My mother in law had colon cancer stage 3 or 4  few year back. She did go through chemotherapy session, and it was a real suffer. Body became weak due to body cells killed during the chemotherapy.

She took alot of supplement products during that time. Such as Herbal Life and E.xcel during the chemotherapy session.

TS,

Please also watch the annual summary of this guy's work in my thread:

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Forget chemo, its only harming the whole body cells not targeting the cancer cells itself.

Its unfortunate that the doctors have to resort to chopping of the large intestine, and the doctor is so unprofessional in that it is a rush job without bringing awareness to the risk involves as well as the side effects.

Nevertheless, its important to remember that doctors most commonly treat the symptoms not the root cause of the disease.

With treatment, Stage 3 got approximately about 40-80% survival rate depending on the sub stage. Ask your doctor about the exact staging and the expected 5 year survival rate for your mom before making any decision. Anyone can have colorectal cancer regardless of whether you are "healthy" or not. The key to successful cancer treatment is always early detection. Anyone over the age of 50(men especially) should go for annual colonoscopy to detect precancerous or cancerous lesions.

tldr;
Without chemo, confirm die, just a matter of when. Confirm suffer from cancer complications.(not only related to bowel, cancer can spread to other organs and cause other problems as well)
With chemo, might survive(ask the exact percentages from her doctor), might die, confirm suffer from side effects of chemo.

Consider these before making decision. And let your mother choose, she is the one that needs to choose whether she wants to fight or not.

edit: Regarding the earlier posts about metformin, bring it up to her doctor, metformin helps in prevention and also helps in therapy, but no conclusive evidence yet. Metformin has side effects too so don't simply give. Don't have negative perception about "western" medicine. There is no such thing as "western" or other kinds of medicine, there is only evidence based medicine. All treatments that the doctors suggest you mom is backed by the cumulative years of research by researchers all over the world.

and lastly, depends on what religion she believes in, let her get closer to it like some light reading or play some religious sermons or related stuffs for her. that is to help her calm her mood down. an angry and bad mood person kills more cells are some say. so try to keep her mood calm and happy.

I am not an expert in this field but this are some advise I hear a lot. so hopefully it will help you. And good luck to your family.

U probably have not checked with the oncologist yet. Have a chat and find out how many sessions suggested. That will give you a time frame on how long long the perceived "suffering" is. Every individual reacts differently.

Once you hear the oncology out.. Then comes the hard decisions. Honestly... What other options do u have?

Regardless of your options, Diet changes as suggested by others gives you a piece of mind and hope.. But don't totally go vegan. Great if you can do it but no scientific proof. Supplements, anything that might induce hormonal changes should be avoided. Obviously you will never know specifically which may do so... 

Most important.. Stay positive, clean environment and try to be happy

Well seems like you guys are doing a great job so far! keep up the good work then! 

You mom will definitely be going through a tough time now. Remember, getting to grips with having cancer is also hard so she'll definitely be frustrated. Just be there for her when she complains about everything. A happy patient heals faster.

My wife did 7 weeks of chemo (1 session + 5 x radiotherapy weekly). She basically goes to the cancer day care center and gets 3 IV drips (1 bottle of saline before and after her bottle of cisplatin). The saline is to avoid dehydration. On her 6th chemo session, she developed an alergic reaction to Cisplatin. According to the doctor, it's normal and she took some additional meds and was fine.

She's doing well now. She's got quarterly checkups with her ENT and Onco.

Did you manage to ask your doctor for more info on the proposed treatment and medication type? Just be aware of the side effects of ANY method of medication. Read up before making your decision.

You should get a second opinion as well.

It wont help as biology teach you nothing in nutrition. Heck, even medical doctors only have 3 hours max of study in nutrition throughout the many years of their study.

You have to take your time to research yourself on nutrition.

I just feel sorry for your mother . I done years of research on diseases and most of us treat doctors like God . If doctors were so smart , doctors would easily live more than 100 . But the fact is that doctors life span is just like us . Doctors were taught how to treat symptoms with nothing but drugs and we all know that drugs have horrible side effects long term .

IMO cancer patients don't die of cancer but they die because of the horrible side effects of chemo .

How do we get cancer ? We get cancer because of our lifestyle . Eating the bad food , don't drink enough plain water , not enough sunshine , not enough fresh air , not enough sleep . The human body is really a fantastic machine that can heal itself , if we allow it to heal . If we keep on doing the bad lifestyle , the body don't have the chance to heal itself .

is herbal life suitable for a cancerous body ?
cause i had a classmate whom drink that before
he gotten skinnier
but once he reached his desire body weight
he fat up again(even though he keep his exercise and eating)

what chemotherapy did she went through?

I know doctors who believe in alternative medicine and about their successful stories.

Can you write down where are thry located? That way, it might be helpful for people here.

The ones i know are in KL.

that was the biggest mistake that me and my relative took
we were so worried and scared that we forgotten her mentality/emotional needs
honestly, i felt like shit that it took me 2 month to realize that
but now i tried to listen and understand her more openly :>

that's good to hear !!
and chemo sound ok :I
but the radiotherapy give me some worried 
what dietary did your wife have? :B

hmm 
betul pun~
i'll ask that on the next check up

arigato / thank you/ terima kasih 

Please la. Herballife? MLM. I wouldn't touch MLM products with a 10 feet pole. They might work but they are in for your money. You are better off drinking green (cucumber, lettuce, kale, brocolli, carrot, tomato, capsicum, lemon, turmeric, purple cabbage) vegetable juice. Combine it with the turmeric tea. There are so many ways to get those supplements cheaply. Even stuff whcih can boost your NK cells. (other than transfer factors) No need to burn a hole in your pocket some more. Srirulina, chlorella, turmeric are much more effective ways. Forget about getting spirulina and chlorella from local MLM sellers. If you know how to get online, you save >200% of what you are paying those people. Turmeric without the bad is useless. It will just pass through the body. Nothing absorbed. So up to you what you want to to do.

Check this video out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTQwB63-cgI

This is a video on Dr. Lawrence Fong explaining the interaction between the immune system and cancer. Immune system is the answer to cancer. There are too many studies on this and cancer institutes are already talking about this.

Check this out as well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPIDgm5rgV0

This is about Antroquinonol, the latest technology, already gone through FDA Clinical Test Phase 1 and awaiting Phase 2 result by end of this year. It works as a target therapy. The two things I have recommended here, help. If you want more information, please let me know and I will direct you to speak to the doctors.

I am just trying to help and I have done my part. I will leave it with you to decide.