Re: NCCN Breast Cancer Guidelines-Tool or TMI?
Tanya, thank you for taking the interest in us and showing us so quickly that it is here for us to see.
I'm just starting to look at it, and this caught my eye:
"NCCN Guideline Panels are multidisciplinary, which means they include experts in different fields reflecting the way cancer is treated. These fields include medical oncology, surgical oncology, radiation oncology, pathology, radiology, nursing, and social work."
Conspicuously absent yet once again is the expertise of endocrinologists. Yet the breast is an endocrine gland, and so much of the disease is already acknowledged to be based in the need for better understanding of the endocrine system as it relates to breast cancer.
Will they ever "get" it?
AlaskaAngel
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Dx 2002 age 51
bc for granny, aunt, cousin, sister, mother.
ER+/PR+/HER2+++, grade 3
IDC 1.9 cm, some DCIS, Stage 1, Grade 3
Lumpectomy, CAFx6 (no blood boosters), IMRT rads, 1 3/4 yr tamoxifen
Rads necrosis
BRCA 1 & 2 negative
Trials: Early detection OVCA; 2004 low-dose testosterone for bc survivors
Diet: Primarily vegetarian organic; metformin (no diabetes), vitamin D3
Exercise: 7 days a week, 1 hr/day
No trastuzumab, no taxane, no AI
NED
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