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Originally Posted by graciegirl
I agree with most of what you say in this post Senior, but on a couple points I do have to say a word or too.
Breast cancer in young women (under fifty) is usually a much more aggressive form and if it is the type fed by estrogen,(not all are) their bodies are still making a lot. In women over fifty, if cancer of the breast is discovered early, than more often it can be put in remission for a number of reasons. I am sure that many who are reading this are fighting breast cancer. Both our daughter Helene who had breast cancer when she was 29 and me, we survived. As did 13 family members. Only three had familial.They survived. Breast cancer is not one cancer either but a lot of different kinds and we need to go to a place that treats a lot and has the best treatment options.
Sometimes when we see two people who have lung cancer we think it is the same form, it often is not. Again we need to find the best place to treat any serious disease we have and with cancer, we can't eat to prevent it and we can't eat to make it go away and the same with supplements. They are not going to work with cancer. Until somethng better comes along, our best shot is what is prescribed for us which is often chemo and radiation, terrible poisons and killers. Cancer isn't a baby game and this is no time to try to duplicate the knowlege of people who treat it daily. Time is of the essence.
Money is being made by big pharma, by doctors everywhere, and certainly by the supplement industry. It does make us suspicious of all, or should. We need to make the choices that are best for us and not try something in desperation. But most doctors are trustworthy, you would be wise to go to an oncology group with ties to a respected teaching hospital if your diagnosis is cancer.
Invasive testing is sometimes needed. Unfortunatly, and we have to remember that too. Fear is an awful thing when it keeps us from the treatment we need.
Now we are off the track.
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I hear you Gracie. God Bless you & all your family members.
The recent ones I mentioned were younger women in their 40's with the familial gene and the aggressive form.........the others were in their 50's which is still young in my book.
They all went for second opinions to the best of the best in Boston and ended up having survery in Hanover, New Hampshire, again at the best; plus the reconstructive surgery, ditto. They had their chemo and radiation here in town at our oncology center at the hospital.
Others, our own age .....our peers, went to Mount Sinai in New York City for their cancer treatment........they were extremely athletic types and followed vegan diets prior to the diagnosis.
I'm just saying there are no guarantees in life.
Several of our friends passed from the non smoker lung cancer.
Never smoked a day in their lives. They had been treated for asthma and bronchitis and all were on inhalers. Finally after years of that, they were told they had stage four lung cancer.....and given chemo and radiation and died two years after treatment.
You, your daughter and your other family members are truly blessed.
We saw bright, obviously healthy to begin with, "runners", cyclists, etc. go quickly after chemo and radiation.........I wonder if the reconstruction surgery might let some of the "cells" escape into the blood stream????
Again, these people did not favor junk foods to begin with; they were truly into a healthy lifestyle in every way possible.
The one who was our age lost all feeling in her feet,her hands, had seizures, etc. not from her cancer.......the oncologist told her it was from the chemo. She could no longer knit, her favorite past time. Also, she was a non smoker.
By the way, Dartmouth is a fine hospital and a fine university.
Many of our doctors and surgeons in town here were trained there.
However, we also know doctors and R.N.'s as friends and neighbors and believe it or not, they claim that if they ever got the dreaded disease, they would not get chemo or radiation. Time will tell.
Always value your opinion Gracie. Just relaying what has been our experience.
In my mom in law's days, they didn't even tell the patient they had cancer.......she passed at 54 but had it for about 4 years, no treatment at that time........just surgeries. Kidney removal, Uterus removal, etc., etc. She actually died without pain, even though it spread to her brain and bones. I think it was a sarcoma if my memory is correct. It was 41 years ago............as compared to the younger women mentioned above.