[Christine MH-UK]

Doh! Sorry, must be the herceptin brain thing. For some reason I thought that the turmeric and flaxseed had been instead of the taxol/herceptin. It could very well be the conventional treatment. Sometimes the conventional treatments work really well. I know someone with IBC who had a total response from just one round of FEC75, which is much weaker than the FECs they use now.

I know that there are concerns about combining turmeric and anthracyclines.

And I do worry about her2-positive patients who reject the standard treatment for their primary, treatable cancer. With recent studies showing that FEC halves the risk of recurrence over an older chemo and herceptin at least halving recurrence versus just FEC, the odds are that her2 positive cancer patients benefit from standard treatment.