radioterapia en cancer de mama

tom dahl:i was never in the hospital very long. i think i had the actualtonsillectomy where they took the tonsil out and later on inthe initial cancer they found some cancerous lymph nodes andthey took out the lymph nodes, and i was in the hospital acouple of days for that. that was a lot of time -- duringthat time i spent all of those quiet times. just really trying to figure outwhere i was going to end up and

talking to god. and trusting in god that he wasgoing to get me through it. miles: about 15 years i got aphone call from my mom telling me that my father had cancer. immediately my life flashedbefore me and i started crying and thinking about all my fatherhad done for me, since i was a little kid. playing baseball and basketballand track, whatever sport was in season, that's what he did withme.

would come home and not eventake his work clothes off and take me out to play. i thought about that and whenyou hear the word cancer, you immediately go to a place wherethat person is going to die. i know that most of us knowsomeone with cancer and died from cancer. and most of us that knowssomeone with cancer, i bet 100% of us know people with spiritualcancer. spiritual cancer is sin.

bone cells have certain ruleshow they grow and function. bone cancer is when those cellsbreak those rules. liver cells have certain ruleshow to grow and function. and liver cancer is when thosecells break those rules. in the same way god has set uprules and guidelines how to live. how we are supposed to treateach other and love him and how we are supposed to forgive. and spiritual cancer or sin iswhen we do what is right in our

own eyes. when we make up our own rules. i want to read something to you,because the bible outlines spiritual cancer. galatians 5:16, i say then ifyou walk in the spirit and you shall not fulfill the lust offlesh. for the flesh your desires, yourego and pride, lust against the spirit. lust means you have a strongdesire to do something or having

something that does want belongto you. it says that the flesh, our ownego and pride lusts against the it desires contrary to what thespirit of god desires for you. and the spirit against theflesh. these two are contrary to oneanother. so that you do not do the thingsthat you wish. but if you are led by thespirit, you are not under the law. basically our desires are at warwith the spirit of god.

our spiritual cancer wants to dowhat it wants to do instead of what god wants us to do. every one of us have a spiritualcancer and everyone of us have a terminal disease called sin, andit's going on kill us. about three years ago i wasdiagnosed with throat cancer. i remember being here at homewatching tv and the doctor calling me and i picked up thephone. and he said, tom, it's confirmedthat you do have throat cancer and we will have to do treatmenton that.

and i said okay, what do we do. where do we go? and he explained that there isgoing to be a meeting with oncologist and they will set upa treatment plan. i remember hanging up the phoneand went back to watching tv. and i thought five or 10 minuteslater, you know, this guy just told you, you have cancer and itdidn't seem to have impact on me at all. i wasn't anxious about it.

at that point in my life i wastotally trusting in god, whatever his plan was for me. that i was ready to follow thatplan. i didn't feel like he was finished with me here on earth. but if he was, it was okay. we will do 35 treatments. 35? yeah. i thought 32.

we were going to do 33, butthe way that we worked out your planning, will be easier on youand the last two weeks are focused on the throat. and that will be okay. how is your taste? there is nothing. you can't taste anything? okay. your weight is good.

you have to be careful. we have to put a tube in if youlose too much, it's like work now. your taste isn't that good, youare tired and you don't have an appetite. you have to know what you haveto eat on a daily basis to keep your weight up. mr. dollin is receiving histreatment on the neck area. and this is one of the hardesttreatments, what we do is give

this treatment every day. and it accumulates. every day he gets some and itaccumulates daily. and as we go along a few weeksdown the line, he will get side effects. skin irritation and thickeningof the mucus, it will be harder to swallow. after he receives treatment,even two weeks after the treatment is over, the effectsof radiation is still with him.

this is going to be a long termthing that he battles and faces. because his body knows he gotall of this treatment and it will never forget. he will constantly have tobattle some of those side effects that he may get. during that process of theradiation treatments and going through the cancer treatments. i never really experienced anykind of doubt. i wasn't anxious about anything.

