Who defeated cancer is Tanya!
“My name is Tanya Belkova. I have breast cancer.
No, it's not like that.
I am thirty one years old. I have three children. Petya is eleven, Vitya is seven, Masha is five. I work and I have breast cancer.
I was bald, I was ugly. But there are cosmetics to draw eyebrows. Beautiful handkerchiefs look great on a head without hair. I know many ways to hide the face of illness.
Yes, cancer hurts. But not scary and not humiliating. I have walked this path myself."
Photo from personal archive. "I have someone to live for!"
We met with Tanya in April when she was doing "red" chemo. Short, thin, like a twig, pale. No hair, no eyelashes, no eyebrows. We were sitting in a cafe, and I tried not to look at how hard she was given each piece. But such a powerful stream of energy emanated from this fragile girl that I had no doubt that she would jump out of this terrible mess.
We agreed on a new meeting after the disease subsides. And now, eight months later, we meet again in a cafe. I hardly recognize in the model-beautiful girl, whom men look at, that shadow, tortured by illness. No, she still weighs 42 kilograms with her clothes on, and the waist can be intercepted with closed hands, but this boyish haircut, the radiance of the eyes, the freshness of the skin - does it really happen?
Then she promised the attending oncologist to bake her signature cake in September.
Didn't bake anything. Four "red" chemistry I worked. After each session, I did not eat anything for several days, so as not to feel sick from the smell of food. I drank only freshly squeezed juices. Raise yourself in any way and go to work. I thought that everything would be over, and I would bake cakes at full strength.
Then taxanes began - four more chemo, and my hands ate. I'm always lucky with side effects. The skin peeled off like a glove. Fingers have lost sensitivity, and she has not yet recovered. I can’t use a needle because I don’t feel: did I take it or not?
Now I'm not even afraid to donate blood from my finger! But it was impossible to work in such a state. I put on cloth gloves, then rubber ones, so that the children could at least cook breakfast. That's it for the cakes. The only cake I made for Petya's birthday. I did it for three days. Usually during this time I managed to bake 30 cakes.
- Didn't you have any strength?
Did not have. They disappeared when the irradiation began. There after all not only a burn, also leukocytes fall. I wanted to sleep like hell. At seven in the morning I woke up the children in the kindergarten. She took me away, returned home and slept until five. And then she took the children to various developmental activities. In the summer, a charitable foundation gave us a ticket to the sea. After resting, I started baking cakes again. They dispersed well, and then the day came when I put the biscuits on and realized that I did not have the strength to collect them. They stood for two days, and I threw everything away. Once I baked cupcakes, and it was hard for me to hold the mixer. Masha still made a pink cake, as she dreamed, but she couldn’t do it on Vitin’s birthday. It was my first time ordering a cake. Nobody ate it...
But the treatment is finally over. The long-awaited recovery has come.
Not recovery, but remission. All people who are undergoing cancer treatment are waiting for this magic word "remission". They told you: “You are in remission, and therefore you are healthy!” Not true. The rays burn the heart, lungs, trachea. Chemistry destroys the liver. It turns out that all the internal organs that are responsible for our health have suffered greatly. They need to be restored.
We need rehabilitation, which our state has not yet come up with for cancer patients. Athletes after injuries, people after a stroke undergo rehabilitation. And after cancer, it takes time for the body, exhausted and poisoned by chemotherapy, to be able to recover.
Due to the fact that the hormonal background has sat down, I have hot flashes, like women in menopause, a cough, with which I can’t do anything yet. For example, I do not have a certain percentage of bone mass, and when you sit for a long time, you feel how the spine presses. You must either build muscle mass through training, or wear a corset. I chose training, and two weeks after the rays I came to the gym. Now I look good, but for this I had to spend a lot of energy.
- Nice haircut. Did the new hair grow back quickly?
When they promise that hair will begin to grow two weeks after chemo, this is not true. I finished chemistry on July 27, in September the first “stumps” just started to appear. Hair grew gray, temples were all white. The lashes took the longest to recover. They grow straight at first, and then fan out in all directions. Fragile, brittle. An interesting thing happened to the eyebrows. I plucked my eyebrows once. They don't grow anymore.
- Tanya, I see: there is a new profession in the business card - a beauty consultant.
I give advice on the selection of cosmetics of one company. You can hold the brush between your fingers. (Demonstrates.) After all, I need to show clients how to take care of themselves, how to choose the right care. This is my job. First, I say how old I am, how many children I have and what I went through this year. Everyone is in shock. Nobody believes. I have always loved making people happy. If I can't feed them, then it's up to me to make them beautiful. I have several friends with a diagnosis, whom I am not able to help with money, but I can support with cosmetic products. Preserving beauty is very important so that later, when you finish the treatment, it would not be scary to look at your reflection in the mirror.
