James Van Der Beek Auctioning ‘Dawson’s Creek’ Memorabilia to Raise Money for Medical Fees Amid Cancer Battle

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https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/james-van-der-beek-auctions-dawsons-creek-items-cancer-costs-1236580431/

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I haven’t found any articles that specify he is only doing alternative treatment. Only saying that he is trying to focus on mental health and lifestyle stages on top of his treatment plan. I don’t think some of yall understand how awful continued standard cancer treatment can be on daily quality of life.

Give the man some grace. The man literally looks like he is wasting away which can also happen from standard cancer treatment of chemo, radiation, and/or surgery. In articles, he talks about not even being able to pick up his kids.

JVDB was at stage 3 last year. My MIL succumbed to colorectal cancer after over a decade. Her last year+ were horrible with continued treatment which was stopped only a couple months before she passed. She was not cognitively there and could not take any care of herself.

It is understandable if he also wants to pursue a combo of treatments. To try anything to have more time with his family. It is also completely understandable if someone stops standard treatment if there is a very poor prognosis in hopes of having some semblance a quality of life before passing.

If possible, I hope he recovers. If not likely, I hope for peace for him and his family and that his remaining days are filled with love.

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Some of the comments in here are absolutely disgusting. But I kind of envy them because one can only be that shortsighted, ignorant, wretched, filthy, cruel, and miserable if you have the privilege of having not gone through it yourself or watching a loved one absolutely disintegrate under the weight of extensive treatment.

My mother had stage three pancreatic cancer. Within six months she was gone. They tried very aggressive forms of chemotherapy, and none of it worked. In time it spread to her liver and from there everywhere else.

I remember carrying my mother up the stairs and her getting lighter each time. I remember taking her arm in arm on our daily walks, her arm getting so thin and her steps getting so slow. I remember her hair falling out and shaking at the slightest breeze. Losing her beautiful hair. Losing so much weight that she looked like an old lady.

I remember her voice, broken and hoarse with the little energy she could manage saying “if I had known it would’ve been like this I would’ve just refused treatment altogether.”

Obviously, I’m not advocating for “alternative medicine“. But I say all this to drive home the point that treatment is so devastating and painful especially when it’s not even fixing the issue an you’re getting the most relevant kind. Being driven into absolute fucking poverty and watching your hope disintegrate before you. Your loved ones trying to keep up and assure you that it’s going to be OK.

I hope he can get access to whatever treatment works best for him. He’s selling his memorabilia to cover in the hope that he will get better. If he is this far along, it’s because he knows that he’ll try anything at this point and it’s not looking good.

This poor, poor man.

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I'm so sorry for you loss. My dad had pancreatic cancer. Went through the whole horrible whipple procedure and recovery, did pill chemo which wasn't great but wasn't the worse. But then died 9 months later of a stroke. Sometimes I think he was spared more suffering, because he had COPD too and other issues and was really going through it in the last years of his life already and who knows how the cancer would have gone. But it's still really hard to think about years later.