Adramyacin killed my best friend Rhonda back in 1995. She has stage II breast cancer and a really excellent prognosis. This drug is still routinely given to women all over the U.S. for breast cancer. How many women's hearts have been damaged or even died because of it? Rhonda got CHF, congestive heart failure at age 38 and died within a month of being diagnosed. I was devastated.
This is the side to oncology that is really bad. And the profits the pharmeuctical industry makes is hideous.
Chemo can help sometimes. I have recently read of some Stage IV women with mets to the lungs and liver who had chemo and are still kicking around for 4-5 years. I wouldn't 100% rule out all chemo if my cancer progresses. But there is a lot of bad stuff out there and it is criminal what the FDA allows.
Nancy
--- On Sun, 7/19/09, dquixote1217 wrote:
Chemo drug is a killer, cancer specialists warn
Published on Sunday, July 12, 2009
by Healthy News Service
A common chemotherapy drug may be a killer and is even killing
patients who were free of cancer, and who may have had many years of
life ahead of them, oncologists fear.
Many cancer patients are hypersensitive to the chemotherapy drug
Cremophor-based paclitaxel, and some fatally so. Around 287 cases of
hypersensitivity, and 109 deaths, have been reported, but as just 1 per cent of reactions are ever recorded, the true picture is far worse.
Cremophor is a chemical solvent, and experts suspect that people are
reacting to it.
Two of the fatalities were women who had been successfully treated for
early-stage breast cancer, and had been given the chemotherapy to stop
the cancer returning.
(Source: 45th annual meeting, American Society of Clinical Oncology).
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