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Our reader shared her story of struggle with cancer, which has been going on for five years. She did not lose heart and found the strength to resist the bad and, importantly, erroneous forecasts from doctors.

I'm 41, I have a husband and a son, we lead active life and we always strive for communication and travel. That fall we were busy building our house: purchasing materials, hiring builders. I had to do a lot on my own, which made me constantly tired.

I had symptoms intestinal infection, but I attributed this to the usual story for residents of the south - in September, poisoning is not uncommon when there is an abundance of fresh fruit. It’s just that there are no more sick people around, and it’s become really hard for me. Got up heat, weakness appeared, and after a few more days my husband and I went to a paid clinic.

I had an ultrasound and it immediately showed large tumor on the ovary, and even then the specialist said that it was almost certainly cancer.

The diagnosis was clarified at the oncology center in the next three days - it was required emergency surgery. I began to develop ascites, called dropsy, a situation in which water accumulates in the abdomen. excess liquid. Now I think that awareness was delayed - my physical state it was very bad, and there was simply no time or energy left for any kind of reflection. The husband and son were nearby all the time, and probably prayed to all the gods that everything would be successful.

An operation was scheduled immediately - they removed both ovaries and my uterus, as well as part of my intestines, since there were metastases there.

Surprisingly, the histology analysis for staging accurate diagnosis and establishing the stage takes a painfully long time, and in another city. Based on this analysis, I was diagnosed with stage 3 ovarian cancer. As they explained to me, the disease is quite advanced, but this is not uncommon; in 70-80% of women with ovarian cancer, the diagnosis is made at stage 3. Doctors call this type of cancer the “silent killer”, since it practically does not manifest itself in any way until the onset of the 3rd stage, and women ignore those subtle symptoms that occur earlier.

I had a consultation with a specialist, who warned me against unconditionally believing that medical care compulsory medical insurance policy will be free and effective. Unfortunately, very often cancer patients are prescribed chemotherapy drugs that are not what they really need, and those that the hospital has in stock may underestimate doses or interrupt courses, not wanting to take on extra responsibility. He made it clear to me that my life is in my hands, I myself must control the entire treatment process. On the one hand, he shocked and fairly frightened me, and on the other, he explained that many people live with such a diagnosis, are constantly being treated and live, raise children, work and travel. So, despite all its stormy emotional reactions, I didn’t fall into depression, I decided not to give up, but to act and fight for myself, for my family, for the opportunity to see how my 10-year-old son will grow up.

Removal of the uterus and ovaries affected hormonal background— I started menopause. I can’t say that this was the most terrible thing in my situation; the chemotherapy overshadowed the other symptoms.

Then my body adapted, and now I can say that I don’t feel anything special in connection with this operation: my weight has not increased, and outwardly I still look younger than my age. It seemed unthinkable that everything would be deleted female organs, because my husband and I really wanted another child, but death from cancer was completely illusory, and there was simply no other way to survive.

On social networks I posted my photographs, a medical report and a request for help. Friends and relatives, classmates and simply acquaintances responded and quite quickly we managed to collect enough money for a trip to Israel.

Before the New Year, I flew to Jerusalem. This was my first trip abroad. I didn’t think I would “travel” like this. I had to go without my husband; he was not even allowed to get a foreign passport using the accelerated procedure.

There should be no more than three weeks between surgery and chemotherapy, but I had to wait more than a month. I wanted to be sure that the prescribed treatment was correct. In a large, well-equipped clinic, I was treated full examination in just 3 days and prescribed medications.

IN New Year's Eve in Russia they drink champagne, eat Olivier and set off firecrackers. And in Israel, December 31 is an ordinary date, unremarkable, so on that day I lay under a drip, and poison was slowly poured into me, which destroys cancer cells, and at the same time kills my other completely healthy cells.

Chemotherapy felt terrible, but the knowledge that I was already getting treatment and would soon be healthy helped me deal with it. I returned from Israel in a kind of foggy, nauseous state; I don’t even know how I even managed to get home, taking into account all the transport changes.

