I, like millions of others, became a conservative listening to Rush Limbaugh. As a young saleswoman, I remember driving around in my red convertible, looking ridiculous because I had my windows rolled up so I wouldn’t miss a word of his show.

When President George Bush sent our troops to Kuwait to end the occupation of Iraq, I was glued to the radio, listening to every word Rush Limbaugh said. After 9-11, once again, I turned to the voice of reason and logic. Time and time again, I relied on Rush Limbaugh for sound advice and level-headed commentary. He is rarely wrong and frequently predicts the future with uncanny accuracy.

I still remember the day he announced he was losing his hearing, I was driving in my car and felt as though I had been kicked in the gut. I couldn’t imagine life without his wisdom and guidance. When he received his miraculous cochlear implant and was once again, able to successfully communicate with his audience, millions of Rush fans breathed a sigh of relief.

During his show today, Rush Limbaugh, the man who every year hosts a leukemia cure-at-thon that raises millions, announced to his adoring fans that he, himself, has been diagnosed with cancer—advanced lung cancer.

Here is the clip from his show today, where Rush refers to his millions of listeners as “family,” sharing with them his diagnosis of “advanced lung cancer,” that he’s known about since January 20th.

As usual, Rush refused to allow himself to be a victim and kept his comments positive, mostly talking about the great joy, “satisfaction and happiness,” that his listeners have brought him. Rush told his audience, “I have to tell you something that I wish I didn’t have to tell you,” adding that he struggled to share what he was about to say with his staff earlier in the day.

“I can’t help but feel that I am letting everyone down with this,” Rush told his audience, “But the upshot is, I have been diagnosed with advanced lung cancer.” Rush continued, “Diagnosis confirmed by two medical institutions back on January 20th. I first realized something was wrong on my birthday weekend, January 12th.”

Rush said he thought about not telling anyone, “Because I don’t like making things about me,” he said, but added that there will be days when I can’t be here because he’ll either be “undergoing treatment” or “reacting to treatment.”

Never underestimate the power of prayer. Rush Limbaugh has millions of people who love him, each and every one of us needs to pray for his recovery

There are many factors that affect the survival rates of lung cancer victims.

Some of these factors include:

  • Age – Lung cancer survival is better at younger ages than older ages.3 That said, it’s important to note that young people with lung cancer are often diagnosed at a higher stage of the disease (as many people, including health care providers, aren’t thinking lung cancer in young people.)
  • Sex – Women tend to have a better prognosis with lung cancer at each stage of the disease.
  • Race – Survival rates appear to be lower for African Americans than they are for Caucasian or Asian people.4
  • Other medical conditions – People who have other serious medical conditions such as heart disease or lung disease do not usually do as well as those who are healthy.
  • How you respond to treatment – Some people are able to tolerate treatments easier than others.
  • Complications of lung cancer – There are many possible complications of lung cancer, some of which can decrease the survival rate.
  • Smoking – Continued smoking after a diagnosis of lung cancer reduces the survival rate5 and can increase the risk of complications from surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and targeted therapies.
  • Where you are treated – A 2018 study found that survival rates for people with stage 4 lung cancer were higher for those treated at an academic cancer center than at a community cancer, particularly for those who have lung adenocarcinomas.

On January 29, only 9 days after his diagnosis, Rush Limbaugh published an article on his website titled:

What Would the Cure for Cancer Mean?

The article talks about a cure for cancer in one year’s time. Cancer is the number two cause of death in America.

RUSH: The Jerusalem Post headline: “A Cure For Cancer? Israeli Scientists Say They Think They Found One – ‘We believe we will offer in a year’s time a complete cure for cancer.’” A small team of Israeli scientists think they might have found the actual clue opening up or unlocking the secrets to cancer that will facilitate a complete cure.

Dan Aridor, talking about a new treatment being developed by his company: “We believe we will offer in a year’s time a complete cure for cancer. Our cancer cure will be effective from day one, will last a duration of a few weeks and will have no or minimal side-effects at a much lower cost than most other treatments on the market. Our solution will be both generic and personal.”

Now, every element of this sounds impossible, based on what we think of cancer today. It sounds like pie-in-the-sky, does it not? It’s too ambitious. I mean, okay, you might say you’ve come up with a cure for cancer, some cancers. And maybe for a little while but not total. But these guys are covering every base. “Our cure will be effective from day one, will last a duration of a few weeks and will have no minimal side effects.”

