8/7/2012 What Does It All Mean? pr

In the few months I have been writing about my journey, with cancer tagging along.  One of my friends found a lump and at this point does not know what it is in her breast.  Another had cancer taken off her arm.  Another had a lumpectomy: cancer in her breast and went through Chemo and Radiation and now there is a thickening in the breast that she had the lumpectomy.  Another mammogram is order and she chooses to have it in October 2012.  That is what is happening in my very small world.  The reasons I bring it up so many times are the following:
Statistics are important so that you can know what is your chance of survival or getting a cure from cancer, if you choose to go down certain paths of treatment.
Without cancer statistics, we cannot have past experiences and research figures to help you make better choices.



What is Cure rate?

When someone says he is cured of cancer, what you would expect to understand is that he will not die of cancer.
He is expected to live long and to die from other causes such as non-cancerous sicknesses, accidents, or even ripe old age death.
A cured person means he or she will not die from cancer or cancer treatment.
A cured person may have minute number of cancer cells (everyone has a small number of cancer cells) but the amount is small as compared to a "normal" healthy person.
For a normal person, the immune system tackles and kills the cancer cells quickly and easily.
So a cure is an end to a disease. A cancer cure means an end to the medical condition called cancer.
A cure rate means the percentage of people with cancer that is cured by a given treatment.
It is comparing the cancer-free survival of treated people against a similar group of people that are not.


Is the cure rate for conventional / orthodox cancer treatment correct?
In Cancer statistics, the American Cancer Society (ACS) listed some of their cancer cure rates as high as 45% to 55%.This is just a fingernail of thought provoking things about the Statistics of cancer.  Never stop looking and understanding your body..Dig out knowledge, protect yourself, through dr. appointments, WALKING, WALKING, EATING HEALTHY! Many Hugs, phyllis 05/06/1933  please leave a comment or send email to phyllisreh@aol.com  www.women70andover.com