Cochran said Albendazole is the human version that has a little bit better of a safety profile as far as the liver goes.  It’s a good idea to monitor the liver when taking this being that it's still hard on the liver. 

Since it wasn’t something Dr. Cochran thought would be necessary, I opted out because my liver is already overtaxed and I don’t need to add anything more to it.

Ivermectin
Ivermectin is another animal drug for dealing with parasites.  Again, many people online have been claiming it has cured their cancer and a number of other things.  Parasites are a real issue that conventional medicine overlooks most of the time, so I can see how addressing them can benefit one’s health overall. In addition, there is more and more information out that parasites can be a possible root of some cancers.  

Dr. Cochran said that was going to be our next step if we needed to, he also said he would be supportive of me layering it on if I wanted to do that.  The things to know are that it can cause a little bit of dysbiosis in some people, impacting the gut flora.  Since my gut is already compromised but getting better, we will stay on top of that. He said there could be some die off symptoms, but overall it’s safer than Albendazole. He like to “pulse” Ivermectin so I will be taking it 4 days on 3 days off.

Full Extract Cannabis Oil (FECO)
Another thing I have been hearing about is Full Extract Cannabis Oil (FECO ) and how it has helped people.

Dr. Cochran is supportive of it if they have clean certificates of analysis meaning they are not having contaminants with metals, pesticides, etc.  I am going to pulse 3 days a week, alternating with Low Dose Naltrexone, for inflammation.

We will determine the effectiveness of these things with the next round of labs.  So, here we go!