1. If a male’s mother had breast cancer, does this increase his risk of getting any type of cancer?
2. If someone underwent chemotherapy and radiation for chemotherapy and survives, and is also in remission and never has cancer again, will their experience with cancer and cancer treatment shorten their life span?
3. What is the likelihood of someone’s breast cancer relapsing if they successfully underwent chemotherapy and radiation for it?
Thanks for your help.
Thank you for the extremely helpful response, and I’m happy to hear that you have NED.
I am going to be starting chemo treatment next and I have read that some chemotherapy drugs can cause additional cancers later(especially the kind that has been prescribed for me to take). This really terrifies me alot. Whether I don’t take it, it can come back and whether I do take it, it can come back. It seems like no matter what decision I make I am still at risk for cancer coming back. What should I do?
And serious answers only please. We are talking about my health here.
Curious…one of my parents has had this (now in remission)..wondering if I’m at risk to develop either the same leukemia (AML) or other cancer someday. Is my risk greater than the normal population? Any genetic link?
My grandma on this parent’s side passed away from liver cancer (originating from Hepatitis C contacted from a blood transfusion).
I’ve heard a lot of people talk about how cancer can be completely avoided by not only not smoking, or drinking.. But by eating healthy foods free from toxins or artificial steroids and stimulants and such.
Breast cancer runs in my family… And my poor aunt’s last year of her life once cancer had been diagnosed was miserable because of constant chemotherapy that made her nothing but even MORE sick.
It didn’t help her a bit, and neither did the operations. When my grandmother had breast cancer before that, there had been a lot of speculation that when the doctors did the biopsy in the first place, the cutting of those cancer cells is what allowed it to spread throughout her blood stream and quickly to her brain and what caused her to die of brain cancer when she was originally diagnosed with breast cancer only.
After seeing my loved ones stricken down with this, and knowing that MORE women in my family face the same threat.. I don’t really trust chemotherapy and surgeries to cure cancer, and I want to know what I can do, and what I can admonish THEM to do to help relieve our risk, and God forbid.. If anyone else comes down with it to possibly cure them instead of make the last year and a half of their lives miserable like my poor grandmother and aunt.
Do you know of anyone who has been cured of cancer either through holistic treatments? Or are you sure and adamant that the USA’s current standard of chemotherapy and surgery is still the best way?
Also.. As a bonus question: If you do think that holistic treatments are better, then why, in your opinion, are they considered "illegal" to market as treatment here in the USA?
My mom had a breast cancer and had to remove her left breast. About 8-10 years later we got to know that she had leukemia. Are the diseases hereditary, or will i just have a greater risk of contracting them?
and if so. am i in bigger risk of not surviving the flu? Should i be afraid?
Am i at greater risk? I just began with my 3rd cycle of consulidation chemo and my white blood cell count is low.
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Is any of this true?
Is there any concern here as far as that goes with the masturbating and the increased risk of Prostate Cancer?