But back to the cakes. I really want to bake! I still look at other people's pictures on the Internet, and I myself have a lot of new ideas. If the cosmetics that I am currently doing is still someone else's product, then my cakes are from scratch. They have my soul.
Surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy - a long and hard way. How does a person feel when the countdown begins?
You live, you fight... It's like walking to the sea from . It’s hard, it hurts, your shoes are worn out, and now you’ve entered knee-deep blue waves and don’t know what to do next. It's like the Afghan return from war syndrome. There are two types of people: people like me who say: we live on, and better than before! We will get new impressions, watch good films, walk. Communicate with people who can overcome themselves, who pulled themselves out of the crisis - anyone.
Others think: what if I get sick again? So, sports are not allowed, the pool is not allowed, everything is not allowed! The man put himself in quotation marks: "disabled."
I know I have today and I have tomorrow. Everything can break at any moment.
- Remission is a shaky word...
Cancer is not a sore throat or a fracture that will not recur without a reason. Remission means that there is no active disease. She left for a year, for five years, for a lifetime with someone. I had a friend, Katya from Novosibirsk. Three months ago, she wrote that she was in remission. And then - a relapse. Hospital. Katya died a few days before the New Year. She was in her early thirties. Previously, breast cancer occurred in women over 45, and now my peers are sick. Why? I am small, thin, with three children, athletic, a vegetarian. And people with excess weight, alcoholism, smoking from the age of 13, couch potatoes are in order, they have a maximum of cholesterol and heart.
- Did you know Katya in real life?
No, they only communicated on social networks. The day she passed away still stands before my eyes. Mom and I went shopping. They measured boots, chose gifts, had fun. An SMS with the news of Katya's death came when I was on the subway home. I was wearing makeup, mascara was dripping down my collar. I realized that I needed to go there, to Novosibirsk. Just to honor the memory of a man.
After a difficult treatment, a couple of days before the New Year, she dropped everything she was doing and flew across half the country, into the night, to say goodbye. Put a bouquet of roses.
In the morgue, at the coffin, she suddenly realized that, in fact, she could be in the place of this young woman. Also get a relapse, and then two options: either fight or die.
I looked into the eyes of my fear and realized that I was not afraid of it. So, we can go further. It's like a dark room. It's just scary to go into it, and then it's normal. Katya had a very beautiful, peaceful face, and I realized that it was not her who was hurting, but those who remained. Her child, who lost her mother before the New Year, her husband. I saw his eyes, he was very much in love with her.
Frankly, I have rarely met people of such a degree of openness as Tanya Belkova. This, of course, is one of the reasons for the incredible popularity of her Instagram. Subscribers, and there are about 35 thousand of them, every day read the annals of her life like a novel.
Openness is also insecurity. And even such a strong person as Tanya sometimes cannot stand it when she reads malicious and envious comments. There was a moment when she took time out on the Web to just catch her breath.
At the Novosibirsk airport, I went online. I thought they would say to me: “Tanya, well done for flying. Buy a bouquet for Katya for us!” They wrote that I went to the funeral for PR ...
When I went to the gym for the first time after a long break and made a post about my first workout, my Instagram just exploded with negativity. People wrote: "If you have the strength to go to the gym, why can't you bake cakes?" How to explain that these are different things?
They can't forgive me for getting well. “You no longer have cancer? Okay, but you have to be a beggar, miserable, terrible.”
They came to watch me die. Mom of three children, without a husband, with a bunch of diagnoses, without money, bakes cakes. If he stops baking, he will die of hunger. The first four chemistry I baked non-stop 10 cakes. I didn’t get enough sleep, my blood counts dropped, and I realized that I needed to reduce my activity. But we made it through the summer. When I posted pictures from chemistry, where I had a catheter, I was provided with a bunch of likes. As soon as the picture changed and I stopped being sorry, everything changed.
"Why did they give her the sea?" "Why does she need the sun after chemo?" Such questions. In the sun you can not with one type of cancer - with melanoma. And for people like me, there are a lot of protective creams, hats, scarves. I took an umbrella with me. The sun touched my skin only when I went swimming. I swept on all the slides, with a wild squeal!
Girlfriends are trolling according to the diagnosis: either someone is sick now, or someone who has also recovered, but lives a different life than I do. They do not understand: why do I have the strength to go to the theater or to a cafe, but not to cakes? Dressing nicely, sitting in an armchair and drinking coffee is easy. Try it. And baking non-stop in the heat is very difficult.
