My Sister was diagnosed with Breast Cancer in November. It started off as a little lump in her left breast. She has gone through lots of Chemo and alternative drugs. She lost her left breast now and most of the pectoral muscle and roughly 23 lymph nodes as all were invaded. She is now being told that there are spots on her spine and in her other breast and some of those lymph nodes. There may be a spot or two as well on her liver. She does not want to know the prognosis as she doesn't want to think about it. She has a 4 yr old son and a 1 yr old daughter. I want to know the pronosis though. I want to be prepared so I can be strong for when my parents need me the most. Any information out there I would appreciate it. I have researched so much. By the way I am also doing the Making Strides 5 mile Breast Cancer walk in Philly in October, if anyone would like to make a small donation to that please let me know and I will send you the link. Take care and thank you.
2007-09-14 08:11:14 · 4 answers · asked by kymeekat69 3 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Cancer
There was abook published in 1994 called: STRAIGHT TALK ABOUT BREAST CANCER by Suzanne Braddock , et al = ISBN 1886039216. It gives every woman and family basic info.
What maybe you need is her permission to speak with her doctor and get her info directly.
2007-09-14 08:23:30 · answer #1 · answered by professorc 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try Vitamin C therapy. A few years ago a cancer researcher came out with a paper saying that the best cancer and infection fighter as yet found was Interferon, but, at the time, it cost $15,000 a gram. The good part was that Interferon was a product of the natural breakdown of Vitamin C in your system. The FDA says that the RDA for Vit C is 64 mg a day, just enough to prevent scurvy. Linus Pauling, who got a Nobel Prize for his work with Vit C and a second Nobel Prize for organic chemistry, said 1000 mg a day as a minimum and 2000 mg a day if you are sick. On a personal note, I was sick twice a year, for 2 weeks at a time, for 20 years, and was flat on my back for at least a week each time. To this day the doctors have no idea what the problem was. After I gave up on the doctors I tried Vit C. I took enough to keep from being sick and just below too much to get diarrhea. It followed a bell curve over 2 weeks with a peak at 40,000 mg a day – about 300,000 over the 2 weeks. I was not sick for those 2 weeks and after a couple of years of that I have not been sick since. I did not dissolve my kidneys, as some doctors said would happen. I did not get any calcium build up or stones and did not dissolve my cones or solidify my joints. Try it, but drink a lot of water – Vit C is a natural diuretic.
2016-05-19 05:47:52 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wouldn't fret too much about your sister not wanting to know her prognosis. Doctors can be wrong. The best thing is to be there for your sister and family. Cook a meal, stop and pick up groceries, do some house cleaning for her, do a load of laundry...little things like this will help more than many people realize.
Too many times we say, call me if you need anything, but when I was going through treatment, the times when family and friends did little things meant so much!
2007-09-15 14:59:09 · answer #3 · answered by knittinmama 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If she named you for getting info about her in her HEPPA paper, you can get her TNM and staging. Talk to one of the nurses in the oncology doctor's office.
T-size of the tumor and this is expressed T(a number from 0-4)
N-(and a number 1-3) deals with cancer spread to lymphnodes near breast
M-followed by number 0-1 cancer spread to organs
Then the staging follows using Roman numerals for cancer stage zero through IV.
2007-09-14 17:52:11 · answer #4 · answered by Patches6 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