The first line of chemotherapy usually involves 6 courses: 1 dropper every three weeks. Doctors then evaluate the effect and decide what to do next. I personally encountered the fact that after 6 courses they tried to send me to “rest and recover,” although desired result was not achieved, and this was confirmed by the results of tests and computed tomography.

I insisted that I would continue chemotherapy until results were achieved. Although my body “missed” the cancer cells, it is otherwise quite strong, tolerates chemotherapy quite well and then recovers quite quickly. As a result, I completed 11 courses in the first line of chemotherapy, which led to 11 months of remission.

I work full time, and the management of the company met me halfway; during the treatment they let me go for three days so that I could come to my senses a little.

After the third drip, I went from an attractive brown-haired woman to bald as a knee.

Here, my hidden advantages for the time being really came to light - it turned out that I had an ideal skull shape and a beautiful profile. Sometimes my exotic appearance at work created funny situations - scandalous clients were sent to me who demanded their money back, and they instantly calmed down and became decent people.

Each hospital visit cost me many, many hours in line. I talked with other patients and repeatedly came across a situation where people, less cautious, more trusting, agreed with the doctors and went to rest and recover, as they were persistently advised to do. Then they quickly died, since chemotherapy was clearly completed earlier than required.
I constantly monitored my condition, as if I had turned on an “internal scanner.” If earlier I could simply ignore some symptoms and work no matter what, now I have become very attentive to my body. This is what allows me not to relax and control all the processes happening inside.

Several more years and several courses of chemotherapy have passed since then. I no longer traveled to Israel, since it is quite expensive, and my husband and I already have to buy some of the medications for treatment exclusively with our own money. I went several times for a consultation to Moscow, to a leading oncology center. In the fifth year of my illness, the doctor unexpectedly prescribed me a test for genetic mutations BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, popularly known as Angelina Jolie genes. I have one of these mutations. This means that my disease is genetic, and if this had been known immediately, then perhaps a different treatment tactic should have been chosen, and also that the risk of the disease is inherited by all my close blood relatives, including my son. By at least, now this is known in advance.

A person gets used to everything, and I got used to my illness. I learned to quite deftly adjust all my plans to accommodate chemotherapy courses. My family and I went on a wonderful trip to Istanbul and every year we try to go to the Black Sea, at least for a short time. I’m used to restrictions - I can’t be in the sun, I can’t eat certain foods, I need to constantly undergo tests and have tomography done. My body has gotten used to chemotherapy, and now practically no drugs lead to baldness, so I regularly go to the hairdresser, change my hairstyles and hair color. I still work full time despite being classified as a non-work class disability. However, disability payments do not allow me not only to receive treatment, but also to simply live, and I still have many grandiose plans ahead.

I still find it difficult to overcome some aspects when communicating with the medical staff. Among them there are both wonderful, friendly people who are professionals in their field, and notorious bastards who are trying to instill such forecasts that they can only be called a curse. One of the doctors who held a non-ordinary position in oncology clinic, told me that my Bone marrow killed.

You'll never have normal level platelets, and you can never have chemotherapy again!

Sometimes I want to meet her on the street and stick test results on her forehead, where blood counts are absolutely normal.

I believe in myself and hope for modern science, which will be able to create a drug that will cure cancer patients. And I'm going to wait for this moment, because I've been waiting for 5 whole years. I still want to see how my son grows up. Now he is already 15, and our family remains just as strong.

Alexandra Savina

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. We already know what you should know about this disease and what methods of diagnosis and prevention are the most effective. We have now decided to turn to personal experience and talked to Irina Tanaeva, who was diagnosed with breast cancer two and a half years ago. Irina talked about how the disease changed her life, about the struggle and what helps her maintain an optimistic attitude. The editors would like to thank the “Cool Against Breast Cancer” project for their assistance in preparing the material.

In October 2013, I suddenly felt a rather large lump in my chest, which appeared as if instantly. It didn’t bother me, it didn’t hurt, but I still went to the doctor. IN paid clinic, where I was observed, I was examined by a mammologist-oncologist - there was no reason not to trust her. They did an ultrasound and the doctor said it was fibroadenoma. I asked for a puncture, but the doctor refused: they said there was nothing wrong and I could sleep peacefully until the next visit. I always trusted specialists; it never occurred to me to go somewhere else, to doubt, to double-check. Now, looking back, I understand that I was very negligent about my health and myself. I didn’t think about the bad things: since the doctor said so, it means everything is fine.

