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sir-subpar · 2 months
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We Need Help To Save Buddy!
Our dog had been battling cancer. I didn't share too much about it on here originally out of privacy.
Now, however...
There is a chance to save him from his tumor. But.. Not only would it require surgery, it would require radiation therapy which isn't done in the state I live in. We would have to go to another state.
And it's very expensive. It can cost $7,000, or even more in some cases.
Because the tumor is on his face it's really hard to remove all the cancerous tissue.
To remove it all might require removing part of his nasal cavity and his eye if we don't get the proper radiation therapy. We've already had surgery done on it before, and it grew back far more aggressive.
Please help us get rid of his cancer, for good this time
I am asking for emergency commissions.
Please, help me save our dog
Buddy
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He's been with us in the darkest of times. He's been a wonderful, loving part of our family. He is one of the sweetest things I've ever seen in this world. And saving this animal would mean the world to me. To us. To our family.
Commissions, tips, donations, spreading the word, anything and everything helps bring us closer to saving his life. We don't want to have to put him down.
He still has so many years left. Please, if you can, help us save our dog. Every penny counts.
I have a Ko-fi. We also set up a GoFundMe, hosted by my brother. Which I will also link. We're hoping that together we can save Buddy from this awful disease.
To show you all just how much this means to me. I will reveal my face to you all. And share more photos of our beloved Buddy, from before his cancer got so bad
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In this last photo, he sneezed in the middle of me taking the picture. Such a silly dog
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pretty-roach · 1 month
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Help Me Get Treatment For Colon Cancer: Urgent!
hey y’all. tumblr vet here coming to ya with something i’ve never had to do before: fundraise in the name of my health. February 6th I was diagnosed with colon cancer and February the 16th I underwent surgery to remove the tumors. We are still waiting on the test results on whether i’m 100% cancer free. In the meantime i would really really appreciate it if you could donate or like and reblog. Even if you don’t have the funds now sharing the link can be a life changer. Im still on a lease for 4 months, im financing a car and im not currently able to move around or walk without pain which makes a full time job out of the picture. Those of you who know my irl know i don’t ask for much and wouldnt be doing this if it wasn’t super important. So please please share🙏🏿💛
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honeycombhank · 1 month
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2/19/24
I have been so full of grief and stress and also gratitude and hope.
Things are very hard.
I feel that everyone is going through something very hard right now . I want to send love out to everyone who needs it.
I am so worried about my parents, my mother has cancer as many of you already know.
She is in immense amount of pain. It’s unbelievable.
She is radioactive right now from treatment and has been in solitary confinement for three days and today was allowed to leave her room, so I was able to visit her, but could not touch her or give hugs.
I love my mother more then words can express,
My heart aches
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bunnygladstone · 2 months
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chemo starts tomorrow 🥳
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theoddsideofme · 1 year
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Large and in charge.
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Amazing indeed! Read the whole thread.
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er-cryptid · 9 months
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amorality-flagz · 12 days
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Transbraintumor is whenever you desire to have a brain tumor or multiple brain tumors
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awolgina · 14 days
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PT 2/2 medical update mass on arteries carotid jugular tumor likely both...
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short under 60 second pt 1/2 vids doing medical update for those interested in the subject or me 🤷‍♀️ even the vascular surgeon was excited! last time that happened I also had neck surgery, more on all of this in pt 2/2 if interested, see related video link. 😁
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rock-a-noodle · 2 months
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Penny's dying. We have to put her down tomorrow.
She was there for me during the most shittiest times of my life, this wild ass ride of my twenties. I got her during a rough patch in my life and she helped with her softness and judgy green eyes. She lived a pretty good long life for a cat, and longer than our past two! I never had a sister growing up but she was my little sister.
Right now I'm trying to do my damndest to enjoy the time I got with her as she has less than 24 hours left. We watched Cats Don't Dance and now watching The Cat Returns.
I don't want her to leave me. She's my best non-human friend, and a better friend than some people I've known in my life. But it would be awful to let her suffer with her tumor and illness going on. Like they say, if you love someone let them go. She was showing signs of not doing well after she had an infection. Should I really be surprised?
If I'm quieter on social media, you know why.
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kingoftieland · 3 months
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Where do the Hulk’s MUSCLES go after he turns back into Bruce Banner? 🥼
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fuwaprince · 3 months
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I have to talk about something because I realize I haven't yet (it's about biology)
Oxyphil cells are super weird little guys that I learned about while looking at histology slides for anatomy (this was back when I thought I wanted to do nursing). We don't know their function so they're kind of a mystery!
