miracle fruit
I was just thinking about something a researcher told me about at the AACR conference last year in Denver. The Miracle Fruit (that's its real name) is a berry from Africa. Once you eat it, it makes everything sour or bitter that you eat afterward taste sweet! He said they were growing the plants at his facility and trying it as a solution for chemo patients who have that metallic taste in their mouth or have trouble eating certain foods because of the taste. I just found out you can order tablets of it (saw it on amazon.com) or you can get plants or seeds and grow your own! Sounds like fun to me.
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"Dancers Against Cancer" in the Eugene, OR Komen Race for the Cure 2010
Diagnosed 8/7/08 with stage 3 invasive ductal carcinoma, micropapillary pattern, Her2 3+, ER+,PR-, grade II, positive lymph nodes.
Received 6doses of Taxotere, Carboplatin with Herceptin continuing for a year...DONE.
1/28/09 Left Modified Radical Mastectomy, Right Simple Mastectomy.
Surgery pathology: No invasive carcinoma present and 17 lymph nodes removed all negative! Only small amount of carcinoma in situ in left breast.
March/April '09, Radiation to left chest wall.
Currently involved in Neratinib clinical trial.
"Well being I won
and wisdom too,
I grew and joyed in my growth;
from a word to a word
I was led to a word
from a deed to another deed." (Odin)
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