To bring much needed awareness.....

Hi all,
Today's post is a share of a newspaper article by the brave young woman Kris Hallenga of the breast cancer charity Coppafeel http://www.coppafeel.org/. Here's the link http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/features/i-never-ask-my-doctor-how-long-ive-got-23yearold-kristin-hallengas-health-crusade-to-warn-women-about-risks-of-breast-cancer-8548853.html. I believe in the same ethos as Kris and would do anything to bring about awareness of breast cancer especially in younger women who are falsely told that breast cancer is an old woman's disease. I was dx having just turned 42 and whilst I am older than Kris (she was only 23 when dx) I still class myself as a younger woman and certainly didn't anticipate or contemplate in any shape or form developing breast cancer it was the furthest thing from my mind.

The Art of Letting Go...........

As the title of this post suggest's here's an article I've found that beautifully illustrates this illusive concept. Well worth a read.

http://uk.lifestyle.yahoo.com/the-art-of-letting-go-165054344.html

“I guess if I wanted to say anything, it is don’t take my word for it. Try to prove it to yourself. Become your own guru, become your own teacher. Because a true master would actually only show you the path. Question everything and figure it out yourself. And don’t worry, there will be loads of guides along the way.”

Quote taken from article above by Mark Chaves

New Treatments Wonder Drug = little bit of positivity and hope

Going to start this post with a couple of positive news articles about the big C, I for one found them so hopeful and inspiring we are truly lucky to live in times when our clever Dr's can treat us and keep us alive for longer, surely the cure is just round the corner.

Just had a phone call from my mum telling me about an article in the Daily Mail on the 9th of April all about a new wonder drug that is supposed to be even better than herceptin, its being heralded as the new wonder drug, and can treat not only breast cancer but other cancers like prostrate, pancreatic, bowel, and ovarian cancers.

Here's the link http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2073280/Cancer-treatment-New-super-vaccine-better-wonder-drug-Herceptin.html and  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2127238/Universal-vaccine-tackle-90-cent-cancers-tested-humans-time.html 

There is also these two links kindly sent to me by a lady on the BCC forum probing into the science behind it all the first one is quite easy to understand and the second one just went way over my head. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-vaccine-breast-cancer-mice.html
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2011/12/13/1115166109.abstract

Whilst on the subject and worth a watch on the iplayer the Horizon program called "Defeating Cancer" definately worth checking it out if you missed it.

xx