Given Months, Living For Years: A Father’s Fight Against an Ultra-Aggressive Form of Cancer

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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[@juliebutler8340]

What a wonderful interview! So heart warming how Jamie told her father's story of how he used his strength and willpower to find ways to heal himself.

[@mrcommunity992]

Absolutely!!!

[@wallyrbc]

My mother had the same exact diagnosis - she lasted about fifteen months. After the surgery, she was a completely different person. There’s no way she could have tried to help herself - she went in and out of reality. At times she knew about her diagnosis, but often she seemed clueless about it.

[@wallyrbc]

But thank you so much for your wonderful presentation! My mother was a lot older and I think the location of the tumour played a role.

[@cht2162]

Every relationship with death is unique. In some instances people are able to accept the fact that positive changes are necessary in order to increase life expectancy. Some people are capable of making those changes and others are not. At the end it is acceptance that is the basis for a good death.

[@wallyrbc]

@@cht2162 In my mother’s case, the brain tumour made it impossible for her to think through anything - her brain was literally damaged and she had no choice in the matter.

[@LESHAUNWILL]

Thank you for sharing your dad‘s brave journey. I am so glad that he decided to do things for himself because a lot of these doctors forget that they took a Hippocratic oath as soon as they start practicing and getting money from pharmaceutical companies and insurance companies, the patients healing becomes the least important thing.

[@tsamchoetsamchoe2909]

Absolutely

[@cht2162]

I'm a professional patient and am here to say that most doctors care about patient outcomes. So there.

[@marycallender5200]

Thank you for the truth. I am experiencing the same with my husband for 4 years. Refused radiation and chemo. Doctors don't seem to have an in-depth knowledge of nutrition. You don't make money off of well people. These doctors do not care about sick people. If they are not surgeons I don't have any respect for them. We are battling on our own to the end. He is 94.

[@LESHAUNWILL]

@@cht2162 I’m so happy for you hon. Seems you are rarity. I wish there were more like you. I have health care professionals in my family none of which will work in primary care exactly for the reasons I stand by. It’s a money’s game and sadly you don’t or refuse to see that although it may not be happening in your face that it doesn’t happen. Perhaps you should try to teach others how to be more like you and your doctors.

[@davidsthoughts60]

Excellent interview, very inspiring story. As a lymphoma survivor (so far :) ) I need to be more purposeful in eating what I know to eat, and avoid the brightly-colored-packaged-foodlike-substances I know to avoid.

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[@agreenspirit1133]

Excellent interview!

[@shad6519]

Heart touching.

[@gerard6629]

Glad you father took his own path and decided diet could be a powerful lever. There is another survivor I have seen, Pablo Kelly, he lives with in England and was given 9-12 months to live from grade 4 glioblastoma

[@tsamchoetsamchoe2909]

Incredible story 👏 🙌

[@My_Life814]

Praying for your full recovery!

[@LindaR423]

Jimmy Blanco sounds like me - he liked to prove the doctors wrong. This is a great story. I think reading this book and putting what it says into play would be good for people who haven't even been diagnosed with cancer. It sounds like a good proactive measure for me.

[@cht2162]

Trying to "compete" with your doctor is a non-starter because, no matter the outcome, you lose.

[@LindaR423]

@@cht2162 I don't try to compete with the doctors. I like to prove them wrong, and I do. I have gotten my blood sugar down, my blood pressure and cholesterol down without pills by changing the way I eat and changing my lifestyle when they said I couldn't do it without pills. The outcome is that I'm a winner with no side effects.

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[@prettygirlsmom9567]

Great interview 👍

[@nevaandrc8708]

Keep on the good deeds! !

[@ShortsTV863]

May god bless you!

[@JARABACOA3]

❤️❤️❤️

[@doctork1708]

Doctor’s legally can NOT reveal who their patients are. They can with permission, but a huge hassle. He should have found a support group.

[@rolfsimonsson2295]

❤

[@kaykalda9674]

Just fyi, Dr. Day has a KZbin video where she talks about her cancer she had. She said that while she took suppliment her cancer grew., interesting

[@user-cs1xz]

she seems like a nice girl but this was painful to listen to. the first 20 minutes is her speaking in platitudes, generalizations, and never making a salient point. i had to shut it off.

[@doctork1708]

He’s dead, how did he win?

[@luisbarragan9555]

4 months to 10 years is a massive victory. People will give all the money in the world just to live another day.