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Old 01-31-2008, 11:57 AM   #10
TSund
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Websites like that piss me off as someone is looking to profit off of cancer patient's desperation.

I am extremely grateful for the medical care that Ruth as received. I feel so lucky that she was diagnosed in this day and age.

HOWEVER...I still maintain that American medicine is too often driven by pharmeceutical profit and a certain close-mindedness to change. (Read the Herceptin book which shows this quite clearly) It is entirely possible that there are substantial natural and less toxic remedies (read all the women doing fish oil, flax, Olive oil, etc here on this site) and there simply hasn't' been enough rearch to find them/prove them.

While hasn't there been at the least "real people" synergy studies ? Because there is not the corporate profit driving the bottom line.
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Terri, spouse of Ruth, Dallas/Ft. Worth area
Ruth dx 05/01/07 (age 50) Filipino
multifocal, several tumors .5 -2.5 cm, large area
Breast MRI showed 2 enlarged nodes, not palpable
100%ER+, 95%PR+, HER2+++
6x pre-surgery TCH chemo finished 9/15/7 Dramatic tumor shrinkage
1 year Herceptin till 6/08
MRM 10/11/07, SNB: 0/4 nodes + Path: tumors reduced to only a few "scattered cells"
now 50% ER+, PR- ???
Rads finished 1/16/08
Added Tamoxifen,
Finished Herceptin 05/08
NOW is the time to appreciate life to the fullest.
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