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| Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 3,082 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) | OP Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 3,082 | That was the provocative blurb on the cover of April AARP Bulletin under bold red: Cancer Relief I'd link to the article but that would be hypocritical since I often bust posters who ignore Brian's plain, simple and reasonable request for this forum [quote]No linking to other sites from this forum please [/quote] The article itself though cited things I never considered "fringe" (or I am more alternative than I realized) such as Meditation, Acupuncture, self-hypnosis, massage, Yoga and Reiki. It summarized research by the NIH's National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine. But it also balanced it out with warnings by the chief of Integrative Medicine at Memorial Sloan Kettering: [quote]We spend half of our time working against quackery. It's really a bad situation. What patients see on the Internet is extremely seductive[/quote] It ended up on the note that due to the placebo effect: doing something, anything, may have healing powers of its own. Just thought I share. If you want to read it, you can type in the title: Battling Cancer in the search box on the AARP web site's Health page which otherwise reproduces most of the MD Anderson clinic series of articles on cancer in general. Hmmn, I'll have to join on line and post a commentary about OCF as a resource. charm 65 yr Old Frack Stage IV BOT T3N2M0 HPV 16+ 2007:72GY IMRT(40) 8 ERBITUX No PEG 2008:CANCER BACK Salvage Surgery 25GY-CyberKnife(5) 3 Carboplatin Apaghia /G button 2012: CANCER BACK -left tonsilar fossa 40GY-CyberKnife(5) 3 Carboplatin Passed away 4-29-13
| | | | Joined: May 2008 Posts: 357 Platinum Member (300+ posts) | Platinum Member (300+ posts) Joined: May 2008 Posts: 357 | Hi, Charm - Catching up on my AARP & saw the article. It said that acupuncture has been successful in restoring some saliva in Head & Neck Cancer patients. Anyone have any experience?
Marlene
Marginal mandibulectomy 6/17/08 resulted in DX of Stage I SCC - gingiva (3 mm) right mandible, buccal side. Clear margins. Occasional social drinker. Smoked last cigarette in 1979. Clear pet: 12/08; 7/20/09. Yay!
| | | | Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 3,082 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) | OP Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 3,082 | for my part ancedotal only. My prothodontist who specializes in oral cancer said he has referred many patients for accupuncture with about a 50% success rate in increasing saliva. Before I could try it myself, the cancer came back and now my mouth is drowning in saliva & mucous since I can't swallow even the former trickles that barely registered before mount up when they have no where to go. I'd rather have the dry mouth back again and be able to eat and swallow and just drink my 16 bottle of water a day like I used to. Charm 65 yr Old Frack Stage IV BOT T3N2M0 HPV 16+ 2007:72GY IMRT(40) 8 ERBITUX No PEG 2008:CANCER BACK Salvage Surgery 25GY-CyberKnife(5) 3 Carboplatin Apaghia /G button 2012: CANCER BACK -left tonsilar fossa 40GY-CyberKnife(5) 3 Carboplatin Passed away 4-29-13
| | | | Joined: May 2008 Posts: 357 Platinum Member (300+ posts) | Platinum Member (300+ posts) Joined: May 2008 Posts: 357 | Aw, geez! If only OC were a "simple" cancer, but it keeps on giving.
Marlene
Marginal mandibulectomy 6/17/08 resulted in DX of Stage I SCC - gingiva (3 mm) right mandible, buccal side. Clear margins. Occasional social drinker. Smoked last cigarette in 1979. Clear pet: 12/08; 7/20/09. Yay!
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