Did Christina Applegate cure herself of breast cancer from some special diet?

Question

the article says macrobiotics. What do you think?

http://tv.yahoo.com/show/30753/news/urn:newsml:tv.ap.org:20080818:people_christina_applegate__ER:83022

Answer 1

No. Being healthy and having a balanced healthy diet will of course make for a healthier body able to fight the cancer more efficiently, but no it did not cure her alone. The cancer sound like it was in situ and had not spread. She is lucky and caught it early due to her proper screening habits. She did have a double mastectomy additionally to remove the cancer and potential of recurrence.

Answer 2

She was in a very early stage of breast cancer.  She did do the diet thing (called macrobiotics) but from what I read in an article, she also had some other type of treatment, she had both b*****s removed, even though they only found cancer in one of them. This is how her cancer was "cured", not the diet. Her mom had breast cancer also...

Answer 3

No she did not cure herself from a special diet.  She is changing her diet to help keep her in tip top shape in hopes that it help her maintain her current cancer free status.  Here is how she cured her cancer.  She found out in April that she had breast cancer and it was caught very early.  She originally had a lumpectomy.  After the lumpectomy, she had genetic testing done to see if she carried the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genetic breast cancer gene mutation because her mother also was diagnosed with breast cancer twice.  The BRCA genes greatly increase ones risk for breast and ovarian cancer - see www.facingourrisk.org for information on BRCA1 and BRCA2.  After she learned that she tested positive for the BRCA1 gene, she then decided to have a double prophylactic mastectomy.

You can see her interview she did today, August 19, 2008 at

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA

Answer 4

Christina Applegate is "cancer free" becasue she had both breast removed.

This is not due to diet, and she is not in "remission".  The casner was surgically removed.

Answer 5

No

First, no foods or diets have been proven to cure cancer - or to cause it or affect its progress in any way.

And nobody who has had breast cancer can consider themselves cured - they are in remission. Breast cancer can return at any time, even years after treatment.

Either Ms Applegate has misinterpreted what her doctors said or, more likely, the Media has misinterpreted what she said.

The most a doctor will have told her is that she currently has no evidence of cancer. That's what they tell me at my check-ups and it's almost five years since my diagnosis of breast cancer - no evidence of disease, or NED. My favourite word.

Ms Applegate has apparently changed to a healthier diet, but I hope she's honest enough to give the credit for her remission to those who've earned it - her medical team.

Edit** Not so, Gary. Removal of breast which had the tumour is NOT a guarantee that cancer will not return. She is in remission, just as I am following my mastectomy