I was supposed to come for my next examination in three months. I continued to live as before, with absolutely no doubt that I was healthy. My family and I went to the sea - it was a long-awaited vacation in a wonderful place. It was there that I felt pain in the chest area - sharp, shooting - it greatly alarmed and frightened me. From that moment on, these sensations became regular. Returning to Moscow, I went to the doctor again, but this time to a specialized mammology center.

Two and a half years have passed, and I still can’t bear to remember. February 16, 2014 will forever remain in my memory as the day that changed everything in my life. Then I had just turned 31, and not only me, but also my husband was invited to the doctor’s office - I still didn’t understand why. “You most likely have cancer,” the doctor said. I didn’t hear anything else, only the words sounded in my head: “Cancer is death, I’m dying.” I cried a lot, didn’t understand anything, thought how I could leave my six-year-old son. These were the most difficult moments, there are no words to describe them: shock, despair, horror, fear - all this at once, in an instant, fell on me, and I didn’t know what to do with it then.

Everything was difficult - but if physical pain could be endured, then you had to seriously work with your psychological state

We left the hospital and caught a taxi, drove almost silently - I cried, and my husband hugged me to him. My son and my mother were waiting for us at home. I didn’t know what to tell her, so I went home and calmly, without tears, announced that I had cancer. In response, I heard a confident: “We will cure.” Mom stood, restrained herself and never cried in front of me. I know how much she worries, but she never talks to me about her illness. I don’t know how dad reacted - they protected me from all this, they didn’t coo with me, they didn’t feel sorry for me, we all continued to live as before. At least we tried to live like that, but the illness made many changes to our plans.

We started looking good doctors. We did not immediately find those whom we ultimately trusted, but I am happy that this happened. The first person I saw was oncologist surgeon Evgeniy Alekseevich Troshenkov, who works at the Moscow Research Oncology Institute named after P. A. Herzen. After just a couple of minutes of communication, I realized that this was my doctor. Evgeniy Alekseevich told me everything in great detail, showed me, examined me, and most importantly, he calmed me down, instilled hope and confidence in a good result of the treatment. Leaving the office, he said: “We will cure, we will definitely cure!” For the next year and a half I repeated these words like “Our Father.” My husband and I left him with smiles on our faces, we both said in one voice: “It’s him.” I didn’t think about anything else: my doctor decided everything for me, he gave clear instructions - what examinations to undergo, what to do and where to do it. I was no longer afraid, I no longer doubted my victory for a second. I was patient and went into battle.

My diagnosis was breast cancer T4N0M0: I had a tumor of quite an impressive size, but the lymph nodes were not affected, and no metastases were found either. Cancer type - HER2(+++), stage 3B. I underwent chemotherapy at the Russian Oncology Research Center named after N. N. Blokhin; I got into CI - clinical researches, where the effectiveness of the new drug was tested in comparison with another existing one on the market. The treatment went according to the plan outlined by my chemotherapist. I was given eight courses of chemotherapy: every 21 days I was given drugs that affect the tumor cells. After all courses, the tumor decreased significantly.

Then followed a radical skin-sparing mastectomy with simultaneous reconstruction with a tissue expander (temporary silicone implant, the volume of which can be increased by filling it with a special solution; later it was replaced with a lifelong implant) - my left mammary gland and 13 lymph nodes were removed. Next was radiation therapy (exposure to tumor cells ionizing radiation), and six months after the mastectomy I had reconstructive breast surgery. A year after chemotherapy, I received a targeted drug that blocks the growth and spread of malignant cells, and is also used for prophylactic purposes to prevent relapse.

