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Mother-of-four rejects surgery to treat her breast cancer [tr] [Alternative Meds]
UK Daily Mail ^ | January 23, 2017 | Sarah Mooney

Posted on 01/23/2017 6:58:42 AM PST by C19fan

A mother-of-four with breast cancer has turned down conventional treatment and instead plans to cure her illness through a combination of healthy eating, bitter almonds and purified water. Sarah Valentine, 36, of Bethersden, Kent, was offered either a full mastectomy or a lumpectomy and radiotherapy on the NHS - but she has defied medical advice by declining both options.

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: cancer; itworks
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Feel sorry for the family she is going to leave behind.
1 posted on 01/23/2017 6:58:42 AM PST by C19fan
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To: C19fan

Buh-bye, Ms Valentine. Prayers for her family.


2 posted on 01/23/2017 7:00:03 AM PST by originalbuckeye ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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Her boyfriend backs her decision.


3 posted on 01/23/2017 7:01:33 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: originalbuckeye

Ask Steve Jobs how well that worked out for him.

Oh, wait. Never mind.


4 posted on 01/23/2017 7:03:18 AM PST by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: C19fan

Later tater....


5 posted on 01/23/2017 7:03:33 AM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: originalbuckeye

I known a gal that went this route and 10 years later she is still going. She had 8 children.


6 posted on 01/23/2017 7:05:38 AM PST by riverrunner
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

IIRC, didn’t he specifically take up ‘residence’ in Tennessee or some such so he could buy his way into being high on a donor list for whatever he had cancer in?


7 posted on 01/23/2017 7:06:07 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: C19fan

An unfortunate and stupid decision which will leave 4 orphans.


8 posted on 01/23/2017 7:06:23 AM PST by EinNYC
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To: C19fan

9 posted on 01/23/2017 7:07:04 AM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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With cancer, the cure is sometimes worse than the disease. I get that. However, with 4 kids I would certainly do whatever it took to up my chances. It seems to me if eating healthy and the water and almond thing is effective she could do that in addition to the prescribed treatment. Or maybe it is really just the 30,000 British pounds that she is wanting. And the attention of having all her selfies published and the story of her discovering the indentation in her breast while she was “dancing naked in front of her mirror” after her shower.
10 posted on 01/23/2017 7:20:37 AM PST by Nevadan
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Cancer is a funny thing, rarely it doesn’t act like cancer.

Personally I had mine cut out.


11 posted on 01/23/2017 7:36:28 AM PST by dangerdoc ((this space for rent))
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I had mine zapped. The cure left me weak but alive.


12 posted on 01/23/2017 7:40:41 AM PST by RitchieAprile
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To: originalbuckeye

Each of her kids looks like they have a different dad. Hope each dad is involved with his child so they’ll have a parent when eating almonds don’t work. She claims to have always eaten healthy so was surprised when she got sick but somehow thinks the cure is still eating healthy. Doesn’t make a lot of sense but it’s her decision.


13 posted on 01/23/2017 7:58:52 AM PST by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: C19fan

I feel sorry for people like this. YES chemo SUCKS!! big time... but you know what. Im still here 12 years later... and the cancer is LONG gone.. just sayin.


14 posted on 01/23/2017 8:11:51 AM PST by wyowolf (Be ware when the preachers take over the Republican party...)
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claims to have always eaten healthy so was surprised when she got sick but somehow thinks the cure is still eating healthy.

Sometimes, when your time is up, your time is up.

I can sympathize with her, when it comes to cancer many times the cure is worse than the disease and people don't want to do it. But - refusal to take the best possible course of treatment doesn't give her the moral high ground (which is what she seems to be looking for).

15 posted on 01/23/2017 8:13:23 AM PST by wbill
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To: C19fan

I think some of her diet plans are excellent. But I don’t understand why not get rid of the tumors ASAP so they don’t spread. I wouldn’t do chemo either but I sure as hell would do surgery.


16 posted on 01/23/2017 8:25:05 AM PST by Yaelle
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Three women I know diagnosed with breast cancer at about the same time. One had surgery and radiation, and one had surgery, radiation, and chemo. They are five years now without recurrence. The third one opted for a similar route to this woman -— she suffered greatly, and we buried her two years ago.


17 posted on 01/23/2017 8:27:45 AM PST by LTC.Ret
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To: Yaelle

Knowing you have a cancer growing inside of you is disconcerting. I had to wait a few weeks before my surgery and I felt like I had an enemy lurking in my body.


18 posted on 01/23/2017 9:30:15 AM PST by dangerdoc ((this space for rent))
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Yeah, it’s creepy. You want it out!

But I do believe health cures. I don’t like the chemo paradigm. The human and bacteria biome system in us, with Gd’s help, will do its best without destroying itself. No scorched earth treatments for me. But not everyone feels that way and I have four kids too so who knows what decision I would make if necessary.


19 posted on 01/23/2017 9:42:13 AM PST by Yaelle
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To: Yaelle

There used to be a saying “only God and surgeons cure cancer.”


20 posted on 01/23/2017 9:48:21 AM PST by dangerdoc ((this space for rent))
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