nodes infected

my mother is  50 yrs old she was diagnoised as grade 3 breast cancer,with 3 nodes infected out of 11,and with ER &PR positive.she had received 6 courses of chemotherapy and has radiation next week.i want to know wat is the severity of the disease and if there r any chances of re occurence.

[bhumi123]

Hi,
The chances of recurrence are higher with lymph node involvement. The rate of recurrence is most in the firt 2 -3 years and gradually decreases. Lymph node involvement or metastasis elsewhere also decreases the 5 year survival rate. But the most important thing is that only your physician on the basis of extent and response of the tumour to chemptherapy and radiotherapy and the past medical and clinical history tell you abot the chances of recurrence. You should discuss this in detail with your oncologist and also plan the follow ups in discussion with him. Does she have a family history of breast cancer / OCP use or HRT use?

[sonu78]

Hi
sorry to say that your mother has an Stage II to Stage III breast cancer. Chances of recurrence do depend on various factors. It i highly impractical to just rule out the recurrent condition.

[Lady007]

MAMOGRAMS CAUSE CANCER --


http://www.newstarget.com/010886.html   MAMOGRAMS CAUSE CANCE  
Lady007

12/10/07
ALL  Cellular Zeolite...WHY ARE DOCTORS NOT USING THIS STUFF?  Instead of killing people with their toxic chemotheraphy and breaking peoples systems down then sending them home to die...its cruel.  Chemo is designed to give people hope that their doctors know what is right. Here are some statistics by two prominent Professors one an Oncologist, the other a Radiologist.

http://www.laetrile.com.au/otherpages/chemo1.htm

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where to purchase cellular zeolite online :-  

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Chemotherapy and radiation therapy tries to kill the cancerous cells. Unfortunately, they often harm your body in the process. There are natural supplements that do a good job of killing cancerous cells, but don't cause harm to your body. A few supplements do have potential to be toxic to the body, and should probably just be used in conjunction with a naturopath or alternative doctor. These include cesium, artemisia, and B17. In this report you will learn only about completely safe cancer supplements that can be used with no supervision.

You may well ask why , if a safe and natural product is able to kill cancer, doesn't your doctor recommend it. Of course, he probably doesn't know about it, but even if he did, he's not likely to use it.

It's the nature of the medical/drug industry. Doctors use and recommend drugs that are approved in a process that costs hundreds of millions of dollars. The drug companies only make drugs that can be patented. That way they can sell them for huge mark-ups and have no competition.  
Lady007

12/10/07
ALL  Did you know that CAT SCANS are equivalent to 400 chest xrays in Radiation.  

Did you know that TAXOL kills veins and cripples the area where its been administered....

Did you know that HERCEPTIN 2 gives your cardiotoxidity...weakens your HEART...TAXOL combined with HER2 Govt approved only if you take HER2 WITH TAXOL...wow  That sounds like blackmail..Their aim is to kill you one way or the other.  
Lady007

12/10/07
ALL  After feeling three lumps in my left breast last december 2006.  They did a mamogram (mammogram) on the breast and you could see the lumps quiet clear.  I then went on to have the biopsy which was via Ultra sound visual system by which you could see the lumps quiet clear again.  These lumps turned out to be grade 3 Cancer, which had infected two lympnodes.   I then had surgery after nuclear dye had been administered to keep the Doc on track when removing my breast and finding all the supposed infected areas. The surgeon took 15 lympnodes plus the sentinal gland in this operation along with the whole breast removal.  It was the ongoing treatment that had me rather bewildered as to the system of which followed.  I was hit with AC x 4 Cyclophosphamide, Amend, Granistron, Hydrochlorid, and  Dexamethasone [sent my sugar levels sky high spent week in hospital with that] with maxalon to stabalize my system and diabetic 2 medications.  This was only in the first 4 treatments at 3 week intervals.  Then HER2 combined with TAXOL another 4 treatments...Now I am down onto HER2 on its own...My heart rate first up was 38% next 42% next 47% the next test is pending.  I have decided that if the heart does not come up over 50% next test that my treatment should be stopped.  I need an opinion here?  
Lady007

12/10/07
ALL  To my way of thinking my breast should have been hit with radiation to shrink the cancer berfore surgery was administered.  Thus giving a more direct approach to the cancer via the surgeon.  Then when the wound was healed I should have been hit again with radiation.  Then to complete the process of doses of HER2 on its own....In my opinion...too many mistakes have been made on this problem with not enough thought gone into it...I also need an opionion here?


Lady007

12/11/07
ALL  http://www.nexusmagazine.com/articles/doctoring1.html

CORRUPT PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY.  They pay big money to keep us sick with medicines, that in the long term kill us.  

Lady007

12/11/07
ALL  THE THINGS DOCTORS DONT TELL YOU ABOUT HER2

http://www.breastcancer.org/research_herceptin.html

Herceptin with chemotherapy

In the other studies, women with metastatic disease got even better results when they took Herceptin together with the chemotherapy drugs Taxol or Adriamycin (chemical name: doxorubicin) plus Cytoxan (chemical name: cyclophosphamide). These drug combinations shrank the tumors of nearly half the women (45%) treated. In contrast, less than one third (29%) of those women who received chemotherapy alone had a similar response. When Herceptin was added to the chemotherapy, it boosted survival by an average of 5 months compared to chemotherapy alone.

A small number of the women taking the combination of Herceptin and Adriamycin had significant heart problems, including congestive heart failure. This is a condition in which the heart is unable to pump effectively. Adriamycin was blamed for most of this effect. Herceptin on its own rarely causes heart damage. But the two drugs given together resulted in more heart damage than expected. For this reason, the combination of Herceptin and Adriamycin is no longer recommended.

Navelbine chemotherapy combined with Herceptin has also been studied recently in clinical trials.

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Serious heart side effects

Research News:

Preliminary results from the HERA Trial: Herceptin Taken Less Frequently at Higher Doses Does Not Increase Risk of Heart Damage Less commonly, Herceptin can damage the heart's ability to pump blood effectively. Find out more about the benefits and side effects of Herceptin. Rarely (about 5% of the time), the heart damage is bad enough that women experience stroke or life-threatening congestive heart failure—a condition in which the heart can't pump effectively. Slightly more often (about 7% of the time), Herceptin causes mild heart failure.

Women who experience mild or more serious heart damage can stop taking Herceptin and start taking heart-strengthening medications. This often brings heart function back to normal.

While heart damage can be more severe when Herceptin is given along with other chemotherapy drugs known to cause heart damage, including Adriamycin (chemical name: doxorubicin) and possibly other drugs like it.

Taking Herceptin with the chemotherapy drug Taxol (chemical name: paclitaxel) does not increase your risk of severe heart damage. Studies have shown that this combination causes only slightly more mild heart damage than Herceptin alone. Women in clinical trials who are receiving Herceptin plus Taxol are being watched very closely for this effect.

Testing your heart before and during Herceptin treatment
Before starting Herceptin therapy, you should have an echocardiogram or a MUGA scan to check how well your heart is functioning.

An echocardiogram uses sound waves to take detailed pictures of the heart as it pumps blood. For this quick test, you lie still for a few minutes while a device that gives off sound waves is briefly placed on your ribs, over your heart. There is no radiation exposure with this test.