A UK woman who contracted the asbestos related cancer mesothelioma has put her faith in Germany to try and help her to fight the disease. The woman was diagnosed with the cancer two years ago and was given just months to live. However, since trying out pioneering treatment in Germany her cancer has gone into remission.
Forty nine year old Debbie Brewer was diagnosed with the asbestos related cancer in 2006. She decided to opt for paid treatment at the University Clinic in Frankfurt. She had contracted the cancer from asbestos exposure from her father’s clothing because she used to hug him as a child.
The treatment that she has been using in Germany is known as chemoembolisation, and is usually used to fight liver cancer. The treatment involved inserting a catheter into the lung to administer drugs directly to the tumour. She has been told that the tumour has now shrunk by more than fifty percent, that it is in remission, and that it will not return.
Mrs Brewer said: “It feels like I have been given my life back. After I was first diagnosed, the chance to see the children grow up, to see grandchildren, I thought I had lost all of it. Not even a lottery winner could feel like this. I haven’t taken it all in yet but at the moment it is my little miracle.”
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackGreetings, This is a wonderful story.I was diagnosed with mesothelioma in sept. ‘07. I underwent a pleurodesis very shortly after. I was told I had about 4 months to live.I read a lot of things on the web relating to cure. I devised a self treatment routine with commercially available items. I went along and gained weight and strength and in about 6 months or so I was doing my normal things.
I had regular blood tests and CT scans.April ‘08, the scan showed an increase. I underwent chemo with 6 courses. It showed very good results. I have just shown an increase again and we are monitoring it with regular blood test.( my blood tests all along have never been far from normal). I will have a CT. scan again in a few weeks and from that scan the decision relating to chemo will be made. I have had “alimta”and “carboplatin”.
I am 72 year old male, a builder for the vast majority of my working life. Asbestos exposure was common and regular.After the initial “flooding” of my left lung and the pleurodesis, I regained health as I said. I have never really had any pain to worry me from the disease. I am aware of it when doing deep breathing exercises, but not always.I would like to talk to other people with mesothelioma. I am the only one I know with it.
Any communication on this matter will be replied to and I welcome questions and advice.
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