tamoxifen

[stephanie3]

I had precancerous cells in left breast - stage 0.  Had mastectomy and reconstruction in April 07. No radiation, no chemo...taking tamoxifen.  It makes me tired, achey all over, headaches, periodic diarrhea, forgetful....I am not hi risk, I have no breast cancer in my family and I don't smoke...very healthy other than this.  Do I have to take it for 3 more years?!?!?why?

[amylynn445]

Having a diagnosis is not a doomed fate. There are more than 10,000,000 cancer survivors. There is life after cancer, and there are millions of people who go on to live many many years and decades after cancer treatment. Cancer is not a death sentence. There is always hope, especially if it is found in its early stages, it is when you ignore your symptoms and wait to see the doctor when it becomes more difficult to treat the cancer.

It is best to ask these questions of your health care provider, get second opinions if you feel necessary. And then do what you think is best for you. I don't think it is wise to discard information they give you, it is in your best interest. They are the experts.

Just because one person chooses not to follow conventional treatment and to allow the disease to follow its course (because, no treatment is definately going to be a death sentence).

The fact of the matter is, is that all people walk around everyday with cancer cells, it is when your immune system is at its lowest is when these cells can not be destroyed by the immune system and are allowed to develop into cancer.

It sounds like in your situation that it was caught before it developed into cancer, that is very good news. Now you just need to stay on top of your immune system and keep up those healthy habits.

[ElizabethS1]

Hiya,

If you do some reading up on Cancer, well cancer of any kind really.... You will see that just because the doctors have cut out, chemo'd and or radiated cancers, then tell patients that they are "Now cancer free" it isn't so. There are ALWAYS cancer cells loose in your body AFTER all those "Treatments". The docotrs unfortuneately CANNOT tell where they are UNTIL they replant, either in the same location or in new loactions in your body. It is pretty textbook for people with ANY kind of cancer @ the two year mark AFTER "Treatment" that these NEW cancers are discovered. When I asked Oncology HOW will they know, they told me that they have to WAIT to see them in scans/x-rays/CT's ect ect. To be seen in lung/liver, they have to be a minimum of 1cm in size, elsewhere in the body they would have to be a minimum of 2cm to be seen on a scan.

So, I hope that I have help to shed some light in this doomed world of cancer @ large....
Just ask an Oncologist! I did..... DX with: Advanced~Invasive Squarmous cervical cancer, stage 3B/IV with lymph nodes involved. (Aug/08, to date I have not taken any "Treatments")

Best Regards
Elizabeth

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