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Sunshine and Breast Cancer

Most doctors now agree another cause of breast cancer is chronic vitamin D deficiency, Yet neither the cancer industry or medical establishment currently express any interest in urging women to get more vitamin D through sunlight exposure
Recent research has shown that vitamin D halts 77 percent of all cancers from becoming full-blown tumours, including breast cancer, prostate cancer, colon cancer and leukemia. The vast majority of women in the Australia remain chronically vitamin D deficient, putting their bodies in a state of accelerated tumour growth. Read my E-Book on this very important vitamin so you know just what you are up against, how to expose yourself and for how long but most importantly why!

October 12, 2007 Posted by breastcancersurvivor | Vitamin D | , | No Comments Yet

Carcinogens Galore

The motto of Breast Cancer Awareness Month is “Early Detection is Your Best Protection”. Mammograms are the front line of defense.? Celebrities like Rosie O’Donnell offer free t-shirts with the honourable words “I’ve been Squished” if you’ll make a date with your local x-ray department.So let’s all join in and wave our pink ribbons and don those running shoes and take to the streets, right?
Wait! Before the emotional frenzy of this call to arms sweeps you up, there is something you should perhaps know. Breast Cancer Awareness month’s primary sponsor and mastermind of the event in 1985 was Zeneca Pharmaceuticals, now known as AstraZeneca. Zeneca is the company that manufactures the controversial and widely prescribed breast cancer drug, Tamoxifen. Did you know all TV, radio and print media campaigns in America are paid for and must be approved by Zeneca?
Perhaps we can forgive Zeneca’s heavy involvement with carcinogenic chemicals, since it researched and patented the most popular breast cancer treatment, Tamoxifen, which grosses 500 million dollars a year. Perhaps not. On May 16, 2000 the New York Times reported that the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences listed substances that are known to cause cancer.
Tamoxifen was included in that list!!
It is known that Tamoxifen causes uterine cancer, liver cancer and gastro-intestinal cancer. After just two to three years of use, Tamoxifen will increase the incidence of uterine cancer by two to three times. The treatment for uterine cancer is a hysterectomy.
In addition, Tamoxifen increased the risk of strokes, blood clots, eye damage, menopausal symptoms, and depression.The biggest shock of all is the fact that Tamoxifenwill increase the risk of breast cancer!The journal Science published a study from Duke University Medical Center in 1999 showing that after 2 – 5 years, Tamoxifen actually initiated the growth of breast cancer! So, Zeneca, the originator of Breast Cancer Awareness month is the manufacturer of carcinogenic petrochemicals, carcinogenic pollutants and a breast cancer drug that causes at least four different types of cancer in women, including breast cancer. I ask you to stop and think, “Is something wrong with this picture?”

October 12, 2007 Posted by breastcancersurvivor | Random Thoughts | , , , , , | 2 Comments

Effects of Chemotherapy

Chemotherapy doesn’t exclusively target cancer cells it also targets and harms your good cells, destroying some of your body in the process. All of your fast growing cells will be affected these of course include hair follicles. As a result, many chemotherapy patients lose their hair, develop immune deficiencies, lose weight and vomit. Chemotherapy poisons your body as a whole in an attempt to kill the cancer cells before the “treatment” brings your body to an unrecoverable state.
If even just a few cells escape this onslaught the chemotherapy may become useless and cancer can re-establish itself or metastasize elsewhere. Metastasized cancer is very hard if not impossible to eradicate then with the conventional treatments.

As Gary Null and James Feast write, “(After chemotherapy,) the hope is the cancer is going to be totally dead and you are only half dead and recover.” Unfortunately, some people are more than “half dead” after chemotherapy and remain damaged for the rest of their lives, no matter how long or how short that life may be. They never realize that according to many alternative health practitioners, there are safer ways of combating many types of cancer.

In response to chemotherapy’s many side effects, Dr. Atkins says in Burton Goldberg’s Alternative Medicine, “Only in situations in which chemotherapy is proven to be effective and curative would I recommend it. In general, this might be testicular cancer.”

October 9, 2007 Posted by breastcancersurvivor | chemotherapy | , , , | No Comments Yet

Recognising a stroke

A neurologist says that if he can get to a stroke victim within 3 hours he can totally reverse the effects of a stroke…totally. He said the trick was getting a stroke recognized, diagnosed, and then getting the patient medically cared for within 3 hours, which is tough.

