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Breast Cancer info ou Intox ?
Auteur : Milka (hoaxbuster AT hippocampes.com) - Date : 21 septembre 2003 à 12h39
bonjour, je viens de recevoir le mail suivant, un fichier word avec ce contenu. (je ne sais pas si c'était un mail au départ et mis en word, ou si c'était déja un word à la base. )
Le fait de dire de l'envoyer à plein de gens etc me parait qd même louche...
Ladies
PLEASE take the time to read the following message. It is a new form of breast cancer that we should all be aware of! I hope you will forward this to all of your female friends.
In November, I lost my sister to a rare kind of breast cancer. She developed a rash on her breast, similar to that of young mothers who are nursing. Because her mammogram had been clear, the doctor treated her with antibiotics for infections. After 2 rounds and it continued to get worse, her doctor sent her for another mammogram, and this time it showed a mass. A biopsy found a fast growing malignancy. Chemo was started in order to shrink the growth; then mastectomy; then a full round of chemo; then radiation. After about 9 months of intense treatment, she was given a clean bill of health. One year of living each day to its fullest ? then it returned to the liver area. She took 4 treatments and decided that she wanted quality of life not the after effects of chemo. We had 5 great months and she planned each detail of the final days. After just a few days of needing morphine, she slipped away saying she had done what God had sent her into the world to do and now it was her time to go.
I still have tears as I write, but her message is shown below. And PLEASE be alert to any thing that is not normal and be persistent in getting help as soon as possible.
RARE FORM OF BREAST CANCER ? PAGET?s DISEASE
{ from Juanita Bush }
This is a rare form of breast cancer and is on the outside of the breast, on the nipple and aureole. It appeared as a rash which later became a lesion with a crusty outer edge. I would not have ever suspected it to be breast cancer but it was. My nipple never seemed any different to me but the rash bothered me, so I went to the doctor for that. Sometimes it itched and was sore, but other than that it didn?t bother me. It was just ugly and a nuisance and could not be cleared up with all the creams prescribed by my doctor and dermatologist for the dermatitis on my eyes just prior to this outbreak. They seemed a little concerned but did not warn me it could be cancerous. Now I suspect there are not many women out there who know a lesion or rash on the nipple or aureole can be breast cancer. Mine started out as a single red pimple on the aureole. One of the biggest problems with Paget?s disease of the nipple is that the symptoms appear to be harmless. It is frequently thought to be a skin inflammation or infection, leading to unfortunate delays in detection and care. What are the symptoms? The symptoms include :
(1) A persistent redness, oozing, and crusting of your nipple causing it to itch and Burn. (As I stated, mine did not itch or burn much, and had no oozing I was aware of, but it did have a crust along the outer edge on one side).
(2) A sore on your nipple that will not heal. (Mine was on the aureole area with a whitish thick looking area in center of nipple).
(3) Usually only one nipple is affected.
How is it diagnosed?
Your doctor will do a physical exam and should suggest having a mammogram of both breasts, done immediately. Even though the redness, oozing and crusting closely resemble dermatitis (inflammation of the skin), your doctor should suspect cancer if the sore is only on one breast. Your doctor should order a biopsy of your sore to confirm what is going on. They will take a sample of your breast tissue in that area to test for cancer. If the cancer is only in the nipple and not in the breast, your doctor may recommend just removing the nipple and surrounding tissue or suggest radiation treatments. Had my doctor caught mine right away instead of flaking it off as dermatitis, perhaps they could have saved my breast and it wouldn?t have gone to my lymph nodes.
This message should be taken seriously and passed on to as many of your friends as possible; it could save someone?s life. My breast cancer has spread and metastasized to my bones after receiving mega doses of chemotherapy, 28 treatments of radiation and taking tamaxofin. If this had been diagnosed as breast cancer in the beginning, perhaps it would not have spread.
TO ALL READERS : This is sad as women are not aware of Paget?s disease. If by passing this around on the e-mail we can make others aware of it and its potential danger, we are helping women everywhere. Please if you can, take a moment to forward this message to as many people as possible especially to your family and friends. It only takes a moment ? yet the results could save a life!
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Breast Cancer info ou Intox ?
Auteur : le_zaps (le_zaps AT hotmail.com) - Date : 21 septembre 2003 à 20h27
SNOPES dit
Claim: Paget's disease of the nipple is a real (but rare) form of breast cancer.
Status: True.
Vrai en français, Helas.
D'ailleurs une partie de ce mail est une copie de Snopes ... Le reste ??
Mais forwarder un mail en anglais ne fera pas diminuer ce fléau.
Et le fait de dénigrer la mammographie fera sûrement plus de mal que de bien. Mesdames allez voir le bon gynécologue tout les ans ! On vous veux en bonne santé, nous les mâles ...
Je suis par contre surpris : rien sur le site de la ligue qui ne corresponde à maladie de Paget.
Porte t elle un autre nom en Français ?
Le Zap's.
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Breast Cancer info ou Intox ?
Auteur : [extatic] (extatic AT panicinside.be) - Date : 22 septembre 2003 à 09h32
Quelques infos en français sur cette maladie (à ne pas confondre, comme l'indique Snopes, avec sa maladie homonyme affectant les os...) :
http://www.esculape.com/gynecologie/seinpaget.html
http://www.vulgaris-medical.com/textp/paget.html
Cette maladie est apparement d'un diagnostic assez facile, pratiqué presque par défaut, et nécessite rarement des soins très importants comme ceux décrits dans le message... En outre, elle touche principalement les femmes ménopausées et est quasiment inexistante chez les moins de trente ans.
Une note justement concernant ce message : même si l'information est exacte concernant la maladie de Paget, on peut remaquer qu'il présente quelques belles caractéristiques d'un hoax, comme celle de recourir à une personnification qui ne dit rien à personne (qui connaît Juanita Bush?) ou à des effets larmoyants (première partie du message). Par ailleurs, la partie du message où "Juanita" affirme que son cancer s'est propagé aux os en raison de la chimiothérapie est plus que douteux... (amalgame avec la maladie osseuse de Paget [non-cancéreuse...]?)
Enfin, pour Le Zap's : la maladie de Paget (et les cancer du sein en général) ne concernent pas uniquement les femmes : même si c'est extrêmement rare, ces maladies peuvent également toucher les hommes...
http://www.medinet.be/shownews.asp?ID=1232
[extatic]
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Breast Cancer info ou Intox ?
Auteur : Paléonora (cazzata AT voila.fr) - Date : 22 septembre 2003 à 11h28
Merci [extatic], ça faisait beaucoup d'anglais à la fois pour une pauvre petite tête comme la mienne... lol
Plus sérieusement, il faut que que l'information circule au sujet du cancer du sein, c'est un de ceux qui se soignent le mieux aujourd'hui mais il peut faire de gros dégâts si on ne s'y prend pas suffisamment tôt, en particulier lorsqu'il y a des prédispositions génétiques... Il est d'autant plus traître qu'il ne fait pas mal : alors gynéco-gynéco les filles ! (tous les ans, c'est bien, mais tous les 6 mois c'est encore mieux...)
Et comme l'a bien précisé [extatic], ne vous croyez pas à l'abri messieurs...
Paléonora
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