I had breast cancer coming up to a year ago I’m free now , but I really don’t think that just a mamo yearly is enough screening surely there should be other tests and screening available.
I am fine now = all cancer free. My latest scan (2 weeks ago which was the super important 2 year mark for my dangerous cancer) was 'unremarkable'. We all want to be unremarkable when it comes to cancer! I am having a hysterectomy on Thursday but that is preventative due to the PMS2 gene so am jittery but fine!
My original oncologist after 18 months told me about low dose aspirin, which has had a fair amount of research and has been shown to cut recurrence rates in colon cancer = he studies it for his masters. So for 75p a packet I take a daily low dose aspirin and think more folks might want to know about that.
I have not yet had the $995 blood test done, but I am heading to the USA for Thanksgiving to see my sister so will arrange to get it done then. I am also scouting to see if it is offered privately here but not yet found it, sure it will be soon.
Books set me off on a lot of research. Basically combination therapy is fascinating - books like Prof Ben Wallace who survived a terminal brain cancer diagnosis.
It also showed me that the politicisation of patients can speed up things = for example USA HIV patients protested in droves to get combination therapy speeded up, whereas we cancer peeps do not protest politically.
My choice (so I am a non protestor too) was not to go through the trauma of a formal complaint procedure, as I needed to focus on healing, but really, for my fellow cancer patient, I should have done to try to improve the system.
HI Laraj, I am not sure yet - I am going to the USA for Thanksgiving so I will get the blood thest there. I am sure it will come here very soon but IU have not as yet found it in the uK. It is being tested in the UK but already approved and available in the USA
