Friday, June 12, 2009

possible new cure for breast cancer and other things

My mom suffered for 15 years with breast cancer that turned to bone cancer. She had the whole gamet - radiation therapy and chemotherapy. She was in remission for 5 years between the 2 cancers. She was a trooper, but died at 80 in 2005. I was excited to read this encouraging new find about a possible effective treatment for the remedy. To read the whole article, go to my other healthdietgardening blog.
Israel-US Team Kills Breast Cancer in the Dark

by Karin Kloosterman

(IsraelNN.com) With the alarming incidence of breast cancer in America -- one in eight women can expect to get it sometime in their life -- new solutions for women, their mothers, sisters, aunts, daughters and friends, cannot come fast enough.

An Israeli-American research team has stumbled onto a new and interesting find - a non-radiation based therapy that may provide relief for an aggressive and hard to treat breast cancer cell known as HER2+, but which could also have wider applications for treating all kinds of cancer.

Breast cancer alone is the most common form of cancer among U.S. women, and the second leading cause of death after lung cancer. About 200,000 women in the U.S. alone had breast cancer in 2008, and about 40,000 will die from it each year....


My mom at 78, 13 and a baby - she was a great MOM

1 comment:

Julie said...

Hi Jill, I followed the trail from your comment on my blog! Thank you for visiting and letting me meet you!!
I love your garden! and I am fascinated by the article on the new cancer treatment! Thank you for posting that! I hope it becomes the standard treatment soon!