to Kathy Robbins and all the graves warriors

[Guest guest]

Hello Kathy,

One study I read gave an excess of about 10% for female cancers among

woman with any kind of hyperthyroid condition. Coincidently, another

lady in my daughter's nursery school has just been diagnosed with

Graves...she had cervical cancer 3 years ago.

Perhaps the chemo could bring it on, but I am sure I had it (Graves) for

30 years prior to diagnosis.

An animal study I read was intriguing. Hyperthyroid rats had their

cancers grow like gangbusters compared to a control group. However when

hyperthyroid rats who were given Tapazole, it slowed or even stopped

their cancers.

A Canadian study showed that 30 % of the women with breast cancer in a

certain study had TSABS compared to 10 % of controls. However, the women

with TSABS had much better outcome than the women without, indicating

that they may not need as extensive a set of treatments.

I wonder how many women could be spared the misery of a cancer diagnosis

if we knew if there was a connection between thyroid disease and cancer.

Because I was losing weight quickly ( 20 lbs in 5 months),felt very

sick, and had abnormal liver and bone numbers, the doctor I was seeing a

year ago thought my cancer had returned and I would soon die. Problem

was, they couldn't find the site of the metastasis. So they decided to

wait it out. Miraculously I improved, in fact 4 months later I felt

completely well. I went to another doctor and 48 hours later found out

that my T4 was 17.5. So much for being completely well...I can only

imagine how high it was when I was sick. I had no idea what T4 or Graves

was before I was diagnosed.

I wonder if other problems are also associated with Graves.

Regards,

Vesta