Less X for Breast

It's too late for Pearlie Mae but we'd believed that it would be this way. If we could have only been successful in convincing her to receive a limited but admitted difficult radiation therapy we would have never created this homage to our favorite Pearlie. Unfortunately the pain and discomfort was just unbearable. Pearlie Mae was not a person who suffers pain well, neither are we.


This recent research from the wonderful researchers from McMaster's in Canada has provided future hope for those still living and hoping yet fearful of chemotherapy cancer treatments. Oh Canada! Just in time for the Winter Olympics:

An intense three-week course of radiation therapy is just as effective as the standard five-week regimen for women with early-stage breast cancer. Dr. Tim Whelan, a professor of oncology at McMaster's Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine, led a team of researchers to find that women who received the accelerated therapy have a low risk of the breast cancer for as long as 12 years after treatment. The study was conducted by the Ontario Clinical Oncology Group under the direction of Dr. Mark Levine. (Daily News)

What Pearlie Mae didn't have was early-stage breast cancer. Yet what we believe is that when your loved ones are your concern you never give up. We believe that there would be hope and help however we weren't the ones suffering. For those who are suffering can't always hold out as long as those for whom suffering is an observation instead of participation. If never hurts to hope no matter who you are.