Dr, are you sure?

Well Rosemary I have this feeling I am not going to be that lucky but pathology did not come back yet but Dr. Wein did mention he thought it could have reached the lining or muscle by now. And Patricia everything you said there you hit the nail on the head I had most of them same thoughts. I love to see the day when they could use the word cure more and not always mentioning the cause. I for one did live like an angel does that mean I have to get cancer. And through the years I have heard of some of the craziest things they said could cause cancer. I still think alot of illnesses are caused by a gene thing and we are all made up different so you don't know what can trigger the disease unless you have that gene, just a thought on my part. Well God Bless, Joe

Patricia,

;D  I was scared of everything for a while after diagnosis.  I had NO risk factors, and I just was really shocked and perplexed and looking for a reason for my cancer..  I have eaten peanut butter maybe once since diagnosis. ( Because I was hungry :o).  But, I raised my kids on peanut butter thinking that I was doing them a good thing.
I do like peanut butter cookies very much, and will release my iron resolve for the sake of a cookie.
;D

This is from Ask Dr. Weil...

Best regards,
Rosemary

Not Peanut Butter!!!...Why.....i've eaten peanut butter since childhood...who hasn't....so i suppose it stands to reason that anyone whose ever eaten peanut butter is at risk for bladder cancer.......thats everybody! And my grandparents generation and my parents generation all smoked...my lord did they smoke...and you never heard of ANY cancer of any kind..........Ok...what is it really?...How about all the antibiotics they put in feed or the pesticides so we can have pretty veggies...or the beautiful green lawns which only americans are obsessed with filled with pesticides.........or the dumping of chemicals into our water supplies yet assuring us that we only get a safe level of toxins !!!...huh....whats safe? I've seen too many clusters of cancer.. at the time my bladder cancer was diagnosed one of my friends diagnosed with breast cancer..another with colon cancer (38 yrs old at the time)..ex-husband with prostrate cancer...another friend with non-hodgkins lymphoma and my son with testicular cancer...........do ya think its the peanut butter?...........Pat

Joe,

Glad you bumped this thread up.  I haven't read this since posting it and it's interesting to see what I wrote a year ago.

About Essiac.  I do not know if Essiac is effective in the fight against cancer.  I have read the story of Essiac.  It has been around since the 1920's and a lot of claims have been made.  I do know from personal experience that Essiac is very good at keeping the bowel clean and moving things through the system with regularity. This can't be a bad thing for cancer sufferers.  In this respect alone, I would recommend taking the tea.  I still take it.  (It can be expensive, though, so I've learned to make my own concoction of it)

My tumor was large and mostly low stage (Ta) low-grade (G1).   There were high grade focal points found in the residual tumor (2nd TUR) which bumped me up to a T1 G3.  I was sent to Chapel Hill, NC to Dr. Raj Pruthi, to do a biopsy to screen for muscle invasion, but none was found.   I have not had a recurrance and it has been a year.  (So glad)  

I have read recently that my risks factors (none) make up 20% of all bladder cancers.  

I am wishing you all the best, Joe.  

Your friend,
Rosemary

Well Rosemary I heard good things about Essiac and who knows maybe you might come across a new cancer remedy. Also when you posted about your tumor size being larger was it superficial or another stage which I don't think I caught. The only thing really bugging me is yes the Dr said it had been there for awhile long b4 any symtoms for me it just makes me wonder if it is in the lining or muscle as he thinks just how deep is it this just freaks me out. Well this week I should have pathology results backs so I guess I will finally know where I really stand. Something you need to know and spooked at the same time. God Bless, Joe

:)Hello,
My name is Rosemary...I am 53 years old and newly diagnosed with bladder cancer.  The Dr said the tumor was very large, but low grade..low scale..he says "it will come back"...though before the surgery, he said "70% chance of it coming back"
I am very low risk for this cancer.  The Dr said that the only reason that I have it (Do not smoke, never worked with chemicals, am vegetarian)...is because "sometimes nice people get it"....he has said this twice...
That being said...I would just like to talk a little, and maybe make a record of my strategy...Of course... first, prayer is a must and absolute... A naturopath told me that I should take Essiac tea...without knowing anything about Essiac, the week after my surgery, I had a dream in which the word..."BURDOCK" kept appearing....I later learned that burdock is the main ingredient in Essiac...I decided that this must be a guidance for me and am now taking two tablespoons of the syrup everyday...(I would like to state that my guidance is my own guidance and not for anyone else...though I don't see how Essiac could hurt... not a Dr tho')...I am drinking green tea every day at work and have made my own syrup made with Red Clover...cleavers...and dandelion...may add Cat's Claw later... I will be ordering a Cancer diet cook book today.
   I have become scared of everything that I did before...scared of coffee...scared of wine...scared of baths....scared of peanut butter ....(peanut butter :-?)...scared of microwaves....
   If anyone has any other suggestions, or comments, I would love to hear them...  
  Going for second biopsy (not enough muscle tissue) early in March...
   
Blessings to all
P.S. My strategies are not necessarily reccommended for anyone...but wanted to share them with hope of some feedback or support