Breast Cancer Treatment

Shlane asked:


ok i was watching Scrubs, I know it’s not a reliable source but i had to ask…one patient was having pain in her aoreole [i assume it's the nipple] and the “doctor” said it was breast cancer…is there a link between pain in the aoreole and breast cancer? i’m asking because well my left nipple is hurting me but i’m about to have my period also
i’ve been having shooting pains but i think it’s related with underwire in my bras…i have a phobia of doctors and needles, i’m seeking therapy, once i get over it i’ll go see a doctor

CurlyQue asked:


I can’t find any information on what other types of breast cancer symptoms there are other than the obvious, breast lumps, discharge, changes in physical appearance etc. Anyone have any other symptoms associated with cancer?

bim asked:


what’s the youngest age can breast cancer attack? thank you!!

420 asked:


i was lying in bad last night and i felt my breast and there was a lump on it,the lump is about 3 inches long,it doesn’t really hurt,but i’ve also been haveing side pains in my lower hip. i’m 13 and i dunno if this can be breast cancer or just a bump. please help me, or give me websites that i can go on

I would like to honor Breast Cancer Awareness Month a little differently than most others. I have a different perspective. You see, I had breast cancer nine years ago. I rejected conventional medicine and went with an alternative approach.

I’m quite cynical about Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Throughout October I see stories about brave cancer survivors who survived their toxic treatments and went on to run marathons. I see stories about new, expensive cancer breakthroughs on broadcasts lucratively sponsored by pharmaceutical companies. These are the same multinational corporations that manufacture plastics, pesticides and fragrance chemicals that actually cause cancer!

Whether you count by dollars or numbers of people employed by it, Cancer is one of the largest industries in the country. How is it that the companies that cause cancer also manufacture the cancer drugs? When it comes to Big Pharma, news stories aren’t so much news as propaganda. Watch carefully this month: How many breast cancer stories will show women being healed by natural, non-patented medicine? None.

Why is it that the research we’re asked to fund looks for new treatments (as long as they can be patented), but never at the carcinogenic effects of plastics, pesticides and fragrance chemicals? Because it would rock the industrial boat that funds the research. Their definition of “prevention” is earlier detection. My definition of “prevention” is not getting it in the first place!

So why did I choose to risk my life with alternative medicine?

Two women whom I loved very much died of breast cancer not long before I got it. More accurately, they died of their cancer treatments. One was like a mother to me, the other, like a sister. They were both seemingly healthy when the cancer was discovered. Indeed one had no tumor site at all. At her annual physical, the doctor found some cancer cells trapped in a lymph node. That’s what lymph nodes are supposed to do. Her immune system was working well.

They gave her every test they could to find the location of the cancer, to no avail. Then they proceeded to bombard the poor woman with “as much chemo as we can give you without actually killing you.” After that, they gave her radiation therapy.

Once she had no immune system left, the cancer that her body had been keeping at bay took over with a vengeance. It spread to her hip bone. More radiation. Oops! Too strong. The radiation killed her hip bone so she needed a hip replacement. More chemo. No more visits from her beloved grandchildren because she had no immunity to germs.

The bone cancer spread to her arm. She had a painful surgery for that. Then to her skull- exactly where her mobile phone antenna had touched her head. The last three years of life for this once-vital, beautiful woman were spent in pain, wretched illness and isolation. She never complained once. She just accepted it as her fate. I held her hand as she died.

My other friend was only in her late 30’s when they found the lump. She was a healthy vegetarian who practiced yoga, meditation, and alternative medicine. One day when she was getting a chiropractic adjustment, the doctor said her thyroid felt a little strange and suggested she get it checked.

She did, and it was fine. But the new doctor felt a breast lump and prescribed a mammogram and biopsy. Yep, take a little sealed-up tumor, crush it, radiate it and poke it repeatedly with a needle. Then act surprised when it suddenly metastasizes like crazy. The doctor actually told my friend that she had likely had the tumor for at least ten years.

My friend wanted to do alternative cancer therapies. Her oncologist said she should only do them as an adjunct to conventional treatment. Within a year she had lost her breast and was almost killed by chemo and radiation. The natural medicines, which are much more gentle, had no hope of working on a body that was so ravaged and sickened. Within another year she had lost the other breast, had more rounds of chemo, and died shortly after that.

The next year I found my lump, and within six weeks I had six lumps. I consulted with an M.D. and several alternative doctors. I read a bunch of books they recommended. I prayed and fretted, then decided that, live or die, I was going with non-toxic alternative medicine.

I called my late friend’s husband and told him the news. He said, “Whatever you do, don’t let the doctors get their hands on you. My wife told me before she died that she was sorry she ever listened to them. I believe that if she had gone a natural route she would be alive today.”

So here is my advice for Breast Cancer Awareness:

Question Authority- Don’t automatically believe the doctors, or anyone else. That includes this article. Take Responsibility for Your Life- People who will spend weeks researching the pros and cons of a new car, carefully studying the fine print on a contract, will never study their medical options! Your doctor doesn’t have to live or die with the consequences of your treatment, you do! Learn About Your Options- They’re out there, but your medical doctor has not studied them. Even if she has, she is forbidden to suggest them! Educate yourself before you’re ever in a health crisis. Be a Difficult Patient- Demand thermography instead of, or at least before, a mammogram. Thermography uses no radiation, does not crush the breast tissue, and can detect cancers months or even years before a mammogram can. Learn About the fungal link to cancer It can save your life. Wishing you and yours the best of health!

By: Siri Amrit Kaur Khalsa

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karrie k asked:


I am curious, my mom was just diagnosed with breast cancer, but it was ONLY in the one lymph node under her arm, that’s what the dr. said anyway. Isn’t this rare? Shouldn’t it have come from somewhere else, like her breast? but the dr. said there are no signs of cancer in her breast. So how is it breast cancer?

Kacey asked:


My grandmother is a healthy 65 yr old woman whom was diagnosed with breast cancer last week. After her tests were run they said it was in stage one. What is normal survival rate for stage one? Do most survive? Also breast cancer has never run in our family so what are the chances of my mother or myself, getting the cancer?

ILY. asked:


My mom has been loosing hair latley, and it could just be my nerves, but there is some trace of breast cancer in my family. She’s still young, only 38. I’m just a worried teenage daughter, I’m afraid I might loose her…I don’t think she has thought about this fact that it could be something more than just loosing hair, but I just would like to ask the simple question of whether breast cancer can lead to hair loss when it is not yet diagnosed and there is no kemo going on. She has been on a diet, so could that be it?

Please tell me as much as you know.
I’m so worried.
All answers are welcome and valued.
Thank you.
Thanks to you guys who are giving me answers, you’ve just lifted the weight of the world off my back for the night.
Thank you so much, keep the answers up though, I’m still curious about it all.

CommanderCrusty asked:


I have a suspicious lump under one nipple and my doctor is sending me for a mammogram. I’d like to hear from other men who have been through this. Also, if it is “breast” cancer, what should I expect? I did seek treatment within one week of finding the lump. I do not have a skin rash or discharge from the nipple. I am age 48, normal body weight, and no I don’t have “man boobs” or smoke.

PS
Let’s keep the jokes to a minimum, please.