What research should we be doing?
Hello BCNA community! This is my first post. I'm a scientist working on breast cancer and I was looking through some of the threads here and it strikes me that the issues we scientists think are the i...
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@wingman thank you for your interest and reaching out. I’d like the medical profession to be more accepting/informed of more natural alternatives or inclusions to a treatment plan.
I was was given an 88% chance of making 10 years, not all that comforting when you’re 42 and your grandmothers lived to their 90s, but if I undertook chemo and hormone therapy then I might bump this up to 90%. So, my medical team were prepared to put my body through chemo and HT for a less than 2% maximum benefit!
There are published studies showing the benefits of vitamin d, flaxseed, and other natural products on cancer prevention, and reducing tumour size.
Now, I know I’ve been vitamin d low for years. What if this had been addressed as a priority years ago?
Some may say the studies are too small, so make them bigger! Then there is the whole other issue of medical studies that get abandoned and no report released. Like the study in giving Tamoxifen to women without BC and seeing how beneficial this would be. Research abandoned. No report released.
Some may say that there is no money in natural products, so little or no research can be done. But let’s look at the cost to the taxpayer if I had undertaken chemo, taken other drugs to manage the side effects. Then the cost of 10 years on HT. Both of these treatments can cause a host of problems that then need to be checked for and managed. Much cheaper on the taxpayer if someone would say, get your vitamin d levels up, a bit of ground flaxseed on breakfast is a lot better on quality of life.
Sure, maybe the vitamin d supplement and flaxseed will make no difference to my 10 year outcome, but imagine if they made a 2% or more benefit. They’d be beating the toxic alternatives and kinder on my body.
Best of luck with your research
xx
I was was given an 88% chance of making 10 years, not all that comforting when you’re 42 and your grandmothers lived to their 90s, but if I undertook chemo and hormone therapy then I might bump this up to 90%. So, my medical team were prepared to put my body through chemo and HT for a less than 2% maximum benefit!
There are published studies showing the benefits of vitamin d, flaxseed, and other natural products on cancer prevention, and reducing tumour size.
Now, I know I’ve been vitamin d low for years. What if this had been addressed as a priority years ago?
Some may say the studies are too small, so make them bigger! Then there is the whole other issue of medical studies that get abandoned and no report released. Like the study in giving Tamoxifen to women without BC and seeing how beneficial this would be. Research abandoned. No report released.
Some may say that there is no money in natural products, so little or no research can be done. But let’s look at the cost to the taxpayer if I had undertaken chemo, taken other drugs to manage the side effects. Then the cost of 10 years on HT. Both of these treatments can cause a host of problems that then need to be checked for and managed. Much cheaper on the taxpayer if someone would say, get your vitamin d levels up, a bit of ground flaxseed on breakfast is a lot better on quality of life.
Sure, maybe the vitamin d supplement and flaxseed will make no difference to my 10 year outcome, but imagine if they made a 2% or more benefit. They’d be beating the toxic alternatives and kinder on my body.
Best of luck with your research
xx