Posted on 01/07/2015 6:30:22 AM PST by SweetAkitoRose
CHICAGO Cardinal Francis George has asked for continued prayers after being dropped from a cancer drugs clinical trial, which was determined to be ineffective for him.
He is at peace, but he counts on everyones prayers that he might be of service to the Lord and His Church in the time left to him, the Archdiocese of Chicago said Dec. 31.
Cardinal George would like to thank all those who have been praying for him, and asks them to continue to do so. You and those you love are remembered in his prayers as well.
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Important notes for anyone and their family, if they develop cancer.
1) It must be the personal priority of that person, with the help of their family, to get treatment without delay.
2) Most cancers are treatable, so the biggest factor in mortality is procrastination. Patients often go into denial, or find reasons to not get treatment; and some doctors are just as bad, delaying their treatment for vital months.
3) Less treatable cancers are best addressed by the patient moving to one of the regional cancer research nodes in the country. Then they can “go shopping” to various research facilities to try and get in on new therapies. This also strongly helps these research facilities because they often have a hard time getting test subjects.
4) A very accurate diagnosis for an exact kind of cancer is vital, because different cancers have different treatment regimens. For example, there are 12-15 different kinds of breast cancer, and each one has a somewhat different *optimal* therapy. A “sub-optimal” or general therapy may work, but it is always better to have a fine tuned therapy.
5) Fatalism is self-destructive. Even when a cancer has metastasized, that is, spread through the body, in some cases treatments are so effective that they can wipe it out no matter where it is.
6) Ironically, so much research is being done today, that *nobody* has all the facts. So it is vital to continue to research every aspect and element of the disease and its treatments. This can be downright dangerous if you are getting oncological therapy from somebody who is “behind the curve” in the latest advances in treating that kind of cancer.
In God's good time there will be a cure.
Forgive me for not sharing your optimism. The cancer cure rate for every kind of cancer with the exception of childhood leukemia has not changed appreciably since the ‘60s. It has been the experience of several family members that treatments last for 2-5 years before cancer attacks again. In spite of the enormous medical expense, we are a far way from curing cancer.
One form of denial is “fear”.
The best cure is healing from Jesus, the Great King.
Everything you say is true but sometimes cancer cannot be beaten. My first wife had an absolutely clear mammogram in January of 1997 and a walnut sized tumor removed in December of 1997. A growth to that size in that time is beyond any expectation. She fought like a pissed-off Marine for six years but died in my arms. She had surgery four times, radiation 30 times, at least five different courses of chemo and was seen by some of the best oncologists in the country.
Never give up or lose hope but sometimes Goliath wins.
Likewise, how my husband died.
May The Lord bless you and keep you;
May the Lord make his face to shine upon you, and be gracious to you;
May the Lord lift up his countenance upon you, and give you peace.
And may Our Lady bless you with her maternal love.
In the name of the Father, and of the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen
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Prayers up!
Prayers for Cardinal George.
Prayers up.
Prayers for Cardinal George for miraculous healing and that our Lord comfort him and keep him from stress and fear. Lord hear our prayers.
Denial
Bargaining
Anger
Depression
Acceptance
and then Reaching Out to others.
St. John Paul II, who held his ministry in all sorts of injury and disability, guide him in his last days.
St. Joseph, Patron of departing souls, pray for him in his last hours.
Prayers sent...
“Terminal lung cancer” is a doctor’s opinion. And ask two doctors for an opinion on the same patient, and you will get an argument. Some of the finest research organizations in the world are working on lung cancer right now, and each is going in their own direction, with everything too new to know what the others are doing.
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Terminal lung cancer was the doctors', plural, opinion diagnosis and my husband died from it, as predicted. He HAD smoked. He even had one lung removed to try to stop the spread. No chance for survival.
My mother had lung cancer too, but hers was cured when the doctors took out 20% of her lower right lung lobe. She lived to be 94. They NEVER did tell her "terminal lung cancer." She had never smoked and her kind of lung cancer was the kind that any person of any age, either gender or any locale could get.
SOMETHINGS the doctors DO have down pat.
Also, the doctors that I have dealt with ALWAYS say: opinion or diagnosis. There is no reason on earth for them to say "opinion" when death is imminent.
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