A friend of mine, 40, was diagnosed with such an aggressive form of breast cancer that even though they caught it at stage one, and did a mastectomy, and ev en though her lymph nodes were clean, both Sloan Kettering and her alternative dr. said to do chemo. She is suffering so much. I feel lucky that this virus, sucky though it is, is slow enough to give me the luxury of waiting for decades for a better treatment. I do a gratitude list every morning, but often it feels rote. Now I really feel my luck, how much worse it could be. I've always known that, exsp. since testing negative for HIV. BUt that seemed more like guilt than real gratitude. feeling my blessings, my heart so open. That feeling is a gift as much as having all these health choices.
p.s. Got blood taken yesterday. I'll post the results.
p.s. Got blood taken yesterday. I'll post the results.
The overall 5-year survival rate for all types of cancer was 2.1%. For breast cancer, 1.4%. Hodgkins disease had the best survival rate of 40.3, however it represents a very small amount of the cancers. In other words, for most people, they would have survived just as long by taking a sugar pill, a placebo. The few studies that have been done comparing the benefits of conventional treatments vs doing nothing, show that people who did nothing lived just as long, if not longer, than those who underwent treatments, and obviously with a much higher quality of life.
summarizing from pages 9-11.
Stage
5-year
Survival Rate
0
93%
I
88%
IIA
81%
IIB
74%
IIIA
67%
IIIB
41%*
IIIC
49%*
IV
15%