Increasing Awareness With A Breast Cancer Bracelet
Breast cancer continues to affect millions of people worldwide - plunging newly diagnosed sufferers and their families into the bewildering world of treatment plans and statistics on a daily basis.
This year alone, over one-million people worldwide will be unwillingly inducted into this club of warriors. And strong in numbers, these sufferers and their families will continue to affect change in the landscape of awareness and treatment; part of the way in which they raise awareness is through the wearing of merchandise, including the breast cancer bracelet.
Radiation Therapy For Breast Cancer- Coping With Skin Reactions
Radiation therapy is a simple, painless, and generally well-tolerated tool for treating and even curing breast cancer. One of the most common side effects of radiation therapy to the breast (after a lumpectomy) or to the chest wall (after a mastectomy) is skin irritation. The reaction and its extent differ for every woman. Because radiation therapy is often such an important part of breast cancer treatment, it is important to know how to mitigate its side effects in order to gain the greatest benefit from the therapy.
Coping with Skin Irritation
Juices May Cause Bacterial Infection While On Chemotherapy, Said The Oncologist
Chin (T576) is a 68 years old female. About ten years ago, she was diagnosed with left breast cancer. A mastectomy was carried out followed by six cycles of chemotherapy and ten radiation treatments. After the completion of these treatments, Chin took tamoxifen for five years. Every year she went back to her doctors for routine medical check up and at each visit she was given a clean bill of health.
Loosing The Breast Cancer War - Part 1
Breast cancer strikes women in every country. Over a decade, many thousands of cancer patients had come to seek my help and breast cancer case constituted the number one problem I had encountered. Most of these women had undergone medical treatments but they failed to find their elusive “cure.” Let me give you two examples.
Case 1
May (not real name) is a 55-year-old lady. Her husband died of heart attack three years ago at the age of 62 years old. Sometime in 2000, May was diagnosed with right breast cancer. She underwent a mastectomy followed by six cycles of chemotherapy. After that she was put on tamoxifen.
Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis - Breast Cancer
Causes of Breast CancerThe risk increases with your age. It may also be hereditary. At some point of time 1 in 10 women develop breast cancer. The chance of developing it increases after menopause. If you had early puberty or late menopause, you had your first child after your age touched 30 then you may get breast cancer. The chances reduce if you had your first child before 18 years of age, you had a short menstrual cycle, you have a large family.
Symptoms of breast cancerSome breast cancer may not have symptoms at all. Some of the symptoms are lumps, rash, breast pain, cysts, nipple discharge, and inverted nipple.
Pink Ribbon? No, Thank You
Every year we are all inundated with request to buy a ribbon, to walk, to give your extra change to find “a cure” for breast cancer.
Sorry, but I can’t. The reason is that most of these foundations don’t do any sort of alternative medicine research. If you were to listen to the media, you would think that the only treatment that has any hope of being successful is traditional medical treatment. What about successful treatments by Rene Caisse in Canada in the 1930’s?
What about treatments using megadoses of antioxidants?
A Brief History Of Breast Cancer
Ancient Egyptians first noted and recorded the disease as tumors, or ulcers, of the breasts, concluded that there was no real cure and that the only form of treatment was cauterization with a tool called the “fire drill”. Since then, there have been many similar cases described by doctors throughout history that concluded that there was no cure; or really effective treatment.
When doctors started to understand the human circulatory system in the seventieth century, they also managed to establish a link between breast cancer and the lymph nodes in the armpits. Between the seventeen and eighteen hundreds, the French surgeon Jean Petit and Scotsman Benjamin Bell were the first ones to remove the lymph nodes, breast tissue and chest muscle in an effort to save woman from breast cancer.