Looking for information on Breast Cancer Treatment from the 1900's to the present for a Girl Scout Badge.?
I really need sources on where to find information about Breast Cancer Treatment from the 1900's to the present. We are doing a Camp for the Cure and part of the badge work for "In the Pink" says to share the information about treatments from the 1900's to the present. We are making poster for the local Race for the Cure in October. I really need some kind of information. My web searches have come up with little especially for the 1900's. Most refer me to medical journals which you have to be a medical professional and pay for the subscription online. HELP!!! Really need the medical treatments. I know the patient's first hand experience is great for them to know, but we have ladies coming in to talk to them about this part of the treatments. We need more of a timeline on the progress of treatment from the 1900's to the present. All the information that is on the Girl Scout Studio 2B is at my finger tips all the time since I am serving as an Adult volunteer for a Camp Events Committee for the local council. I have already Googled and have most of the sites suggested bookmarked. I was trying to find something new. What was the technology, resources, and if they didn't know exactly what it was what did they do in the 1900's?
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Good luck with your project. If you go to www.after-cancer.com you will find a lot of information written by patients about the day-to-day treatments they have from 2000 - 2009. This covers what they feel and experience, rather than the official medical writing! |Hope it might help a little. Verite R
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I had an aunt die of cancer just over a year ago and I am sad to say the one thing no ever tried was hemp oil. Rick Simpson from Canada found that oil ingested daily can help stop growth of skin,brain and lung cancer in terminally ill patients. This was ignored by many and he was arrested for treating people with pot he grew at his home. THC seeks out and destroys some types of cancer and should be looked at as a treatment. You can take doses that do not cause a high, but do heal. Some reports of 4-5 days to remove some skin cancers, growths, rashes, moles, warts. It needs serious looking into. Please watch all 7 and share it with people you know diagnosed with with terminal cancer and doctors can not help. If the government refuses to see the light, then we are citizens must take a stand and do what is right to save lives. Do not smoke it, ingest the oil.
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The era of industrial and technological advancement is paying off its wages of chronic degenerative diseases. Everybody knows of a friend or relative who has fallen with the disease. Practically all families know the pain and suffering that comes when cancer hits someone close to home. Conventional medicine, despite the billions of dollars spent on research and development of anti-cancer drugs, has not been able to significantly increase the survival rate for these patients. Although there has been excellent progress in early detection and prevention of some cancers, treatments in general are obscenely expensive, inefficient and wickedly detrimental to the health status of the patient. http://sanoviv.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5&Itemid=7
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http://www.evergreensurgical.com/articles/BrCaSurgHx.html http://www.chemheritage.org/educationalservices/pharm/chemo/readings/timeline.htm This site is for girlscouts: http://www.studio2b.org/lounge/gs_stuff/ip_pink.asp http://www.breastcancer.org/treatment/radiation/ask_expert/question_09.jsp Let google be your friend. Most of your answers on here will be autobots spamming or people giving their opinion about alternative therapies. Take lots of notes from the site I gave you and there's many more. chemheritage.org has a link on the right side has some good info.
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I think this is what you need. History Breast cancer may be one of the oldest known forms of cancerous tumors in humans. The oldest description of cancer was discovered in Egypt and dates back to approximately 1600 BC. The Edwin Smith Papyrus describes 8 cases of tumors or ulcers of the breast that were treated by cauterization.The writing says about the disease, "There is no treatment."[61] For centuries, physicians described similar cases in their practises, with the same conclusion. It was not until doctors achieved greater understanding of the circulatory system in the 17th century that they could establish a link between breast cancer and the lymph nodes in the armpit. The French surgeon Jean Louis Petit (1674–1750) and later the Scottish surgeon Benjamin Bell (1749–1806) were the first to remove the lymph nodes, breast tissue, and underlying chest muscle. Their successful work was carried on by William Stewart Halsted who started performing mastectomies in 1882. The Halsted radical mastectomy often involved removing both breasts, associated lymph nodes, and the underlying pectoral muscles. This often led to long-term pain and disability, but was seen as necessary in order to prevent the cancer from recurring.[62] Radical mastectomies remained the standard until the 1970s, when a new understanding of metastasis led to perceiving cancer as a systemic illness as well as a localized one, and more sparing procedures were developed that proved equally effective. Prominent women who died of breast cancer include Empress Theodora, wife of Justinian; Anne of Austria, mother of Louis XIV of France; Mary Washington, mother of George, and Rachel Carson, the environmentalist.[63] The Australian singer and actress Kylie Minogue suffered breast cancer for a few years, before making a great recovery.
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