Everything was difficult - but if physical pain it was possible to endure it, then with your psychological state I had to work hard. I persuaded myself, sometimes felt sorry for myself, cried - I did everything to prevent my depressed state from spreading to others. My illness had virtually no effect on my family and friends. I continued to live as before, worked hard with the child, prepared him for school. She always smiled, was always positive, and sometimes she consoled her family, because they, too, were having a hard time. The pain from the treatment cannot be expressed in words - it was very scary, very difficult, at times it seemed to me that I was at the limit of my capabilities. I don’t know what was more difficult - chemotherapy or radiation therapy: I tolerated both extremely poorly.

The two operations that were easiest for me were those involving chemotherapy and radiation therapy the pain from them seemed to me like mosquito bites. I really asked to have both breasts removed - I wanted to get rid of them so that not a trace of cancer would remain. I am very grateful to my surgeon: he did not want to hear anything about complete removal, said that I was young and that I still had time to live. Evgeniy Alekseevich promised that he would do everything right and asked me not to worry about anything - I didn’t ask any more questions. Now I have wonderful breasts, very beautiful, they suit me very well - especially since a bonus to everything was breast augmentation, which I asked the doctor for myself. My perception of myself has changed a lot: I stopped seeing only shortcomings in myself, I learned to perceive myself adequately, not to be offended by myself, not to wait, but to do everything now - because tomorrow a new day will come and new desires will come. I fell in love with myself - maybe not completely, but I fell in love with my body, my new breasts, scars. I like everything about myself now, despite the weight I’ve gained, sickly look, lack of hair. I love myself, period.

Now I give myself exactly five minutes to cry and feel sorry for myself - there is no more time or desire

During treatment in 2014, I really missed communicating with people like me. My family couldn’t fully understand the depth of my experiences; I basically didn’t read the Internet and seemed to be in an information vacuum. Once, in severe depression, I put out in social networks she took a photo of herself with a bald head and wrote: “Sometimes cancer changes us beyond recognition.” For eight long months I hid my illness from everyone, many had no idea where I had suddenly disappeared to. Of course, those around me were shocked; many chose to stop writing and communicating with me, but this is their right and their choice.

After that, on your page in instagram I started keeping a cancer diary: I told him what was happening to me, how the treatment was going. Gradually, I began to find girls and young people with cancer like me. We supported each other, gave advice, learned something new about treatment. I've always been very kind person, I always wanted to help, and then I suddenly found a use for my big, kind heart. I really sincerely sympathize with everyone who is faced with oncology, I treat them with great respect and love. For me they are all heroes, fighters, winners.

It all started small. First, I came up with a hashtag, thanks to which people with oncology began to communicate and get to know each other. Then I started organizing small meetings. In October 2015, every day on my Instagram page I published stories of women with breast cancer. Thanks to this idea of ​​mine, many people realized that they are not alone - there are many of us, and that even with such a diagnosis you can live a full life and enjoy every day. I named my action. Anya Yakunina, just like other girls, sent me her story - then I was struck by her courage and love of life. Already together we began to organize small events, master classes and just get-togethers in cafes. These were warm, sincere meetings, after which I really wanted to live. Many, after communicating with us, stopped being ashamed of their illness and appearance, began to talk openly about themselves, boldly go bald, without fear of sidelong glances. Many, looking at us, began to understand that cancer is not the end of life, but just a stage that can be passed.

Once we met Anya in a cafe and talked for four hours - we were simply bursting with the desire to help people with oncology. We decided to organize a small support club for cancer patients, where we will not talk about the disease, and anyone who wants, on the contrary, will be able to get away from all their problems, even if for a moment. There wasn’t even a question about the name: we decided to become communication club « Good people" Anya and I were united by oncology, and now we have become real friends. Our club is special - it’s a friendly family, where you are always welcome, where you are always welcome, where you will always be understood without words: there is no need to explain anything, we ourselves have been through it all.

We want to show by our example that oncology is not a death sentence, that during treatment you can and should lead a normal lifestyle, work, if possible, play sports, walk, have fun and make plans for the future. Our goal is to change attitudes towards the disease. Throughout the year we take part in various projects and organize events ourselves. We invite specialists and experts to our meetings who conduct charity master classes on makeup, facial care, recreational gymnastics, dancing, drawing, floristry, and handicrafts. Sometimes we arrange regular get-togethers in cafes or picnics, go to towns near Moscow, and organize excursions to historical places.

