Cancer is a horrible disease. No matter if your cancer type is prostate, or breast cancer, or head-neck cancer, it will change your life. Often times, it is difficult to see the early signs of cancer. Catching your cancer early is very helpful in beating the disease. However, if you don’t catch your cancer early it doesn’t mean the worst.
In 2008, I was diagnosed with head-neck cancer. I had a tumor in my carotid artery sheath and another at the base of my tongue. I went to Mayo hospital in Scottsdale, Arizona where the head of the head-neck cancer department told me that I would need surgery, chemotherapy for at least a year and a half, and radiation.
I knew that conventional doctors tell all their cancer patients that they need surgery, chemotherapy and radiation. It is a requirement, any deviation from those modalities could cost them their medical license. Therefore, I was prepared for that prognosis.
I went to two other physicians to see if there were any other options available. They both mimicked the words offered by the doctors of Mayo hospital; surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation.
I didn’t want chemotherapy drugs and I didn’t want to undergo surgery, but I could live with limited radiation therapy — if I had to. Finding a traditional physician or oncologist to work with you when you refuse both chemotherapy and surgery is impossible. They all want to do surgery and want to give you chemotherapy drugs. It’s what they do.
After seeing the specialists and an oncologist I determined that I needed to take thing into my own hands. It was up to me to find a cure somewhere in the world. I spent the next four months of my life researching all available cancer treatment options. I also looked into treatments available in Mexico, Canada, Europe and South America. It was a daunting search because my life depended on finding a solution that worked.
Finally, after four months of gathering data and information on my type of cancer, I found the solution. What I stumbled upon during my research was hypothermia. Hypothermia is when you heat the body to an elevated temperature, which kills the cancer cells. It is on the same level as a fever. When you get a virus or a cold or whatever, your body naturally fights it off by initiating a fever — heat, It made sense to me. Maybe this could be my cure.
Next, I needed to find a clinic or hospital that specialized in hyperthermia treatments. And I needed documentation as to the efficacy of hyperthermia treatments. How successful was it? The American Medical Association (AMA) and the FDA determined that hyperthermia was still an experimental treatment for cancer. At the time of my research Duke University had the largest hyperthermia facility in the U.S. Further, Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota offered hyperthermia treatments. Still, hyperthermia was considered experimental and that made it difficult to find a facility that offered it and knew what they were doing.
Then, I found the Valley Cancer Institute in Culver City, California. They were using hyperthermia for years and had a great success record, especially for my head-neck cancer type. The long and the short of it is; I went to the clinic and was treated over 5 months. Today, I am cancer free because of the folks at the Valley Cancer Institute. God bless them. Unfortunately, they are no longer open for business due to its founder retiring.
Four months of research culminated into reams of paperwork. Everything was categorized and filed in three ring binders. I still own those notebooks. Those notebooks saved my life.
Today, I am offering those who have been diagnosed with cancer the opportunity to get their own, personalized Cancer Research Notebook covering everything about their cancer and everything about the available treatments worldwide. I put these Cancer Research Notebooks together myself with the same interest and vigor I had when I did my notebooks.
If you are interested in getting one, email me at kanter@sempercogitare.com and I will make sure you get one. Each notebook is $99.00 paid via PayPal.
You’re going to publish a post today. Don’t worry about how your blog looks. Don’t worry if you haven’t given it a name yet, or you’re feeling overwhelmed. Just click the “New Post” button, and tell us why you’re here.
Why do this?
- Because it gives new readers context. What are you about? Why should they read your blog?
- Because it will help you focus you own ideas about your blog and what you’d like to do with it.
The post can be short or long, a personal intro to your life or a bloggy mission statement, a manifesto for the future or a simple outline of your the types of things you hope to publish.
To help you get started, here are a few questions:
- Why are you blogging publicly, rather than keeping a personal journal?
- What topics do you think you’ll write about?
- Who would you love to connect with via your blog?
- If you blog successfully throughout the next year, what would you hope to have accomplished?
You’re not locked into any of this; one of the wonderful things about blogs is how they constantly evolve as we learn, grow, and interact with one another — but it’s good to know where and why you started, and articulating your goals may just give you a few other post ideas.
Can’t think how to get started? Just write the first thing that pops into your head. Anne Lamott, author of a book on writing we love, says that you need to give yourself permission to write a “crappy first draft”. Anne makes a great point — just start writing, and worry about editing it later.
When you’re ready to publish, give your post three to five tags that describe your blog’s focus — writing, photography, fiction, parenting, food, cars, movies, sports, whatever. These tags will help others who care about your topics find you in the Reader. Make sure one of the tags is “zerotohero,” so other new bloggers can find you, too.
Cancer Research Notebooks 