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trasia · 04-21-2011, 08:16 PM

Jackie07:

My 88-year-old Mother is a 13-year Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma survivor. I took a 20-hour flight back home to urge her to get the treatment. [She had put off the surgery for almost a year.]

Trasia:
How is your mother now Jackie? For my mother, I think part of the reason why is is refusing conventional treatment is not just the side effects but the strain it will cause on our finances (she is not insured). If Dr. Slamon and colleagues knew that Curcumin works as well as Herceptin, they are doing the general public a disservice (and I hope they are not).. I hope its just a case of not getting enough sponsorship to conduct the clinical trial/studies on Curcumin, and I hope its not just because they are receiving fat pay checques from Genentech.

04-21-2011, 08:16 PM	#10
trasia Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2011 Posts: 37	Re: In vitro/vivo trial Curcumin and/or Herceptin Jackie07: My 88-year-old Mother is a 13-year Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma survivor. I took a 20-hour flight back home to urge her to get the treatment. [She had put off the surgery for almost a year.] Trasia: How is your mother now Jackie? For my mother, I think part of the reason why is is refusing conventional treatment is not just the side effects but the strain it will cause on our finances (she is not insured). If Dr. Slamon and colleagues knew that Curcumin works as well as Herceptin, they are doing the general public a disservice (and I hope they are not).. I hope its just a case of not getting enough sponsorship to conduct the clinical trial/studies on Curcumin, and I hope its not just because they are receiving fat pay checques from Genentech. __________________ I learned to hold myself with dignity, respect and humility. My mother taught me to love and care for humanity, and a compassion that I have never seen matched. She is brilliant, and more generous than any person I have ever met. I know my mother loves me more than life itself. Her latest lesson is Courage as WE seek treatment for her condition and she enter the great unknown, and faces her inner demons…And I promised her that I will be her strength when she needs it, and her patience when she cannot bear it anymore.. ~trasia (primary caregiver of her 60 year old mother- IDC Stage 2B ER+ 90% PR- Her2+++ 3/25 lymph node involvement (Diagnosed Jan 2010- BMX- Feb 2010)