2 Interesting Cancer Articles I came across. Others may find them interesting aswell.. Take care everyone and all the best in 2023!🙏🏼❤😊

[AutumnLove]

timesofisrael.com/israeli-s...

scitechdaily.com/how-tomato...

[Silver126]

these studies sound promising! Thanks a lot for sharing 🤗

[AutumnLove in reply to Silver126]

Yes I agree and Yw!😊🙏🏼

[fancydog]

When research comes from Israel I listen up! And I love Nightshade vegetables? Who knows? Thanks for posting

[AutumnLove in reply to fancydog]

Yw!😊🙏🏼

[Hazelgreen]

I did find a 1987 research article in support of your second link:

Cancer Lett. 1987 Aug;36(2):111-8. doi: 10.1016/0304-3835(87)90081-4.

"Glycoalkaloids from Solanum sodomaeum are effective in the treatment of skin cancers in man"

Also, there is a recent article in Frontiers Science News titled, "Could new cancer drugs come from tomatoes and potatoes?" blog.frontiersin.org/2022/1....

[kokopelli2017]

hi AutumnLove.

interesting articles....thank you. I am a little confused on one issue. the first link stated that '12% of women diagnosed with primary BC will end up with metastatic disease'. however, I have read from many different sources that it is more like 30% of BC patients that go on to become metastatic. it goes like this.....1 out of 8 women will develop primary BC in their lifetime. out of those women....3 out of 10 will go on to be diagnosed with metastatic disease. that is 30%. that is a big difference---12% vs 30%.

am I missing something? did anyone else pick up on this discrepancy? or perhaps the 1 out of 8 women diagnosed with Primary BC statistic refers only to the subset of women in the US and not world wide? is that a possible explanation? and if so, I wonder why? maybe diet and/or life style. I am very curious. guess I will do some google searches😉.

thanks again and best wishes.....

carole💛

[Hazelgreen in reply to kokopelli2017]

Hello Carole,

If we want the percentage of women in the USA with MBC, we have to take 30% of 1/8 (or 30% of 12.5 %) which is 3.75%. This is the group that currently has a 5 year survival rate of 26%. However, that includes women of all ages, and, so far, there is no research that looks at the reasons why someone survives to a very old age while others die very soon after diagnosis. The trouble with averages (and medians as well) is that no one strictly speaking is "the average".

I like the old adage, "Where there is life, there is hope".

Hugs, Cindy

[kokopelli2017 in reply to Hazelgreen]

hi Cindy.

obviously I did some googling...lol. everything I come up with says 30% of women with primary BC will go on to become metastatic. see below. I did this more for me than you😉. I didn't understand and wanted to clarify is all.

However, nearly 30 percent of women diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer will see their disease metastasize and spread to other organs.

copied above statement from this link: bcrf.org/blog/metastatic-br...

30% of breast cancer survivors eventually metastasize.  According to one leading NCI researcher, that percentage should be 34%, but we do not have any published paper on that detail.

copied above statement from this link: metavivor.org/mbc-prep/meta...

Nevertheless, nearly 30% of women initially diagnosed with early-stage disease will ultimately develop metastatic lesions, often months or even years later [4].

copied above statement from this link: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articl...

bottom line....does it really matter. no. I just wanted to know I wasn't crazy as I have always read 30%. that is a LOT of women! like us😠

I love your adage......'where there is life, there is hope'

hugs......

carole💛

[Hazelgreen in reply to kokopelli2017]

Apparently, there are 108,133,727 women (i.e. over the age of 18) in the US. Of that group, 3.75% have MBC. 3.75% of 108,133,727 = 4,055,015 women. You are right, "that is a LOT of women! like us😠".

Given that there are over 4 million women with MBC in the US, you'd think it'd be worthwhile to collect some basic facts on these women to see if there are differences between those who survive longer than the average, and those who don't.

Regards, Cindy

[bracelets1]

Thanks for sharing! I love to hear about anything that lends hope 🙏😊

[AutumnLove in reply to bracelets1]

Yw and me 2!😊🙏🏼❤