This is an Urban ledgend and did not come from Johm Hopkins
http://www.snopes.com/medical/disease/cancerupdate.asp
I hate to burst anyone's bubbles...but according to snopes.com (the debunker of myths), this report was NOT issued by John Hopkins nor is it affiliated with them in any way.
To verify this, go to: http://www.snopes.com/medical/disease/cancerupdate.asp
"Reports" like this have been circulating for years and years. I'm not sure why- nor am I sure of the original author.
What concerns me about them, is that they are presented as fact (which they are not) and might encourage a person to make decisions about their care based on untruths.
Also, these "reports" always throw in the patient's past behavior as a possible cause of their cancer, i.e., ate the wrong foods, too much stress, toxins, lack of exercise, etc., etc. ....thereby suggesting that the patient CAUSED his/her own cancer via poor nutritional, etc. choices.
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Vicki
Texas
Biopsy Dx'd 3-23-05 Age 48
MRM 4-5-05 w/ 2 tumor's 5cm, and 6 cm (right side)
IDC (poorly differentiated infiltrating ductual carcinoma)
5+/16 nodes
Stage III A
Grade 3
ER/PR-, Her2/neu ++
Ki67 78%
Begin Chemo 5-2-05 4XAC Dose Dense , 4X Abraxane Dose Dense (ended August 05)
28 Rad's ended October 13 2005
Started Herceptin Weekly August 2005 for one year
Had a Simple mastectomy left side after Mamo showed incresed micro-calcifications. Jan. 17 2006.
Brain MRI Feb.2006--All Clear
August 28, 2006 Last Weekly Herceptin.
October 2006--Colonoscopy, 6 Polyp's removed--all B9
PET Scan July 2007
Abdominal MRI Oct. 2007---2 Right Kidney Cysts
Core Biopsy-- Lump on Scar Line 1-10-08---B9
Brain MRI 6-2008--All Clear
PET/CT Scan 6-2008
Sept. 8 2008, 4CM area removed from mastectomy scar line. Proved to be B9.
PET/CT Scan-- July 2009 --All clear
August 17,2009 ---Had Port Removed
6 Years NED -- April 5,2011
DX'd with Melanoma left arm 10-10-2011
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