With the support of our friend, stylist Peter Levenpol, our club made a photo project “ You are special" It involved 30 women who had been diagnosed with cancer. 30 examples of courage - different people who faced despair, fear, depression, but did not give up and found the strength to defeat the disease! There are also those among them who have not yet finished the fight, but are close to recovery. We believe that through joint efforts we will be able to support women with a difficult diagnosis and attract the attention of others, because prevention and early diagnosis- deposit successful treatment and complete recovery.

In August 2015, I completed treatment. It was such happiness, such euphoria! I wanted to run through the streets, hug passers-by and tell everyone that I did it, I won. I began to enjoy every second without cancer, I rejoiced at the sun, rain, wind, smiles, every morning I woke up in in a great mood. I enjoyed absolutely everything, every little thing caused a storm of emotions in me. It turns out that we live and simply don’t notice or appreciate a lot around us. But life itself is amazing and beautiful.

There is too much honor for this cancer, talk, pity, tears - all this is not for me

My wonderful remission lasted seven months. Ironically, on February 16, 2016, exactly two years after my diagnosis, I was diagnosed with liver metastases. It was a big blow, very unexpected. It seems like you know everything, you’ve already been through everything, but it’s hard to wrap your head around it all. I gave myself three days: I cried, roared, hysterical, buried myself. Three days later I pulled myself together and went to fight. And again chemotherapy, unbearable, much harder than the previous one - six courses. I persevered, withstood everything and continued to live. Metastases went away after the third course. There is no cancer in me, although, of course, all this is conditional and it can return at any second. But I believe and even know that this will not happen. Every 21 days I need to drip targeted drugs until there is an effect - this can last two to three years, or maybe more.

The fight against metastases was much easier for me emotionally and psychologically. Of course, I have breakdowns, sometimes I get terribly tired of this cancer life with the constant war for the drug, these endless examinations, tests, control. Sometimes it seems to me that I live in an oncology hospital, but I don’t allow myself to become limp, I always keep myself in good shape, control my treatment and monitor my health more closely. Yes, in our country there are a lot of problems with the treatment of oncology - it is simply impossible to describe them in a nutshell, this is a topic for a separate discussion. And I don’t want to complain, because it’s difficult to influence it. Thank you that, although with great difficulties, we are being treated.

Despite everything, I manage to maintain an optimistic attitude. How? It's simple: I don't focus on my illness. Cancer is just my parallel life, nothing more. I love my bald head, and although I'm really looking forward to my hair growing back, I'm okay with it for now. Of course, it’s better not to know what cancer is at all, but what happened, happened. This is a very unpredictable disease, and you shouldn’t joke with it, but you shouldn’t succumb to it either. In order to fight and win, you need a strong spirit. Now I give myself exactly five minutes to cry and feel sorry for myself - there is no more time or desire. The disease is trying to infiltrate my life, but it will not be able to break me: I will fight as long as necessary! Metastases made me clearly understand: live here and now, don’t look into the distance, enjoy every second, breathe full breasts. Tomorrow is tomorrow. We are not insured against anything. There is too much honor for this cancer, talk, pity, tears - all this is not for me.

Over the next week, you can support the global fight against breast cancer

All it takes is one bright act: temporarily changing your hair color to pink, the international color for the fight against breast cancer.

From October 20 to 27, any Wonderzine reader will be able to sign up for a free temporary coloring session at one of the promotion’s partner salons by using the code word #pinkwondercheck. Depending on the salon, your hair will be dyed with a special chalk, spray, or temporary dye that will wash off after a couple of weeks.

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An unprecedented breakthrough has been made in the fight against cancer. Scientists from the United States and Japan James Allison and Tasuku Honjo were awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for their “discovery of cancer therapy by suppressing negative immune regulation.” This revolutionary development could save thousands of lives. Oncology today is second after cardiovascular diseases cause of death in Russians. The picture is approximately the same in other Commonwealth countries. Illness, according to Russian statistics, claims 300 thousand lives a year - the population of an entire city, such as Orel, Vologda, Tambov, Vladikavkaz or Grozny. About the “plague of our time” - MIR 24 correspondent Maxim Krasotkin.

