You Can Prevent Breast Cancer!

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Summary: Good info for both genders
Review: Boy, do we wish we'd read this BEFORE we'd trusted my wifeto two surgeons for two lumpectomy's, and then 9 weeks of "optional" radiation. Modern medicine is loosing the battle against cancer and other major diseases. And they're making a lot of money at it. So why even attempt to encourage folks to do what most folks dislike the most, change? Even if it would mean preventing cancer? Good book. Thanks Harvey! Wayne & Belle Hager

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Summary: I had a mastectomy this week
Review: I had a suspicious lump for the last 15 months "they" were watching ,By july after 4 mammagrams a needle biopsy,an ultrasound and a surgical consult I was "cleared" it's mothing It's soft like a grape come back in Dec" Although I said "No, it's big like a plum and hurts and the needle biopsy said it wasn'r a cyst and further examination can be sone depending on your judgement after physical exam. I received a pat on the hand and told not to worry . This week a tumor the size of a lemon was removed with 14 lymph nodes and I was given a dx of infiltrating lobular carcnoma Stage two (which may be upgraded to three today when I return for a post op visit. Chemotherapy is recommended and that gives me a maybe 1 to 3 % greater chance of survival but on post menopausal women they don't know if it really helps at all but they do know I can risk dying from the chemo and of course being out of work and violently ill. My friend sent me this book via amazon right before the surgury but I was overwhelmed with the thought of this huge tumor and the two days I had to read were spent trying to get the practical aspects of my life in order, things like work release papers so I would have a job if I get trhough this and crying and feeling powerless. After surgury where they found no more tumor but one positive lymph node I have read Susan Love;s Breast book and Harvey is tight She says they really don't know who chemo helps and how cancer happens and why some people with tiny cancers die and some people with big cancers and lymph involvemnt live. They have no way of knowing so chemo is the way to go.. Well I have decided against this and I will use this book as my way back to health The odds seem to be more in my favor if I do this than if I allow chemo where I may just die from the treatment and if that doesn't happen lose my job because I'm too sick to work I am an RN and will probably be abandoned by those in the field for taking my health into my own hands. Well it was in the hnds of three professionals for the last 15 months and all they did was watch the cancer grow and report Yep it's bigger so now it's probably malingnant so now the only option is mastectomy. SO here goes, the first day of taking my life back. Are there any other weoman out there with similar experences? I got on a cancer chat line and I was the only one in the room and that's how I feel now, pretty scared and alone, but the idea of taking chemo that they say really may do nothing is even scarier. I opt for life and health and as Louise Hay would put it Each cell of my body has devine intelligence I now trust this inteligence and I am free. Any correspondance welcome but remember I have read all the current medical options and they don't look good