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Hey Melissa, thanks for making this blog. Weasel is very beautiful. His looks and personality resemble my loving boy that has unfortunately passed.
I have a seven year old male neutered cat named Moosie. On August 27th 2013 he stopped eating, and was very lethargic. He was brought in to our vet, who gave him an xray and discovered a tumor in his body. The xray didn’t show where the tumor was, so an ultrasound was performed. The ultrasound looked like a tumor was on one of his lymph nodes.
My vet is an excellent surgeon and very trustworthy. He recommended surgery to open him up and remove the tumor. The vet opened Moosie and discovered many tumors covering his entire peritoneum, a membrane which covers the stomach and most of the intestines. The vet had never seen anything like it in 25 years. The vet thought the tumors were not cancer.
The lymph nodes turned out to be tumor-free. It was questionable to whether there was a tumor on the spleen, so it was taken out as a precaution. The vet explained the spleen is not necessary for the cat to survive, as other organs step in to take over its job.
Right after the surgery, Moosie returned to his old self. He was very hungry and his energy returned. The tumor samples were sent into the lab, and it turned out it was pancreatic cancer. The vet was grim about his prognosis, and referred me to a veterinary oncologist. The oncologist recommended Gemcitabine, a chemotherapy agent, for four weeks, a week off, then four more sessions of Gemcitabine. The oncologist only had treated 2 cases of pancreatic cancer in five years. One cat died one month into treatment, the other cat survived for four months.
While our vet did not see a tumor on Moosie’s pancreas, the pancreas was sending out cells that spread through the body. There might be a tumor inside the pancreas, or not one at all. In pancreatic cancer, cancer is usually spread to the peritoneum, lymph nodes, and spleen. Lungs and brain are spared.
Given the low rates of success, I researched pancreatic cancer. I found this blog as well as other helpful sites. It has been nine weeks since he came home, and Moosie is doing great. He is vibrant and full of life. He was 9 pounds prior to surgery and now is 11.5 pounds. Here are the things I am doing that have helped him:
Moosie was taking Wellness dry chicken dry food. I have switched him over to wet Wellness to insure he has more water going through his system. He also eats organic hardboiled eggs.
He takes 100 mg of B17 Amodalin tablets 2 times a day on an empty stomach(passes to gut easier where it works). B17(Laetrile) kills many types of cancer, and is particularly great killing pancreatic cancer.
He gets one 500 mg capsule of curcumin w/ peperine a day with food. Curcumin has proven effective at killing cancer. The peperine is essential as the curcumin is not readily absorbed in the body. With the peperine, it is absorbed 2,000 times more. I give him Nutrigold Tumeric Curcumin Gold:
He gets one Barlean’s Fish oil (pharmaceutical grade) capsule a day, that provides 185mg epa, 115mg dha (20mg of EPA per pound of animal, and 12mg of DHA per pound of animal.)
Daily he gets one black currant oil cap from Now Foods. It provides cancer killing compounds gla and quercetin :
Daily he gets one cold-pressed black cumin seed oil cap from Amazing Herbs, it contains cancer fighting compound thymoquinone.
Until two weeks ago, I was giving him 1 ½ tablespoons of 8 herb organic Essiac tea from Swanson. It contains the whole root of sheep sorrel.
I was giving him this with his b17, 10cc twice daily. I stopped giving him it when I started giving him pawpaw, as the kelp in the Essiac blend is thought to make the pawpaw less effective.
For two weeks I have been giving him pawpaw. It is a strong natural chemotherapy compound which kills cancer cells. It was studied by a professor at Purdue University for over 20 years. The professor Dr. Jerry McLaughlin studied over 3,500 plants and found pawpaw to be the most effective cancer killing plant. It has over 50 cancer fighting compounds, whereas a chemotheraphy drug has one. It is the only substance natural or man-made to be effective in killing drug resistant cancer cells. I purchased it from Nature’s Sunshine: http://www.amazon.com/Natures-Sunshine-Paw-Cell-Reg-caps/dp/B001X04STA/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1384156624&sr=8-2&keywords=pawpaw
Pawpaw is an emetic, meaning at certain dosages it makes one vomit. If it causes vomiting, then reduce the amount given until vomiting stops. The size of the pills are 00 from the bottle, and caused Moosie to vomit, so I purchased size 3 pill capsules. http://www.amazon.com/Gelatin-Extra-Small-Empty-Capsules/dp/B009K6YXFI/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1384156755&sr=8-3&keywords=size+3+gelatin+capsules
I fill the larger half of the size 3 pills with pawpaw, and he receives one size 3 pill every 6 hours (4x a day). Dr. Jerry McLaughlin has stated it is best to give every 6 hours as the compound will stay elevated in the blood. I will give Moosie pawpaw for 8 weeks, then probably give it to him for one week a month.
Here’s info on pawpaw:
Moosie also gets half Goji Berry extract pill daily http://www.amazon.com/Doctors-Best-Vegetable-Capsules-120-Count/dp/B000N98096/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1384157049&sr=8-1&keywords=goji+berry+extract
mixed with half of a sheep sorrel pill(it is not sheep sorrel root which is better, but I did not find out until after I ordered it.) http://www.amazon.com/Spectrum-Sheep-Sorrel-Swanson-Premium/dp/B00392KUVA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1384157085&sr=8-1&keywords=sheep+sorrel
I open the two pills and combine them together into an empty size 0 or 00 gelatin capsule (left over from the empty unused pawpaw capsule)
The Goji berry contains germanium which kills cancer cells. It is also a powerful antioxidant and has a good source of vitamin c.
I will probably place him on Low Dose Naltrexone(LDN). I do not want to find a holistic vet, so have contacted Dr. Sasan Haghighat who provides phone consultations to vets for a fee.
I will have him contact my vet to inform him about LDN, and so he may be able to write me a prescription.
I may also give Moosie organic sulfur at a later date, after I do more research about it. It can turn cancer cells into normal cells.
I hope this info is able to help others.
-Dave
