Don B

For what it's worth, I don't think it would have made a difference if you had turned vegan. One reason I am so skeptical about diet claims on preventing recurrence is that our diet was as healthy if not healthier than the one Dr S-S recommends. We did ZERO sugar (not even corn sryup let alone HFCS) and organic vegetables/tofu/beans/rice as we meandered through the Pritikin diet, Mediterranean diet, and South Beach diet with modifications to all of them as they were too meat intensive. Did not prevent me from getting Stage IV cancer nor a recurrence. I do like Dr S-S interview comments that he blames environmental pesticides for his cancer and not his prior diet. It's just that his studies relied upon seem not probative (because not aimed at nor focused on) about preventing a recurrence, just first time cancer. I'm not sure if the recurrence mechanism is the same beast. My radiation doctor explained it this way: all the easy to kill cancer cells are gone and only the most aggressive and hardened ones remain after radiation & chemo. Just my opinion, but please don't waste one minute worrying or remonstrating over what could have been. Easy to say, I know and I have trouble following this good advice.