Breast Cancer – Help Bev Beat Cancer

October 30, 2018

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Happy Early Autumn 2018!

Happy Early Autumn 2018! (this was written in Sept-Oct 2018) I am happy to report that I have a host of good news items to share with you all!! My integrative cancer doc is streamlining my cancer meds. Due to financial exigencies, my cancer doctor in California is in the process of pairing down and streamlining the kinds and amounts of cancer meds that I’m taking. This will help me keep going on my program without breaking the bank. I am so excited to hear her suggestions. I’ll share them with you once she shares them with me, probably next newsletter blog. Diagnostic mammogram in July showed no sign of new growth cancer! Because of this my breast surgeon suggested it was not too […]

August 22, 2018

Published by Bev Spangler

Will Sing for Cancer Funding: Bev & Bro’s Ballad by Bono

Happy August 2018 everyone! If you click on the “Still Not in Remission” link above, you’ll get to hear my brother Gary and I bastardize U2’s “Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For,” unashamed to sing for my cancer healing fund. The new lyrics, now “Still Not in Remission” are by Gary Spangler! While I AM nearing remission, I have several therapies and tests left to take in 2018 to help me reach it. My monthly integrative cancer expenses still hover around 400$ a month – and they work! But aren’t covered by insurance. Please help if you can- www.helpbevbeatcancer.com . Please share the video if you know of others who might. Any amount is truly appreciated!

July 15, 2018

Published by Bev Spangler

Happy July heat wave, everyone- yikes!

Whew, its hot in Chicago lately. Days of heavy, humid, and hot air. The big news: MY REMAINING CANCER CELLS CONTINUE TO DROP!! That’s right, I may not be in remission YET, but I keep inching towards it, month by month. How do we know this? There’s a test called the Oncocount created by a lab in Europe called RGCC. People whose score is in the teens on the Oncocount have metastatic cancer (stage 3,4) according to my cancer healing team. People whose scores are at two, one, or zero, are considered in remission if not downright cured. My score was a 3.4 on June 1st 2018, down from a 4.0 in November 2017. This is great- its going down, not up! What’s on deck? […]

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

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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, […]