Breast cancer affects women in all countries. More than a decade, thousands of cancer patients had come to ask for my help, and cases of breast cancer, many number one problem I've ever met. Most of these women were medical treatments, but are not related to their difficult to "cure". Let me give two examples.
Case 1
May (not real name) is a lady of 55 years. Her husband died of a heart attack three years ago at the age of 62Years. At times, in 2000, was diagnosed with cancer in May with her right breast. Mastectomy and underwent six cycles of chemotherapy. Then he was put on tamoxifen.
Three years later, the cancer spread to the right side of the chest, despite the fact that she was on Tamoxifen for all this time (three years). He had to undergo six cycles of chemotherapy. Then she had 20 sessions of radiotherapy on the neck and chestArea.
Unfortunately, the spread of cervical cancer. He underwent a further four cycles of chemotherapy. From July 2005 to March 2006 was put on Femara oral medications. And from April 2006 to July 2006 was on Xeloda.
His daughter told us that he was suffering excruciating pain. If he could not bear the pain that just took off and ran around the house. At one time he tried to commit suicide by jumping from the window. His arms and areas of the breastand shoulders were tense and hard. He felt warm inside. He decided to further medical treatment and sought my help at the end of July 2006.
Case 2
Betty (not real name) had left breast cancer in 1999. The knot in her left breast was removed through surgery. The surgeon described him as: T2 No Mo, he / Pg R and C-erbB2 positive. The size of the lumps was T2, that is, it was classified from 2 to 5 cm in diameter. No, the media and Mo, there was no spread of bothnodes (N0) or other bodies elsewhere (M0). The tumor was positive for estrogen, progesterone, and C-erbB2 receptor.
On the basis of the above was Betty "full standard prescription" for treatment of breast cancer, which is as follows:
adjuvant radiotherapy (40 Gy in 15 fractions and 10 Gy boost in 5 fractions), chemotherapy (5-fluorouracil, doxorubicin and cyclophosphamide or six cycles) and tamoxifen 20 mg / day. Tamoxifen after radiotherapy and chemotherapyapparently to prevent a recurrence.
But in 2005 - or almost five years later, Betty suffered extensive unresectable local recurrence. The standard treatment for breast cancer are not cured, and prevent recurrence with tamoxifen.
Betty still received four cycles of chemotherapy with vinorelbine and capecitabine. The reason for this was the chemotherapy to reduce the size of the recurrent tumor before surgery was performed. This is a standard procedure in ourCountry.
In July 2005, Betty had a mastectomy of her left breast), followed by two cycles of chemotherapy (vinorelbine and capecitabine. This was followed in 2005 by the left chest wall radiotherapy (40 Gy in 15 fractions over three weeks) in September.
After chemotherapy and radiotherapy Betty was put on Megace (megesterol acetate), a synthetic progesterone (female hormones). Megace stimulates appetite and causes weight gain. It is not clear how the drugmay stop growing cancer. However, the switches of drugs had done so because tamoxifen has been found ineffective. Betty Megace, 160 mg daily, from 2005 to May 2006 and the drug has been suspended since September, after obesity develops win.
The Oncologist Betty set to tamoxifen - that is, she was asked, once a drug that proved to be ineffective!
A month later, in July 2006, Betty developed nodules on the leftchest wall had been irradiated, the first 10 months (September 2005). This once again shows that radiation does not stop the cancer coming back!
The war has gone to another level. Betty had her ovaries removed with Zoladex (goserelin acetate). Ablation is a process of destruction of the ovaries down so reduce the production of estrogen from that institution. Although the rays or drugs can ablation be achieved with surgery, an oncologist decided to Zoladex, a hormone that is alsofor the treatment of prostate cancer. The drug is injected under the skin.
On September 4, 2006, Betty was fluid (pleural effusion) in both of his lungs. There were also erythematous lesions on the chest wall, where he used to be emitted. The pleural effusion was drained, followed by pleurodesis with bleomycin.
The oncologist told Betty and her husband, the grim prognosis and recommended palliative chemotherapy. This means, Betty will continue to do so in chemotherapyhelp them cope with their symptoms - perhaps to improve their quality of life. This statement also implies that, as medical science is concerned, there is no hope of "cure" of one. All that was done was done, and had failed.
Betty was not interested in continuing with their medical care. His sister came and asked for my help by CA. The oncologist had told her that she had to live only two months.
Comment: Stories like the above over and overagain. If I may ask: Where is the cure?
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