Selfie at the gym. Two weeks after irradiation.
Perhaps this is the cost of popularity. And there are still many more good people. It was they who supported in the most difficult time both in word and money.
Of course! And I am immensely grateful to them. Some stores sent dresses and other clothes, and one brand company presented a sheepskin coat. Only later did I find out how much it cost... During my illness, I had a whole collection of beautiful handkerchiefs and kerchiefs. I keep them.
I have a friend who can be sent an SMS at 3:30 in the morning with a request to pick me up from another city, and he will answer: “I can leave right now!”
Once I wrote on Instagram: “Friends, if you have unnecessary tickets to theaters or exhibitions (for children and adults), the triplets and I would love to go. They are so inquisitive now! I need to drive somewhere on weekends, otherwise this is how it will be today - I'm in my pajamas all day, tenderly feeling sorry for myself before tomorrow's procedures. I will have a personal Chernobyl. A little scary. I'm afraid of a burn under my arm, because there the seam healed for a long time and painfully. They gave me tickets, threw links to discounts or free performances.
For children's birthdays, an unfamiliar animation team helped arrange fabulous celebrations with balloons. The other day we visited the Moskvarium at VDNKh with our children. And when I had to earn money for radiation therapy, and I could no longer bake cakes, one subscriber simply transferred this money to me and wrote: “Tanya, bake as much as you want, but you already have money!”
- In general, if you want to recover - look for money! What about free healthcare?
Free medicine is indifference, a conveyor belt. If you are lucky, you will come across a humane, kind-hearted doctor who will tell you how to act. And no luck - there will be an indifferent "white coat", which everyone got. At first I was even afraid of my doctor, until I realized that I didn’t need anything from him.
The dispensary gave me a disability for a year. This pink piece of paper entitles you to a wheelchair sticker for your car and a pension of 12,000. They asked me: "How many chemo did you do?" - "Eight!" - “And if there were six, they would give the third group without a pension! Disability needs to be verified every year.
Cancer centers are a special world, with its eternally cold, dank corridors, where you always feel cold. It smells of drugs, pain and fear. You are sitting in line for an ultrasound scan, you have no leukocytes, but no one will miss it - after all, everyone here is equal. Once there was nowhere to sit, and I just sat on the floor.
If you don't have money, you will wait for the queue to come. For surgery, for ultrasound, for everything. Six months should not pass between chemo and radiation, ideally it should be done right away. It seems like rays according to a quota, but for this quota I gave the amount in an envelope so as not to wait.
A person who is faced with a disease should first look for competent doctors and only then money. Friends helped me pay for the treatment. This is an astronomical amount. I had cool chemotherapy and medicines after it, paid droppers, when I came on time and did not wait a second. Her sick friends were surprised: “Why does Tanya bake cakes while we lie down?” Katya from Novosibirsk was treated for free...
Tanya, when was it especially scary? When was the diagnosis announced or later? After all, cancer treatment is very tough, not everyone will survive.
Everyone is afraid of this diagnosis at the level of cold blood, and I was also afraid to even talk about it: if you say it, then you will accept it, but until you say it, it seems like it doesn’t exist. But then it was necessary to make a decision: I climb into the fire to the last. It's like walking on coals or broken glass. As long as you believe that you will overcome, everything will work out. You go and don't notice. As soon as you doubt, immediately burns and cut wounds. So here too.
Recently I participated in one program on the radio. They conducted a survey among listeners: if they knew that they had cancer, would they fight or not? So, two people out of three would fight, and one would not, that is, a third would give up ... This is not my way, because I love life and I have someone to live for.
The last time I got scared was when I saw a thick needle from a drug that had to be injected every 28 days for five years. I counted - exactly 60 injections! Then for the first time I thought: why do I need all this? It is necessary to prick in the adipose tissue on the stomach, but I don’t have this fold ... I looked at the needle for ten days. And threw it in the trash. There is an alternative. Quite radical, but I chose it.
- Cancer is also a huge experience of losses and, oddly enough, gains.
I wrote on Instagram that my cancer took away several close friends from me, almost a year of an active and fulfilling life, and also my hair and nails. At the same time, he took with him an allergy to mangoes, which I had from the age of 7 (for the first time, a grandfather from India brought us mangoes, since then). Cancer gave me some ugly scars, and at the same time some new, faithful and sincere friends, gave me a whole month of love then, in the spring, gave me the opportunity to be myself and talk about what seems important to me. And thanks to all these circumstances, now there is such a me, more understanding, more vulnerable, more real.
