The most successful remedies in Breast Cancer? Breast Health! the Wise Woman Way are:
- One dropperful of milk thistle seed tincture taken within the hour before chemotherapy.
- Application of Hypericum oil on skin the hour before radiation treatments.
- Consumption of 4 quarts of red clover infusion a week - before, during, and after treatment.
- Combining surgery with energy healing techniques such as prayer, visualization, ritual, homeopathy, candle burning, affirmation, distant Reiki.
Heat created by radio waves - ultrasound-guided RF ablation - has been found to destroy breast tumors safely and effectively. Earlier studies found success in treating large breast tumors; this study focused on tumors 2 centimeters and under. Surgical removal of the ablated tissues from twenty women found active cancer cells in only one of the margins.
"Radiofrequency (RF) ablation may safely destroy small breast tumors," Cornell University Women's Health Advisor, 2004. (see April, 2004 Radiology)
Ruth Helmann, an oncologist at the University of Chicago Medical Center wants to stop administering chemotherapy to "the many patients who would do just as well without it." She's found that 90% of women whose tumors have few blood vessels, but high amounts of two cellular proteins, are alive 14 years after their mastectomy; while only 44% of those lacking the markers survived. Those without the markers benefit more from chemotherapy.
"Cutting Back on Chemotherapy," Josie Glausiusz, Discover, April 2000
There is some evidence that removing breast cancer masses at certain times of the menstrual cycle can increase survival rates. Of pre-menopausal women who had surgery between days 0-2 or after day 12 of their cycle, 75% were alive ten years later, while only 45% of those who had surgery between days 3 and 12 reached the ten year anniversary. This held true irrespective of whether the cancers were hormone positive or not.
"Timing Breast Cancer Surgery," HealthNews, January 2000, reporting on a study in Cancer, November 15, 1999.
Women taking tamoxifen are more than twice as likely to be diagnosed with endometrial/uterine cancer and have nearly three times the rates of blood clots in their lungs (embolisms). In rats, long-term use has triggered liver cancer.
"Tamoxifen as a Breast Cancer Preventive - Many Questions Remain," HealthFacts, 5/1998.
