WHEN CANCER SPREADS: SECOND STORY

When Dick, aged forty-five, found a lump on his chest, he was not especially concerned. It was not examined until nine months later when he went for a health check on his company’s private health scheme. The report said it was of no consequence and was probably fibrous tissue. Several months later Dick mentioned the lump in passing to his doctor, who decided that it needed to be biopsied-immediately. Events escalated, and it was decided to remove the lump. A letter arrived giving a date for ten days’ stay in hospital. Up to, and including, this moment nobody had mentioned the words breast cancer to Dick, and he had absolutely no idea that men could be afflicted with this disease. It was the ten-day hospital stay that finally alerted him to the fact that this was more than just a routine procedure.
He had a mastectomy, and what then followed was a trek from oncologist to oncologist to find someone who knew anything about the problems of male breast cancer – time after time the doctors had never dealt with it. Nobody seemed to have a clear idea of how best to treat the problem, but finally Dick found a physician who had researched male breast cancer extensively and it was agreed that he should have chemotherapy and he later had radiotherapy and was put on Tamoxifen.
His wife, Linda, became fascinated by nutrition and cajoled Dick into investigating the possibilities. After a visit to the nutritionist and a two-week period of avoiding dairy products, Dick’s chronic, lifetime, asthma totally disappeared, never to return. The assumption has to be that this step, as well as being a preventive measure against breast cancer, also supported his immune system as a whole. Dick also decided it made sense to take an array of supplements during his chemotherapy regime to minimize side-effects, though he has now cut back to around seven capsules a day. He has no doubt that these supplements carried him through the experience and nine years on, he still swears by them.
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WHEN CANCER SPREADS: SECOND STORYWhen Dick, aged forty-five, found a lump on his chest, he was not especially concerned. It was not examined until nine months later when he went for a health check on his company’s private health scheme. The report said it was of no consequence and was probably fibrous tissue. Several months later Dick mentioned the lump in passing to his doctor, who decided that it needed to be biopsied-immediately. Events escalated, and it was decided to remove the lump. A letter arrived giving a date for ten days’ stay in hospital. Up to, and including, this moment nobody had mentioned the words breast cancer to Dick, and he had absolutely no idea that men could be afflicted with this disease. It was the ten-day hospital stay that finally alerted him to the fact that this was more than just a routine procedure.     He had a mastectomy, and what then followed was a trek from oncologist to oncologist to find someone who knew anything about the problems of male breast cancer – time after time the doctors had never dealt with it. Nobody seemed to have a clear idea of how best to treat the problem, but finally Dick found a physician who had researched male breast cancer extensively and it was agreed that he should have chemotherapy and he later had radiotherapy and was put on Tamoxifen.     His wife, Linda, became fascinated by nutrition and cajoled Dick into investigating the possibilities. After a visit to the nutritionist and a two-week period of avoiding dairy products, Dick’s chronic, lifetime, asthma totally disappeared, never to return. The assumption has to be that this step, as well as being a preventive measure against breast cancer, also supported his immune system as a whole. Dick also decided it made sense to take an array of supplements during his chemotherapy regime to minimize side-effects, though he has now cut back to around seven capsules a day. He has no doubt that these supplements carried him through the experience and nine years on, he still swears by them.*42\240\2*

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