http://everyjoe.com/entertainment/christina-applegate-eliminates-cancer-with-double-mastectomy/ Sports and Entertainment News Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:31:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://everyjoe.com/entertainment/christina-applegate-eliminates-cancer-with-double-mastectomy/comment-page-1/#comment-267929 ‘Samantha Who?’ Returns October 13 Mon, 13 Oct 2008 03:55:20 +0000 http://www.comedycentric.com/2008/08/19/christina-applegate-eliminates-cancer-with-double-mastectomy/#comment-267929 [...] Applegate has had a hectic summer, no doubt, which is why it’s impressive that her hit sitcom Samantha Who? returns for the [...] [...] Applegate has had a hectic summer, no doubt, which is why it’s impressive that her hit sitcom Samantha Who? returns for the [...]

]]> http://everyjoe.com/entertainment/christina-applegate-eliminates-cancer-with-double-mastectomy/comment-page-1/#comment-268955 Patricia Sat, 27 Sep 2008 19:53:48 +0000 http://www.comedycentric.com/2008/08/19/christina-applegate-eliminates-cancer-with-double-mastectomy/#comment-268955 My heart goes out to Christina. I am one of those worried about her due to what we think we know about her type of cancer so far. BRCA1 usually means invasive, aggressive and basal-like tumors. It usually means triple negative tumors. Not always, but usually. If this is true of Christina, she is taking a huge chance with her life. Nobody can predict the future, but based on what we know now, survival of this type of cancer depends on the cancer NEVER returning. Once it comes back, recurs, shows up in other parts of the body - the rest of your life will be spent fighting it, and then you will die from it. I wish that I was wrong about this, but that is my understanding. The only test for whether chemotherapy treatment was really necessary at all would be to not take it, and then wait. If your cancer comes back within six months to five years - you needed it. If your cancer never returns - you didn’t need it. And by the way, once it does come back, you’ll be taking that chemotherapy you refused the first time around, only this time, it will be too late. I am sorry for the harshness of words, but ignorance kills and I am so afraid to see the headline that Christina’s cancer has returned despite her double mastectomy, because I know what that would mean. My heart goes out to Christina. I am one of those worried about her due to what we think we know about her type of cancer so far. BRCA1 usually means invasive, aggressive and basal-like tumors. It usually means triple negative tumors. Not always, but usually. If this is true of Christina, she is taking a huge chance with her life. Nobody can predict the future, but based on what we know now, survival of this type of cancer depends on the cancer NEVER returning. Once it comes back, recurs, shows up in other parts of the body – the rest of your life will be spent fighting it, and then you will die from it. I wish that I was wrong about this, but that is my understanding. The only test for whether chemotherapy treatment was really necessary at all would be to not take it, and then wait. If your cancer comes back within six months to five years – you needed it. If your cancer never returns – you didn’t need it. And by the way, once it does come back, you’ll be taking that chemotherapy you refused the first time around, only this time, it will be too late. I am sorry for the harshness of words, but ignorance kills and I am so afraid to see the headline that Christina’s cancer has returned despite her double mastectomy, because I know what that would mean.

]]> http://everyjoe.com/entertainment/christina-applegate-eliminates-cancer-with-double-mastectomy/comment-page-1/#comment-268860 Christina Applegate Talks Breast Cancer with Oprah Sat, 27 Sep 2008 00:37:33 +0000 http://www.comedycentric.com/2008/08/19/christina-applegate-eliminates-cancer-with-double-mastectomy/#comment-268860 [...] Applegate dropped by The Oprah Winfrey Show recently to discuss her highly publicized treatment, a double mastectomy to avoid chemotherapy, in response to learning she had the disease this [...] [...] Applegate dropped by The Oprah Winfrey Show recently to discuss her highly publicized treatment, a double mastectomy to avoid chemotherapy, in response to learning she had the disease this [...]

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