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NINASUZIE 
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Hi Ladies,
Recently I posted an article through Nancy on the thousands of pounds of legally dumped pharmaceuticals that were hitting our drinking supplies nationally.
Last night, our local news station hit home locally where I live. Here on Cape Cod we have a 20% higher BREAST CANCER rate than the entire state. www.silentspring.org is conducting water supply research in our beautiful oceanside area of over 100 miles to see what is in our drinking water. We have no centralized filtering system, just septic systems, ponds, private wells and sandy soil as the "filter" for our drinking supply. Now they have confirmed that in over 6 area ponds where drinking and water use occurs, there are documented amounts of pharmaceuticals, hormones and particularly estrogens in every water source and sample taken. A local woman who had BC 2x and worries about her 20 year old daughter, and an area oncologist confirmed that the water is contributing to the breast cancer rates in MY area!!!!
Words cannot express what I am going through right now. I am just trying to make chemotherapy decisions and know that now, unless I change what water I drink, there is no point since I will simply be putting this environmental factor back into my now vulnerable cancer fighting body. Where do we put our OUTRAGE???
So, there is a HOW to start with. Pharmaceuticals and hormones in our drinking water...makes sense to me. I hope we can talk about this and I intend to do something about this as I help collect their data on BC here. I don't want to scare or bring anyone down, I just got an answer that here does make sense for me. Forgive me, but today I cry over it...hugs,
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Suzie
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Nancy
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Posted: May 19 2009 at 12:14pm |
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Suzie,
I not only posted it when you gave it to me, but I posted the silent spring link on January 26 of this year along with safe cosmetics, and avoiding all dairy products due to the hormones injected in the anilmals. These are all in the TNBC News, Resources & Tips forum.
Talk about this we must, and the millions of products that we either put in our bodies or on our bodies. Lori is having their well water tested for of all things...hormones. There is a member Susan Ricketson, who had contacted me and gave me all these links for articles which are well substantiated, and from credible sources.
Let's also talk about Fosamax, and all the bisphosphonates which are causing cancer, and the many many lawsuits against these drug manufacturers, for causing bones to break and esophageal cancer in women.
Let's also speak of why the oncologists will not allow women taking chemo to supplement with vitamins and other "natural" products because "they" say that "might" reduce the effectiveness of the chemo drugs. They "might"? There is no proof, just the fact that the drug companies cannot "peddle" the vitamins. The only reason they do not want you to take these, is that then they could not say the chemo drugs killed the cancer cells and not the Vitamin D3 or others.
I know you are referring to the women on the site when you say you do not want to bring anyone down or scare them, but it is time people woke up and saw what is happening to our environment and in particular to our women! 185,000 women dx with bc every year here in the US alone, and 44,000 die every year. My God how can we continue to allow this to happen and listen to all the crap that they feed us?
Suzie, if you think for one minute that your ponds are the only source of contaminated drinking waters, you are so wrong. We pour fluoride and chlorine into all our drinking water throughout the US, and they tell us it is good for us? Well, it is not, and all these chemicals affect our bodies in ways that you cannot even begin to imagine.
When you read on a tube of toothpaste that if a small child swallows more than a pea size amount you are to call the poison control center, what does that tell you? If that amount of toothpaste is enough to kill a 20 pound child, how the hell can it be safe for anyone? If they can and do use coke to clean up blood spills on highways, what does that tell you? People drink that every day.
If Listerine can be used as a mosquito repellant...but you cannot spray it on your wooden decks, as it will damage the wood, what does that tell you? We put that in our mouths for fresh breath? Not me!
Did you know that now when a person dies it is taking years longer for their bodies to decompose due to all the preservatives we eat every day?
The water in your area is just the tip of the iceberg, or a drop in the bucket so to speak, but you are the one dx with breast cancer, and women in your area are dying due to no one giving a damn! They have known about this for years.
The dumping of pharmaceuticals and hormones have been going on for years, and remember when they told us to flush all unwanted meds down the toilet. Well, they seep into the underground water supply and have been for years. The real killers are the pharmaceutical companies themselves, and the millions of manufacturers with their illegal dumping of many many chemicals.
We need Erin Brocovitch once again. Or, we can continue to be dx with breast cancer and all types of cancer, and we can let them convince us that it is all genetic, and they have to find more drugs to treat it.
Unless you change your lifestyle completely, and refuse to buy products which are contaminated....which by the way is almost everything we eat, drink, wear or touch, you and all the rest of us will continue to be sick.
Oh, and by the way Suzie, did you know that the women in the US are the sickest women in the world?
I am with you Suzie, and here in Blair county in PA, we also have a very high rate of cancer. I will have to get the exact figures. In particular the breast cancer.
I wish you well, and this will now be a fight for many lives. Also, it is not only the water you drink, but even the water you use for bathing, as these hormones and chemicals are absorbed through your skin. Not too many people realize that. Remember the Erin Brocvitch story?
Hugs,
Nancy
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Nancy
DD Lori dx TNBC June 13,2007 Lumpectomy due to incorrect dx of a cyst mastectomy July 6 2007 chemo ACT all 3 every 3 weeks 6 tx Aug-Nov 28 rads ended Jan 2008 |
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Posted: May 19 2009 at 4:48pm |
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Hi Suzie,
You can start by calling your representatives and the media? Keep the story alive. Write an editorial in your newspaper.
Also could you have your water brought in, you know like those big water jugs that sit on top of a stand? Put a filter system on your faucett?
This is my fifth time answering you. Earlier today I tried 4 times and each time they went poof so decided to come back tonight.
Good luck
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sibu
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Posted: May 19 2009 at 5:52pm |
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You are all absolutely right.
It goes into the drinking water...and the soil...and the irrigation systems we use to water our plants...on and on. The organic farmers are connected to the industrial farmers. Once one is contaminated, you can't stop the diffusion. We can try to put up fences and borders and barriers, but until we realize how interrelated everything on this earth is, we won't be able to do much about it. |
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Donna, age 42
Dx IDC 12/06, 5/18 Nodes + BRCA1+ Double mast. 1/07 Chemo 6 X TAC 6/07, rads 10/07 Hyst./Recon. 12/07 |
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mefowler
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Posted: May 20 2009 at 3:16pm |
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Dear Suzie,
I sent you a PM with directions to an article about treatment of metaplastic breast cancer. It was too long to cut and paste.
Maire
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ChrissieD
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Posted: May 20 2009 at 3:45pm |
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Hi Suzie,
so glad you posted the thread. I missed the news about the Cape the other night on TV and forgot to DVR it. I was interested in seeing it because I wonder about my drinking water in MA. The woman I bought my house from had BC after living here for 6 years and I was diagnosed 5 years after living here. I think it actually may be the shower...studies from Nyanza (one of the top 10 SuperFund sites in the US) show the cancer was most prevalent for the young adults who were physically in the contaminated water less for folks who drank it.
There seems to be a lot stirring to find the cause and until one is found I am doing all I can to build my immune system so it can do its job to ensure no other mutant cells are around long enough to grow again.
All the best,
Chrissie
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Lumpectomy IDC 1.5cm Stage I, Grade 3 ACx4 Taxolx4 dose dense started 11/17; Bi-lateral Mastectomy with expanders scheduled for 3/24/09 God is carrying me through ! |
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