Calling all triple negative breast cancer patients in the UK
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Hello linali
It was nice to see you posting. I hope all goes well with Leigh at his endocrinology apointment.
I hope all is well with you.
Thinking of you.
Sylvia xxxx
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Hello Mumtobe
I hope you had your baby and hope that you are both doing well.
Thinking of you. Fond thoughts.
Sylvia xxxx
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Hello Dulcie
I just wanted to let you know that I am thinking of you and wondering how you are getting on. I do hope you will decide to have some treatment.
Fond thoughts.
Sylvia xxxx
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Hi Sylvia, unfortunately I did not see my regular oncologist but someone from his team.I am having my treatment at Charing Cross Hospital.I was told I had no option but to continue with further 3 sessions of Fec.I had my third session yesterday and they had problems with my veins.With lots of prodding and pain(only my left arm can be used as I had lymph nodes removed from my right,they managed to find a vein.Both of my sisters were diagnosed a year after one another at 50 and passed away at 52 ( they age difference was 11months )I was 47 and this was five years after I originally had ovarian cancer stage 3.I shall look at the one off consultation,thank you for that advise.At the moment just going to see if I can battle the side effects of this chemo session
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Hello 52dee
Thank you for your post. It is a pity that you did not see your regular oncologist, as it makes it difficult if you see different people. You do have a right to request that you talk to your own oncologist. I do not know anything about Charing Cross Hospital.
I do hope the FEC (fluorouracil, epirubicin and cyclophosphomide) will be effective and will not take too big a toll on you. I do hope you are not feeling to unwell today. If you feel up to it, please let us know if you want any tips on how to alleviate and specific problems. There are plenty of women on the thread who have been through all this and may be able to help. Drink plenty of water and get plenty of rest.
It is quite common to have problems finding veins, especially as you go through treatment. A lot of women have different sorts of ports installed before beginning treatment to spare their veins, but these ports can also bring problems to some patients, such as infections.
It is truly tragic about your two sisters. Had the breast cancer spread so that they did not survive very long?
You are wise to take one thing at a time and to deal with the after effects of this chemotherapy session as a priority. Try to keep looking forward to the day when chemotherapy ends.
Thinking of you and wishing you the very best.
Sylvia xxxx
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Hello everyone
I just wanted to wish everyone posting or viewing this thread a good weekend and hoping that you will cope well with whatever stage of treatment you are at.
In the UK and Europe do not forget to put the clocks back tomorrow evening. Sadly, we are going into short days and long, dark nights. I cannot remember if, in the US and Canada, the clocks go back the same weekend. The witching hour is nigh!!
Thinking of you all.
Sylvia
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Hi Sylvia,
We are heading into a Bank holiday weekend here in Ireland and it has been very cold but bright.
I did watch the stand up to cancer program and it left me with mixed feelings. I think if I was at the beginning of this cancer" journey " it would have scared me, but I realise that they need to raise money for funding for trials and so inevitably it was the stories that tore at your heart that they presented. I just hope that new less toxic treatments are found for all cancers, especially those affecting children. I also felt lucky to have reached the 2year mark.
DH watching rugby and my bedroom tele doesnt work since the digital switchover and have been trying to knit to pass the evening . Its quite difficult with the pain in my arm but if I do a little at a time I hope to have sweaters done for xmas for Oskar and Kerry.
I havent posted as I have been experiencing alot of pain and using the 2 week rule I will go to my gp next week. My hip has been painful and combined with my arm I have been kept awake most nights and as a result not fit for much. I did persevere amd went for a walk today as it was so crisp and clear and I love the Autumn colours.
A couple of new women at the centre this week and our numbers are really growing! The choir hasnt worked out yet as only a few of us can sing and we all have different music tastes. The consultant is launching his on line choir in Galway in mid November and hopefully a few of us will be there.We need a musical director who can get us into shape!
Have a good weekend, I plan to make gingerbread or parkin if I can find a recipe. I still buy biscuits and it would much better to have homemade stuff. I bought all the ingredients for my xmas cakes today. I hope that I can get around to doing these things instead of just thinking about them.
