looking for treatment options for breast cancer metastasis to the bone marrow?
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Here is a site with alternative treatments and much good info.
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Visit http://chemotherapy.big.com/
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I don't really know a cure I just wanted to say that I will pray for her and hope her the best in finding a solution.\n\ngood luck!!!!
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I'm so sorry about your fiance's situation. You all are in my prayers.\nOne suggestion would be to contact Cancer Treatment Centers of America. They are a system of Hospitals with campuses across the country that specialize in both conventional and alternative treatments of advanced cancers that have failed conventional treatments. Their website is: http://www.cancercenter.com .\nAnother resource I would suggest would be the book, "Beating Cancer with Nutrition" by Dr. Patrick Quillin (Amazon.com link: http://www.amazon.com/Beating-Cancer-Nutrition-Patrick-Quillin/dp/096383729X/sr=8-1/qid=1164205725/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-5041657-6768651?ie=UTF8&s=books)\nAlso, contact your local branch of the American Cancer Society at http://www.cancer.org. Again, my wishes go out to your fiance for a full recovery. Hope this can help.
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Tell her that whatever the odds, spontaneous remission can happen. As long as there is any hope at all, any possibility of recovery, she should keep going.\n\nAlso tell her that studying to become a pediatrician is the exact right thing to do. It will give her a direction and a dream of the future, and the satisfaction that someday she may save someone from leukemia with an early diagnosis.\n\nMedically, if the first three bone marrow transplants didn't do the trick she's probably screwed. Don't tell her that, because its a "probably" screwed and not a "definitely" screwed. Hope is good medicine because happiness and positive thinking boost the immune system. This is how one type of faith healer works: they create the illusion of a cure, which leads to brain chemical changes that may prompt the immune system to get its act in gear and clean house. Its generally wrong to manipulate people like this, but this time its justified.\n\nMake sure she socializes. Hospital beds can be a lonely place. See if your daughter and a few other people will visit her regularly: socialization is important to avoiding depression.\n\nGet her a subscription to lots of magazines, especially science ones. It will make her a better doctor and keep her entertained, and Scientific American and Discover and Science News contain the occasional article on new treatments for cancer which she would find uplifting. Give her normal magazines that fit her tastes too, whatever they are.\n\nYour daughter is a different matter from the patient. Tell her exactly what is happening. Too many parents protect their children from the real world unnecessarily, and when they finally step in the real world they can't cope. Make sure your daughter doesn't go through that.
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1/2 centimeter is still very small. I'd want the tumor removed immediately and also any close lymph nodes removed to check for signs of cancer. Then ask the oncologist if you need any radiation or chemo. I'd also want a PET scan to make sure there was no cancer lurking anywhere else like in the liver or brain. You have a good chance for another very long remission or even a cure. Ask about taking tamoxifen after you finish your treatments. Hopefully you were taking it for 5 years after your first bout. If not, that is possibly why you have had a recurrence. Don't waste your time and window of opportunity with alternative treatments unless they are approved first by your oncologist and done in addition to traditional medical treatments. good luck
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hmm, there are lots of different options.\nI did a project on cancer radiation therapies with focus on the biological aspects of the efficacy of radiation (i.e. cell death).\nLast year i did a bionic eye presentation that had people who were blind from birth seeing black dots on a white field (but they didn't have depth perception).  It was fascinating - they had glasses hooked up to the patient and wires connected to a computer (worn on the belt) that further connected directly to the visual cortex of his brain via a cable "plugged" into his neck.\n\nWhat about nanotechnology for curing diseases in the blood?
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It depends on the location and type of tumor.  I had a similar diagnosis and had breast conserving surgery, radiation and now chemotherapy because of recurrence.  Susan Love's Breat Book was a good resource at that time.  If the cancer is hormone receptive, her doctors may subscribe a 5 year course of Tamoxifen.  Give her lots of hugs.
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I'm not sure about treatment, but for info check out the leukemia and lymphoma society. Also, there are several books written on it, so check your local library. I don't remember the names of any of them, but some of them were pretty easy to understand.
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See:\nhttp://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000621.htm#Treatment
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The best way is surgery. When not possible, use combined chemoradiation.
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check out the link for the whole article..\n\nResearchers have identified a molecule that appears to play a critical part in how cancers spread to bones.\n\nAlthough the experiments were done in mice, the Austrian researchers hope the finding will lead to new treatments that can keep cancers such as breast, prostate and skin cancer from spreading to bone.\n\nThey found that a protein in bone called RANKL communicates with a receptor in breast, prostate and skin cancer cells, telling them to migrate.
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I agree with you to a large degree. Personally I believe the tradition treatments, chemo and/or radiation..cause more problems are are ineffective. In alot of cases the patient dies as a result of complications of the treatment, not from the actual disease. Yes, diet...I think an organic diet makes a huge difference, putting more chemicals into a body that is struggling doesnt make a lot of sense. Alot of the meds, even pain meds like morphine, tend to produce angiogenesis in cancer cells and spread the tumors. Im a big believer in the budwig diet and I'm a big believer in meditation and visualisation. I do believe there are alot of other things you can also do to help. For example, biophosponate to stop the spread to bones...blocking the FE+ receptors..cancer cells need iron to divide and multiply, blocking the FE+ receptors deprives them of iron and they cant continue to divide and muliply..there is a chemical in anti-malarial meds that does this. I also strongly believe in Qigong - powerful chinese med to bolster the immune system. Oxidisation treatment, hyperbaric chamber...Dendric cell therapy .. IPT (Insulin Potentiation Therapy), Ultra Violet treatment...there is so much.  Good on you for looking further than the traditional!
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Great statistics here:\nhttp://www.cancer.org/docroot/STT/stt_0.asp\n\nhttp://www.postgradmed.com/issues/2004/10_04/mirshahidi.htm\n\nAnd this one looks quite promising:\nhttp://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1200808\n\nBest of luck!
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Give her all the supports you can by encouraging and giving medical attention. You have not told what cancer she is having the stage and grade of the disease so that I could have suggested the possible medication and treatments. Any way act as per the advise of your Oncologist. The treatments generally are - surgery, chemotherapy and radiation therapy. The treatment side effects are more killing than the disease itself. What to do you have to fight the disease as -\n\nCANCER IS STILL AN ENIGMA.  Best wishes for speedy recovery of your friend.-
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I bet you mean "zometa".  It's for bone metastasis.  It strengthens your bones and thearetically decreases the spread of cancer in your bones.
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JAMA wouldn't have single case studies but you can find information/teaching tools that cover the things your seeking at the American Cancer Society web site or if this is part of a project contact your state Radiological Society or local hospital radiology department administrator tell them what your doing and see if the have a radiologist  ( licensed person who actually administer the chemo/radio tx under a physicians order) who's willing to help. Most jump at the chance if not swamped. they wont give you personal patient info but they can give you disease and treatment scenarios. hope this helps and good luck.if all else fails, check out the CDC's latest research and statistics. they cover North America and globally.