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To: Patricia Trinchero who wrote (167)	4/1/2007 2:11:37 AM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1564

<<...Perhaps science should look to boost our immune systems instead of knocking it out...>> Great quote...;-)

To: Patricia Trinchero who wrote (167)	4/1/2007 2:36:29 AM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1564

Cut, burn and poison is the current treatment course. That's fair. And it's no fun at all for the poor victim.

To: Patricia Trinchero who wrote (167)	4/1/2007 4:00:54 AM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1564

>>Does survival mean that the disease was "beaten" by the patient or did they just get lucky?<< Patricia - I don't feel like I've "beaten" cancer. I feel more like I've been beaten up by the treatment. My doctor says that I am "cured", but as you suggest, I think I just got lucky. My cancer was detected when it was at Stage Two, and only barely into Stage Two. My father wasn't as lucky. He died of the same kind of cancer in 1999. I know that cancer treatments have improved, and that survival rates are better now than they were twenty or thirty years ago. But more people are getting cancer now. I think science needs to focus more on how to prevent cancer. A lot of evidence suggests that the standard Western diet is a large part of the problem, but you really don't hear much about that. - Allen

To: Patricia Trinchero who wrote (167)	4/1/2007 11:04:45 AM
From: Suma	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1564

On a health topic radio program this morning the moderator was very critical of Doctors telling patients that they are cancer free as Tony Snow and Ms. Edwards were told... He encouraged immune system defenses by supplements and especially diet. NO no's were the usual. Smoking,too much alcohol and caffeine.. Then he said that removing the gall bladder was not a good thing to do (I just had mine out in January) as it allowed us to be susceptible to cancer. Well, I had been dozing but that one woke me up. (:)