During my illness, I realized that I need to look in myself for an opportunity not so much to change the world as my attitude towards it. The world will not change. And from the fact that an unfamiliar beautiful girl smiled at you in the subway, it will become a little warmer in it.
I got this amazing feeling of femininity and attractiveness, when people look not with sympathy, but with admiration. I was waiting for this moment so much and finally burned the calendar for that year, all the pages with the dates of chemo and irradiation.
And now I can come and say: “Hello, my name is Tatyana Belkova. I am a mother of many children, I again defeated cancer. This is great".
P.S. Yesterday Tanya started baking her magic cakes again.
To be honest, I was intrigued: “I wonder what he wants to talk about? Encounter with aliens? Climbing Everest? Reunion with a lost brother after 30 years?
We met the next day, and Marcel's story touched my heart: he told me how he beat cancer of the lymphatic system at stage 4, although according to forecasts, he had several months to live.
Three things immediately struck me. First, his awareness. He is sure that cancer arose in his life, because he himself created it. His attitude to life and behavior. Second, his optimism. He stubbornly calls himself and other cancer patients "sick." “I am sometimes scolded for this word, but I use it to show that a person who has cancer is simply “ill”. This is the same curable disease as the others. You don't have to give up on yourself. We must fight!"
Thirdly, the most important thing is his goal: “It is very important for me now to help other people. They almost all give up when they hear the word "cancer"! One thing needs to be conveyed: cancer is curable.”
In general, we got a conversation not about cancer at all, but about real values, the tireless struggle that each of us leads inside ourselves, faith, love, the unbearable lightness of being and the laws of life.
Larisa Parfentyeva and Marcel Imangulov, photo instagram Larisa
- Marcel, tell us how it all started?
I practically stopped sleeping and scratched around the clock. The skin became rough and tortoise-like, but the diagnosis remained unclear. I went for acupuncture, I had rectal surgery, I was stripped, examined dozens of times, I swallowed tubes and tons of pills, I went on diets, I took hundreds of tests. Nothing helped.
By this time, I had already quit my job and went to the village to my grandparents. I was completely exhausted, could not eat, slept for several minutes a day and constantly jumped up from a sharp itch. I was no longer able to wear clothes because my whole body had become an open wound. This hell lasted 11 months. It seems that then I almost lost my mind and, I confess, I almost resigned myself to the fact that I would die soon.
But my family did not give up. One day my aunt came with a retired RBC professor. I scratched for 11 months, and it took him five minutes to make a diagnosis. Only 5 minutes! The diagnosis was: lymphogranulomatosis, or cancer of the lymphatic system.
I was hospitalized in an oncological dispensary, where the diagnosis was confirmed: Hodgkin's lymphoma stage 4.
- I can’t imagine how you survived all this for 11 months! How did you react when you found out you had cancer?
Now, probably, it will sound strange, but I was happy! “Hurrah,” I thought, “finally, I know my diagnosis!” It was a relief, because it was clear what to fight.
The doctors said that I had a few months left, but I believed that I could recover. Over the past 2.5 years, I have completed eight courses of chemotherapy and two courses of radiation. Twice I was treated in Israel. Money was collected all over the world. I worked as a bartender for six years, and the support of the Bartending Association of Russia helped me a lot.
Six months ago I was told that I was in remission. In my case, this means that the foci of cancer that remain are “sleeping”. And I believe that I have a chance to live to 80 years.
Let's talk honestly about the causes of cancer and other diseases. For me, this is a rather controversial and unexplored topic. Most people who are authoritative for me say that all diseases are in our heads, and we largely create them ourselves. Well, plus, of course, external factors: nutrition, bad habits, ecology, and so on. I understand that it’s easy to be healthy and talk about how everything comes “from the head”.
But I wouldn’t have the courage and confidence to say to the face of an oncological patient a phrase like: “Listen, buddy, change your thoughts, your attitude to life and cancer will go away,” because any serious illness is a tragedy, and people in such a situation deserve compassion.
You know, I believe that I created 90% of the cancer myself. In my case, as you correctly said, it is a complex of factors: stress, resentment, self-flagellation, nutrition, wrong daily routine, bad habits and ecology.
Let's start in order. Firstly, in 2011 my younger brother died, and it was the strongest stress. I suffered from it for two years, and then I began to itch.
Secondly, I had the wrong value system that was imposed by society: “You have to be cool, in a cool car, with your own business and earn a million at the age of 20.”
When it all started, I was 23, and I literally ate myself from the inside: “You are a loser! You're 23 and you don't even have a car." I looked around me, at all these fashionable people in nightclubs, at all this window dressing and rotted myself for not taking place.
