Monday, July 20, 2009

Re: [cancercured] Re: Chemo drug is a killer, cancer specialists warn

 


Adramycin is the reason why I have boycotted the Susan G. Komen Foundation since 1995 when my friend Rhonda died of it. Imagine my horror that MY oncologist is the one who I got her to come to. Rhonda's last words to me were, "I asked the doctor, 'Are you trying to kill me?" She tried to call me from the hospital before she died, but I was on a hike or something. I never got to talk to her again.
 
Susan's sister started the Race for the Cure, because she said that doctors hadn't been aggressive enough with her sister and recommended adramycin as a choice for breast cancer survivors---something her sister never got. In other words, she WISHED her sister had gone on Adramycin. You would have to read the sister's autobiography to get the whole story. The Race for the Cure implies that there is no cure for cancer yet. Anyway, the day of Rhonda's funeral I had rented a hotel room with a hot tub to take care of myself and heal. I called the Komen Foundation headquarters and said (not very nicely), "Why don't you consider alternatives with your organization? I just buried my best friend today who died of the very drug you recommend for breast cancer survivors. I am going to boycott your organization until you consider alternatives."  The NEXT year they had alternative medicine grants being given out in Oregon!!! But I still boycott them because I think
the "alternative" part of the organization is merely perfunctory. I have a good friend, an African-American preacher, who talked me into going to the annual Susan G. Komen foundation last year. I did not want to go. I showed up in a bad mood and wanted to leave. I finally found my friend's table (she always dresses up in elaborate African attire so it wasn't too hard to find her--ha!ha!). I went to her table and motioned for her to come to me, "Renee, I don't want to be here. I boycott this event every year." As we sat down, she had invited another outspoken friend, and commented, "Boy did I commit suicide by inviting the two of you!!" The other gal was complaining there were no African-American models in the fashion show. Anyway, I just found out that Renee wasn't funded this year for her non-profit for breast cancer prevention in African-American women. The Komen Foundation chose some other organization that doesn't do that much, but is established
in a hospital. Renee is the one who has done most of the work. Anyway, now I am convincing Renee too boycott the Komen Foundation as well. We are having lunch this week!!
 
Nancy
 
Nancy

--- On Mon, 7/20/09, Arlyn <arlynsg@123mail.org> wrote:

From: Arlyn <arlynsg@123mail.org>
Subject: [cancercured] Re: Chemo drug is a killer, cancer specialists warn
To: cancercured@yahoogroups.com
Date: Monday, July 20, 2009, 4:04 AM

 

Yesterday, I was on the phone with a woman I know who was given adramyacin. Is this the drug the women knick-named the Red Devil? If women were more educated about this crap, I think they wouldn't choose to take it. Many young women in our group are knowledgable now - due to the sharing of information - and will refuse this drug.

The woman I was on the phone with went into heart failure. The doctors poking around in her heart, dislodged a clot which caused a serious stroke. This woman has been through the ringer with heart surgeries, etc. She said if she knew then what she knows now, she would have never done chemo. She said she would have taken her chances with cancer. She has very little quality of life now. She just had a new pacemaker installed and the doctors diagnosed her with adrenal fatigue.

These stories make me so sad.

ar

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