Can you survive breast cancer without doing chemo?

 
Chemotherapy isn't automatically recommended for breast cancer. Much depends on the individual's particular cancer. Many people diagnosed with breast cancer don't have chemotherapy recommended as part of their treatment. Some don't have radiotherapy either – I know a few women through support networks and through meeting them during my own treatment o who had early stage breast cancer who had surgery only, or surgery and hormone therapy only. I know others who had radiotherapy but not chemo, and some who had chemo but not radiotherapy.
If recommended to have chemotherapy and unsure of whether to proceed with it, talk to your oncologist about how it might benefit you. Ask by what percentage it will increase your survival chances – that's what I did, and as the percentage was significant I decided to go ahead. A couple of women I have spoken to have decided that the percentage was too small to make it worthwhile going through chemo.

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Panel: Revoke drug’s use in breast cancer – Paging Dr. Gupta – CNN …
One prominent breast cancer specialist sharply criticized the vote. Dr. Kimberly Blackwell, also from Duke, said the recommendation – if upheld – would leave patients with few choices except for older chemotherapy drugs. …
Futurity.org – Sea sponge drug battles breast cancer
All women enrolled in the study had locally recurrent or metastatic breast cancer and had already received on average four prior other chemotherapy drugs such as anthracyclines and taxanes. Because no single chemotherapy regimen is …
Surviving Cancer Without Chemo | Hallelujah Health Tip
Surviving Cancer Without Chemo. I would like to give my testimony as to how I have been helped by the Hallelujah Acres Diet and Lifestyle. After being diagnosed and having surgery for breast cancer in 2002, my friend let me listen to a …

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Radiation is the most common treatment for breast cancer while surgery is the second most popular. But various medical journals have been consistently reporting that radiation therapy is not working for breast cancer. While it is true that radiation therapy decrease death rates by around 13 percent it increases death by other causes, mostly heart diseases, by 22%. This can be termed as operation being successful but patient dead.

Radiation obliterates the breast cancer tumors in small percentage around 13 percent of women afflicted with this disease but cause much more of them to die from cardiovascular diseases. The radiation that kills cancer cells of the breast also goes and kills healthy cells of the heart. Though the proponents of this mode of treatment may say that modern machines do not cause much damage as older ones their statement has not been corroborated with long term study.

This means that there is no net benefit of using radiation therapy for cancer of the breast. In fact the chances of death are more with this type of treatment than without it. Despite such negative statics radiation remains the most used method of treatment for this disease. What is the reason? It is because conventional medicine has nothing much to offer to the patients to reduce the direct death rate even by 13 percent. If someone is starving to the bone he will gobble up even the dirty and putrefied rice if that is the only food available. Something is better than nothing for the moment. Infection and poisoning due the putrefied rice can be attended to at a later stage. Such is the attitude of medical professionals.

Treating women with radiation who later die of heart disease also causes a major shift in statistics. The cause of death is not shown as due to breast cancer but shown as due to heart diseases. This means that diagnosed cause of death is shifted from breast cancer to cardiovascular diseases. As more and more breast cancer patients are subjected radiation fewer will be said to die from cancer of the breast but more will be said to die from radiation induced heart disease.



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A Real Basket Case because of Breast Cancer!

Breast cancer has changed Evelyn Bachelder-Pineno’s perspective on life in many ways, but she had no idea the disease would help her launch a new business as the co-owner of All Occasion Gift Baskets, LLC.

“One day I was trying to recover after a rough radiation therapy session, when the doorbell rang,” said Pineno. “I really did not want to answer the door, but I was glad I did. It was a beautiful get well gift basket delivery. In seconds I went from near tears to feeling overjoyed. I told myself that one day I would like to give that same wonderful feeling to someone else, not just once, but every day.”

Pineno’s breast cancer has been in remission for four years and she developed a hobby for making decorative gift baskets. Pineno and her husband, Jonathan, recently took her passion for gift baskets to a new level with the launch of All Occasion Gift Baskets Online – www.AllOccasionGiftBasketsOnline.com – a Flemington based online business that offers over 200 baskets.

Evelyn and Jonathan were married a little over a year ago. This marriage brought together their two entrepreneurial spirits. Evelyn is an endodontic dental assistant/office manager in Flemington by day and a gift basket designer by night. Jonathan recently retired after a 34-year career as a music teacher in Pennsylvania and has owned and managed several other businesses.

“We really felt there was a need for our gift baskets to assist very busy people who don’t have the time to shop,” said Jonathan. “We are focusing on people in Hunterdon, Warren and Somerset counties in New Jersey and the Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania because we want to be very involved in the communities where we do business. Our web site has a wide variety of gift baskets to meet most needs and our niche market is custom gift baskets. Evelyn and I work well together to create and decorate unique custom gift baskets.for all occasions.”

Karen Buckley of Buckley Photography in Harmony agrees.

“I chose All Occasion to create a dozen custom gift baskets for friends and colleagues during the holidays,” said Buckley. “Jonathan and Evelyn were just outstanding to deal with and all my friends loved the baskets – they were really special gifts.”

“We have a little something for everyone,” said Evelyn. “Baskets for children, men, women, corporate gifts and even baskets for pets. We offer new, unique products and many exclusive specialty baskets. Our goal is to provide gift baskets with the highest quality and best value, delivered in a timely manner.”

During the holiday seasons, All Occasion Gift Baskets offers the advantage of providing the fastest ground shipping available. If gift baskets are ordered before 2 p.m.EST on weekdays, most gift baskets arrive within three to five business days. Express delivery is also available. For more details, please visit www.AllOccasionGiftBasketsOnline.com or call toll free: 877-208-9458.