I miss Bonfire night and fireworks party and the treacle toffee and potato pie that we had as children.
I think that it is the cold weather that starts me thinking of baking and comfort food!
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Hello linali
Thank you for your post and I hope you are enjoying the bank holiday weekend in Ireland.
It is also very cold today in Exmouth, with a very cold wind, but at least a rare bit of sunshine. I think it may be time to get the scarves and gloves out!
I can understand your having had mixed feelings about the Stand Up To Cancer programme. I do not think a programme like this should be presented in such a way as to frighten people and I do not think it should be done even in the name of raising funds. I knew almost straight away, as I explained to Michael, that I was not going to like the programme, so I turned it off. It is all very well to be raising money for more and more trials, but I think it is much more important to try to find out why so many people are being diagnosed with cancer and trying to find a way to prevent this. The answer cannot be more and more lethal drugs that poison the body and are themselves a cause of cancer and other illnesses such as heart disease. Moreover, I think that cancer is a disease that is used in a political way and that all these drugs just bring in loads of money to the drug companies. Many of them barely extend life and are often the cause of death rather than the disease.
I do hope you will be able to find a way of getting rid of the pain in your arm. I was glad to know that you will get it checked out if it continues, especially as it is affecting your sleep.
There seems to be no end to the number of people being diagnosed with some kind of cancer, and the only answer from research seems to be to produce more and more drugs.
I do hope your choir materialises in the long run.
I do hope you enjoy your cooking. The smell of cakes cooking in a kitchen is always enticing.
Keep well and enjoy your family.
Best wishes
Sylvia xxxx
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Hello everyone
I have just received my latest e-mail from Chris Woollams at CANCERactive and, as usual, it is full of interesting information. I shall post some snippets here during the coming week, but I do advise you all to sign up for the newsletter.
The title of this new e-mail is 'Phytomedicine – the power of food to fight cancer'. It is all about bioactive natural compounds in foods, about which there has been an explosion in research.
Those who have followed this thread for a while will probably know about Indole3Carbinol, or I3C. This is found in cruciferous vegetables such as cabbage and broccoli. When you eat these vegetables I3C is released into the bloodstream, where it breaks down very quickly.
Of particular interest this time around are the metabolites from I3C which are showing very powerful actions. One particular metabolite is emphasised and this is DIM. This has an anti-oestrogen activity and may be effective in fighting not only breast cancer but other cancers.
What caught my eye and will be of interest to all of us is that DIM apparently, according to a new study, acts against triple negative breast cancer, which is supposedly not oestrogen-driven. It acts against TNBC because it has a great many other anti-cancer benefits.
In 2012 at the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) annual meeting, they announced that they had discovered an effective treatment for TNBC and that it was DIM.
DIM is short for diindolylmethane, a bioactive natural compound found in cruciferous vegetables.
“We are confident that the compounds we are currently working with are an effective treatment for triple negative breast cancer. These compounds are safer for the patient than current treatments available”, said Dr Sachdeva.
I must admit that I read about indole3carbinol years ago when I was first diagnosed, but the information about DIM and what appears to be its greater importance is new to me.
I feel that we are going to get some kind of supplement with DIM in it.
DIM and I3C have other anti-cancer activities than anti-oestrogen and anti-HER2.
DIM and I3C act via the p27 gene which causes cell death or apoptosis.
This active ingredient, DIM, has apparently been shown to stop metastases and cancer cell invasion – it down regulates both a binding protein and its receptor in breast cancer cells, as well as in ovarian cancer cells.
DIM has also been shown to decrease HIF-1 alpha and stops tumours forming a blood supply. It increases levels of oxygen in cells and can cause cancer cell death. DIM is also known to be an anti-inflammatory agent.
If you want to read more details the link is:
You might be interested to know that on the page about DIM that there is also mention about blueberries and the fact that apparently they have a strong effect with TNBC. The link is:
I hope all of you are eating plenty of blueberries, as well as cabbage, broccoli and brussel sprouts. I know I eat all of these on a regular basis.
