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Kat11
Kat11 Member Posts: 1,931 Member
edited March 2014 in Breast Cancer #1
All this stuff we read from are e-mail, may or may not be true. To find out if the information you getting has any truth to it go to www.snopes.com In the search you can type in Breast Cancer, the water issue,plastic bottles,just about anything you want to know.

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  • taleena
    taleena Member Posts: 1,612 Member
    #2
    Your right.. that is a good
    Your right.. that is a good place to go to get validation on all sorts of stuff that circulates through the internet...

    Thanks for the reminder.

    ~T
  • jnl
    jnl Member Posts: 3,869 Member
    #3
    taleena said:

    Your right.. that is a good
    Your right.. that is a good place to go to get validation on all sorts of stuff that circulates through the internet...

    Thanks for the reminder.

    ~T

    I would hope that everyone
    I would hope that everyone wouldn't just believe anything and everything they read on the internet, including, unfortunately, this site too. People are always posting research, but, that isn't necessarily the truth or the way it really is. We just need to use our own brains and be smart.
  • taleena
    taleena Member Posts: 1,612 Member
    #4
    jnl said:

    I would hope that everyone
    I would hope that everyone wouldn't just believe anything and everything they read on the internet, including, unfortunately, this site too. People are always posting research, but, that isn't necessarily the truth or the way it really is. We just need to use our own brains and be smart.

    touche'

    touche'
  • Christmas Girl
    Christmas Girl Member Posts: 3,682 Member
    #5
    jnl said:

    I would hope that everyone
    I would hope that everyone wouldn't just believe anything and everything they read on the internet, including, unfortunately, this site too. People are always posting research, but, that isn't necessarily the truth or the way it really is. We just need to use our own brains and be smart.

    Thanks, jnl
    I agree with you. Although our fellow members are certainly well-intentioned, I've seen some (not all) information "pasted" here on the board that I - personally - thought quite questionable. The source is what's most important, to me. And just to clarify, this board is not the actual site. The American Cancer Society hosts the site. The ACS is credible.

    We are all free to form our own opinions, and make our own choices.

    Kind regards, Susan
  • Noel
    Noel Member Posts: 3,095 Member
    #6
    taleena said:

    touche'

    touche'

    I agree jnl!

    I agree jnl!
  • Jeanne D
    Jeanne D Member Posts: 1,867
    #7
    Kat
    Kat, you are so right! And, snopes is a good site to check stuff out.

    How are you doing Kat? Do you start radiation in a few weeks? Hugs, Jeanne
  • Kat11
    Kat11 Member Posts: 1,931 Member
    #8
    Jeanne D said:

    Kat
    Kat, you are so right! And, snopes is a good site to check stuff out.

    How are you doing Kat? Do you start radiation in a few weeks? Hugs, Jeanne

    Jeanne, My arm is killing
    Jeanne, My arm is killing me, but other that that I am doing ok. About rads, well my path report came back with 2 nodes pos out of 22. I think this now means chemo. Don't see onc untill next friday and I guess she will give me the news. Then I guess its chemo than rads.
  • Marcia527
    Marcia527 Member Posts: 2,729
    #9
    I frequent that website
    I frequent that website often to check info and didn't think to check the water bottle thing out there. Maybe because we still drink out of them but here in Texas you never want to leave your bottle in the car anyway or the water is hot! Not nice to drink anyway.
  • chenheart
    chenheart Member Posts: 5,159
    #10
    Snopes!
    Oh Yeah~ I should have invested in Snopes...it is my absolute go-to site, and I consider it the Bible of Sorting Fact from Fiction! I am not much of a one for passing emails on, and I almost NEVER believe any of the "stuff" which I get forwarded to me, either. I generally go direcly to snopes, find out that what was sent to scare the daylights out of me was False~ and I send THAT link to the person who emailed me originally.

    Hugs,
    Claudia
  • mimivac
    mimivac Member Posts: 2,143 Member
    #11
    Yes, it is always good to
    Yes, it is always good to check out any information you receive for validity. There is a lot of unwarranted hyteria out there about everything under the sun. Saying that, I just want to put out there that the information on BPA in plastic water bottles is not a hoax. A study from the Harvard School of Public Health confirms that "drinking from plastic water bottles increases the amount of a chemical plasticizer that leaches into the body." The results were reported in the Boston Globe and published in the journal, Environmental Health Perspectives. BPA is a known hormone disputer.

