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I think he was Australian. Either way, the take home message I got was
Eat more fruits and veggies
Exercise
Get some sun for Vit. D
Other than that, they don't know.
Actually, what they said was ... first do no harm.. they don't really understand the role of supplements.. some can upregulate some tumors at certain doses
I think that it was beta carotene that one spoke about in particular. I will look it up. One of the posters suggested thts Resveratrol in low doses had one effect, in high doses had another. All in all, what I got out of it all was that something such as beta carotene had one effect as a part of a diet but another as a supplement.
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Jan. 26- mammogram and ultrasound- suspicious lump
Mid-February- lumpectomy, infiltrating ductal carcinoma ~4.5 cm and a 1 cm DCIS, did not get clear margins, did not check lymph nodes
ER+/PR+, her2 +++, nuclear grade 3 of 3
February 20-PET scan showed something on liver. No biopsy.
March- Started carboplatin, herceptin, taxol on a four week cycle
May 3- Pet scan, with intent to do a biopsy, found nothing, liver or breast- no biopsy because there is nothing to biopsy
June 21- new onc, very concerned that there had been no biopsy,
June 18th-CAT scan, bone scan-negative
August 7th - Brain MRI-negative
August 9th- mastectomy, all pathology negative
January 2008 still NED! New oncologist -herceptin for full year after chemo- until July, and tamoxifen---negative scans since May '07
July 2008-Finished Herceptin!
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Reason: I was up too late
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