You may also be interested to know that this CANCERactive page states that TNBC accounts for about 15% of all breast cancers and is a tough nut to crack and that orthodox medicine seems to offer little and does not as yet have a specific treatment.
I think that is enough to digest for today and I do hope you will find it useful and that I get some feedback.
Thinking of you all.
Sylvia
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Good evening Sylvia
I got back from Bideford last Thursday evening. We had a very good time, both my friends loved the area and the weather wasn't too bad, there was no rain and there was even some blue sky. Apart for a trip to the supermarket we didn't go into Bideford but spent most of the time in Barnstaple and Instow.
I have been thinking about the questions you asked and I really don't have any thoughts to explain why there is this explosion in cancer. I suppose I have given most thought to Lymphoma and I can find a couple of reasonable explanations such as the early polio vaccines were produced using tissue from monkeys that were found to carry the SVU virus. That could work explain the increase in my age group. In the 70's I was a hairdresser and spent months colouring but I couldn't work with gloves so each day I had multi coloured hands. Hair dye from that era has now been found to be carcinogenic.
I first went on an Internet support forum in 2000. It really helped me get through treatment but in many ways I think we are chasing our tails. We are looking for that piece of information that will really make a difference. I suppose there is no harm in that, at least we are being proactive. I know my constant search for answers annoyed Janette, she thought I had a bad attitude.
There was a depressing piece in today's Independent about how progress in cancer treatment has stalled, depressing but worth reading.
Michael
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Good morning to you all.
Had a great time in Belgium - I need a holiday to recover.
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The newspaper article I mentioned was in The Guardian not the Indy although there seems to be a similar piece in today's Indy.
Michael
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Hello Bernie, That looks like a delicious looking crepe you're eating, yum yum
Your hair looks good....mine has grown a lot too, but VERY curly. It was always curly, but now much more so. Have decided to leave it short. Greetings to all xxx
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Hello Michael
I was so glad to see you back on the thread, as you are making a very important contribution. I was glad to know that you and your two friends had a nice time in North Devon and that the rain stayed away for your visit. There is not a lot to do in Bideford, but it is a pleasant little town that has really grown since I spent a year there. There was no Morrisons supermarket and the big Mcarthy and Stone complex was not there. The Atlantic Village mall was not there either and Asda is a fairly recent addition. I think I kept pretty fit while I was in Bideford, as I was forever going up and down the rather steep High Street. Barnstaple has also grown a lot and Raymond and I used to go there quite a bit and have a walk round the mall and the quite big indoor market as well as going along the High Street. We used to take the scenic route from Crediton and go across country. It is quite isolated and very beautiful. I do remember Instow as very picturesque and popular with the tourists. I think that Devon is probably one of the best places to live now for quality of life in the UK. I have seen in the newspapers that Sidmouth and Budleigh Salterton are in the top ten places for quality of life.
I do appreciate that you take the time to answer any questions that I ask about cancer. I find the thread is so much richer if it is interactive and people put forward their own ideas, theories and points of view.
I was interested to know that you have given a lot of thought to lymphoma and that is only natural since that is the one that affected you. A lot of these cancers seem to be interrelated and I have read that oestrogen seems to be the villain.
I think you might be on to something with what you said about the early polio vaccines and the fact that they were produced using tissue from monkeys that were found to carry the SVU virus. We obviously all had those vaccines, not to mention the vaccines we had against childhood infectious diseases. There is also Swedish research about a possible connection between breast cancer and hyperparathyroidism and the third factor in that connection possibly being mass X-rays as children and young adults. I once had a conversation about that with my now retired GP and he told me that those early X-rays were really barbaric and vicious. I also had a conversation in 2005 when I was diagnosed with breast cancer and my breast cancer consultant told me that I should not have had it, about how the cause may have started due to something in the embryo when my mother was pregnant. There are so many ideas and possibilities.
I was interested also in your theory about having been a hairdresser and using hair dyes without wearing gloves. I used to dye my hair when I was young and foolish, and used dark hair dyes. These are said to be a cause of cancer. It just shows you how the past can come back to haunt you.