i just knew wherever god wasleading, and what was in his plan for me is where i would go,and i was good with it. if i died from that, that wasokay. and if i lived, my ultimatechoice, that was okay with too. and my wife and i were both onthe same page as far as how we were going to handle this. we were going to make sure thatwe were going to keep in touch with god. and let our friends know what wewere going through and sharing

what we were experiencing. we weren't going to let itchange our lives or routine. i continued to go to work everyday. and it was just a calming, kindof a very much calming effect on me. knowing that god had it covered. people always say that god is incontrol. people always say i believe andtrust in god. that he is going to take care ofme.

and i really wonder sometimeshow much we really mean that when we say it. to actually have experiencedthat and felt that way that i truly, and honestly trust in godas far as directing my life and what is going on happen. is an incredible feeling andgives you a reality to look at things from a distance in somesort of way. probably the hardest part ofwatching someone suffer from cancer is watching all thesymptoms.

they lose their hair. they get legions on their skin. they lose weight. they get weak. they can't walk. their eyes sunk in their headbecause they get so skinny. start throwing up, can't get outof bed. all of these symptoms look likea slow, painful death. and it's hard to watch that.

and the same with sin, and thesymptoms, all of us have it. and when we see it in someoneelse, we need to recognize and for what it is. and to it gives us a biggersense of compassion, because we have the same symptoms. i want to read them to you,because it's important to know when you see the symptoms ofspiritual cancer, it gives you a sense of how to treat someone,and the bible says we should bear one another's burdens.

and when i read this list,galatians 5:19, it says, now the works of the flesh are evident. remember your spiritual canceris when your flesh, ego and pride and desires want to dowhat they want to do and not what god wants you to do. the works of the flesh areevident, that are adultery and fornication, sex outside ofmarriage, uncleanness and lewdness and idolatry andsorcery, these are evidence of our desires to do what we want.

hatred and contention, andjealousy. how many of you have beenjealous before? that's a sign of your spiritualcancer. it's a spiritual illness andit's terminal. outbursts of wrath. people getting angry and goingcrazy. selfish ambitions. it's all about me. how many of you know somebodyit's all about me.

that's your selfish desirethinking about self first above everyone else. that's a symptom of yourspiritual cancer. descensions. heresies, envy. how many of us are envious ofsomeone else. something that you don't haveand something you want and you are envious and revelry ands thelike, and he can keep going on and on.

if you think about it, what doesyour spiritual cancer cause you to do and what does yourselfishness cause you to say and think. all of those things are symptomsof a spiritual disease. the bible says all have sinnedand fallen short of the glory of god. though you may not have metsomeone with physical cancer, you know someone with spiritualcancer, including you and me. and the question is what do wedo about it?

if we surrounded by sick peopleand we are sick themselves, how do we encourage those people andhow do we treat spiritual cancer? in 2001, is when i was firstdiagnosed with multiple mylonma leukemia and i was pregnant withmy daughter sidney, and didn't know. and it's been ongoing, with bonetransplants, and it was devastating to find out i hadcancer and to be a new mom. was sick at that time, at thattime wasn't sure if i was going

to live or die. but i always believed that godwould heal me through this. and i used to get up everymorning and lay hands on myself and pray and speak in tongues. because i had a tumor on mysternum and it protruded out and you could see it through myclothes. and i prayed for god to heal me,he's the same as yesterday, and i believe that. and as i went through thejourney, one day i woke up and

the tumor was gone. and i remember speaking with myhusband and i ran downstairs and i was in the shower, and i toldhim, do you think this is smaller. it seems smaller. and he said it is smaller. and i said let's call theoncologist because jesus has healed me. and he told me that the tumorwas smaller and said that it

looked like i had been healedover like a scab. but i still needed this intensetreatment. from that point i had a decisionto make. i could go in the hospital andnot go in the hospital. and god was saying you need dothis and i will be with you. and as i went in the hospital,and i realized to put my life together for my team for thegirls, and home schooling and cooking, and i realized therewere no services in san diego that helped moms and people withcancer.

