Breast Cancer: Wonder Drug Triples Chance Of Survival

[Nomad559]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/health/womenfamily.html?in_article_id=483882&in_page_id=1799

Women with advanced breast cancer live longer by taking the drug Herceptin even after a relapse, a study reveals.

Those who continue with treatment when the disease has progressed are three times more likely to be alive two years later compared to those who do not.

Overall, three out of four women on continuous Herceptin treatment were still alive after two years, compared to just 24 per cent who came off the drug at an earlier stage.

British experts say the study could have important implications for women starting treatment for breast cancer, as well as for those in whom it has spread.

[Prophet 451]

1. I bet the Right objects to it

On the grounds that breast cancer survivors living makes women more likely to have abortions or something...

[WindRavenX]

2. well, the left has plenty its own anti-science nutters...

From teh evil pharma.

[Prophet 451]

4. True enough

For the record, I'm not anti-pharma, I'm anti-evil moneygrubbing megacorporations.

[WindRavenX]

5. same here

There's a lot of ugly shit that gets done by some corporate science groups, but look, I'm a scientist because I want to help people.

I call out bad practices when it happens, but I get very sick and tired of everything coming from, say, Merck being evil on the principle that it came from a a pharmaceutical company.

That said, I am very glad that there continues to be breakthroughs in cancer treatment--even 10 years ago we are seeing people who would have months to live continue to live for many more quality years. That's what I'm in the game for.

[Prophet 451]

11. I wish they came quicker

Part of the reason I'm so often down on Big Pharma is that when they make millions or billions in profit, I can't help thinking how many people that could have saved if it had gone into research. My grandmother, who raised me and who I was very close to, died of cancer several years ago.

[Raine]

12. Guess I'm one of them

cause I'm very skeptical of all the so-called cures we're always hearing about. When you go and ask the doctor he tells you about all the qualifiers and you find out it was just all PR to sell drugs and false hope. :-(

EDIT: added a word

[Canadiana]

3. I love science.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

6. What about the very effective treatments that are not used here?

There are excellent, simple treatments that do not involve surgery and chemo and radiation.

Like baking soda, ozone and H2O2.

Example on Google Video. 53 minute documentary on the uses of O3 in medicine. Documented around the world by such amateurs (sarcasm) as the people at the Max Planck Institute for Medicine.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8249818030797137906&q=ozone&total=9599&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=8



Dr. Simoncini's baking soda treatment:

http://www.curenaturalicancro.com/therapy-simoncini.html


German Natural Medicine: http://www.germannewmedicine.ca/documents/intrognm.html

[Gloria]

7. Also the Budwig Diet.....

[Manifestor_of_Light]

8. cottage cheese and flaxseed oil. Yes I know about that too.

And electro medicine that kills bacteria and parasites.

[Perseid]

9. please be true, and please let people have the use of it

Cancer is hell for those who are survivors, and those family members who deal with....well...

[Contrary1]

10. My understanding is that this article is referring

to women whose breast cancer test positive for the HER2 protein. That would be approximately 20% of breast cancers diagnosed here in the US. It won't help all of us, but hopefully all those who can possibly benefit from this treatment will be able to get it.

The Mayo Clinic announced similar findings last June. http://www.mayoclinic.org/news2007-rst/4089.html

And ladies (and gents too, since they can get breast cancer)...Do not rely on mammograms alone. Make sure you do a monthly breast self exam.

Doing so most likely saved my life.