I was very interested to know that you went on an internet support forum in 2000 and I can understand how that helped you to get through treatment. I think these support forums are useful so long as we do not take too literally what other people go through and think that it will happen to us. Our cancers are very individual and somewhere I have read that they are as individual as our DNA. On the forums we can pick up tips and ideas and listen to other people's experiences, but our own will be just that.
I am totally behind you in your proactive stance with your own cancer. I do believe that even while you are going through treatment and listening to your medical team, you have to take charge of your own cancer and do whatever you can so that you go into 'remission' and try to keep it from coming back. I was like you. I was not using the internet for support, but I was reading every book I could lay my hands on and researching everything. I would then write off letters to my consultant/oncologist. I brought up TNBC with them as well as basal-like. I do believe that you have to be your own best advocate. Keep on top of anything to do with lymphoma and indeed any other cancers.
I have just read the article in the Independent, entitled 'Are we losing the war on cancer?'.
I have never understood why cancer has to be described in terms of wars and battles. This is not done for other awful diseases, such as heart disease and diabetes. To talk about the war on cancer is as nonsensical to me as the war on drugs and the war on terror! I find these terms meaningless.
I tend to think that there will be neither a cure for patients, as I cannot see a magic bullet for 200 different cancers, nor the elimination of this disease, unless it is through prevention. In order for there to be prevention you need the cooperation of the population and all the big companies that are making money through cancer, and all the big companies that are making the population ill.
When oncologists talk about 'curing' more and more people, should they really be saying bringing them into remission or keeping them stable through drugs?
In the article, by saying that more people in the third world are getting cancers from which the western world suffers, as they become richer and adopt the western lifestyle, are they not admitting that, at least one of the causes of cancer is the western lifestyle? My own thoughts are that our western lifestyle is killing us all.
I agree that this article is cause for pessimism in a way, rather than optimism. It cannot be good news that the global burden of cancer will increase to 22 million new cases each year by 2030. This is a 75% increase compared to 2008.
It seems to me that if we are going to use military terms, then we are not winning the war on cancer. The statistics speak for themselves. There were 12.7 million new cases of cancer worldwide in 2008 and there will be 22 million new cases each year by 2030. That is certainly not good news.
What is even worse is that, of the 13% deaths worldwide caused by cancer, 22% of that 13% is due to smoking. If there is something that is futile it is smoking and it is something that each individual can control. Not only are smokers killing themselves, but they are also killing other people with their smoke and non-smokers are probably more vulnerable than the smokers.
You probably think, Michael, that I have been going on too long now, but I have very strong views about the politics of cancer and how greed and hunger for profits plays such a powerful role.
Please try to read Bad Pharma by Dr Ben Goldacre. It shows up all the greed and corruption in the drug and medical world, or so it seems to me. I also think that the politicians are at fault as they have the power to legislate.
Hoping to hear from you soon.
Best wishes.
Sylvia
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Hello Michael
I did get a bit confused about the newspapers. The article that I have just been commenting on is in fact the one in the Independent today. I shall comment on the Guardian one later.
I am glad to know we share the same papers. I prefer the Guardian, the Independent or the i Paper and the Observer on Sundays.
Sometimes there are good articles in the Express and Mail on Tuesdays in the Health section.
Best wishes again.
Sylvia
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Hello Bernie
Thank you for the photographs. It looks as though you had a good time in Belgium.
Hello Maria_Malta
I was glad to see you popping in. Are you on half term holiday? I hope all is well with you.
Best wishes
Sylvia xxxx
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Hello All,
Just popping in to let you know that I had a beautiful baby girl, Emma Catherine, last Tuesday. She weighed 6 pounds 3 ounces. Had a really quick labour despite her being 2 wks early. We are just so over the moon and she is absolutely perfect, have never felt happiness or love like it!! I thank the Lord every day for everything he has blessed us with. Hope ye are all keeping well xxx
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What wonderful news!
Congratulations to you all and welcome to Emma Catherine! There is nothing like the joy and love for a new baby.
