A Diet to Die For! Breast Cancer in Canada.

Rethink Breast Cancer.

Site Launch October 6, 2009.

I received an email this morning letting me a know about a brand new site for women with Breast Cancer.

To quote:

“Rethink Breast Cancer just launched  www.TellHER2.ca the first online community connecting women affected by HER2+ breast cancer. Women can go online and actually share their experiences through video, photos, and words.  HER2+ breast cancer is very aggressive, so knowing that they are not alone can really be a source of strength.

Check out our SMR - http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Rethink-Breast-Cancer-1055514.html – and please contact me if you have questions. If you are interested, I can put you in touch with someone from Rethink.”

So thanks Sarah B. for the information!

Business is so dead that I’m considering calling the local fast food places around here and see if they would hire a middle-aged woman with cancer (does this make me a minority now?) to flip their greasy burgers – Ha! The irony is that I’ve never eaten from the majority of these places. That’s right … no Burger King, no Wendy’s and I think the last time I had a Harvey’s and a McDonald’s burger I was still breaking out in pimples.

Since I’ve got nothing but time on my hands, I thought I would try to find news specific to Canada and breast cancer.

I came across an article from Science Daily this morning that seems to indicate that the type of breast cancer I have would not respond to chemotherapy.

In essence, it says:

” … studies have shown that women whose tumors have amplified HER2 derive benefit from regimens that include anthracyclines, such as epirubicin and doxorubicin, while patients whose tumors lack such alteration do not … “

– April 28, 2009. Science Daily.

It seems to indicate that breast cancers that are not hormone-related (mine is negative), chemotherapy isn’t much of a benefit.

Could it be that my instinct to forego chemotherapy may be right afterall?