Patrick Swayze And Pancreatic Cancer

Patrick Swayze just died of pancreatic cancer. My mother died of it too, years ago. The thing the two of them had in common was they smoked. They both also loved animals. Patrick loved horses, my mother loved cats.

Pancreatic cancer doesn't just happen to good people. You have to work at getting it. If a person smokes cigarettes heavily for years, they are going to get lung cancer or pancreatic cancer. Smoking not only sends tars and ash into the lungs, but also down into the digestive system.

The pancreas is very sensitive to toxins and can become inflamed by gastric reflux, bacterial infection, and the chronic irritation of cigarette smoke and it's carcinogens. It has never ceased to amaze me how a grown person can smoke cigarettes! With all the knowledge now about how it causes cancer and how bad smoking is for you, you would think a light would go on somewhere and the person would stop. Surprisingly, they don't.

My mother was a heavy smoker, and reportedly, Patrick Swayze was too. Three packs of cigarettes a day are going to do harm. If not sooner, then later. My mother even had been in to have small growths removed from her tongue years before she got pancreatic cancer, and that still apparently didn't impress her. Patrick had warning signs as well.

The only up side to my mother dying of pancreatic cancer was that she never heard the diagnosis. She had premonitory signs that lead her doctors to wonder if she may have had a bad vertebral disc, since she had had back problems for years, but it wasn't until I told her to set an appointment to have more aggressive tests done, like an MRI and complete blood panel, that my mother finally got the diagnosis for her spinal discomfort.

Tragically, she slipped into a coma the weekend before her tests were to be done and she never awoke to hear the diagnosis or face her imminent death. I guess that part was not tragic, but salvithic for her to not have to know she was going to die soon. Three weeks after her diagnosis, she passed away.

In our mechanical society we often think of ourselves as somehow repairable, fixable, or strong like a piece of steel. The exact opposite is true. We are made of one hundred trillion tiny cells that are delicate like jelly and can be easily destroyed. Smoking and drinking are horrendous habits. Alcohol denatures your proteins and is a carcinogen too. Denatured proteins do not function well. Neither do cells that are coated in tars and carcinogens. If you smoke or drink, my recommendation is that you stop immediately. There are many methods and groups available to help you. Make the choice and do it today.

Dr. Doug Ikeler http://www.lifeextensionbooks.net/