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Brilliant news and congratulations to you and your family. all the blessings in the world to Emma Catherine
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Congratulations and welcome to Emma Catherine, thereis nothing as powerful and overwhelming than the feeling that you get when you look upon your baby x
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I have edited this article from thegoodhuman.com
I now live as our grandparents did, using only natural cleaning products, etc.
Parabens can be found in shampoos, commercial moisturizers, shaving gels, cleansing gels, personal lubricants, topical pharmaceuticals and toothpaste, while they are also used as food additives. A large percentage of the products we buy for everyday use contain some form of paraben, so it can be difficult to find products that do not use them.
Parabens are chemicals used as preservatives, and that’s why they are found in so many products. They are used to fight bacteria and fungus, are widely available, and cost very little to manufacture and use. Nearly all of the parabens used as preservatives are man-made and not naturally occurring.
I know that there have been studies on both sides of the argument about what parabens are and whether they are safe. But because there have been studies that say that it is potentially dangerous and that have linked parabens to cancer, I have chosen to take the precautionary route and not use products containing them.
They can mimic the hormone oestrogen, which is known to play a role in the development of breast cancers. Researchers have found parabens in breast tumours and believe there is a relationship there.
In the July 2002 issue of the Archives of Toxicology, Dr. S. Oishi of the Department of Toxicology, Tokyo Metropolitan Research Laboratory of Public Health reported that exposure of newborn male mammals to butylparaben “adversely affects the secretion of testosterone and the function of the male reproductive system.” If a causal link between a chemical and cancer is not enough to avoid a product that can easily be avoided, I don’t know what is. There are a lot of other reports available all over the internet, but most of them are all related to reproductive health in some way or another.
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Hello Mumtobe
I just wanted to join in and say congratulations on the birth of your baby girl Emma Catherine. You must be overjoyed. I was glad to know that all went well and that you and baby are doing fine. You will no doubt be very bust now, but look after yourself and pop in when you can.
Fond thoughts.
Sylvia xxxx
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Hello Bernie
Thank you for your post and for the website.
I can remember reading years ago about parabens and how it is in so many things. I can understand why anyone would try to use only natural products, but it is not easy. I think we can control what we use to a certain extent, but not entirely. I try to use very little in the way of household products, toiletries and cosmetics. I do remember looking at everything in my home at the time of diagnosis. I have tried some natural products, but they are not always very effective.
There is a company called Mistry, which has shampoos and liquid soaps which are not bad and do not seem to have toxic products, such as sodium laurel sulphate, which is also said to be carcinogenic. This sulphate is also in toothpaste and is what makes it foam. I have found that so-called natural toothpastes do not clean the teeth or leave them feeling clean. There is a whole list of toxic products. I have read that lipsticks, nail varnish and lip balm are very bad.
The point about parabens being found in breast tumours is very interesting and it could well be that there is a connection. I remember heated arguments some years ago and still ongoing about aluminium in deodorants and also found in breast tumours, and aluminium being indicated in the development of breast cancer. The problem is that there are probably all kinds of things that could be found in our breasts that we have ingested one way or another, but I do not know if we can say for certain that they have caused the cancer. Once again there are probably a multitude of risk factors in our everyday life, mainly from food and our environment, inside and outside the home. I have read that our home environments are more toxic than the outside environment.
What is for sure, in my opinion, is that the western way of life is detrimental to our health.
I thought the design you posted for Mumtobe was so tasteful and pretty.
By the way, Bernie, do you know what has happened to bak94? I read a post on TNS in which bak94 was saying that since she had offended someone she was staying off the thread and deleting her posts. Have you had any news from her? I do hope she is ok.
Best wishes.
Sylvia xxxx
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Hello Michael
I have now had a chance to read the other items in the newspapers.
I have just read the article you mentioned that was in the Guardian entitled 'Cancer fight stalls amid push for profits, doctors say”.
'Newer drugs fall short of hopes and cost too much, say experts who pledge to improve care in poorer countries.'
