Suzanne Somers has changed her diagnosis

Agreed.  She's doing a lot more harm than good.

That IS NOT what she said.

She was told by a hospital full of doctors that she was stage IV and her cancer had spread. It was a fungus.

IF you are going to post, get the story straight.

And while we are on SS. Anyone find fault with this????

"According to the New York Times, adjusting for the size and age of the

population, cancer death rates dropped only 5 percent from 1950 to

2005.

What other technology has performed so miserably over this fifty-five year

period? Would you accept a medical therapy that has not improved

much since 1950?

In contrast, the death rate from heart disease dropped 64 percent in

that time, and for flu and pneumonia it fell 58 percent.

The New York Times was especially critical of expensive conventional

treatments that subject patients to much mutilation and suffering, yet

yield survival improvements of only a few months.

Clearly, as the Times states, "we are not winning the war against cancer.""

You know, I am stage I & it has been made clear how we have NO place here. BUT, just because cancer is not killing me yet, it is killing me, it will kill me & I KNOW this beast up close & personal. What we have been doing for 50 years is NOT working, it is time for a change.

Don't worry, I am leaving your private sanctuary, maybe you should talk to the moderators so "your" threads don't show up on the active pages. Then all of us lesser cancer girls can't bother you with our thoughts or opinions, because GOD! WE couldn't possibly have a CLUE!

We couldn't possibly worry about dying. Leaving our young children w/o mothers, finding the strength to die well....WELL guess what we do. Wait, anyone want to tell me what an idiot I am for keeping a breast? WAIT WAIT WAIT, anyone want to tell me what an ass I am FOR NOT having chemo? Taking Tamoxifen? Go on...apparently all the possible answers to curing cancer are right here, any new idea MUST be wrong.

United we stand miladies. divided we fall.

I'm done here.

LMAO!

Hello, pot? This is kettle.

Good nutrition, ridding ourselves of toxins, eating organic are undeniable healthy choices and strengthen our bodies.  Everyone's dx is different, everyone's body is different.  Perhaps SS has helped some.  Perhaps it has harmed some who may have needed more that she has done to get well.  For example, as some one with Stage IV cancer I've needed something immediate to kill the tumor before it progressed too far for me to survive.  If my cancer were less advanced chemo may not have been required, as with my Mom -- she's a 15 yr BC survivor and never did chemo (lump and rads only).  And it is undeniable that we haven't progressed very far in curing or managing this disease.

Anywhooo -- I did like that kettle-pot comeback.  I love you Dawn -- I hope you know that.  Still fantasizing about living on a farm in Alabama with all your animals...

Edit:  Forgot that Mom was on a tamox trial too -- I think that helped her too.

SS basically told everyone here,  who is fighting the battle of BC, that there is not hope for us taking treatment.  She has a platform on these news shows to market her book.  She can fianancially afford to try any alternative therapies and be treated by any Dr. she wants.  She's making money off of  women with cancer who buy her books looking for hope.  She pissed me off just listening to her today saying that Farrah Faucet lost her battle to cancer after 3 rounds of chemo and radiation.  She is enjoying publicity and financial gain "blaming the victims' for their cancer.  They're just not according to her eating healthy enough, positive enough, smart enough, hormonally complete enough and so on.  I wish the networks were not giving her a platform to sell her "snake oil"

It is so funny that the first post I read today is about Suzanne Somers.  As I was getting my Zometa infusion this morning, I read an article about women who are getting injections of hormones to help them look younger.  The author mentioned that Suzanne Somers was one of these women who sang the praises of hormone injections.  He also went on to say that she had a history of breast cancer and had a hysterectomy due to abnormal cells in her uterus - both of which have been attributed to hormone therapy (from the author, not me).  So, while I am sure that eating a healthy diet does help, I will not take advice from someone who apparently injects her body with untested substances for vanity's sake with no concern for the risks.

Susan

"You know, I am stage I & it has been made clear how we have NO place here."

Nobody ever said that.

I just poured my self a glass of wine..Alice White...Lexia..yumm! 

Oh and for the record...Suzanne Sommers is an idiot. But even with Stage I BC I would welcome her here to post!

Perfect time for a glass of wine.

Gee Dawnbelle.  None of the reasons you listed are why people might think you were an idiot.  Your words, not mine.

Fitz, You are personally the one who told a stage I girl just a few days ago that you do mind her asking questions here. To go post in the "afraid of mets" forum. How would she get the answer to her question there?

She wanted to know how many girls started out as stage I. Seemed an okay question to me, should she have asked stage I girls?

Like we can't have an honest questions that only you can answer.

I guess I am different, I will pop my Mx boob out in a doctor's office if it will help a woman feel better about the uncertainty she faces. I don't dice words to make Jim, Jack, Johnny or Jose' feel better. Take me or leave me.

Suzanne Somers is a nut? She has no valid points? The Mx & chemo & Tamoxifen has a GREAT track record? Women are cured daily?

I am not angry nor am I hostile, but you can't tell us to stay away, you want your own forum on Monday & then try to play nice on Tuesday.

For the record, SS was COMPLETELY misquoted & the title of the thread is a complete lie. That is what I took offense to.

I didn't launch an attack on stage 4 girls, I called BULL. Which in my personal opinion we are all fed every day. EVERY SINGLE DAY. They treat us with the same crap they have for 50 years because they just don't know what else to do.

If that comes off as anger or hostility, I am sorry. Maybe we should all be angry instead of sitting back watching our sisters, friends & family die.

Again, what we are doing is NOT working. We deserve better. YOU deserve better.

Do any of you even realise that if broccoli cured cancer, they wouldn't tell us? They can't patent broccoli, there is no money in broccoli. I apologize I came off way bitchy, but I grow tired of being told how dumb I am, for the treatments I decided on. Even more tired, when it is from someone who is not even providing correct information.

May each of you live long & prosper, from the bottom of my heart. I will not post in this thread or stage4 forum again. I promise.

edited*For prettyinpink; And that comment makes you better than me how? LL&P.

edit#2~I have 42. Watch 42 PM's from women who agree with me, BUT they are afraid to stand up. They are afraid to say enough is enough. Thank you to those who stood by me, even if in private.

I miss you Ann! City trip soon for me! I'm gonna get together with you and camden.........SOON! xoxo

You know what, Dawnelle? You're right....I just went to the "worried" section and realized the moderators did NOT post the subtitle that I guess most of us assumed had been agreed upon when the forum was created. There was a HUGE, ugly fight in this section of the forums and much discussion some time ago that brought about the subdivision of the stage IV section of the boards. Those of us that were here at the time understood the "worried" section would be created for the type of questions that brookside posted the other day. I suppose those of us who either took a vacation from the boards (me) or did not visit that section didn't realize the moderators made the worried section appear to be a big Kumbayah hand-holding party for worrywarts. It is now making sense to me why the posts keep happening on this section of the boards. I'm sure we could ask the moderators to change the subtitle or clarify the purpose of the worried section, but I won't hold my breath.

I shall withhold comment as to the balance of your postings.

Me, I'm drinking a Bombay Saphire martini, extra dry, up, with olives - shaken, not stirred.  You know, If I keep reading tonight, I am going to be SO bombed!  Is that a bad thing???!!