Oncologist surgeon Andrei Pavlenko himself found himself on the other side of the drip. First he saved the lives of patients, and then his own. Eight courses of chemotherapy are an experience that I only want to share with my colleagues in words.

“You understand how the patient to whom you prescribe this treatment feels. Until now, I have not recovered one hundred percent, I have no sensitivity in the terminal phalanges of my arms, legs, and chilliness,” said the oncologist surgeon, head of the Oncology Center combined methods treatment Andrey Pavlenko.

With the third stage of stomach cancer, Andrei did not expect anything else. Chemotherapy is enough painful method treatment. This is a kind of nuclear attack on the body, when the development of healthy cells slows down along with the tumor.

70-year-old US professor James Ellison and his Japanese colleague 76-year-old Tasuku Honjo made a breakthrough in the treatment of oncology, for which they received the Nobel Prize in Medicine.

“Sometimes people tell me that they recovered from a serious illness and became healthy thanks to my method of treatment, and that they owe it to me. This makes me believe that my research was truly meaningful. And this makes me happy,” admitted Nobel Prize laureate Tasuku Honjo.

The discovery helps the body itself. Even when the case seems completely hopeless. The first experimental patient was an unknown girl who had at most six months to live. 16 years have passed since then - the patient is alive.

The 39th President of the United States, Jimmy Carter, also owes his longevity to the invention. In this way he was cured of melanoma. In general, the first studies of the capabilities of immunity began 100 years ago.

“The theory of infectious immunity was created by our compatriot Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov. For which he received the Nobel Prize in 1908,” said the head of the efficiency forecast laboratory conservative treatment MNIOI named after. P.A. Herzen Natalya Sergeeva.

The discovery of contemporaries is a chance to save cancer patients from chemotherapy. An often inevitable way to beat cancer.

“The consequences of chemotherapy are very similar to severe alcohol poisoning, a hangover. When you can’t eat, you feel sick, you can’t sleep, but you want to. This constant fatigue, I don’t want anything. Many of us have experienced this feeling, but it’s not a day or two, but seven days in a row,” said Gera Roshchina.

Hera Roshchina passed several months ago. She was diagnosed with lymphoma. Chest pain became a harbinger fatal disease.

“I was told that your chances are good. In your case, there is more than 90% survival rate, but we cannot guarantee that you will not fall into the other 10%. I felt dizzy and lost consciousness. I was lying on the tile and thinking about something,” recalls Gera Roshchina.

However, after the first stage of treatment, the tumor became smaller, and the fear subsided. In support of people like her, Hera even did a photo shoot - with and without a wig. And Andrei Pavlenko’s colleagues went even further.

“Everyone is sitting in their seats, everything is normal, normal. But for some reason everyone is wearing surgical caps. We are usually in the staff room without hats. They all stood up and said: “Andrei Nikolaevich, we are with you!” A lump came to my throat,” said Andrey Pavlenko.

It’s just that chemotherapy is so strong that during treatment a person’s hair falls out, but his senses become more intense.

“You begin, oddly enough, to truly live: to get high from little things, for example, from a cup of coffee, from drinking this delicious foam,” says Gera Roshchina.

Methods for which the Nobel Prize was awarded exclude side effects chemotherapy. They are based on the fact that the human immune system itself must cope with tumor cells, as it constantly happens in our body.

“A malignant tumor arises from former normal cells, so in the process of its development it has learned to deceive immune system, is masked so that the immune system does not recognize it and destroy it,” noted the head of the oncosurgical department of the Moscow Clinical Scientific Center. A.S. Loginova Konstantin Titov.

The fact is that mutant cells surround themselves with a kind of camouflage network of molecules and proteins. And thus they deceive the friend-foe system, the immune system mistakes cancer for healthy cells. James Ellison and Tosuku Honjo figured out this principle, and based on the discovery they released a medicine.

“The drug attaches to these proteins, and thus removes the camouflage of tumor cells for the immune system,” explained Natalya Sergeeva.

Such drugs have been used in medicine for several years. In Russia they have been used for treatment since 2015, and doctors say that they cannot be considered a panacea. Cancer cells change tactics over time.

