This is a long substack column with the subject's story being told in a series of text-images that I can't include here. To see the entire post, you may have to subscribe (a free trial is probably offered) and if you have ANY INTEREST in the subject matter, I encourage you to do so, and to support Dr. Makis in other ways if possible, as he is under serious attack by the powers that be.
EDIT: here's the article Emily's story is from (no paywall, but also no Dr. Makis): https://seenamagowitzfoundation.org/emily-ziegler-pancreatic-cancer-survivor/
I've included Dr. Makis' responses below, and they pretty much tell the tale from a medical point of view, and include several links to relevant studies.
https://makismd.substack.com/p/ivermectin-testimonial-incredible
To summarize this complicated story:
36 year old mother of 4 was diagnosed with Stage 2 Pancreatic Ductal Carcinoma (PDAC), wrapped around her blood vessels, preventing her from getting surgery.
She did 6 months of chemo, which shrunk the tumor away from the blood vessels just enough to allow her to have surgery (Whipple procedure).
The tumor that was removed, however, was twice the size of the original tumor, indicating the Pancreatic Cancer had already overcome the effects of the chemo even before the surgery and had been growing again very quickly.
Surgeons claimed they got it all but they didn’t (post op pathology report showed positive margins but no one caught it and no one seemed to know)
She had ongoing symptoms but wasn’t taken seriously by Oncologists.
Her cancer markers CA-19 spiked and sure enough, 8 months after surgery she was diagnosed by CT with a Pancreatic cancer recurrence, nearly the same size as the 1st tumor, but her Oncologists refused to treat her and tried to put her on a trial of some kind.
She went to MD Anderson for a second opinion.
This is where she starts taking Ivermectin on the advice of her mother in law: “my mother in law knew of Dr.Makis and his research”).
She took Ivermectin for three months while getting a new cancer team to prepare treatment for her Pancreatic Cancer recurrence.
During those three months the tumor STOPPED growing and was unchanged on CT and had not metastasized.
Her 2nd Oncology team then did 6 weeks of chemo and radiation.
She is now Cancer free!
Explanation:
How do I explain what happened here?
During the 3 months that she was diagnosed with a LOCAL Pancreatic cancer recurrence but her Oncologists refused to treat her, the Ivermectin definitely stopped the tumor growth.
Without the Ivermectin she would have progressed to Stage 4 with metastases - this was an aggressive cancer!
Ivermectin stopped tumor growth and prevented the tumor from metastasizing!
But it doesn’t end there.
Furthermore, Ivermectin sensitized her cancer to the chemo and radiation that she then received “they did just 6 weeks of chemo paired with a small bit of radiation 5x a week”.
Ivermectin kills stem cells, making it possible to reach NED post chemo and radiation (2017 Dominguez-Gomez et al: “Ivermectin as an inhibitor of caner stem-like cells”)
Ivermectin inhibits tumor growth and metastasis (2020 Chen et al: “Ivermectin suppresses tumour growth and metastasis through degradation of PAK1”)
Ivermectin inhibits metastasis (2022 Jiang et al: “Ivermectin inhibits tumor metastasis by regulating the WNT/B-catenin/integrin b1/FAK signaling pathway”)
Ivermectin reverses chemo drug resistance, allowing chemo to kill more cancer cells (2019 Jiang et al: “Ivermectin reverses the drug resistance in cancer cells through EGFR/ERK/Akt/NF-kB pathway”)
Ivermectin sensitizes cancer cells to radiation, allowing radiation to kill more cancer cells. (2020 Mudassar et al: “Targeting tumor hypoxia and mitochondrial metabolism with anti-parasitic drugs to improve radiation response”)
Ivermectin WAS responsible for her excellent response to chemo and radiation and the outcome of now being CANCER FREE!
Chemo doesn’t even work though
Chemo works counter intuitively to common sense, that doesn't mean it doesn't work. It just has very low success as to what we consider success. Personally I think it should be banned as barbaric & inhumane, the success rate is so low.
Specifically it attempts to save the whole by actively killing a part of you. They are literally using poison and radiation to kill enough of your body to destroy the part that is killing you, while leaving enough of you alive to survive and possibly heal.
It is the modern version of using leeches to cure blood poisoning. If they drain enough of you ot may cure you if it doesn't kill you.
What's even more crazy there is more medical basis for some of those old "treatments" than there is for chemo.
There is a thread here posted less than a week ago stating chemo fails 97% of the time. Stats don’t lie.
Agreed, though it depends on the study.
My niece had Lukemia, and chemo when she was 7 (21 now). They had written her off as the chemo failed, told her mom to start looking into hospice options. She was a strong mom and threatened the doctors, saying there were still options and she was pursuing them even if they weren't.
She changed hospitals and had an experimental bone marrow transplant and it worked.
Because of the chemo Her growth was stunted (shes an identical twin, now more than a foot shorter than her sister), she developed memory problems, and dyslexia, and will most likely never be able to have kids.
Chemo is pretty well worthless.
It's literally poison. It does effectively work to kill the patient.
Chemo does work but it kills all your good cells in the process and hence why people die faster. Melpholan or something like that is a chemo that is equivalent to mustard gas. Yeah, a killer. This is why you have to take fenben and IV alongside chemo treatment. Get off the sugars, etc.