Patrick Swayze Pancreatic cancer

[Polk user]

I lost my mom to pancreatic cancer 2 years ago. Cancer will touch all of you. Please give to cancer research.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,335210,00.html

[hearingimpared]

Bad business cancer is and pancreatic is one of the worst. My cousin and aunt passed from it.

[Strong Bad]

Lost my mom to it almost 13 years ago.

Swayze was a cool dude in my book. Roadhouse is a total classic!

Wishing the best for him.


John

[Danny Tse]

Swayze was a cool dude in my book. Roadhouse is a total classic!

Not to mention his "dance off" with Chris Farley on SNL.

Hope he gets well soon.

[wingnut4772]

We just lost a friend and a fellow officer to pancreatic cancer.

[GV#27]

Not to mention his "dance off" with Chris Farley on SNL.

LOL that was funny stuff.

[opus]

Turning into the "Roadhouse" curse.:(

First Healy and then Swayze. Watch out Sam Elliot


Too sad

[dorokusai]

I bet if he sparred with Chuck Norris, it would would cure him.

[engtaz]

Cancer has taken too many of my Loved ones.

engtaz

[mhardy6647]

Pancreatic cancer has virtually zero recovery rate.

[hockeyboy]

What the hell is a pancreas and what does it do? I am doing a colon cleanse right now so dumping like a rhino every day. They say it helps keep your system from building up toxins. PS is a hell of cool actor, I just watched The Outsiders on FX the other day.

[wingnut4772]

Pancreas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancreas)

[Face]

I watched Donnie Darko tonight for the first time tonight, I had no idea Swayze was in it. I wish him the best.

[Danny Tse]

LOL that was funny stuff.

Here's the "dance off" @ Chippendales (http://www.evtv1.com/player.aspx?itemnum=1422) between Swayze and Farley.

[dragon1952]

My Grandmother died of pancreatic cancer. She led the cleanest life possible. Very fatal disease.

[venomclan]

It is a damn shame. From what I know about Swayze, he is one of the good guys, a celebrity with a good heart that did not let his fame go to his head. I hope he prevails. Godspeed Patrick.
Venom

[hockeyboy]

My condolences Dragon.

[CAvolleyballguy]

hockey, be careful with colon cleanses... lots of important stuff gets flushed away too... make sure you are refilling the system with proper balance of nutrients, vitamins, and eat yogurt to replenish the system with good bacteria, or make sure you know everything you are supposed to eat after one to get you back to healthy.. ( i sold gastro drugs and whenever the docs would make the patients drink a gallon of the intestinal draino so they could scope things out, I know my docs were always giving the patients a list of important items to replenish the system..) my drugs worked on the top of the gastro system, so anything south of the stomach im not a know it all on, just my 2cents to make sure you stay healthy.. check out a product called Fibercon. It is a bulk fiber forming supplement in pill form availabe OTC (my old company wyeth makes it, makers of advil and robitussen too). just a pill a day will give you a healthy digestive system. My gastro docs loved the stuff.

More on cleansing.... Most of my Gastroenterologists disagreed with the practice all together...I know most docs are not worth a damn, but... in my opinion Gastros are some of the sharpest... they deal with a lot of stuff like cancer and are surgeons to boot...so consider this guy here, who is a chief at a teaching institution to know his stuff.

"David L. Diehl, MD, clinical associate professor of medicine at New York University, and chief of gastrointestinal endoscopy at Bellevue Hospital Center, agrees. "High colonics are often touted as a way to cleanse the colon of 'adherent stool' that has been there for years or even decades," he says. "The problem with this concept is that there is no such thing. The body does a good job of eliminating stool, and there are no 'pockets' in the colon that collect stool for years. I do a colonoscopy every day of the week, and a preprocedure purge is sufficient to clean out the stool and leave a pristine looking colon."

Colon cleansers aren't just unnecessary, according to experts, they may even cause harm. "Using coloncleansers on a repetitive basis is not a great idea," Kava says. Your intestines aren't just a waste disposal unit; they're also a place where nutrients from food are absorbed to the bloodstream, to be transported throughout your entire body. Washing out the intestinal tract could potentially interrupt this absorption, leaving you with a vitamin or mineral deficiency. In addition, frequent use of some types of laxatives can have a boomerang effect, so that cleaning your colon could leave it less able to do its job the way nature intended.

Another pitfall of colon cleansers is that they can lead to dehydration, Johnson says.

Moreover, high colonics can potentially harm the colon, causing small tears or internal damage.

Perhaps most alarming, colon cleansers have no proven safety record. "Colon cleansers are really not strictly regulated and tested," Johnson says. "If a product is shown to be harmful, the FDA will take action to have it removed from shelves, but it's not at all the same as taking a prescription drug that's been tested meticulously."

[wingnut4772]

hockey, be careful with colon cleanses... lots of important stuff gets flushed away too... make sure you are refilling the system with proper balance of nutrients, vitamins, and eat yogurt to replenish the system with good bacteria, or make sure you know everything you are supposed to eat after one to get you back to healthy.. ( i sold gastro drugs and whenever the docs would make the patients drink a gallon of the intestinal draino so they could scope things out, I know my docs were always giving the patients a list of important items to replenish the system..) my drugs worked on the top of the gastro system, so anything south of the stomach im not a know it all on, just my 2cents to make sure you stay healthy.. check out a product called Fibercon. It is a bulk fiber forming supplement in pill form availabe OTC (my old company wyeth makes it, makers of advil and robitussen too). just a pill a day will give you a healthy digestive system. My gastro docs loved the stuff.

