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...

Effective Treatments

When I started having Faslodex injections in December, my CA27.29 (blood test for breast cancer) was 1379. It has now gone down over 200 points each month for three months in a row, for a current value of 686. That’s still a long way from the normal of 38, but it is...

Averted a Disaster

My monthly CA27.29 blood test last week showed a decrease of just over 200 in my number. This is GREAT news. Not only did it not go up (remember last month it went up 600 points), it also actually went down. My integrative doctor said it looks like we have “averted a...