Experts apparently praised Tamoxifen, which was discovered decades ago and provided a genuine breakthrough in cancer care. There is no doubt, I think, that this has been a very useful drug, but I have read that there are many Tamoxifen failures and that long term use of this can cause TNBC. I think it has also been implicated in ovarian cancer.
There are a lot of similarities between the article in the Independent and the one in the Guardian.
I was particularly interested in the Guardian article in the mention of certain drugs that are not living up to expectations. For example:
BRAF-inhibitor vemurafenib in advanced malignant melanoma. Apparently the tumours disappear very quickly but come back with a vengeance.
erlotinib (Tarceva) for a form of lung cancer.
bevacizumab (Avastin) for breast cancer and other cancers.
sunitinib (Sutent) for renal cancer and others.
These drugs work initially but resistance soon builds up. They are also too costly, with a drug such as vemurafenib costing £91,000 for a years treatment.
For those viewing the thread there is a lot more information in this article that you can find on the Guardian website.
At least in this article, prevention does get a one line mention.
Again, what I find of great concern is the fact that cancer is now becoming a problem in third world countries.
Are you back at work now? I imagine that your work is very interesting.
Keep well.
Best wishes.
Sylvia.
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Hello everyone
It is definitely a week in which the newspapers seem to be writing about cancer and it is also in the news on the radio and television.
Yesterday in the Independent, mammograms were back in the news and there was an article entitled '4,000 cancer patients undergo unnecessary treatment as result of breast screening'.
We are back to the argument about the pros and cons of mammograms.
An official study found that as many as 4,000 women in Britain receive therapy for non-life threatening forms of the disease every year because of over-diagnosis, but it revealed that about 1,300 lives are saved by mammography. The NHS breast cancer screening programme was launched in the UK in 1988 and invites all women aged between 50 and 70 to screening every three years.
The report shows that for every life saved by screening three women were over-diagnosed.
For more details and information, please look at the website for the Independent on Tuesday October 30th.
I would think that this over-diagnosis is referring principally to non-invasive breast cancer DCIS.
There is an opinion that this will not necessarily develop into cancers that need to be treated. All I can say is that, had I been diagnosed with this, I would still have wanted treatment. I do not think I could live knowing that I had something that may or may not develop into cancer that needed treatment. Moreover, since I always question everything, I cannot see how anyone, not even the experts, could know which pathway that particular cancer might take.
It would be useful to have some comments.
On Radio 4 yesterday, two women were interviewed on this subject, one of whom felt that she had been bullied into having treatment for something which may not have needed to be treated, and that probably she would not have had treated had the decision been left up to her.
That is all for now.
Best wishes.
Sylvia.
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Hello everyone
I am busy today trying to catch up with information that I feel that I should post. This is a continuation of the information that I have been reading from my latest e-mail from CANCERactive.
I am continuing on from Phytomedicine, DIM and triple negative breast cancer.
You may be interested in the following articles.
Indole 3 Carbinol action against breast cancer
http://www.canceractive.com/cancer-active-page-link.aspx?n=3268
New drug for HER-2 positive breast cancer patients.
The new drug is T-DM1
10,000 British women are diagnosed with HER-2 positive breast cancer each year. This represents one in five of breast cancer patients.
The link is:
The American Institute for Cancer Research recommends a rainbow diet.
I was so glad to read that this institute is now recommending the diet that Chris Woollams has been recommending for years, which is that you eat a rainbow of colourful foods in your anti-cancer diet.
'Bioactive' foods tackle cancer stem cells. Some foods help cancer stem cells re-grow while others stop them.
I found this article to be truly interesting. There is a theory that some cancers may be your own “stem cells” which have stuck in that format.
Researchers claim ginger may be better than drugs at treating breast cancer.
Please read this article. It is stated that in spite of the high global toll of breast cancer, conventional drug therapies are of only middling effectiveness, often with serious side effects. It is stated that almost all patients with metastatic disease and approximately 40% of patients that receive the ER modulator Tamoxifen experienced relapse that ends by death.