More on cleansing.... Most of my Gastroenterologists disagreed with the practice all together...I know most docs are not worth a damn, but... in my opinion Gastros are some of the sharpest... they deal with a lot of stuff like cancer and are surgeons to boot...so consider this guy here, who is a chief at a teaching institution to know his stuff.

"David L. Diehl, MD, clinical associate professor of medicine at New York University, and chief of gastrointestinal endoscopy at Bellevue Hospital Center, agrees. "High colonics are often touted as a way to cleanse the colon of 'adherent stool' that has been there for years or even decades," he says. "The problem with this concept is that there is no such thing. The body does a good job of eliminating stool, and there are no 'pockets' in the colon that collect stool for years. I do a colonoscopy every day of the week, and a preprocedure purge is sufficient to clean out the stool and leave a pristine looking colon."

Colon cleansers aren't just unnecessary, according to experts, they may even cause harm. "Using coloncleansers on a repetitive basis is not a great idea," Kava says. Your intestines aren't just a waste disposal unit; they're also a place where nutrients from food are absorbed to the bloodstream, to be transported throughout your entire body. Washing out the intestinal tract could potentially interrupt this absorption, leaving you with a vitamin or mineral deficiency. In addition, frequent use of some types of laxatives can have a boomerang effect, so that cleaning your colon could leave it less able to do its job the way nature intended.

Another pitfall of colon cleansers is that they can lead to dehydration, Johnson says.

Moreover, high colonics can potentially harm the colon, causing small tears or internal damage.

Perhaps most alarming, colon cleansers have no proven safety record. "Colon cleansers are really not strictly regulated and tested," Johnson says. "If a product is shown to be harmful, the FDA will take action to have it removed from shelves, but it's not at all the same as taking a prescription drug that's been tested meticulously."

Excellent post.

[Joe08867]

hockey, be careful with colon cleanses... lots of important stuff gets flushed away too... make sure you are refilling the system with proper balance of nutrients, vitamins, and eat yogurt to replenish the system with good bacteria, or make sure you know everything you are supposed to eat after one to get you back to healthy.. ( i sold gastro drugs and whenever the docs would make the patients drink a gallon of the intestinal draino so they could scope things out, I know my docs were always giving the patients a list of important items to replenish the system..) my drugs worked on the top of the gastro system, so anything south of the stomach im not a know it all on, just my 2cents to make sure you stay healthy.. check out a product called Fibercon. It is a bulk fiber forming supplement in pill form availabe OTC (my old company wyeth makes it, makers of advil and robitussen too). just a pill a day will give you a healthy digestive system. My gastro docs loved the stuff.

More on cleansing.... Most of my Gastroenterologists disagreed with the practice all together...I know most docs are not worth a damn, but... in my opinion Gastros are some of the sharpest... they deal with a lot of stuff like cancer and are surgeons to boot...so consider this guy here, who is a chief at a teaching institution to know his stuff.

"David L. Diehl, MD, clinical associate professor of medicine at New York University, and chief of gastrointestinal endoscopy at Bellevue Hospital Center, agrees. "High colonics are often touted as a way to cleanse the colon of 'adherent stool' that has been there for years or even decades," he says. "The problem with this concept is that there is no such thing. The body does a good job of eliminating stool, and there are no 'pockets' in the colon that collect stool for years. I do a colonoscopy every day of the week, and a preprocedure purge is sufficient to clean out the stool and leave a pristine looking colon."

Colon cleansers aren't just unnecessary, according to experts, they may even cause harm. "Using coloncleansers on a repetitive basis is not a great idea," Kava says. Your intestines aren't just a waste disposal unit; they're also a place where nutrients from food are absorbed to the bloodstream, to be transported throughout your entire body. Washing out the intestinal tract could potentially interrupt this absorption, leaving you with a vitamin or mineral deficiency. In addition, frequent use of some types of laxatives can have a boomerang effect, so that cleaning your colon could leave it less able to do its job the way nature intended.

Another pitfall of colon cleansers is that they can lead to dehydration, Johnson says.

Moreover, high colonics can potentially harm the colon, causing small tears or internal damage.

Perhaps most alarming, colon cleansers have no proven safety record. "Colon cleansers are really not strictly regulated and tested," Johnson says. "If a product is shown to be harmful, the FDA will take action to have it removed from shelves, but it's not at all the same as taking a prescription drug that's been tested meticulously."

As a person with Crohn's Disease I can tell you my GI (World Renown)is very much against colon cleansers. Her quote: "Your body does this naturally". The whole idea that you may have 5-10 lbs of waste hanging around your colon is ridiculous. If you did you would be in a hospital and having emergency surgery for a stricture that has stopped things from passing. Trust me I know this first hand.:(

If you want to keep your bowels free try a fiber supplement like metamucil or fibercon and drink more water. These methods are much safer for the body and do not flush out all the good bacteria while they work.

Now back to our regularly scheduled post:
Sad news about Patrick Swayze, the outlook is quite grim for Pancreatic Cancer. Hopefully he will not suffer to long if he does not beat it.

[Face]

What the hell is a pancreas and what does it do? I am doing a colon cleanse right now so dumping like a rhino every day. They say it helps keep your system from building up toxins.

Bulimics do the same thing, I would stop immediately.