RECOGNIZING A STROKE
Remember the “3″ steps, STR . Read and Learn! Sometimes symptoms of a stroke are difficult to identify. Unfortunately, the lack of awareness spells disaster. The stroke victim may suffer severe brain damage when people nearby fail to recognize the symptoms of a stroke.
Now doctors say a bystander can recognize a stroke by asking three simple questions:

S * Ask the individual to SMILE .
T * Ask the person to TALK to SPEAK A SIMPLE SENTENCE (Coherently) (eg “It is sunny out today”).
R * Ask him or her to RAISE BOTH ARMS .

NOTE : Another ’sign’ of a stroke is this: Ask the person to ’stick’ out their tongue. If the tongue is ‘crooked’, if it goes to one side or the other that is also an indication of a stroke. If he or she has trouble with ANY ONE of these tasks, call 000 immediately!! and describe the symptoms to the dispatcher.

Wouldn’t it be great if this information gets to save just one life!

October 9, 2007 Posted by breastcancersurvivor | Random Thoughts | , , , , | No Comments Yet

Is the incidence of breast cancer deaths declining?

Breast Cancer statistics in Australia does not show a decline, instead an increase in deaths is evident. I am working on getting the up to date (2007) stats. Stay tuned. In the meantime read what I think about My Political Breasts here
Year Australia
1982 1,987
1983 2,040
1984 2,166
1985 2,196
1986 2,165
1987 2,293
1988 2,361
1989 2,449
1990 2,422
1991 2,525
1992 2,428
1993 2,611
1994 2,669
1995 2,634
1996 2,619

October 8, 2007 Posted by breastcancersurvivor | Breast Cancer | , | No Comments Yet

Radiation Risks of Mammograms

Cancer research has found a gene, called oncogene AC, which is extremely sensitive to very small doses of radiation. A significant amount of women have this gene, which could increase their risk of mammography-induced cancer. They estimate that 10,000 A-T carriers will die of breast cancer this year due to mammography.

The risk of radiation is apparently higher among younger women. The NCI released evidence that, among women under 35, mammography could cause 75 cases of breast cancer for every 15 it identifies.
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Regular mammography of younger women increases their cancer risks. Analysis of controlled trials over the last decade has shown consistent increases in breast cancer mortality within a few years of commencing screening. This confirms evidence of the high sensitivity of the premenopausal breast, and on cumulative carcinogenic effects of radiation.
The Politics Of Cancer by Samuel S Epstein MD, page 539
Please read the FREE REPORT on mamograms by clicking right here.
This report is jam-packed with extremely important information. Informatin that your doctor (GP), oncologist, surgeon or nurse will not tell you! Read it and then decide for yourself. You owe it to yourself to be as informed as you can.

October 7, 2007 Posted by breastcancersurvivor | Mammograms | , , , , , | No Comments Yet

Crystal Jewelery

I have a few very special pieces of Crystal Jewelery on my page. Please feel free to have a look at the ones I have for sale here.
This one is a lovely Unicorn crafted in Gold over Quality Sterling Silver. It is Pre-cleansed on an Amethyst Cluster ready to wear today.

October 7, 2007 Posted by breastcancersurvivor | Crystal Jewlery | | No Comments Yet

Gold and Black Hematite Pegasus

Gold Pegasus with black Hematite stone

October 7, 2007 Posted by breastcancersurvivor | Crystal Jewlery | | No Comments Yet

Double Mastectomies

I sometimes wonder about the choices that some women make to have double mastectomies (have their breasts cut off) because they may be at risk of getting breast cancer. Ie it may be in the family, they may carry the identified gene.
All I would ask is if there was a history of brain cancer in the family would they cut off their heads?
If there was a family history of heart disease would the cut out their hearts? It just sounds stupid doesn’t it?

October 6, 2007 Posted by breastcancersurvivor | Random Thoughts | | 2 Comments

Wrong Breast Cancer Diagnosis!

A woman from Florida had both of her breasts removed after a lab headquartered out of Florida apparently switched her tissue specimens with a patient suffering from cancer. The 35-year-old single mother said she was recently diagnosed with a highly aggressive form of breast cancer.She said she did all the right things after the cancer diagnosis. “I had a second opinion and saw specialists. Then, I had a radical mastectomy.”

Two weeks after the operation, her doctor called and told her about the mistake, Local 6 reported. Her tissue sample was apparently mislabeled by a lab technician at the CBL Path medical lab in Rye Brook. CBL Path is headquartered in Ocala, but the tests were done in New York. The the report said the real cancer patient in the apparent mix-up went undiagnosed for months,
She filed a lawsuit against CBL Path Inc. The company is defending its labs and said the New York Health Department found no other major problems. The technician involved in the incident is no longer with the company, according to CBS News.

October 6, 2007 Posted by breastcancersurvivor | Random Thoughts | | No Comments Yet