Thanks everyone for your replies.

Hans, my friend has already had surgery - hence why I titled the thread Homeopathic treatment after surgery.

I want to know what her chances are. Okay, I know no one can say for sure...but is it possible that she can survive - having not only taken out the primary site (breast lump) but also having had the secondary site (lymph nodes - 26 of which only 19 were malignant) removed as well!!

I understand the progression - i.e. that if the primary is removed, then the ailment will find another outlet (i.e. it ain't cured!).

I just wonder how realistic it is that someone can have a lump removed from the primary site - and only a couple of weeks later have the secondary expression removed as well, has any chance of survival. (I hope so!!!!!!!)

Divina - thanks for your thoughts...it is much along the lines of what I thought. But, I hafta be honest - dunno if I would tamper (if it were me - since I've been reading up on this for a coupla months now) with the primary site through chemo, radiation or surgery.

Hans, please do post in lots whenever you are able too...I would be most grateful to hear more of your thoughts on it.

GPM thanks for the link...much appreciated.

Anna - thanks for the input and that is something to think about. Hm...got me thinking but I hafta set that aside for a mo - til later.

Oh - Divina - yes, after several rounds of chemo the lump shrank in the lymph whilst seemingly returning to the breast -- primary site. She would get a dose of chemo...be absolutely slammed into bed for 2 weeks....then it would 'wear' off. Her energy would return back to almost normal, etc. Then she would settle into the gerson-type diet and her normal schedule in life. It was when she was eating healthily - and after chemo's more obvious effects had worn off that one noticed the shrinkage in her lymph-lump. I palpated it daily for about a week - whilst she was on the diet. It went from a plum size - down to walnut size in a coupla days. A coupla days after that - it was down to almond size...then 1 day later it was down to a pea. Then she went and had the surgery to remove only the primary site. But after labs came back (I didn't hear specifics - just that the primary site had another 'worrisome area' that was also removed but found to be benign!!!). Then 10 days later - she was scheduled only for reconstruction..but for some reason - they decided to take the lymph nodes as well - during reconstruction. Interesting that she had so many lymph nodes that were malignant only 10 days after removing the primary site...just confirms what I read in the Org.

Still......just want to get a clearer picture of what to expect now that she has had primary and secondary sites removed. She says she will NOT go for any further surgery...has to be tackled from now on with diet and homeopathy.

I'm praying. (btw, she is under my homeopaths care as well..but up until the surgery wasn't checking in regularly....the allopaths along with her own background in medicine (she was a radiologist in years past) scared her out of her initial decision to leave her lymph nodes alone!

Lisa

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