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...Researchers who are trying to minimize the need for chemotherapy are finding that patients can avoid chemo altogether if just one or two cancer cells are discovered in a lymph node?apparently these cells are not active enough to cause any further trouble...
...Researchers who are trying to minimize the need for chemotherapy are finding that patients can avoid chemo altogether if just one or two cancer cells are discovered in a lymph node--apparently these cells are not active enough to cause any further trouble...
...enough that I went through all that pain for the sake of vanity, but then I got a massive infection and had to have both implants taken out. I'm embarrassed about it, although my chief cancer mentor, Marlyn Schwartz (who went to the Palm for lunch after every chemo session), has forbidden this particular emotion. So now I'm just a happy, flat-chested woman...
...CHEMO BONES Breast-cancer patients receiving chemotherapy lose bone density up to four times as fast as expected, a study has found. Women whose ovaries stopped working, a common side effect of chemo, suffered rapid and dramatic bone loss in the hip and spine. Women who undergo chemo-induced early menopause should take calcium and vitamin D and get a bone-density test...
...Diamond instead carefully defuses the anti-intellectualism that makes it possible to ignore the good science that questions such cures. "[Science] isn't one particular way of ascertaining a physical truth," Diamond writes. "By definition it is the way of ascertaining physical truth." Such as the truth that painful chemo-therapy shrinks tumors, and happy thoughts and magic crystals don't. In that better world, this wouldn't need pointing out. But it does. All the more remarkable that the one saying so here had every reason to wish otherwise...