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and happy birthday - I am looking forward to following your progress.  Just got back from the gym - walked a mile, ran 2 miles - in 34 mins...Well at least I was never really fast anyway so I dont have much to work back up to!  Was closer to a 8.5 - 9 min mile before .....

Good luck and keep us posted!

Sent you a PM, Celtic!

I am sure you are right, Sandy.  I apologize for posting in fact I hesitated before doing so.  Should have trusted my gut! 

I wish you only the best

There are times (ok - almost always) when I am just pissed off and no one can do anything right.  I get upset when people want to help me because I dont want them to feel sorry for me and I get upset when people treat me normally - don't they know I am going thru hell????  I get upset when people tell me how strong I am and then I get upset when people tell me they wish I didnt have to go through this.  Basically I am just pissed off and try to keep it to myself!

Know the feeling?

I am having my exchange surgery on Dec 9th and then radiation in January.  How long after radiation should I wait before having tattoos (in case of capsular contraction I guess?)

I love hand crochetted or knitted scarves - and a doggie sweaters are little!

Celtic Spirit - A recent study came out re Vit D not being helpful BUT as you may have noticed it was only using 400 IU- a Canadian study came out saying that more was better...I live in upstate NY and take 4000 a day in the fall and winter and 2000 a day in the spring and summer.  Have you had yours tested?

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Statement about vitamin D and breast cancer prevention

TORONTO, Nov. 14 /CNW/ - Today, Marc Sorenson, Ed.D, an expert in vitamin D, issued a statement today in regards to the health and cancer prevention benefits of vitamin D: "The recent Journal of the National Cancer Institute published study, only used 400 IU of vitamin D - an amount we know has no affect on vitamin D blood levels. This research is deceiving. In contrast, the Creighton University study (released in 2007) used 1,100 IU of vitamin D. People need vitamin D blood levels around 40-60 ng/ml to achieve optimal anti-cancer benefit, and we know that 400 IU won't get you there - in fact, it is barely enough to prevent rickets. In the winter in Canada, every adult needs about 4,000 to 5,000 IU daily. Vitamin D is called "The Sunshine Vitamin" because sun or UVB exposure to the skin is by far the most abundant source. Vitamin D deficiency is a growing concern in Canada, especially during the darker winter months. Get your levels checked." Note: 400 IU, if no other source of vitamin D were available, would produce a level of about 4, not 23. << Sources for research about vitamin D and cancer prevention include: - A four-year, randomized study followed 1,179 healthy, postmenopausal women from rural eastern Nebraska. Participants taking calcium, as well as a quantity of vitamin D3 nearly three times the U.S. government's Recommended Daily Amount (RDA) for middle-age adults, showed a dramatic 60 percent or greater reduction in cancer risk than women who did not get the vitamin. The results of the study from Creighton University School of Medicine, conducted between 2000 and 2005, and reported in the June 8 online edition of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Joan Lappe, Ph.D., R.N., Creighton professor of medicine and holder of the Criss/Beirne Endowed Chair in the School of Nursing said, "Vitamin D is a critical tool in fighting cancer as well as many other diseases." - Fifteen experts from universities, research institutes and university hospitals around the world recently called for international agencies to "reassess as a matter of high priority" dietary recommendations for vitamin D because current advice is outdated and puts the public at risk of deficiency (The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol. 85, pp. 860-868). - A 2007 breast cancer study, published online in the Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, used two earlier studies - the Harvard Nurses Health Study and the St. George's Hospital Study - and found that individuals with the highest blood levels of 25- hydroxyvitamin D, or 25(OH) D, had the lowest risk of breast cancer. - A study released in 2008 by the University of Toronto researchers measured the vitamin D blood levels of 512 women who had just been diagnosed with breast cancer, and tracked the progression of the disease during almost 12 years. Almost three-quarters of the women suffering from breast cancer had insufficient blood levels of vitamin D, and almost half of them were severely deficient. Women whose levels were highest had a 75 per cent reduced chance of death and a 96 per cent reduced chance of metastasis when compared to those whose levels were lowest. - Dr. Cedric F. Garland, cancer prevention specialist at the Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and colleagues estimate that 250,000 cases of colorectal cancer and 350,000 cases of breast cancer could be prevented worldwide by increasing intake of vitamin D3, particularly in northern or southern countries in temperate latitudes. >> Recently, The Canadian Cancer Society, recognized the cancer-fighting potential of vitamin D, and recommends 1,000 IU of vitamin D daily.

possible prevention of bone mets as shown in recent studies.

Yes, thank you for this and all articles that you post.  I am more informed because of you.  Not sure what it all means and when it will trickle down to us but I am glad the research seems to be getting somewhere.

Thank you.  I needed that today.  My last chemo treatment is wednesday then hyst/ooph and radiation and Femara.....

I have stayed very active all through chemo (thank god for anti nausea drugs) and have tried to enjoy every day but am reallllllllly looking forward to hair again!