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They mostly start to appear after reaching puberty and then increase in number as we age. They're also known as oncocytes (onco meaning mass or bulk + cytes meaning mature cell) but they go by a bunch of more specific names depending on their location. Plants don't have them btw but we do and so do other animals. They have bigger mitochondria that act like gymrats on steroids and more of them compared to the average cell. Apparently they even have more mitochondria than the cells that make up your muscle tissues, which is insane since you can imagine how many powerhouses it would take to fuel muscle activity. I tried to find a vid to show what they look like and I think this youtuber does a good job at that
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Sometimes benign (as in unlikely or slow spread, not cancerous), sometimes malignant (as in spreads like wildfire, cancerous). They're literally just tumor cells, which would make sense since oncology is the study of cancer.
The reason they have so many overpowered powerhouses (still talking about mitochondria) is because they require a LOT of energy breakdown. Your body's cells love love love carbs (like sugar) so much that it prioritizes using them over other nutrients to make stored energy readily available for uses like muscle contractions.
The inefficient way to break down sugar (caused by oxygen-deprived conditions) is kinnnnd ooooof like an Italian grandma making tomato sauce from tomatoes. When Grandma's tomatoes enter into the sauce-ification machine, it has two exits. One exit spews tomato sauce and the other is where all the separated seeds and skin go. Sometimes Grandma pops the seedy skin bits back into the top of the machine to get a little extra out. The oxyphil's mitochondria work like Grandma's machine! Stored sugar (the tomato) goes in and some usable energy called ATP (tomato sauce) comes out while also making this other byproduct (the seeds and skin). That waste/byproduct, pyruvate, can be reabsorbed by the mitochondria to make even more energy in oxygen-deprived environments, producing lactic acid. This localized lactic acid literally makes your body more acidic but your body is usually pretty good at flushing it out (fyi drinking water helps with this process... This is also why they tell people to drink lots of water after getting a swedish massage).
In the case that it isn't clearing itself out enough for whatever reason, like say maybe you consistently produce so fucking much lactic acid because you have a tumor with MANY overpowered af mitochondria.... Well... You might be pretty acidic there. Good news is you can raise your body's pH to be more alkaline via deep breathing (this would make your body oxygen-rich so that you can break down sugars more efficiently). You can also eat more alkaline foods like red cabbage and leafy greens.
Anyways that's all I know about oxyphils and I wish we knew why they exist. It feels so cynical to think they exist just to cause death and I don't really believe that anyways since not everyone gets cancer. Are oxyphils how the body adapts to make more energy readily available in oxygen-deprived conditions, resulting in acidosis? Does that acidity break down neighboring cell walls? Does that mean they permeate the cell membrane and get that healthy neighboring cell to start dysfunctioning too and the cycle continues? Also why aren't they present at birth??? If it's true that they come from chief cells then they wouldn't really have a chance to form since chief cells are also not rly present at birth. Food for thought! I just want to know their function and have been for like two years blaaaahhhhh
Also here is a video of how a grandma makes her tomato sauce. She doesn't put the seedy skin bits back into the machine but some people do. I hope it helps with the analogy
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girlactionfigure · 1 year
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Israeli scientists say substance prevents cancer’s spread in mice with 90% success: Israeli scientists are aiming to produce the world’s first preventative drug designed to stop tumors causing secondary cancer, and say the active ingredient has shown more than 90 percent effectiveness in mice.
The Bar Ilan University research team produced a peptide — a chain of amino acids — made to stop cancer cells from entering the blood and therefore halting them from moving around the body. - Times of Israel via @jewishbreakingnews
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Just a heads-up, we're gonna have a superconductor turned up full-blast and pointed at you for the duration of this next test.
I'll be honest, we're throwin' science at the wall here to see what sticks. No idea what it'll do. Probably nothing. Worst case, some tumors, which we'll cut out.
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principleofplenitude · 9 months
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In a 2017 study Ravid Straussman, a cancer biologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel and his team showed that some bacteria living inside human pancreatic cancers can protect the tumours by inactivating a common chemotherapy drug. They found that one particular class of bacteria, known as Gammaproteobacteria, could break down gemcitabine: a drug used to treat a number of cancers including those found in the bladder, breast and pancreas. This helped the tumours become resistant to the drug. When the team injected mice with colon cancer with the bacteria, the mice's cancers also became resistant to the drug. But when the researchers gave the mice an antibiotic alongside the chemotherapy drug, the resistance disappeared.
Further to these findings, research published in 2019 by a team at Tohoku University in Japan looked retrospectively at patients suffering from advanced cancers who were treated with either a chemotherapeutic drug alone and those who also received an antibiotic in addition to the chemotherapy in an attempt to prevent or treat an existing infection. They found that patients who were given an antibiotic had a better response to treatment. Although the study did not examine the amount of bacteria present in the cancer tissue of these patients, the researchers speculated that the antibiotics might have eliminated tumour-associated bacteria, which may have been interfering with the cancer treatment.
The studies offer a tantalising hint of what might be going on within tumours.
—"The mystery of microbes that live inside tumours" from BBC Future
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