“The tumor cell evolves, it tries to maintain its viability. This is what happens - most drugs are effective for a certain period of time, then mechanisms of resistance, that is, resistance, are formed in the tumor cell, and that is why we have to resort to other drugs with other mechanisms of action,” explained the head of the department of chemotherapy of the Moscow Research Institute of Orthography. P.A. Herzen Larisa Bolotina.

Depending on how tumor cells behave, new method treatment can be used together with the same chemotherapy. After all, the effect of it, although painful, is immediate.

“Chemotherapy has a so-called cytotoxic effect, that is, it destroys tumor cells quite quickly. We can observe the effect of the use of cytostatics in very short time, and it is believed that response to immuno-oncology drugs requires slightly more long time", said Larisa Bolotina.

To see the results of treatment using the method of Nobel laureates, it takes three months, and time for patients with advanced oncology can cost their lives. But another cancer treatment undoubtedly improves patients' chances. And those who have everything behind them begin to look at life differently. So, Gera Roshchina now helps patients and shows with her examples that cancer is not a death sentence.

If you have been correctly diagnosed and have started treatment, I recommend doing the following, regardless of the treatment method:

Keep a notebook or diary. Write down every day of your fight against disease. Describe in detail what medicine you took (in what doses and time) to fight cancer, what you drank, ate and how you felt throughout the day, and so on every day. After some time, you will see the overall picture of your treatment. If there are no positive results within 2-3 months, then this treatment method is not effective for you and it needs to be radically changed or combined with another treatment or medication to improve the result.

Example: Some are effectively helped by an infusion of aconite, another by an infusion of potato flowers, a third by nut tincture, a fourth by hemlock, and so on. You need to not give up and try different options and techniques. YOU must choose the most effective treatment method yourself, you just need to listen wisely and choose it for treatment individual.

The best results are obtained from treatment from two or three flanks of the fight against cancer, for example:

WITH on one side we hit the cancer cells with nut tincture oraconiteor potato, and on the other hand we finish off cancer cells with apricot kernels with vitamin B17, on the third side we strike cancer cells with propolis, while strengthening the immune system, we restore normal functioning of the body. Don't forget about proper nutrition, filled with plant foods as much as possible.

What cannot be done if you are ill or undergoing treatment:

1. You cannot sunbathe in the sun, take hot baths, avoid saunas and baths altogether, avoid anything that is associated with overheating of the body.

2. Avoid heavy physical activity, do not injure the cancerous area under any circumstances, do not overload yourself with work, and rest as much as possible. You can listen to pleasant music for you, this also helps in treatment.

3.Do not oppress yourself with bad thoughts and representations O

gloomy future, don't even think about death, forget about it.

4.By According to many, cancer does not like light, this leads to aggression and progression.

All the above factors can lead to progression cancer

Proper nutrition is very important.

IN first of all clean filtered water .

Remove from food sugar and sweets, even if you really want it. Eliminate smoked meats, canned food, and anything fried from your diet. Eat plant proteins. Include rice, buckwheat and oatmeal porridges in your diet, season them with olive oil. Soups made from cereals and vegetables, soups made from beans and mushrooms are very good for the body. Preferably naturally grown mushrooms, they contain a high percentage of selenium. Eat only black bread. Drink green teas with raisins instead of sugar 3-4 times a day (Example: elderberry tea). Maximize your diet plant foods to fight the disease.

It is very useful to drink natural juices from vegetables: cabbage, beets (red beets), carrots, about 0.5 liters throughout the day. Fill your daily diet as much as possible with: onions, garlic, cabbage, carrots, parsley.

Example: Juice from freshly squeezed cabbage should be drunk 1 glass half an hour before meals and 3 times a day. In addition to cancer, you have a guarantee of getting rid of stomach ulcers, completely cleansing the entire intestines of accumulated deposits of feces, which poison your body with toxins every second. This process is accompanied by a large release of gases; you will need to take this factor into account when taking it.

WITH You also need to fight alcohol and nicotine, it only brings harm to an already unhealthy body. Remember, the fight is for life.

