Comments on: Anyone know of a book that will give Breast cancer patient some hope?

By: Louise

Louise — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:53:13 +0000

I’m sorry to hear of your friend’s situation Janice.

I think you should be wary of books that offer hope. There isn’t now a cure for your friends cancer, I’m so sorry, although she may live for some years yet.

She can get information and support from

http://www.breastcancercare.org.uk/

including a helpline where she can talk to a specialist nurse, and support from other women in the same position on

http://www.bcpals.org.uk

My best wishes to your friend, and to you. She is lucky to have a friend who cares so much

By: jt1walsh

jt1walsh — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:53:13 +0000

Look up Linus Pauling and read this – 1 – Try Vitamin C therapy. (If you find this useful, copy it and give it to a friend. Somebody got to Yahoo and they delete this as soon as they find it) A few years ago a cancer specialist came out with a paper that said the best cancer/infection fighter found to date was Interferon. At the time it was $15,000 a gram. 2 The paper also said that Interferon was a by-product of the natural breakdown of Vitamin C in your body. Shortly after that the FDA tried to make Vitamin C by prescription only. Guess why? 3 The FDA has the RDA for Vitamin C set at 64 mg a day, just enough to ward off scurvy. Linus Pauling, who got a Nobel Prize for his work with Vitamin C and a second Nobel Prize for Organic Chemistry, said that 1000 mg a day should be the minimum and 2000 mg a day if you are sick or smoke. 4 He played tennis almost daily until the day he died at 96. Personally, I got sick twice a year for 2 weeks at a time, for more than 20 years, with something to this day the doctors have no idea what it was, but for a week in the middle of those 2 weeks I was flat on my back. 5 I started Vitamin C therapy once I gave up on the doctors. I took enough to be asymptomatic for those 2 weeks. Too much and I got diarrhea and too little and I got sick. 6 Within a narrow range, and it followed a bell curve over those 2 weeks, I was not sick. At the height I was taking 40,000 mg a day and 300,000 over the 2 weeks. After 2 years of that I have not been sick since – more than 15 years. Vitamin C acts as a natural diuretic so you need to drink a lot of water and watch your body in total, but my kidneys did not dissolve as the doctors predicted, or get massive kidney stones as other predicted. 7 I did not dissolve my bones as some predicted or completely calcify my joints as others predicted. I had no side effects at all. It might be something to consider.

By: Tarkarri

Tarkarri — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:53:13 +0000

Sorry, but once a cancer has travelled to the liver, it is very hard to treat, and any treatments are usually just buying time, not really getting rid of the cancer.

Rather than a specific book on the disease and treatments, I would be looking at something spiritual, positive affirmations, or meditations for my friend.

By: audrey

audrey — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:53:13 +0000

I’m so sorry to hear that … Its a hard thing to go through, for your friend, obviously, but also for you.

What helped me a lot when I was going through chemo, etc, was HUMOR. "Hope" is such a vague word … What gave me hope was laughter, and cute funny stuff. If you are looking for inspiring stories of strength, I’m not your person, haha. But anyways, there are a lot of "humorous" cancer books … ‘ Cancer Vixen’ being one of my favorites. Its in cartoon form, and is all about the authors experience with breast cancer … Great illustrations, touching, but also really enjoyable to read. A bit silly in some places though.

I don’t know your friend … So she may not like that sort of stuff. And, you know, her ‘hope’ doesn’t necessarily have to be cancer-centric. Buy her good movies to watch, some great music … I loved it when I got some dancing music, because I knew that people expected some dancing out of me, maybe not now, but later.

I feel for you and your friend. She will be in my thoughts. I wish you both the best.