Former Bills coach Bruce DeHaven battling cancer

[YoloinOhio]

Given 3-5 years to live but still coaching with Panthers. Sounds like his son goes to Canisius College.

 

@SalSports: Great to read Bruce DeHaven coaching at camp. Sad, but inspiring read on his battle with cancer here from @theMMQB: http://t.co/FXV0Dn0E2F

[Bob in Mich]

Hopefully at some point he will look into recent research on the possibilities of using cannabis based medicine to treat prostate cancer.

 

There are a lot of first person reports on the web along with articles and research reports like these.

 

http://www.nature.com/bjc/journal/v101/n6/full/6605248a.html

 

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3339795/

 

http://gwpharm.com/oncology.aspx#pc

 

http://www.medicaljane.com/ailment/prostate-cancer/

 

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4358087/

Edited August 3, 2015 by Bob in Mich

[Mr. WEO]

Given 3-5 years to live but still coaching with Panthers. Sounds like his son goes to Canisius College.

 

@SalSports: Great to read Bruce DeHaven coaching at camp. Sad, but inspiring read on his battle with cancer here from @theMMQB: http://t.co/FXV0Dn0E2F

 

 

That's an unusual prognosis for prostate cancer. 3-5 years? Or a few months? It's a very treatable, fairly indolent cancer.

[boyst]

!@#$ cancer

[MyDogLuvsPB]

I'll be adding him to my prayer list. Thanks for the heads up.

[Pilsner]

!@#$ cancer

F£k Sh^t that starts cancer.

[machine gun kelly]

Hopefully at some point he will look into recent research on the possibilities of using cannabis based medicine to treat prostate cancer.

 

There are a lot of first person reports on the web along with articles and research reports like these.

 

http://www.nature.com/bjc/journal/v101/n6/full/6605248a.html

 

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3339795/

 

http://gwpharm.com/oncology.aspx#pc

 

http://www.medicaljane.com/ailment/prostate-cancer/

 

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4358087/

 

I have no problem with someone smoking weed for the nausea and pain side effects of the medicines they take to fight cancer, but I'm suspect of these clinicals stating the chemical in cannibas actually fights cancer. I've worked in the medical field for over 16 years and there are lots of bogus studies that never make it into esteemed journals like NEJOM, Lancet, and so on.

 

Again, if using marijuana helps anyone for their pain, nausea, and vomiting from chemotherapy, it should be legalized in all 50 states. Reglan, Zofran, and so on do not work as well as marijuana for many patients.

 

 

That's an unusual prognosis for prostate cancer. 3-5 years? Or a few months? It's a very treatable, fairly indolent cancer.

Weo:

 

I was thinking something similar, so he must have either done one of three things, had a radical prostatectomy usually with robotics in the DaVinci Arm, Seeds, or fried it with the beam. What this tells me is the cancer in the prstate before treated, must have spread to other parts of his body possibly in untreatable areas. It could have gone into the bone, etc.

 

You have to hope with aggressive therapy, they can stop it. He'll be in for a rough road, getting hospitalized, and too weak to walk, etc for a period of time. I don't wish the Big C on anyone, and lost my mom to another cancer, as I'm sure most of you ahve lost someone to cancer. I will definitely pray for him and his family. I hate to hear he has a daughter in high school, and a son at Canisius College. It must be so hard on them.

[Bob in Mich]

 

I have no problem with someone smoking weed for the nausea and pain side effects of the medicines they take to fight cancer, but I'm suspect of these clinicals stating the chemical in cannibas actually fights cancer. I've worked in the medical field for over 16 years and there are lots of bogus studies that never make it into esteemed journals like NEJOM, Lancet, and so on.

 

Again, if using marijuana helps anyone for their pain, nausea, and vomiting from chemotherapy, it should be legalized in all 50 states. Reglan, Zofran, and so on do not work as well as marijuana for many patients.

 

Smoking a joint can help greatly with some issues such as nausea or pain because its effects are immediate. It appears that a cannabis concentrate is better able to deliver many more cannabinoid molecules and so is better at limiting cancers or controlling epilepsy.

 

You say that you have been in the medical field for 16 years. I am curious as to where you have been taught about cannabis as medicine. I have had discussions with quite a few medical pros regarding cannabis over the past 5 years or so. Most have had no formal education with respect to any cannabis benefits. That wasn't taught when they went to school.

 

Also, they have pharmaceutical reps knocking on their doors all the time with the latest and greatest medicines. They have told me that this is how they learn about most new medicines. Prior to FDA approval these reps can't be educating the doctors about cannabis based medicines either.

 

Also, alternative medicines are there because we don't have all of the answers with respect to many diseases. Not sure about you but if I got the death sentence from my doctor, I would do some personal research as to new treatment options. Have you seen this thread here?

 

http://forums.twobillsdrive.com/topic/169052-know-anyone-with-a-disease-read-this/

 

Please check out this GW Pharmaceuticals website for a discussion as to the mechanism of action. GWPH is traded on the Nasdaq and it has done well.

 

http://gwpharm.com/oncology.aspx

 

From the site:

 

The possibility that cannabinoids, including endocannabinoids, may treat cancer is supported by an ever increasing body of available evidence. In simple terms, cancer occurs because cells become immortalised; they fail to heed customary signals to turn off growth. A normal function of remodelling in the body requires that cells die on cue. This is called apoptosis, or programmed cell death and this process fails to proceed normally after malignant transformation. As will be discussed in greater detail below, THC, CBD, and perhaps other phytocannabinoids promote the re-emergence of apoptosis so that certain cancer cell types will in fact heed the signals, stop dividing, and die. The process of apoptosis is judged by observation of several phenomena: reduced cellular volume, condensation of nuclear chromatin, changes in distribution of phospholipids in plasma membranes, and cleavage of chromatin into DNA fragments called NDA ladders.

Another method by which tumours grow is by ensuring that they are nourished: they send out signals to promote angiogenesis, the growth of new blood vessels. Cannabinoids may turn off these signals as well. Finally, cannabinoids may display complex interactions with oncogenes. Pre-clinical studies have highlighted an anti-cancer role for phytocannabinoids via CB receptor and non-CB receptor mediated pathways in a broad spectrum of cancer types bothin vitroandin vivo.

Edited August 4, 2015 by Bob in Mich

[Bob in Mich]

http://medicalmarijuana.com.au/

 

See the Dennis Hill article and video on this webpage. (It is below the Christina Sanchez interview) Dennis is a biochemist that treated his own advanced prostate cancer with cannabis oil. He has a unique understanding and familiarity of the disease and this treatment.

 

Thursday, 18 June 2015 10:26 Written by Stephen Ramsey

Background; Dennis Hill is a biochemist who graduated from the University of Houston Texas, doing his Graduate Work at Baylor Medical School.Employed as a researcher at the renowned MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston Texas.
Five years ago Dennis was diagnosed with aggressive stage 3 prostate cancer, thanks to cannabis oil he is now cancer free.
In the following video interview by Natalie Mazurek (2nd year chemistry student), Dennis explains in chemistry terms, how the essential oil derived from cannabis kills cancer cells.

Edited August 13, 2015 by Bob in Mich