So sorry for your loss. My dad passed away from cancer in 2011 and he did the Chemo route which sapped his strength and it was very hard to watch him go.
I like your idea of sharing things that can help. Canadian researchers in particular have made great advances even in the past two years. Here's a cbc article on a promising new potential cure that doctors and researchers at the University of Windsor are working on. When I read about it in spring of 2012, I was thinking why didn't this happen earlier so I could have helped my dad.
It's dandelion root tea. It cured our rabbits cancer in the summer of 2012 (he had a tumor the size of a golf ball which shrunk to nothing after my wife and I gave him droppers full of it everyday for 2 months. The vet wanted my wife and me to put him down but I googled everything I could and stumbled on it.) I try to drink it everyday myself now as a preventative.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windso...rant-1.1248382