    Snopes says that there is both true and false information out there about plastic bottles. They say that freezing plastic will not release dioxins because plastic does not contain dioxins. It does confirm that BPA ingestion has been linked with cancer and reproductive damage in some studies.

    The thing to remember is that science can be an interpretative art, too. Snopes is interpreting the studies just like everyone else. They don't have the patent on truth either.
  • Kat11
    Kat11 Member Posts: 1,931 Member
    #12
    mimivac said:

    Yes, it is always good to
    Yes, it is always good to check out any information you receive for validity. There is a lot of unwarranted hyteria out there about everything under the sun. Saying that, I just want to put out there that the information on BPA in plastic water bottles is not a hoax. A study from the Harvard School of Public Health confirms that "drinking from plastic water bottles increases the amount of a chemical plasticizer that leaches into the body." The results were reported in the Boston Globe and published in the journal, Environmental Health Perspectives. BPA is a known hormone disputer.

    Snopes says that there is both true and false information out there about plastic bottles. They say that freezing plastic will not release dioxins because plastic does not contain dioxins. It does confirm that BPA ingestion has been linked with cancer and reproductive damage in some studies.

    The thing to remember is that science can be an interpretative art, too. Snopes is interpreting the studies just like everyone else. They don't have the patent on truth either.

    I agree mimi, Everyday it's
    I agree mimi, Everyday it's new information. The plastic bottle issue has been around for a long time now. I feel we should go back to glass bottles. First everythings tastes better and glass does not hold bacteria like plastic does nor does it contain chemicals like plastic.
  • dmc_emmy
    dmc_emmy Member Posts: 549
    #13
    Kat11 said:

    Jeanne, My arm is killing
    Jeanne, My arm is killing me, but other that that I am doing ok. About rads, well my path report came back with 2 nodes pos out of 22. I think this now means chemo. Don't see onc untill next friday and I guess she will give me the news. Then I guess its chemo than rads.

    Good luck, Kat
    Kat11,

    As much as I hated chemo, I suppose, according to the stats, it did what it was suppose to do-reduce my chances of the cancer returning. I had some great oncology nurses that helped me through the chemo and a dear friend who drove me there every week (well, all except one and that was the one that I had the most severe side effect-go figure). If you can find someone to go with you, it makes the hours go by faster and, if you do have a reaction, there's someone there to drive you home.

    My friend and I had a picnic every time we went. I packed a picnic lunch, enough to feed an army because I knew I wouldn't be able to eat afterwards, and we laughed and shared stories until I fell sound asleep under the influence of Benodril. The benodril helped reduce the nauswa while I was there receiving treatment, it also made me sleepy and pretty dopey. We even made another friend there and shared our picnic lunch with her. I suppose even the worse of times can be made better when you have someone to share them with you.

    Not everyone has reactions like I did with the chemo, I hope you are like them.
    Take care,
    dmc
  • mimivac
    mimivac Member Posts: 2,143 Member
    #14
    Kat11 said:

    I agree mimi, Everyday it's
    I agree mimi, Everyday it's new information. The plastic bottle issue has been around for a long time now. I feel we should go back to glass bottles. First everythings tastes better and glass does not hold bacteria like plastic does nor does it contain chemicals like plastic.

    I like glass, too, Kat
    I have a stainless steel bottle, but I really prefer glass. My mother grew up not having anything plastic around until the 60's and 70's when the plastic craze hit Turkey. Now, she wishes for the old days... I, of course, grew up with mountains of plastic...
  • Kat11
    Kat11 Member Posts: 1,931 Member
    #15
    mimivac said:

    I like glass, too, Kat
    I have a stainless steel bottle, but I really prefer glass. My mother grew up not having anything plastic around until the 60's and 70's when the plastic craze hit Turkey. Now, she wishes for the old days... I, of course, grew up with mountains of plastic...

    I remember the glass coke
    I remember the glass coke bottles or any pop bottles. The glass milk containers and how it all was so cold and tasted great. Then you returned the bottles for money and bought more. Or when broke cashed in the good old pop bottles lol.

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