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v-ness · 02-20-2016, 06:41 PM

patrice - how odd that you're being treated at DF too and the team you have pooh-pooh supplements. Sloan-Kettering has an entire area devoted to integrative medicine. i mean right here on their website they have an area for herbs and botanicals, etc.
https://www.mskcc.org/cancer-care/tr...ative-medicine
as for lise alschuler, she will do consultations via skype since obviously most people can't see her face-to-face, but i think she's also expensive. however, she tailors her recommendations to your specific treatment, and as i said, my BF is thriving despite his mets in his liver (which shrank by half first CT then half again by the 2nd). he had neuropathy in hands and feet and i know something he was taking was supposed to help with that. he also swears by juicing and going on this diet he found that is called the NED diet, but he's willing to do anything he can and others of us aren't able to be that radical. i found that the Anti-Cancer book was helpful. anyway, good luck and let me know if you would like any more info. BTW, i think shirley's right. i have a doctor friend who does not like the Cancer Treatment Center of America one bit. valerie

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v-ness Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: western ma Posts: 280	Re: Cancer centers of America patrice - how odd that you're being treated at DF too and the team you have pooh-pooh supplements. Sloan-Kettering has an entire area devoted to integrative medicine. i mean right here on their website they have an area for herbs and botanicals, etc. https://www.mskcc.org/cancer-care/tr...ative-medicine as for lise alschuler, she will do consultations via skype since obviously most people can't see her face-to-face, but i think she's also expensive. however, she tailors her recommendations to your specific treatment, and as i said, my BF is thriving despite his mets in his liver (which shrank by half first CT then half again by the 2nd). he had neuropathy in hands and feet and i know something he was taking was supposed to help with that. he also swears by juicing and going on this diet he found that is called the NED diet, but he's willing to do anything he can and others of us aren't able to be that radical. i found that the Anti-Cancer book was helpful. anyway, good luck and let me know if you would like any more info. BTW, i think shirley's right. i have a doctor friend who does not like the Cancer Treatment Center of America one bit. valerie __________________ 8/09 - IDC 1.8 cm triple positive, lumpectomy left breast 10/09 began chemo (taxotere & carboplatin) and weekly herceptin. 1/21/10 finished chemo, continued on herceptin every 3 weeks until 10/2010. 2/10 began 7 wks of radiation 6/10 mom dies of primary peritoneal ovarian cancer 8/10 got my last remaining ovary out 10/10 mammogram all clear 3/11 MRI shows 5 'spots' in right breast, largest 1 cm unidentifiable on US needle biopsy proved the largest to be old inflamed cyst -phew! 7/10 switched to Arimidex 8/9 switched to Femara - allergic to arimidex Femara made me lose hair quickly so switched to Aromasin Aromasin made my hair fall out too and the bone pain was too much. back on Tamoxifen 1/2013. blood clot from trains and planes 5/2014 so on coumadin per onco for as long as i am on tamoxifen tamoxifen was supposed to be up with my 5 yrs in may but my boyfriend was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer so i am staying on tamoxifen indefinitely because i want some ammo against BC, given the stress. lost my husband in only 10 wks in 2007 to stage 4 esophageal cancer. cancer's screwing with another man i love 2/2016 - 6yrs in remission, off tamoxifen and off coumadin - yay!