A Change in Direction

As I said last month, I have been taking an aromatase inhibitor for over a year. Aromatase inhibitors are medications that stop the production of estrogen in postmenopausal women. They are prescribed for women with estrogen-receptor positive breast cancer. According...

More About My Individualized Cancer Treatment

Two of the recommendations that Dr. Nasha made, as mentioned in my last post, require an outlay of money. Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy and buying a far infrared sauna. I used my intuition and my pendulum to determine which of these I should address first, and the sauna...

Moving on from Standard Protocols

My CA 27.29 numbers have continued to go up, even on the new aromatase inhibitor, so it’s time for a new strategy to manage my cancer. I wanted to get advice from Nasha Winters, ND, author of The Metabolic Approach to Cancer. She is no longer seeing patients, but is...

The Ups and Downs of Cancer

I first want to say how much I appreciate your comments on my blog posts. You are encouraging and inspiring and I love hearing from you. Thank you! After the fourth month of the cancer marker number on my monthly blood tests (CA 27.29) going up, my oncologist ordered...

Why Get Up?

It’s time for my quarterly Blog post and again it feels like there is more unknown than known. Since I don’t have any symptoms from my cancer, I can’t tell what’s going on by how I’m feeling. Gratefully, I’m feeling fine. My most reliable marker has been my CA 27.29...

Why am I still here?

It feels like time to post an update on my cancer progression and/or regression. After 7 months of my cancer marker numbers going down every month (since I started taking Faslodex), the past two months (August and September) the numbers went up slightly. Not a big...