Did you know that early stage breast cancer treated with preventive chemotherapy raises the risk for leukemia? According to US researchers, it does not justify the modest survival benefit of this treatment.
This issue came up this week when one of my patients with previous early breast cancer flew in from Switzerland. She chose surgery for her 1.9 cm left breast invasive ductal carcinoma in situ with no node involvement. She did not choose reconstruction. Instead she followed a strict Naturopathic oncology protocol with cancer killing nutraceuticals, treated impaired methylation pathways, rebuilt her immune system, addressed active viral loads, chelated out heavy metals, changed her diet, her job, her life perspective and completed an environmental detoxification for her specific chemical exposures. The preliminary results look good.
One of her oncologists suggested that she do a round or two of preventive chemotherapy.
"Researchers found that early-stage breast cancer patients who received preventive chemotherapy had a cummulative risk of developing leukemia at 10 years post chemotherapy or 0.5% - the risk was twice the rate reported in previous studies. The risk did not slow down 5 years after treatment." (J Clin Oncol December 22, 2014)Compared to no chemotherapy, the risk of developing myeloid neoplasms after 5.1 years chemotherapy was significantly increased after surgery plus preventive chemotherapy. Previous clinical trials showed that about 0.25% of patients with breast cancer developed leukemia as a late effect of chemotherapy. A higher percentage of patients who received chemotherapy had cytogenetics findings that were abnormal.
You want to understand both the short-term risks, benefits and potential long-term downside of using preventive chemotherapy. The discussion must include: tumor size, cancer spread to lymph nodes, BRCA status, estrogen receptor status and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 status. Each case is different and each decision requires careful thought. You have to compare the risk of death to improved survival with chemotherapy to an increased risk of leukemia.
My patient chose to do a series of I.V. ozonated saline treatments and glutathione on alternate days. Glutathione is a powerful anti-oxidant that kills cancer cells. Ozone directly kills cancer cells. She is responding well to the treatments. We are monitoring the usual markers, specialty immune markers and keeping an eye on inflammation. I focus on gut ecology and make sure that her microbiome is healthy and happy.
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