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According to the World Health Organisation, much than 1.2 million inhabitants were diagnosed near body part malignant neoplastic disease entire in 2005. In the United States, it is aforesaid that all two minutes one female is diagnosed near breast malignant neoplastic disease. In 2005, it was fairly accurate that near were 212,0000 new cases of breast malignant neoplastic disease and out of which 40,000 or about 19%, died from the illness. In the city-state of Singapore, it is aforesaid that all day iii women are being diagnosed next to breast cancer. In Malaysia 3,738 body part metastatic tumor cases were reportable in 2003. This agency that one in twenty women in Malaysia will get body part cancer.

Despite rife research, the scrupulous motivation of breast cancer is not agreed. Medicine has all on been in the region of treating breast cancer, not just about preventing it. Most often, women beside body part malignant tumor are subjected to a "package" of ensign treatments - surgery, chemotherapy, actinotherapy and hormonal therapy. The record arch interrogation that patients ask after undergoing all these treatments is: "Am I cured? Or, is location genuinely a medication for breast cancer?"

According to Silvia Dellapasqua et al. (in: J. Clinical Oncol. 23:1736-1749) the "prognosis of breast metastatic tumor in girlish women is commonly considered to be fault-finding. Young pre-menopausal body part malignant tumor patients processed beside ancillary CMF therapy had superior speculate of slip back and demise than elderly pre-menopausal patients." Martin Piccart-Gebhart (in J. Clinical Oncol. 23:1611-1613) wrote: "Chemotherapy has womb-to-tomb been considered our furthermost effectual weapon in the scrap opposed to breast malignant neoplasm ... where this dream, unfortunately, did not fall out."

One sad model of such crashed reverie was a lawsuit of Mei (not definite autograph), a 34-year old egg-producing health care provider. Mei was diagnosed next to carcinoma of the fitting body part. She underwent a freedom extirpation and angle separation in August 2003. This was followed by six cycles of chemotherapy mistreatment FAC (5-FU, andriamycin and cyclophosphamide). From 1 March to 19 March 2004, Mei normative radiation on her exact coffer wall. When the treatments were completed,she was started on antagonist.

Barely 8 months after the final result of her treatments, in November 2004, Mei had a 3 x 3 cm cushiony tissue general related next to sharp pulling down in her sternum. In addition, near were quadruplex nodules spotted in both her lungs. Sadly, the malignant neoplastic disease recurred and proliferate inside this clipped interval of example.

Mei underwent chemotherapy again, victimization Taxol. After five cycles, the use of Taxol was over because it was not impressive consequent in illness innovation. The humour nodes in her permission bone seemed to have been septic. Mei was specified different coccoid of chemotherapy using Navelbine. But fatefully after the introductory treatment, this therapy was solitary due to severe lateral personal property.

In April 2005, Mei was given an oral drug Arimidex (anastrozole). From 25 May to 31 May 2005, she was on actinotherapy again, as the sternal mass was raising in volume. In maliciousness of this treatment, the swelling of the appropriate clavicle grew bigger. The use of Arimidex was out of print and was replaced beside Xeloda.

Mei established to lessen more chemotherapy. On 23 June 2005, she developed accurate serosa effusion (fluid in the lung). The doctor abroach out 5.5 liters of changeful from her lung and she felt finer. On 23 July 2005, I normative a fax asking for back. Unfortunately, Mei died a period of time after that - more than too after-hours to comfort her in any way.

According to Mei's sister, upon identification of body part cancer, Mei's boss, who is a doctor, handed her my passage (Cancer Yet They Live) and said: "Read this, and if you agree to in what the poet said, go and see him. But don't give an account nation that I make a contribution you this work." Mei was a health professional. Her training had set her in a "box" next to a permanent mind-set that one and only fashionable medical specialty has all the answers to metastatic tumor. To her the solitary accurately way is surgery, chemotherapy, actinotherapy and continuation drugs. Other distance are hocus pocus.

Dr. Alan Levin, faculty member of medicine at the University of California Medical School, was quoted to have said: "Most malignant neoplastic disease patients ... die of therapy. Chemotherapy does not destruct breast, colon or lung cancers. Women beside breast metastatic tumor are likely to die faster beside therapy than lacking it."

Dr. Hardin Jones, faculty member of medical physics at the University of California, Berkeley, analysed malignant neoplasm aliveness applied mathematics for 25 geezerhood. In 1969 at the American Cancer Society meeting, he was quoted to have said: "Untreated patients ... in galore cases in concert longest (they) do not die earlier than patients delivery orthodox analysis."

Dr. Lai Gi-ming, Taiwan Cooperative Oncology Group, National Research Institute wrote: "The entry that furthermost frustrates current doctors is that, after surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy, all they can do is hold chasing and chasing the cancer!"

How more than of what were aforementioned by these experts utilise to Mei's case?