and that's when cancer care wasborn. that's when i went in thehospital and wrote in journals, and god gave it me in a rush andwrote out the program and who would be served. and that's how cancer care wasformed. we believe in hope whether theybelieve in god or not. the cancer is where we reach thesoul. we meet their basic needs. if they need a meal, we feedthem and if they need clothes we

clothe them. and we they need to go to asupport group and talk with like-minded people and see hopeand action. we will give that to them. we will meet those needs first. but in our minds we know it'sthe love of god that changes people. not telling them they are goingto hell, but loving them through this journey.

and when people are goingthrough cancer or chronic illness, their hearts tend to bevery hard or very soft. and we hope that we walk onfertile ground as far as the hearts are concerned. it's a good opportunity, i thinkit's the opportunity that god is giving to us to walk closely. sometimes the people we serve,we serve them before they die. and they don't have anyone elsetelling them about god. they are in the hospital andvarious groups come to the

hospital. some are not christian peoplethat are coming to tell them what is going to happen next. and we are in the hospital thereto share the love of god with them. if they don't hear it any othertime in their life, when cancer care comes, that's what theywill hear. they are open to what we havehad to said and open, and people are open and they do.

you know when you first came tome, i thought you guys were going to preach to me. and say, what do you guys do atthe rock. do you give rides to theservices. and i am like yeah, then we havedone what we set out to do. yes, we give rides to the rock. and most certainly if we giveyou ride to chemo, we will give you a ride to the rock. i was talking to someone oneday and they were telling me how

offended they were becausesomeone called them prideful. and i said, if you think aboutit, do you have pride. and they said, well, yeah. i said do you have ego. and they said yeah. if we realized that we pride andego, we should never get mad when someone agrees with us. if someone calls you pridefulthey are agreeing what you know about them.

you too like them have spiritualcancer, you are a sinner. and the reason that is importantto understand, because when we see other people we look througha filter that is flawed. our own filter and perception ofthe world and ourselves. and before we cast judgment onpeople, we have to acknowledge that we are seeing things faultybecause of our own faults. the bible says that thosedesperately seeking, we don't know our own faults or how ourperspective clouds the perspective of our life andother people.

it's something that we need tobe very conscious of before we cast judgment on other people asthey suffer from their spiritual cancer. about a month ago we foundout that the cancer had dropped down from my throat down to oneof my lungs. so the situation now is that weare waiting again to establish another treatment plan. again i am not anxious aboutthis, i am not concerned about it.

do i have bad days from time totime? you bet. the majority of the time ittakes me a bit, like a bump in the road, come on tom, it's notthat bad. every obstacle that we comeacross, everything that is thrown at us and every part ofour life that involves some type of crisis. we have to recognize the factthat god knew we were going to be here.

whether cancer or broken arm ordivorce, whatever that might be. as long as we stay spirituallyin contact with god and keep our spiritual part of our mindsfocused on god. and his plan is the ultimateplan, we can deal with all the other circumstances. miles had mentioned on this pastsunday about people involved in life-changing events. and it's hard for him to imaginepeople going through those experiences without having afaith in something, and a faith

in god primarily as christians. we want that faith and have thatresolve that we know he's god. and so i am trying to maintainthat same kind of thought process. that god's got it. and that whatever happens,happens. i really can't say it enoughthat we really when we say we believe in god. and we say we believe in hisplan, we really mean it and we

just really do trust in what hisplan is for us. without any qualifications. it's okay. this plan is okay except -- orinstead of or whatever, no. it's his plan and we are goingto follow it through to the end. i pretty much look at anythingthat comes up, i try to immediately talk to god. i try to immediately go to himand say, okay, what is cooking. what we got going on here.

and i am asking -- i ask thesame questions, do we really need to do this. jesus asked that same thing. he said, father, is there anyway i can get out of getting strung up on a cross. and i try to keep in mind thatany pain or inconvenience i have to go through is nothingcompared to what jesus went through. the pain and suffering andhumiliation that he had to

experience to die for us and tosuffer for us. my pain and my inconvenience isnothing compared to what he experienced. treatment is hard because ihave to get a shot in my stomach once a week. and it makes you very, verytired. and it makes you very fatigued. and i have also have to takesome medication that does the opposite of that.

