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June 20, 2018

Happy Pride 2018: Bev’s Trip to Cancer Center for Healing, Irvine CA

Happy Pride month everyone- friends and allies! June has been an eventful month. Beside 3 medical appointments on my California medical trip, I had fun resuming some social media fundraising efforts with my brother and sister in law. 1st. On June 1 I was at the Cancer Center For Healing in Irvine California. I received a cancer treatment known as the SOT. SOT stands for Supportive Oligonucleotide Technique. It’s a type of blood treatment that uses the messenger RNA from your own blood that, once its been re-injected, works anywhere from 3 to 6 months at finding and killing only the cancer stem cells and circulating tumor cells which may still be floating around throughout my body. This test has been used in Europe for […]

February 20, 2018

Published by Bev Spangler

February 2018: Thank you for all the fundraising efforts

Hello good readers! Happy Month of Love! In case you hadn’t heard, the January fundraiser went over very well! My friends Mary, Jan, and Tehilla raised 3000$ for me and I can continue my treatments! My lovely friend and web wizard, Mary Brown, created the video above as a way to share the event with those who couldn’t be there in person, and of course to say THANKS AGAIN to all who made it possible. It was a relaxing, cheerful, and healing evening in more ways than one. Quick health news summary: All is rolling along very well with my current regimen: doing 4 months of nontoxic chemos, and continuing all the immune boosting strategies I began in the autumn. And I’m learning more all the time. Late […]

December 17, 2017

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December 2017 News: 4 tests and a surgery (lumpectomy)

Posted Sunday, December 17, 2017 4 tests and a surgery. Hi curious readers! Hope this finds you enjoying the lead up to the wonderful holiday season. What a whirlwind of events- I have lots of news, everyone! Instead of 4 weddings and a funeral, I have had 4 tests and a surgery! December 1st 2017 I got the results back from two major blood tests. One test, called the Onconomics Plus test, they only do in Europe. It’s massive in scope. It told us that there are eight particular substances to which my particular cancer cells will respond. This is helpful news because until now, I have been taking some 30 to 40 different cancer-killing substances because we did not yet know which my cancer […]

November 23, 2017

Published by Bev Spangler

Happy Thanksgiving 2017: Honey, I Shrunk the Tumor!

Posted Thursday, November 23, 2017 “Honey, I Shrunk the Tumor!”Bev’s Thanksgiving Edition (don’t want to read this? click the video link instead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sGZFjTxiUo ) I have some very hopeful news, everybody! I was in Irvine, California for three days last week –Tuesday and Thursday were travel days!- and Wednesday was a very full day of medical appointments. I had two blood labs drawn: one was for a very comprehensive cancer response test and the other was a more standard panel of helpful metabolic measurements. Both results will come back in the next several weeks. My integrative doctor changed how my tumor would be handled in order to better work within my budget. (we found out there is an unexpected $8522 hospital fee that wasn’t disclosed, […]

October 24, 2017

Published by Bev Spangler

Oct 24 2017: Mary Helps Bev Get Support for Her Cancer Fund

This email went out on Oct 24 2017, from my friend Mary, on my behalf. Its such a kind gesture, I wanted to post it here, for all to read. NOTE: AS OF JULY 1 2018, YOUCARING WAS BOUGHT OUT BY GOFUNDME, SO GO TO www.helpbevbeatcancer.com if you want to DONATE TO BEV’S HEALING FUND. THX! Dear Friend of Bev, {Note: You are receiving this email because you have a connection to Bev Spangler who is facing a life or death challenge. For those who already know this, please keep reading since the intention of this email is to help save her life. I’m Mary, a friend of Bev’s, who’s trying to help her spread the word. We write to seek your support via your networking […]

October 5, 2017

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Change in Plans: Going Integrative as of Oct 5 2017

Geez, is it Thursday, October 5th already?! Almost a month has passed. Sorry I haven’t updated in a while. I’m still getting used to checking in on social media. Well, I’ve got some good news: due to the massive nutritional overhaul I’ve been doing, an mri of my tumor 9/20/17 showed it has reduced in size a little bit! Isn’t that amazing!? Even more exciting, I’m choosing to do integrative cancer treatment instead of the traditional poison-cut-burn route, aka, chemo-surgery-radiation. And I’m hoping to be able to afford to go to a cancer clinic in Irvine, California. (If not there, then Mexico is more affordable.) My first appointment is Monday, October 9, over the phone. I will […]