When Breast Cancer Goes Away on Its Own

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Fri, January 30, 2009

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What if you found out from a mammogram that you had breast cancer - but a few months later were told it had gone away? Sounds pretty unbelievable - but a study published recently by the Archives of Internal Medicine suggests that this might be true. Scientists from Norway and the U.S. compa...

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PJ Hamel

1/30/09 3:26pm

Fran, I did a post on this same study a couple of months ago, and it did provoke some comments. I also threw the question out to my survivor group, and it generated some REALLY interesting discussion. What it boiled down to was, "Would YOU want to be the woman who decided to watch and wait, rather than get treated?" I said I would; most said they wouldn't. Thanks for surfacing this again— PJH

John

10/ 7/10 3:24pm

It should be noted that there are human trials have been going on now in Vancouver B.C. for almost a year into a breast cancer vaccine. American hype and propaganda made a big thing about a guy at the Cleveland Clinic who is 5 years away from human trials on HIS breast cancer vaccine, yet nothing was said about th Vancouver human trials which are years to a decade closer to a real vaccine than the much hyped Cleveland one.

Phyllis Johnson

10/ 7/10 7:26pm

Thanks for bringing this to our attention. Can you give us some more details about the researcher's name or other information that would help us get the facts to publicize the research?

Lynda

2/17/09 5:21pm

Hi Fran, sounds like they should also look into mammograms actually causing cancer. This could also be a reason for the reduction in breast cancer partients who had not been screened in 6 years as opposed to those who had.

Kay

3/12/09 7:15am

Yes, radiation does cause cancer. But it takes several years before a new breast cancer will show up on a mammogram, so the cancers seen in the Norwegian study could not have been caused by a previous screening mammogram done only two or four years earlier.

KrissBrock

2/24/09 6:57pm

How can breast cancer disappear when men aren't being informed MEN GET BREAST CANCER, TOO? Until EVERYONE is aware of this fact how can breast cancer disappear!

What is it going to take for ALL breast cancer sites to get the word out? Komen commercials say "Everybody deserves a life" but how can that be when men can die from breast cancer because they don't know they can get this "WOMAN'S DISEASE." Shame on ALL breast cancer sites for not doing more to let men know. I don't care if only 1% of all breast cancer is in men. It should now matter who gets breast cancer, the word needs to get out.

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