Robberts cancer treatment

Robbert Vandenburg is a normal healthy 47 year old married for 18 years, he has 3 boys, ages 16, 14 and 9. Robbert had been diagnosed with cancer in September of 2020 . This type of cancer is called myxofibrosarcoma it is a rare form of soft tissue cancer that is extremely fast growing. He originally had a tumor in his right calf, since it doubled in size every month, even after 25 treatments of radiation on the tumor it was the size of a grapefruit when it was surgically removed on Dec 14 2020.

Unfortunately the cancer made its return in Dec 2021 in Robberts right thigh and 5 tumors in his lungs. After 7 months of Chemotherapy the Drs told him that the chemo was not shrinking the tumors. Drs started radiation on both areas in Oct 2022, 5x targeted radiation for his lungs and 15x for his upper thigh. Surgery for is thigh took place on Nov 14 2022. Surgery cannot be done on 5 spots in the lungs this would cause too much damage, so after monitoring the lungs after a few months the Drs have confirmed the tumors were dying in his lungs.

Just this past June Robbert had another scan of his lungs and Drs said they see a spot in his lung but figure it is just some dust and told Rob not to worry.

Robbert is very worried, with the damage done to his lungs already with the radiation, his energy is way down and the heat and humidity really tires him out.

The Drs in Canada have told Robbert that this type of cancer will come back and it is very aggressive as we can see. The radiation and the chemotherapy they gave to him is very damaging to his body, mostly unrepairable.

Robbert was told by someone about a Dr in Texas, Dr Burzynski. Dr Burzynski has been in practice since the 1970s. This Dr treats the cancer cells with ANP (Antineoplaston). This is a naturally occurring peptide in your body that demonstrates the ability to re-program cancer cells with out destroying normal cells in your body. Even after he is done his treatment, the ANP' s will still keep working in his body. This type of treatment is not available in Canada and is not covered by our OHIP. this treatment for 1 month is $23,000.00 CAD and the Dr figures Robbert will need to be on this medicine for 4-8 months.

So Robbert is currently in Texas from Aug 1st till the 16th of Aug as the Drs there are doing all the testing they need to find the right medicine with the ANP to combat his type of cancer. They also have done testing on Rob there as well, after getting a PET scan that is a full body scan for cancer they have found the spot in his lung is a hyper active tumor, and 2 spots on his lymphnotes near the pelvis.

Videos for this type of treatment and more information can be found, https://www.burzynskiclinic.com/

We are praying that this is the right treatment for Robbert at this time.

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