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Tom · 11-03-2006, 06:10 PM

Remember that Mom has had NO conventional chemotherapy. I have to ask myself the question: Is there something, anything, beneficial about Mom NOT having received conventional rounds of powerful chemotherapy drugs, only Herceptin alone as a single agent? Is all of the nutritional and supplement intake really helping suppress the cancer? Is the curcumin really inducing apoptosis in any remaining cells? Is the green tea and green tea extract really acting as a tyrosine kinase inhibitor? Is the inositol hexaphosohate really doing it's job by inhibiting PI3K?

I'd love to know the answers to these questions, particularly if it might help somebody else fighting this damned disease. I'd love to hear what a researcher has to say about someone being treated with Herceptin alone from the time of first diagnosis. I know they have precious little data with respect to someone in my Mom's position, as nobody would dare forego the standard treatment protocols in the interest of furthering clinical research, and I can't blame them.

I just have this knawing feeling that there is something going on here that somebody doing the research needs to know about, but I don't quite know who to contact. They would probably laugh me out of the office if I walked in with such questions anyway. And I dare not suggest to any scientist or medical person that God Almighty had a hand in my Mother's rather strange disease course...lol.

11-03-2006, 06:10 PM	#2
Tom Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 290	continued... Remember that Mom has had NO conventional chemotherapy. I have to ask myself the question: Is there something, anything, beneficial about Mom NOT having received conventional rounds of powerful chemotherapy drugs, only Herceptin alone as a single agent? Is all of the nutritional and supplement intake really helping suppress the cancer? Is the curcumin really inducing apoptosis in any remaining cells? Is the green tea and green tea extract really acting as a tyrosine kinase inhibitor? Is the inositol hexaphosohate really doing it's job by inhibiting PI3K? I'd love to know the answers to these questions, particularly if it might help somebody else fighting this damned disease. I'd love to hear what a researcher has to say about someone being treated with Herceptin alone from the time of first diagnosis. I know they have precious little data with respect to someone in my Mom's position, as nobody would dare forego the standard treatment protocols in the interest of furthering clinical research, and I can't blame them. I just have this knawing feeling that there is something going on here that somebody doing the research needs to know about, but I don't quite know who to contact. They would probably laugh me out of the office if I walked in with such questions anyway. And I dare not suggest to any scientist or medical person that God Almighty had a hand in my Mother's rather strange disease course...lol.