Given Months, Living For Years: A Father's Fight Against an Ultra-Aggressive Form of Cancer
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
Physicians Committee
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🗓️ 6 December 2022
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
He was given four months to live, but Jimmy Blanco refused to die.
It didn't matter that doctors diagnosed him with an ultra-aggressive and fast-growing form of brain cancer known as glioblastoma multiforme. All that mattered was that he was a young father who wanted to be there for his children. So he set out to fight the tumor on his terms.
It was a battle fought with comprehensive nutrition research, dramatic changes to his diet and lifestyle, and unwavering faith. The fight lasted not for the four months that doctors had predicted, but for nearly 10 years.
He began writing about what he learned and chronicled his successes to share with others so that they too could find hope in their darkest hour. Years after his passing, his daughter, Jamie Blanco, finished the book her father started. She delved deeper into the nutrition research which has become more abundant than what was available to her father.
Jamie joins "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll to talk about her father's journey and finishing his book, Hope for the Hopeless.
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Hope for the Hopeless
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Virtual Book Signing: https://bit.ly/HopeBookSigning
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Jamie Blanco
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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hopeforthehopelessbook
Twitter: https://twitter.com/JBlancoNewsie
Website: https://www.hopeforthehopelessbook.com
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Chuck Carroll
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Physicians Committee
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| 0:00.0 | My father was given less than four months to live. |
| 0:05.1 | He lived eight years with this deadly brain cancer. |
| 0:10.4 | Eight incredible years. |
| 0:12.3 | The healthful foods that he was in taking and everything else that he was doing for himself |
| 0:17.8 | was priming his immune system that was giving his body every possible chance to win the fight. |
| 0:30.2 | Welcome to the Exammer podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 0:34.4 | Hi, I am the Weight Loss Champion Chuck Carroll. |
| 0:37.7 | Thank you so very much for raising your health IQ with us coast to coast in the US and in |
| 0:42.1 | more than 150 countries. |
| 0:44.6 | Hi to everyone listening in Hot Springs, Arkansas, Round Rock, Texas, and Saloise, Brazil. |
| 0:51.9 | Wherever you are, we appreciate you helping to make the world a healthier place. |
| 0:57.2 | This is episode 92 of season 5, number 391 overall. |
| 1:06.4 | Doctors had given Jimmy Blanco just four months to live. |
| 1:11.9 | The Jimmy Blanco told doctors that he refused to die. |
| 1:17.7 | Despite being diagnosed with one of the most aggressive forms of brain cancer, a glioblastoma, |
| 1:25.5 | Jimmy would not waver in his quest to keep hope alive to keep himself alive. |
| 1:33.8 | And he did for nearly ten years he did. |
| 1:39.0 | Imagine that given just four months and living for a decade. |
| 1:44.4 | Now this was all the way back in 1995 when access to information was not nearly as easy to |
| 1:51.6 | come by. |
| 1:53.7 | It meant countless trips to hear someone give a talk to just a tiny audience or infinite |
| 1:59.5 | numbers of trips to the library and phone call after phone call after phone call each made |
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