Do not lose heart and do not lose hope, you will succeed, you will defeat the disease, psychologically prepare yourself for recovery and victory, this will help you and your body fight the disease even more.

Prayer helps many. Read prayers and set yourself up only positively for recovery:

"My heavenly angel, please protect me!
In the desert of life, without blaming strangers,
I’m burning with a candle, I’m melting from a severe illness,
And I don’t know where the soul can find salvation.
The abyss opens its black arms to me,
I'm desperately struggling, but I don't have enough strength.
Bright Savior, provide your wing!
Let me lean on if I'm unlucky
Give me strength! Hope for you
Please save and save me!"

Fight for life.

Fight for life so that it doesn't cost you.

Life is a struggle and you need to fight for it.

Fight to the bitter end, even if the disease is staring you straight in the eye.

You are stronger in spirit and hope than your enemy in the form of illness, you will definitely overcome it.

Don't give up, the fight for life is always a duel.

You will overcome all difficulties and defeat the disease.

Learn to believe in victory every minute and you will succeed.

This strength helps you fight the disease even more.

Take care of your health, that of your family and friends.

Collected collected Interesting Facts about a breakthrough method of treating one of the most terrible diseases.

In order to become cancerous, a cell must accumulate a certain number of mutations in its genes. Some genes must be activated and begin to stimulate division (they are also called oncogenes), while others that suppress cell division (suppressor genes) must be turned off. At the same time, proteins modified by these and subsequent mutations—neoantigens—appear inside the cell. An antigen is a target of immune cells.

Cancer kills millions of people every year, ranking as the second leading cause of death, just behind heart disease.

James Ellison and Tasuku Honjo discovered a way to unblock our immune cells from attacking tumors, since the human immune system most often does not “see” malignant tumors, since cancer cells are cells of our own body. As a result, the necessary defensive reaction does not occur.

Previously, doctors could only fight cancer in three ways - surgery, exposure to ionizing radiation and chemotherapy (special poisons that attack rapidly dividing cells).

The idea that immunity and cancer may be linked was expressed by Nobel laureate 1908 Paul Ehrlich. He suggested that tumor cells can constantly appear in the body, but the immune system blocks their development. Ehrlich's ideas formed the basis of an entire theory of immune surveillance of tumors.

In the 90s, a Japanese immunologist from Kyoto University discovered the PD-1 receptor (immune checkpoint) on the surface of lymphocytes, the activation of which leads to the suppression of their activity. Around the same years, the American Ellison from the Anderson Cancer Center of the University of Texas studied a protein called CTLA-4, which is located on the surface various groups T-lymphocytes (provide recognition and destruction of cells carrying foreign antigens). He and his colleagues noticed that this protein was able to suppress the immune response. Ellison tried turning off the natural blocker in mice with cancer. Tumor cells could no longer hide from the immune system, and the body fought cancer much more effectively, writes Wired.

If you block CTLA-4, T lymphocytes begin to work much more actively.

In 2001, the first cancer vaccine, ipilimumab, was used to treat melanoma in a woman named Sharon Belvin. After one injection of the drug, her tumors disappeared within six months. Having proven itself well, this drug is now used in the NHS (National Health Service of Great Britain) to treat patients with melanoma. All known methods treatments that were previously used did not have such good results, writes the British BBC agency.

A protein called PD-1, which was discovered by Professor Tasuku Honjo, normally allows regulatory T cells to suppress those killer T cells that are activated by the “wrong” antigen. The fact is that the activation of this protein on lymphocytes (with the help of the ligand PD-1 - PD-L1) sends them into apoptosis - the process of programmed cell death or programmed death.

In studies on mice, Honjo's group showed the effectiveness of blocking the new protein in the fight against various tumors. These data were used to develop a new drug called Nivolumab, which is registered worldwide and is used to treat many types of cancer, including melanoma.

• On March 8, it was reported that scientists at Harvard University have developed a personalized vaccine that helps activate the immune system to fight cancer.
• On February 1, scientists from Stanford University School of Medicine discovered that T-lymphocyte activation in malignant tumors capable of destroying cancer cells and even fighting distant metastases.