Regarding the breast cancer. It's a tragedy but it is curable. The person
and her family need to listen very carefully to what the doctors recommend
and then follow their directions. People usually get a second opinion.
From what I have been able to learn, the people who die from breast cancers
are the ones who don't get treatment for it at all or do not follow the
treatment prescribed. I had lumpectomy on my right breast and chemo and
radiation. Ten years later, I had a mastectomy on my left breast and chemo.
I chose not to participate in a drug trial because I was in a group of
people including nurses, who said they already had plenty of drugs they know
worked, and they didn't need to give me experimental drugs to cure my
cancer. I read the contract that they gave me, when they proposed a drug
trial, and it said that there were no known benefits for those drugs, and
they might actually do me harm. So I refused to sign it. I refused to
participate.
I do not know what was done behind my back, without my knowledge because
both my mother and father are crazy about participating in drug experiments
and might have tried to force me into one. My dad is dead now, but my
mother is 91. My husband is another one who sometimes falls for the
experimental pitch, thinking it is going to do some good for someone, and
forgetting that it is not doing me any good at all. It is unpredictable how
people will react after they have seen someone die from that disease--they
become panicked and are liable to do anything. I don't know how the doctors
and nurses stand it.
A very good web site for cancer victims and their supporters is
www.bcans.com It is Breast Cancer Action Nova Scotia. It really helped me
to go online with them in some very fearful moments.
