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Old 10-29-2013, 05:26 PM   #1
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Smile What Should HER2/Neu Breast Cancer Patients And Survivors Eat? Food for Breast Cancer

http://foodforbreastcancer.com/artic...rvivors-eat%3f

love green peppers, parsley, celery and tomatoes...check.
adore costco's new bag of almonds soaked in tamari (sweet soy sauce) as snack food....check
adore walnuts, esp toasted...check.
salmon...check

note to self: work on liking fatty fish with a sauce of turmeric origin!!

also: try to like chinese cabbage. also adopt sister's breakfast of blueberries, yoghurt, and flaxseed oil with protein powder and add some oats!!!

Foods that inhibit HER2/neu breast cancer growth and proliferation

The following foods and spices or their components have been found specifically to inhibit the growth or proliferation of HER2/neu overexpressing breast cancer cells and have also been found to reduce breast cancer risk in general:

Bell peppers
Black pepper
Cauliflower
Bok choy/Chinese cabbage
Broccoli
Brown rice
Brussels sprouts
Cabbage
Cherries, especially sour cherries
Celery
Green tea
Horseradish
Herring
Hot peppers
Lake trout
Mackerel
Mustard & mustard greens
Olive oil, extra-virgin
Parsley
Pomegranates
Raspberries
Salmon, wild
Sardines
Tomatoes
Turmeric
Turnips & turnip greens
Walnuts
Watercress
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fall 2008: mammo of rt breast worrisome so am asked to redo mammo and have ultrasound of rt breast.I delay it til january 2009 and the results are "no cancer in rt breast. phew."
found plum sized lump in right breast the day before my dad died: April 17th 2011. saw it in mirror, while i was wearing a top, examining my figure after losing 10 lbs on dr. bernstein diet.
diagnosed may 10 2011

mast/lymphectomy: june 7 2011, 5/20 cancerous nodes. stage 3a before radiation oncologist during our first mtg on july 15th says he found cancer on the lymph node of my breast bone. Now stage 3b.
her2+++, EN-, PN-. Rt brst tumors:3 at onset, 4.5 cm was the big one
chemos: 3fec's followed by 3 taxotere, total of 18 wks chemo. sept: halfway thru chemo the mastectomy scar decides to open and ooze pus. (not healed before chemo) eventually with canasten powder sent by friend in ny (illegal in canada) it heals.
radiations:although scheduled to begin 25 january 2012, I am so terrified by it (rads cause other cancers) I don't start til february, miss a bunch, reschedule them all and finally finish 35 rads mid april. reason for 7 extra atop the 28 scheduled is that when i first met my rads oncologist he said he saw a tumor on the lymph node of my breastbone. extra 7 are special kind of beam used for that lymphnode. rads onc tells me nobody ever took so long to do rads so he cannot speak for effectiveness. trials had been done only on consecutive days so......we'll see.....
10 mos of herceptin started 6 wks into chemo. canadian onc says 10 mos is just as effective as the full yr recommended by dr. slamon......so we'll see..completed july 2012.
Sept 18 2012: reconstruction and 3 drains. fails. i wear antibiotic pouch on my job for two months and have 60 consecutive days visiting a nursing centre where they apply burn victims' silver paper and clean the oozing infection daily. silicone leaks out daily. plastic surgeon in caribbean. emergency dept wont remove "his" work. He finally appears and orders me in into an emergency removal of implant. I make him promise no drains and I get my way. No infection as a result. Chest looks like a map of Brazil. Had a perfectly good left breast on Sept 17th but surgeon wanted to "save another woman an operation" ? so he had crashed two operations together on my left breast, foregoing the intermediary operation where you install an expander. the first surgeon a year earlier had flat out refused to waste five hours on his feet taking both boobs. flat out refusal. between the canadian health system saving money and both these asses, I got screwed. who knows when i can next get enough time off work (i work for myself and have no substitute when my husband is on contract) to get boobs again. arrrgh.


I have a blog where I document this trip and vent.
www.nora'scancerblog.blogspot.com . I stopped the blog before radiation. I think the steroids made me more angry and depressed and i just hated reading it anymore
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