Anyone know of a book that will give Breast cancer patient some hope?

Question

Over 5 years ago, a friend of mine was diagnosed with breast cancer. It was stage two (a little in the lymph nodes) but they thought it was gone. Everything has been great for the last few years! She recently had a back ache and it turned out that the cancer was back, only this time it has traveled to various areas including the liver.
I was hoping that someone might know of a book that may offer some hope in regards to her situation.

Answer 1

I'm sorry to hear of your friend's situation Janice.

I think you should be wary of books that offer hope. There isn't now a cure for your friends cancer, I'm so sorry, although she may live for some years yet.

She can get information and support from

http://www.breastcancercare.org.uk/

including a helpline where she can talk to a specialist nurse, and support from other women in the same position on


http://www.bcpals.org.uk

My best wishes to your friend, and to you. She is lucky to have a friend who cares so much

Answer 2

Look up Linus Pauling and read this - 1 - Try Vitamin C therapy. (If you find this useful, copy it and give it to a friend. Somebody got to Yahoo and they delete this as soon as they find it) A few years ago a cancer specialist came out with a paper that said the best cancer/infection fighter found to date was Interferon. At the time it was $15,000 a gram. 2 The paper also said that Interferon was a by-product of the natural breakdown of Vitamin C in your body. Shortly after that the FDA tried to make Vitamin C by prescription only. Guess why? 3 The FDA has the RDA for Vitamin C set at 64 mg a day, just enough to ward off scurvy. Linus Pauling, who got a Nobel Prize for his work with Vitamin C and a second Nobel Prize for Organic Chemistry, said that 1000 mg a day should be the minimum and 2000 mg a day if you are sick or smoke. 4 He played tennis almost daily until the day he died at 96. Personally, I got sick twice a year for 2 weeks at a time, for more than 20 years, with something to this day the doctors have no idea what it was, but for a week in the middle of those 2 weeks I was flat on my back. 5 I started Vitamin C therapy once I gave up on the doctors. I took enough to be asymptomatic for those 2 weeks. Too much and I got diarrhea and too little and I got sick. 6 Within a narrow range, and it followed a bell curve over those 2 weeks, I was not sick. At the height I was taking 40,000 mg a day and 300,000 over the 2 weeks. After 2 years of that I have not been sick since – more than 15 years. Vitamin C acts as a natural diuretic so you need to drink a lot of water and watch your body in total, but my kidneys did not dissolve as the doctors predicted, or get massive kidney stones as other predicted. 7 I did not dissolve my bones as some predicted or completely calcify my joints as others predicted. I had no side effects at all. It might be something to consider.

Answer 3

I'm so sorry to hear that ... Its a hard thing to go through, for your friend, obviously, but also for you.

What helped me a lot when I was going through chemo, etc, was HUMOR. "Hope" is such a vague word ... What gave me hope was laughter, and cute funny stuff. If you are looking for inspiring stories of strength, I'm not your person, haha. But anyways, there are a lot of "humorous" cancer books ... ' Cancer Vixen' being one of my favorites. Its in cartoon form, and is all about the authors experience with breast cancer ... Great illustrations, touching, but also really enjoyable to read. A bit silly in some places though.

I don't know your friend ... So she may not like that sort of stuff. And, you know, her 'hope' doesn't necessarily have to be cancer-centric. Buy her good movies to watch, some great music ... I loved it when I got some dancing music, because I knew that people expected some dancing out of me, maybe not now, but later.

I feel for you and your friend. She will be in my thoughts. I wish you both the best.

Answer 4

Sorry, but once a cancer has travelled to the liver, it is very hard to treat, and any treatments are usually just buying time, not really getting rid of the cancer.

Rather than a specific book on the disease and treatments, I would be looking at something spiritual, positive affirmations, or meditations for my friend.