Feel free to use this thread to post and discuss your GKI (Glucose Ketone Index) scores, share insights, and track your progress with others. We are all here to help each other and having a yardstick of what others can achieve is inspirational and can improve the readings of the group as a whole. Let's keep the vibe positive, supportive, and respectful. We're here to uplift each other - join the conversation! We are not all cancer experts (in fact none of us are trained oncologists) so we have to be open to the ideas of others. If you don’t agree PM the OP and get them to change their post if it’s demonstrably wrong.

I never imagined I would be writing this. My mum passed away, and I don’t yet have the words to describe the emptiness she’s left behind. She wasn’t just my mother — she was my best friend, my anchor, my reason for fighting, and the heart behind everything we built here. This community was created for her. She carried more than most people ever see. She lived with bipolar disorder. She carried childhood trauma. She endured a painful divorce, the loss of both her parents, a cancer diagnosis, the death of Pepper — our family boxer — and the loss of Albert, our family’s closest friend. All of this happened within the last seven years. And yet — she kept going. She walked at least 10,000 steps a day. She swam three times a week. She went to church every Sunday. She worked tirelessly on the house. She quit smoking after her diagnosis. She tried carnivore. She cut out sugar. And most importantly: She kept our family together. She fought. She cared. She loved. Even when depression weighed heavily on her will to live, she chose to fight — not because it was easy, but because she loved us. She fought for us when her mind told her to give up. That is courage. We were hopeful. So hopeful. She had just started the Astron Health protocol — only one week in — and we believed we had time. Previous scans had been relatively reassuring, showing stable, very slow-growing, localised disease in the peritoneum and a coeliac lymph node, with no organ spread. Her CRP was 4 — within the normal range. Then everything changed — fast. She developed sudden, severe gastrointestinal pain, vomiting, and diarrhoea. We rushed to the hospital. A CT scan showed ischemic colitis. A mouth swab also confirmed COVID. She was put on palliative care, given fluids and heparin. Her circulation improved. Lactate came down. Symptoms improved. Objectively, things were getting better. But the narrative never changed. Despite improving vitals, improving markers, and improving symptoms, they continued to insist on bowel necrosis — even when the evidence did not clearly support it. At the same time, her CRP (an inflammation marker) rose rapidly from 4 (normal) just weeks earlier, to 14 on admission, to 150 the following day, and eventually to 455 at its peak. She developed rising oxygen requirements, hypoxia, and what appeared to be a clear systemic inflammatory storm — yet COVID pneumonitis was repeatedly dismissed.

My dear Warriors, I’ve been wanting to share something deeply personal with you. As many of you know, my mum was the inspiration behind Cancer Warriors. Everything I’ve learned, researched and shared through this community began with my determination to help her fight cancer. Sadly, my beautiful mum passed away on 15 February 2026, following a 14-day admission at York Hospital. My brother and I stayed beside her throughout those 14 days, sleeping next to her bed at the hospital every night. My sisters and stepdad were also there every day, balancing work commitments and looking after our dogs while spending as much time as possible with Mum. We were all there for her, supporting her and each other through the most difficult days of our lives. Together, we witnessed her struggles, her moments of improvement and the difficult decisions being made about her care. During that admission, we became increasingly concerned about aspects of her treatment, monitoring and clinical reassessment. We asked questions. We requested further medical opinions. We challenged decisions when we believed her changing condition warranted reassessment. On 6 February, we invoked Martha’s Rule, an NHS patient-safety initiative that allows patients and families to request an urgent review when they are concerned that deterioration is not being adequately addressed. On 9 February, while my mum was still alive, our family formally escalated our concerns through PALS. We also submitted a written request for a review by a different clinical team. Unfortunately, my mum passed away six days later. We requested her medical records in March 2026, but we’re still awaiting disclosure. We’ve raised a formal NHS complaint, and the hospital has been undertaking a Structured Judgement Case Review. More recently, HM Coroner has begun preliminary enquiries into the circumstances surrounding her death and has requested a detailed chronology of events from us, together with the hospital’s review.

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I recently went through radiation therapy, and the information shared in this community has been incredibly useful. There is also a massive amount of information available on Facebook. The real question becomes: which groups are worth your time to participate in and follow? It takes a lot of effort to keep up, but it is deeply helpful if you have the time to invest. One major takeaway for me is that there are so many different opinions on the same topics, and there is a place for all of them since the knowledge base is constantly evolving. For example, there are ongoing debates about whether the Keto diet is appropriate for all types of cancer. I learned about Jane McLelland from this community and read her book, which really helped me understand the complexity of the issue. I have also subscribed to newsletters like makisw.substack.com to see different perspectives. Ultimately, the biggest challenge we all face is this: how do we determine what information is actually reliable?