There are details about research with a crude extract of ginger. The ginger had a number of anti-cancer benefits but did not harm healthy cells. The benefits were programmed cell death (apoptosis), up-regulation of the apoptosis gene Bax, down-regulation of numerous cancer associated genes and proteins, etc.
The researchers think ginger may be a promising candidate for the treatment of breast carcinomas.
Aspirin, eicosanoids and cancer – news story
http://www.canceractive.com/cancer-active-page-link.aspx?n=3185&Title=Aspirin%20and%20cancer
A Diet for Chemotherapy – Chris Woollams
http://www.canceractive.com/cancer-active-page-link.aspx?n=501
Memorial Sloan-Kettering and MD Anderson urge people on Chemotherapy to 'Choose Healthy Foods'.
I do hope you will all take the trouble to read these links and to post in with your comments. We all have to do our bit to help ourselves and to help the cause of breast cancer. Somehow we have to find a way of preventing this disease, which causes so much heartache. As far as I am concerned, prevention is the only permanent way.
That is all for now.
Best wishes.
Sylvia
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Hello everyone
I am just finishing off the information that I have decided to post today.
In another e-mail from CANCERactive yesterday, there was information about the following.
The first subject was about exercise and cancer survival and the title was 'Are you fit enough to beat cancer?'
Apparently a report from Bristol University a few years ago concluded that regular exercise could prevent cancer. The American Cancer Society is now saying that since 2006 research shows overwhelming evidence that daily exercise can increase survival times and even prevent cancer returning.
http://www.canceractive.com/cancer-active-page-link.aspx?n=2599
I think we all know that we have to keep active. I still think there are no guarantees. I know healthy fit women who have had breast cancer but I still think that eating healthily and keeping active are very important to try to prevent breast cancer, all cancers and other chronic diseases.
French research links GM corn with cancer risk.
Organic food is better.
I found the next subject very interesting and it is entitled 'So what do you take?' Chris Woollams states that this is the number one question that people ask.
“It's the number one question people ask me when I meet them. So, here I will give a short answer to the above question.
Everyday I make pretty much the same breakfast - whole organic oats boiled in bottled water, and poured onto a mixture of dried blueberries, powdered seed complex and half a dozen apricot kernels. My first drink of the day is the juice from a whole lime (we grow them) with grated ginger. After breakfast I have green tea. I also drink wheatgrass. Over breakfast I supplement with omega-3 (from fish), CoQ10, a top B-complex, turmeric/curcumin and grape seed extract. All natural. I also take a mineral complex. If I go back to the UK, I take vitamin D. Twice a week I add resveratrol, pine bark extract, vitamin E (all 8 forms) and vitamin K. Twice a year I take a parasite and anti-yeast purge, but then I live in Thailand. I have my own organic garden, chickens and I play something (for example, golf, badminton, football) everyday or cycle. I have built a gym at my home - I work out 3-4 times a week. Over the rest of the day I eat whole foods - grilled meats/fish/prawns with loads of salads (and olive oil, garlic, onions etc ), steamed vegetables and fruit from our garden. I do drink red wine; I don't drink coffee. I do sometimes take sodium bicarbonate, and I use raw, organic apple cider vinegar. So the diet is based around all the colours of the rainbow. What a surprise! I hope this helps!!”
I would love to know what you think of this.
A lot of this diet is included in my own. I do not take as many supplements because of the expense of some of them.
I do believe in the effectiveness of pine bark extract (pycnogenol tablets), which I took all through my breast cancer treatment and for sometime beyond. It is an immune booster and I know it was being used at the Penny Brohn Centre in Bristol.
In this latest e-mail I was interested in the bit of information about Running for Catherine. As you know, Catherine Woollams died of brain cancer and this month her sister, Stephanie Woollams, along with some friends, ran the Great South Run, about 10 miles, in her memory. They fell a bit short of their £5,000 goal.
I thought it was sad because on Channel 4 Stand Up For Cancer, £6,000,000 was raised for Cancer Research UK and this money will apparently go towards new drugs to “cure” cancer.
http://www.justgiving.com/CatherineWoollams
That is all. Best wishes.
Sylvia
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