so it revs you up, and makes itso i can go two days without sleeping. the combination of both of themkind of makes you crazy. and i think the hardest part ofit is being a mom. and having an eight year-old anda 13 year-old who want my time. they want my energy as itnormally is. they are going to be out ofschool and i am torn between really wanting to lay in bedbecause i don't feel good. and in between trying to be themom i need to be for them.

and sometimes i feel like imight have been short or anxious or something in front of them. and it really bothers me that ican't be myself. you know with them. so that is the hardest part. i remember the first time wegot a dish washer at our house, i thought my job was done. i can eat and throw my dishes inthe dish washer and it's done. yet my mother told me you haveto wash the food off the plate

because the dish washer can'thandle the big chunks of food. a lot of times we think of godthat way, and god said come to me who labor. come to me just the way you are. and sometimes we think we haveto clean ourselves up before we come to god. god is the ultimate dish washer,if you will. you put yourself in there withall of your junk. with all of your sin and withall of your pride and ego.

and he it take care of it. not everyone will die ofphysical cancer, the disease. but everyone will die ofspiritual cancer. the bible says that all havesinned and fallen short of the glory of god. the bible says that the penaltyof sin is death. the penalty of our spiritualcancer is death. physical and spiritual. because sin is a spiritualoffense, our death is spiritual.

and that spiritual death iseternal separation from god. the bible calls it hell. the bible says this all of ushave sinned and the penalty of sin is death, physical andspiritual. that means that you and i willbe die. every dies of spiritual cancer,sin. everyone that you know that isnot forgiven of their sin will experience a spiritual death,separation from god. but the bible says that jesuschrist died for our sin.

in other words he paid the pricefor your spiritual cancer. your sin. he died on the cross, and thenhe rose from the dead. and he proved he had power andauthority over life itself. and he wants to offer you thatlife. he wants to offer you the onlycure. the only way you can be cleansedof your spiritual cancer, salvation. you can't try harder.

you can't take a medicine. you can't get educated and getmore money to get rid of your only god can forgive you andcleanse you through the death and resurrection of jesuschrist. as you sit there now listening,you are suffering from spiritual cancer and it will kill you. but it doesn't have to kill youeternally. god can forgive you for your sinand grant you eternal life. if you just surrender your lifeto him and admit, yes, i have

spiritual cancer, i am sinnerand admit that you know it will kill you and separate you fromgod forever. and then admit to him that jesuschrist the son of god died on the cross and rose from deathfor your sin, for your spiritual and he's offering you the onlyremedy, which is salvation by faith. if you would like to receivesalvation by faith. the only remedy to yourspiritual cancer, i want you to bow your heads and close youreyes.

and i pray this prayer with me. i want you to listen carefully,because i will lead you in a prayer admitting those things togod and asking him to forgive you. christ in you is the hope ofglory. there is no other name underheaven by we may be saved. no other name. there is no other name that diedand rose from the dead for our sin.

if you believe you are a sinner,and the bible says that all have sinned. and you believe that jesus diedfor your sin and rose from the dead. and you would like him toforgive you for your sin and grant you eternal life and giveyou an opportunity to have abundant life on earth. pray this prayer with me, pray,dear god, i know that i am a sinner.

that i am suffering fromspiritual cancer. i know that the penalty of mysin is death. physical and spiritual death. but i believe that jesus christloves me. that he died for my sin. and that he rose from the dead. jesus, please forgive me for mysin. come live in my heart. and be my savior.

i surrender my life to you. as our eyes are closed and ourheads are bowed. in a minute i will ask you tostand up if you prayed that prayer. you shouldn't have to worry whois around you and who is looking at you. everyone's eyes closed and headsbowed. that you confess that you havegiven your life to jesus christ and your sins forgiven.

on the count of three, i ask youto stand if you prayed that prayer by faith. one. two. three. stand to your feet. god bless you.