Could My Instincts be Right? Chemo is Wrong For Me?
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 … “
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?
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