The effects of biopsies and surgery on cancer metastasis.....

http://www.chrisbeatcancer.com/should-you-have-surgery-for-cancer/

For those of you that would rather read the study....

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15197090

Interesting.... Another good reason to for the NHS to use an alternative less primitive way of detecting tumour tissue in breasts other than the mammography 'press'.....

Everyone has a point of view.....

Amanda spent the weekend in hospital, due to our lovely GP having concerns that her blood calcium levels were increasing above what is considered to be the norm.  By the time her first blood test at Nobles Hospital was taken on Friday evening, her levels were within the standard parameters once again... but they kept her in for observations.  There were also white blood cells in her urine, suggesting there may be an infection.  They offered her a course of antibiotics (before it had even been cultured), a general 'cure all' antibiotic, a fix it all solution.  She refused it stating she wanted to see if there was an infection or not before taking a course of antibiotics.  When the results came back they showed there was no infection.  So Amanda would have been given a course of antibiotics for no reason whatsoever.  
Her calcium remained consistent throughout the weekend, and she was discharged on Monday afternoon.  
When there is cancer in the bones, the tumours can leech out calcium in to the blood.  This can cause all sorts of problems.  Confusion, twitching and nausea being common.... of which Amanda was suffering all.  It can eventually lead to

Tough week....

As the title suggests it''s been a tough week.....
Amanda's pain initially reduced with an increase of the Hydromorphone Slow Release a week or so ago, then after a £160.00 skype meeting with Dr Rosy Daniels of Health Creation in the UK she made the decision to re-jig things.  Rosy provided her thoughts on what the best course of action was.  A few more changes to the diet, controversial ones in my mind according to

Another Day Another Week....

Another day another week.... Monday gone Amanda was set to be heading off to Clatterbridge Cancer Centre in Liverpool for a couple of blasts of radiotherapy (typed with a casualness that should never be taken with the overall long term damage radiotherapy does).  One to the cervical spine and one to the lumbar region.  When Sunday arrived she wasn't feeling up to it.  Washed out, sick and sore.  I cancelled.
Last weekend she lay still.  As opposed to getting up, lifting things and moving around too much.  She has since managed the past 6 days without any 'breakthrough' medication, on top of her regular morning and night time painkillers.  A chat with the doctor, and