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10-01-2006, 06:12 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
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Just a reminder for new members that diet can impact on your cancer risk profile.
Diet does change the way you express your genes, a bit like you can change the tonal nature of your music using a graphic equaliser on your stereo.
I accept it is difficult.
I am sorry to keep labouring it but talking with women giving their time to collect for a support group reminded my how many evidently are not convinced, almost to the point of being hostile to suggestions diet is significant even (if not more so) after contracting BC.
It was saddly evident of possibly how few people are aware of the significant potential of diet to reduce rsik profiles, and the resistance to it as an idea among significnat numbers.
RB
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10-01-2006, 06:26 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: San Antonio, TX
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Thanks for keeping this "front and center"! Everytime I read the information (new and old) it reminds me how much better I feel when I pay close attention to what goes in my mouth!!!! And it gets me back on track!
ma
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MA in TX.
Grateful for each and every day....
Diag. 12/05 at age 60
Stage II, Grade 3, 4.5 cm primary tumor
ER/PR- Her2 +3 strongly positive
Her2 by FISH 7.7 amplified
vascular invasion
Ki67 20% borderline
Jan - March '06 Taxotere/Adriamycin X 3 to try to shrink tumor - it grew
April '06 Rt Modified Radical Mas, 7 of 9 nodes positive
April - Aug. '06 Herceptin/Taxol/Carboplatin X 8 (dose dense)
Sept - Dec. '06 Navelbine/Herceptin x 8 (dose dense)
Radiation & Herceptin Jan. 22 - March 1, 2007
Finished Herceptin Dec. 10 '08! One extra year.
Port removed August, 2012.
8 1/2 years since diagnosis! 5 1/2 Years NED!
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10-01-2006, 08:28 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: melbourne, australia
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R.B., i thought you had disappeared!
always good to read your thoughts and answers to others' questions.
Take care
Christine
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10-02-2006, 09:01 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Grand Rapids, MI
Posts: 1,516
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I know...RB had been
MIA for a while. Good to see you. Take care and God bless.
Rhonda
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Dx 2/1/05, Stage 1, 0 nodes, Grade 3, ER/PR-, HER2+ (3.16 Fish)
2/7/05, Partial Mastectomy
5/18/05 Finished 6 rounds of dose dense TEC (Taxotere, Epirubicin and Cytoxan)
8/1/05 Finished 33 rads
8/18/05 Started Herceptin, every 3 weeks for a year (last one 8/10/06)
2/1/13...8 year Cancerversary and I am "perfect" (at least where cancer is concerned;)
" And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."- Abraham Lincoln
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10-02-2006, 02:13 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 1,843
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Rhonda, Christine, Mia, thanks for the comments. I'm touched.
Marbles Institute Associate (as in lost a few) is closer some might say. Nothing as gallant as MIA I'm afraid.
Thanks.
RB
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10-03-2006, 10:56 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Illinois
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I guess one of my main concerns is that we don't know WHAT diet does to our gene expression. We are so on the edge of what diet can do. Look at the Beta Carotene study they did. That is one of the reasons I would caution anyone taking megadoses of anything that is supposedly "good" for you. There is such a thing as "too much of a good thing".
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Jan04: Bilateral Mastectomy at age 28
Initial DX: Left Breast: IDC 2cm, Grade 3, HER2+3, 0 Nodes +, ER/PR-. Right Breast: Extensive DCIS ER-/PR+; Stage 1-2a
Feb04-Apr04: 4 AC, dose dense
Aug 04: 4 Taxotere
Dec 05: Bone and Liver METS; Stage 4. Carboplatin/Taxol/Herceptin. DX with Li-Fraumeni Syndrome
Apr 06: NED, maintenance Herceptin
Apr 07: CA1503=14; masses in liver; Xeloda/Tykerb
Nov 07: NED, Tykerb maintenance
Sept 08: Liver mets again, on Tykerb/Xeloda again, CA=19 and 27
Nov 08: Progression, Tykerb/Gemzar, CA=25
Dec 08: Progression, Herceptin/Navelbine, CA=40, 57, and 130
Jan 09: Progression in bone, recession in liver, Herceptin/Carbo/Abraxane CA=135
June 09: CA27/29=24, chemo break
Sept 09: Progression, CA=24, waiting on clinical trial (4 weeks no treatment)
Nov 09: now have brain mets, trial "on hold", getting 14 WBR treatments starting 11/2/09
Dec 09: possible start on p53 trial
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10-03-2006, 04:16 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 1,843
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Good point
I wish they would fund trials. An animal trial on skeletal muscle did show high omega six increased HER2 expression. But I agree with you and again wish they would fund trials to sort out these basics.
We do know our ancestors did not have access to large quantities of cheap vegetable oils, trans fats etc. Or necessarily clean water, better all year round food availability, better housing and some fantastic medical advances.
RB
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