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Breast Cancer Awareness article going viral!

 

Thousands of people are sharing articles this month, on Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, and especially through their own blogs. With breast cancer being so prominent in America, women and men alike are sharing the best articles that give you strategies for beating back this monster and winning the cancer war. One such popular method is the all natural approach to EVERYTHING you buy, including food, drinks, skin care, personal products, makeup, cosmetics, candy and gum and more. Thousands of shares went across the internet social sites this week, and Health Basics was a part of the spread of vital information that’s saving lives and preventing breast cancer. Revealing the TOP TEN causes of breast cancer is just what the masses needed to read, breaking down a bunch of myths and exposing what people do every day to warp their cells and breed the “c” word. It’s like a step by step plan to rid toxins from your daily intake and cut off the fuel of the enemy, which is carcinogenic, mutagenic, GMO, and toxic. Cut off the toxic fuel and you cut the head off the “snake.” Cancer is a snake. It quietly sneaks up on people, sometimes they’re “getting bit” and don’t even feel it. Some people have cancer swimming in their blood and it’s looking for weak tissue, or inflamed tissue, and it’s feeding off synthetic hormones, overloads of antibiotics, and genetically mutated food and sugars.

Natural News Health Basics series available on NaturalNews.com! Get the common sense approach to prevention and cures for the “cancers” of our time:

“Since chemotherapy was invented by Nazi scientists 70 years ago, and mammograms expose patients to radiation which causes cancer itself, let us forget everything we know for a few minutes about cancer prevention and cancer treatment, and take a common sense approach. Organic food, herbs and supplements cannot cure cancer overnight. This is a well known fact. Or is it? Has your doctor brainwashed you? Has television convinced you that people with cancer need surgery, chemotherapy and radiation to have a chance? Turn off the television right now and throw away the newspaper. You've been herded with the masses towards a big cliff called disease. You can turn around 180 degrees right now!”

From Mammogram (scammograms) to aluminum in deodorant, you need to know what is mutating YOUR cells. From toxic corn to carcinogenic diet foods, you could be DUMPING poison into your body and not know it. From toxic fluoridated tap water to lotions that contain cancer causing ingredients, what’s the last thing you put all over your body? Did you swim in a chlorine pool or sit in a chemical filled hot tub? Did you drink colorful drink made with toxic food colorings and aspartame??

Paclitaxel and Trastuzumab as Maintenance Therapy in Patients with HER2-Positive Metastatic Breast Cancer Who Underwent High-Dose Chemotherapy and Autologous Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation

Yee Chung Cheng, Gabriela Rondón, Paolo Anderlini, Issa F. Khouri, Richard E. Champlin, Naoto T. Ueno 
J. Cancer 2013; 4(8): 679-685. doi:10.7150/jca.6775

Abstract

We examined the feasibility and safety of using paclitaxel and trastuzumab as maintenance therapy after high-dose chemotherapy (HDC) with autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (AHST) for patients with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer. Ten patients (9 women and 1 man) were enrolled in the study. The median age was 46.5 years (range, 27-65 years). The median follow-up time was 1003 days (range, 216-2526 days). All patients had metastatic disease, but 2 had only bone metastasis. One patient had complete response, 6 had partial response and 3 had stable disease to the standard-dose chemotherapy prior to transplantation. The conditioning regimen consisted of cyclophosphamide, carmustine, and thiotepa. After AHST, patients received weekly paclitaxel for 12 doses and trastuzumab every 3 weeks for 1 year as maintenance therapy. All patients experienced successful engraftment. The only grade 4 toxic effects observed were leukopenia and thrombocytopenia. The most common grade 3 toxic effect was neutropenic fever. No treatment-related deaths were observed. The median progression-free survival time was 441 days, and the median overall survival time was 955 days. Two patients died in accidents while their disease remained in remission. Five patients died with disease progression. At the time of this report, 3 patients are alive with stable disease, 1 of whom has remained free of disease progression for 2526 days since transplantation. Our findings indicate that paclitaxel plus trastuzumab as maintenance therapy after HDC with AHST for patients with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer not only is feasible and safe but also results in survival outcomes similar to historical results.

Keywords: paclitaxel, trastuzumab, metastatic breast cancer

How to cite this article:
Cheng YC, Rondón G, Anderlini P, Khouri IF, Champlin RE, Ueno NT. Paclitaxel and Trastuzumab as Maintenance Therapy in Patients with HER2-Positive Metastatic Breast Cancer Who Underwent High-Dose Chemotherapy and Autologous Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation. J Cancer 2013; 4(8):679-685. doi:10.7150/jca.6775. Available fromhttp://www.jcancer.org/v04p0679.htm