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Consider this my reminder to my PP family. Early detection.
Joan BC survivor of over 10 years.
Breast Cancer Awareness Month 2011
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Breast Cancer Awareness Month 2011
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LDN July 18, 2014
Joan
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Joan
Jan, for your friend and relative
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LDN July 18, 2014
Joan
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Joan
It just dawned on me that, to date, at least, as far as I am aware, no one here has ever been diagnosed with cancer after they joined. In addition, the only cases where someone has added a diagnosis of one or more autoimmune disease, (after they have been a member for a while), have been individuals who chose to use drugs as their treatment plan, so that they wouldn't have to give up gluten, or dairy, etc. Using medications is not the problem, of course - it's continuing to eat foods to which we are sensitive, that allows the problems to develop.Deb wrote:I think it will be interesting to follow if the removal of inflammatory foods from our diets will impact our cancer rates.
That's an interesting viewpoint. Thanks for bringing it up. We're all guinea pigs, I suppose.
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
Well - I hate to prove your informal stats wrong, but I was diagnosed with breast cancer 6 years after my MC diagnosis and 5 years after going GF.tex wrote:It just dawned on me that, to date, at least, as far as I am aware, no one here has ever been diagnosed with cancer after they joined.Deb wrote:I think it will be interesting to follow if the removal of inflammatory foods from our diets will impact our cancer rates.
Tex
Joan - congrats on 10 years! I will be 5 this spring and hope for many years ahead for both of us! :boobs:
Mary
Hi Mary,
Oops, sorry. I was under the impression that your pathology report didn't confirm malignancy. The last post that I recall reading about it was this one:
Was there another post that I missed?
Tex
Oops, sorry. I was under the impression that your pathology report didn't confirm malignancy. The last post that I recall reading about it was this one:
http://www.perskyfarms.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=37362Mary wrote:Friday was good - I had my post-op with the surgeon - they got clean margins this time, so that is good! Still more debate with pathologists, so it is being sent to UCSF - apparently it is borderline between atypical cells and cancer cells - but there were only a few - and it is irrelevant to my status since in any case they are *gone*! Apparently it needs to be resolved so pathology can do a final "sign off" on the official results.
Was there another post that I missed?
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
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Extremely interesting thought chain here. Hopefully, it will be something that diet alone can help with avoiding cancer. Wonder if any of the powers that be that have been doing research for years have considered.
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That was after surgery #2 because of poor margins - biopsy and initial surgery confirmed malignancy. I may have never updated after that - it got long and drawn out, but I got a 2nd opinion from a pathologist who had been researching this type of cancer for 30+ years and he disagreed with the local pathologist - he believed they were low grade CA vs. atypia, so I had more surgery, reconstruction yadda yadda.... I went along with the expert's "more serious" opinion which came with a 1-2% recurrence rate, most likely in the first 3 years with his proposed treatment plan.
Oh yeah - and I had a basal cell carcinoma removed during that time, as well. 2007 is a year I never want to repeat!
Mary
That was after surgery #2 because of poor margins - biopsy and initial surgery confirmed malignancy. I may have never updated after that - it got long and drawn out, but I got a 2nd opinion from a pathologist who had been researching this type of cancer for 30+ years and he disagreed with the local pathologist - he believed they were low grade CA vs. atypia, so I had more surgery, reconstruction yadda yadda.... I went along with the expert's "more serious" opinion which came with a 1-2% recurrence rate, most likely in the first 3 years with his proposed treatment plan.
Oh yeah - and I had a basal cell carcinoma removed during that time, as well. 2007 is a year I never want to repeat!
Mary
Thanks for the update. I had completely forgotten about that basal cell carcinoma.
OK, so maybe the diet is helping, since you've had no further recurrences.
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.