Meaning, you’re only gonna need to be treated for a few weeks and you are cancer cured. No remission, no cancer-free. You are cancer cured. And it’s not gonna cost much. It’s gonna be lower than most other treatments currently on the market. The solution will be both generic and personal.

“It sounds fantastical, especially considering that an estimated 18.1 million new cancer cases are diagnosed worldwide each year, according to reports by the International Agency for Research on Cancer. Further, every sixth death in the world is due to cancer, making it the second leading cause of death (second only to cardiovascular disease).

“Aridor, chairman of the board of AEBi and CEO Dr. Ilan Morad, say their treatment, which they call MuTaTo (multi-target toxin) is essentially on the scale of a cancer antibiotic – a disruption technology of the highest order.

“The potentially game-changing anti-cancer drug is based on SoAP technology, which belongs to the phage display group of technologies. It involves the introduction of DNA coding for a protein, such as an antibody, into a bacteriophage – a virus that infects bacteria. That protein is then displayed on the surface of the phage. Researchers can use these protein-displaying phages to screen for interactions with other proteins, DNA sequences and small molecules.”

You want to boil cancer down to the simplest terms, it’s out-of-control protein. It’s out-of-control cellular growth. And protein has always been thought to be the link to serious treatment here.

“To get started, Morad said they had to identify why other cancer-killing drugs and treatments don’t work or eventually fail. Then, they found a way to counter that effect. For starters, most anti-cancer drugs attack a specific target on or in the cancer cell, he explained. Inhibiting the target usually affects a physiological pathway that promotes cancer. Mutations in the targets – or downstream in their physiological pathways – could make the targets not relevant to the cancer nature of the cell, and hence the drug attacking it is rendered ineffective.”

That’s what they’re avoiding. They say all this misses the mark. And they have found a way to actually target out-of-control cancer cells rather than around the edges. I’m really simplifying this. It’s a technical piece.

Now, I’m sure you and your friends over the course of many, many moons have discussed the hypothetical cure for cancer. And people have had theories ranging from it’ll never happen because what is cancer? Cancer is the out-of-control growth of cells. And what is that?

Well, many people will tell you that’s essentially life. And that’s one thing we humans will never, ever, no matter how smart, no matter how long we live, we will never, ever understand and be able to create life out of nothing? If we can’t do that, we’re not gonna be able to snuff it out. That’s one theory.

Another theory is that even if a cure were found, that the cancer industry would mobilize to hide it, to destroy it because the cancer industry is so mammoth and so big and so profitable that the people in it are not going to allow a cure. Have you heard that theory bandied about? Oh, yeah. And it’s gonna surface with this report. You know, there’s an ancillary in this same story – this is the Jerusalem Post — there are actual references to Obama and the Iran deal. And it goes like this.

Obama had a plan and billions of dollars of cash on pallets to aid Iran, professed enemy of Israel, to help Iran get the nuclear bomb. Had Trump not been elected and stopped that and reversed the Iran nuclear deal, Israel could well be a pile of sand now and the most potential cancer cure would never be found. If Obama had prevailed and Iran got the nuke, the guys that discovered the cure for cancer might have been vaporized in an Iranian talk against Israel. So this is one of the ancillary stories of this too.

I don’t know how seriously this story is gonna be reported elsewhere in the Drive-By Media. But it will be interesting to see if it is, because what will happen is that the journalists will report the story and then in the interests of balance and fairness will speed off to the nearest cancer hospital and find the nearest cancer expert to weigh in on the findings of this report. And then what those experts say will be fascinating to follow.

Now, you would think, in a sane and otherwise normal world, that if some people anywhere announce a cure for cancer, that there would be uncontrolled happiness, eagerness, a desire to get in on this research to be part of it. Why, what greater thing for humanity could there be? You’d be amazed to see limited such reactions. We will have pessimism, we’ll have skepticism, we will have allegations and charges that these guys a bunch of frauds and charlatans and it’s not possible. Then you’ll have the media finding other experts that have delved into these guys in Israel’s research and they’ll debunk it and so forth.

And like any other news that has the potential of being really good and really great, by the time the media finishes with it, you will probably be conditioned just to ignore it and think not much of it because of the way it will be treated. But, I mean, these guys are not even hedging their bets. They’re well known. They’re well-known CEOs. Their company is well known in Israel. They have various degrees of respect within the medical community. And they’re not hedging anything.

They’ve got the cure, it’s cheaper than anything, it’s a one-time treatment, and in weeks you are cured! They found the answer. They have found that lock. They have unlocked that lock. They found their way in after all of this time and research. So we will see what shakes down.

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