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victoriag 
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Joined: Oct 30 2008 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 4 |
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 Posted: Oct 31 2008 at 10:56pm |
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I was advised as recently as 3 weeks ago not to consume alot of alcohol with the BRCA 1 gene, certainly no more than 1 glass/day. However, the articles I have read in the past 2 weeks seem to indicate that recent studies show that the resveratol in red wine "may serve as an excellent compound for targeted therapy for BRCA 1 associated breast cancers..." I am confused - are they making a distinction between red wine and alcohol? I AM VERY CONFUSED
See "Inherited Breast Cancer and Red Wine" Reported 10/13/2008published by Cell Press in the October 10th issue of the journal Molecular Cell and also identified in Research at the National Institute of Health ("Grapes, Red Wine to Fight Breast Cancer) (sorry I do not have the url's but you can Google the articles. |
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hshapira
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Joined: Apr 30 2008 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 24 |
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Posted: Nov 01 2008 at 3:43am |
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Resveratrol is found in the skin of red grapes and is a constituent of red wine.
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dx 4/05
6 invasive ductal tumors (4 of them grade 3) TN, BRCA1+ 4AC, Bilateral mastectomy, BSO |
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krisa
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Joined: May 21 2008 Location: Portland, OR Status: Offline Points: 1090 |
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Posted: Nov 01 2008 at 2:10pm |
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Suzanne, I never thought to ask about how bloody my tumor was-I will have to go look and see what the report says...what exactly would the path report say indicating "bloody"?
Chemo is scary until you get into it and then you know the drill and what to expect and figure (as I did while in the infusion room) that if these much older people sitting in the strato- loungers next to me could do it, I could too.
The will to live is very strong. Edited by krisa - Nov 01 2008 at 2:12pm |
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suzannek
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Joined: Oct 16 2008 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 67 |
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Posted: Nov 02 2008 at 4:06am |
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Hi Krisa
I asked my surgeon about how bloody my tumor was. I had read that alot of VEGF (factor that promotes angiogenisis-blood supply to the tumor) is not good and that aside from outright measuring it, it could be estimated my the capilliary density of the tumor. My tumor wasn't especially bloody according to the surgeon so that's some comfort. Avastin, that some of you are on, targets VEGF.
Last week I had my 2nd surgery to clean up 'bad margins' and to deal with a huge swatch of micro-calcs. Lots of tissue was removed and now my breast is lop-sided and much smaller but the good news-no cancer was seen at all. Next step-first meeting with an oncologist tomorrow to discuss chemo to start when my wounds heal.
So compared to most people on this site, I am a 'newbie'. I do appreciate your combined comfort and knowledge. I do keep a blog as some of you on this site do. If any of you want to know what this TNBcer is going through-especially newbies newer than me and we seem to keep popping up- see http://suzannekesten2.blogspot.com/ and if any of you are bloggers, which BTW is a good way to sort your feelings and inform your distant friends and you are willing to share, please put your urls here.
Sue
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Sue Age 56
Stage 2A, no nodes 3 cm, TNBC,Grade 3 Lumps removed 10-07-08, 10-27-08 nodes clean: Began chemo 12-2-08 4xAC, 4xT dose dense 3 weeks radiation http://suzannekesten2.blogspot.com/ |
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