For months, it has been a running joke by Imus every ten minutes that he has cancer so don’t pick on him. In recent days, he appears to have stopped doing that according to my limited listening.

YThen yesterday, he told “Dr. Phil” stammering at first, “I’ve recovered.” But today he told another guest, Mark Levin, he was battling cancer while laughing.

The last time I heard Imus give any specifics, his lab results were extremely promising.

I was diagnosed with prostate cancer in July of 2008 and scheduled for surgery and/or IMRT radiation but because of a huge copay, asked my physician if I could wait until January for the procedure and he told me that the cancer was not likely to spread but he could not guarantee it. So I waited. In late October of 2009 while in a holding pattern medically (no cancer treatment at that point) I learned of the Habanero/garlic recipe and did it for 14 days. I told my Physician at Scripps about it and she said, “It couldn’t hurt and in fact if more people took the Cod Liver Oil in the recipe, there would be far fewer hospital admissions in this country”

I did the recipe for 14 days and stopped for 5 so as not to taint any blood test and went back for a new PSA and Free PSA test. To the amazement of my physician the numbers were astoundingly favorable and I continued on doing the regimen daily until I went back for a second biopsy in March and it was totally clear. No malignancy whatsoever.

About a week later Imus made his announcement of his cancer and I took the liberty of sending an e-mail to Imus Foods and asked that it be forwarded to the Imus family. They got back to me and the rest is history.
Chuck

Get well soon! You’re in all our thoughts.

peace and love, peace and love

Man: Are there any side-effects?

Doctor: A few. You will have a loss of potency. You might get some hot flashes. And when lost, you will have an inexplicable urge to actually ask for directions.

Jeff: You might want to check what chemicals you’ve been absorbing while you really shouldn’t laugh and say you won’t be eating more ketchup or tomatoes (lycopene is the best thing for the prostate). Russian men drink pomegranate juice for the prostate. That isn’t backwardness causing them to do that.

I’m so glad you said that, because I was about to. In fact, I’ll do you one better: Don’t take medical advice from a health care professional either, unless that health care professional has met you, examined you, or is otherwise familiar with your situation.

My wife is an advanced practice nurse, and whenever a friend or family member is sick, they tend to call her for advice and counsel. It’s always nice to have a friendly, informed shoulder to lean on of course, but invariably they often ask her for a diagnosis or treatment plan. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve said (or heard her say), “Well, I’ve never met your father, so I wouldn’t want to guess how to treat his illness – he really should talk to his doctor about that.”

I wish everyone in the medical community were as responsible as my wife, but alas, that’s not the case. Particularly if they have a “platform,” as you put it, to publicize their viewpoints.

Research is great. Online research is easy and great. But verify everything you read/hear with your doctor – he’s the one who really knows what’s going on inside you.

Again, best of luck…

I’d do 3 months of that and then check if PSA has fallen.

My sympathies – I was diagnosed with Prostate Cancer in February and underwent De Vinci robotic removal of my prostate in May.

It’s not fun – like all surgery, the first couple of weeks are an experience (quickly forgotten!), but of all the alternatives, it seems the best, and I am now back at work and well on the road to normal.

Hope everything goes well

bob wyman

As the British says:

KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON.

All the best!

Juan

I appreciate the courage it takes to announce and discuss something like this. All the best.

From the eurekalert press release on the 2006 research, they fed pepper extract (capsaicin; “roughly equivalent to between three and eight fresh habañera peppers” daily for a human) to mice who had been injected with human prostate cells.

But I agree – anytime where “wait and see” is contraindicated, going “natural” is too.

But to people without health insurance, I bet it’s awfully tempting…

Why not just buy a billboard over Times Square and take out advertising time on FOX News? At least you’d be doing our capitalist system a favor by telling the entire world about your personal medical issues.

By the way, how do your personal medical issues benefit American business, capitalism, wealth creation, growth, entrepreneurial activities, and the guts and courage necessary to excel in our free market system?

Or is your effort some sort of initial means by which to monetize the web through capitalist bloggers using socialist means of information dispersal to gain financial reward for you and yours?

Really, Jeff, if that’s the case, you must get your business plan in the Harvard Review. Set up a few speakers gigs. Talk – for a price, of course – about how to monetize the Net through conveying your personal medical standing to the consumer.

I bet Ayn Rand and Milton Friedman would be proud.