One for Jeremy Jacobs, who now must be counting the hours until his trek:A new drug is giving women with breast cancer fresh hope by lowering oestrogen levels in women with hormone-sensitive breast cancer. Research has shown that switching from tamoxifen, the standard breast cancer treatment, to the new drug exemestane after two or three years resulted in death rates falling by 17 per cent.
The chances of dying were now 50 per cent lower than they would have been with no chemotherapy, and 17 per cent lower than they were without the switch from tamoxifen. The charity Cancer Research UK, whose scientists were involved in the study, said the treatment protocol would prevent an estimated 1,300 deaths each year if it was rolled out across the UK.
Let’s hope and pray that is so.
Of course. Good post, James, illustrating again your wide range of interests & thoughts...
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ReplyDeleteAbout 300 men a year die from breast cancer in the UK.
ReplyDeleteJames for your support. I would love to blog from the Maasai but the cost of a satellite link and laptop....
Breast cancer needs to be diagnosed early on to be successfully treated. One of my girlfriends died from it sadly. Good luck to Jeremy and his quest. Sorry to hear he may not be able to link up with us while over there. It's hard to believe that as many as 300 men a year die from breast cancer too.
ReplyDeleteLet us hope and pray, indeed. The issue of male breast cancer is often ignored so it is good to see it raised here. My thoughts, too, will be with Jeremy.
ReplyDeleteBreast Cancer research
ReplyDeleteCommon Breast Cancer Myths
The first myth pertaining to this disease is that it only affects women.
Second myth that is associated with this disease is that if one has found a lump during an examination, it is cancer.
Third is that it is solely hereditary
The next myth associated with breast cancer is downright ridiculous. Would you believe, that in this day and age, some individuals still think that breast cancer is contagious?
Conversely, some individuals foolishly believe that breast size determines whether or not one gets cancer.
Finally, another myth that is associated with this disease is that it only affects older people. This is not so. Although the chance of getting breast cancer increases with age, women as young as 18 have been diagnosed with the disease.
You can find a number of helpful informative articles on Breast Cancer research at breast-cancer1.com
Breast Cancer research
Thank you for this. Anything which adds to the stock of knowledge on this tragedy is welcome.
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