Thirdly, these are personal grievances. Grievances cannot be kept in oneself in any case, because they corrode from the inside.
Fourth, one of the most important factors is the ecology of our region. It can also be added here that according to statistics, Russia consistently occupies the top lines in the rankings for oncological diseases in the world.
Fifth, I worked as a bartender for six years. The routine of the day was completely broken. When people went to work at 7 in the morning, I only returned from it. Plus malnutrition, bad habits.
All these factors, to varying degrees - as I believe - and became the cause of cancer in me.
- What about genetics?
I know my family for several generations in depth, and none of them had cancer. If you dig even further, it is very difficult to understand, because oncological diseases began to be diagnosed relatively recently.
- Clear. Well, you talked with other cancer patients ...
Yes, and they are all awesome!
- And what do they say about their causes of cancer?
There are psychological support groups for cancer patients where you come and share your thoughts. The most important question that is asked there is: “What do you think, because of what you have cancer?”.
It seems to me that people should be handed out leaflets at birth, where it will be written: “Remember, dissatisfaction with your life and unloved work is the cause of serious illnesses.” And let's close this topic about the reasons, the most sensitive question is about sick children. Why do they have it, do you think?
Hard question. My opinion: ecology. Well, plus, I recently read the theory that the karma of parents “works” on children.
Yes, there is such a version. One oncologist told me a story about a woman who gave birth to a child - for herself. And she had a "fad": she was very authoritarian, domineering and constantly said that she wanted "the child to be with her all the time." As a result, the girl was diagnosed with cancer at the age of 8. And even the doctor said with sadness: “Well, I wanted the child to be constantly there - now you won’t even leave him for a second.”
You and I are not doctors (and I want to emphasize this), so, of course, you should not forget about the medical side either. But at the same time, it is very important to remember that what we ourselves do with our lives is perhaps the key reason not only for our illnesses, but also for the illnesses of our children.
I agree.
- Now your goal is to help people cope with this disease and learn not to be afraid?
In the minds of the whole country: oncology is an almost guaranteed death. Usually, those who say they have cancer are asked one question: “And how much do you have left?”. We must learn to perceive cancer as a difficult but surmountable stage.
I have seen so many times in the hospital a relic of "soviet" thinking: people who hear the diagnosis of "cancer" slide down the wall, become depressed and do not want to live. They immediately put a cross on themselves. This is very dangerous, so the attitude in the treatment is very important. A person who has already written off himself can quickly “burn out”.
What is the most important thing to know about cancer?
That he is not terrible and curable.
- And who supported you during the illness?
My parents, my girlfriend and friends. I constantly thought that parents who had already lost one son in 2011 should see their grandchildren.
Love is very motivating, right?
Very much! Moreover, love in the broadest sense of the word: from relatives, others and even strangers. I am very grateful to everyone who supported me! Their faith in me and warmly charged me powerfully. My girlfriend and I recently broke up.
- And why?
I think there are two reasons for this. Firstly, she was tense for a long time because of my illness and, I think, was very tired. Secondly, a man always wants to look strong in the eyes of his woman. And knowing that your girlfriend saw you weak is very hard. And it is very corrosive from the inside. Well, there is another reason: I am a disastrously jealous owner.
Marcel after a course of chemotherapy, - from Marseille's Instagram
You are right, because a lot of couples break up after experiencing "tragedies". People can't handle seeing another person see them as lost, crushed, or weak. Moreover, these can be not only illnesses, but also stages when one of the partners cannot realize himself for a long time and becomes angry and irritable.
That's right, a lot of couples fall apart because of it.
- Why do you think cancer is considered almost a death sentence in our society?
This is a fundamental misconception! I have friends who a year ago were in the fourth stage of the disease, and today they already have families and children. Of course, many who were treated with me died, but a disproportionate number of those who recovered. In general, we all became very good friends. No one will understand you as well as a person who goes through the same thing.
What should you do if a loved one is diagnosed with cancer?
First, don't feel sorry for him. Secondly, do not look at him with the eyes of a plaintive dog, do not show weakness, do not sob and do not hit the wall. Thirdly, you need to be sure of his recovery. If you are as hard as a stone, then he himself will believe in it.
- What do you advise healthy people?
First, don't neglect your health. In Russia, there is such a mentality: until something starts to fall off in our country, we do not go to the hospital. Secondly, do not cheat yourself and do not look for something that is not there. Some people who have read my itch story think they have cancer at the slightest scratch. Remember that itchy skin is a symptom of many diseases. Thirdly, all problems are solvable. There are no hopeless situations.
- And what would you say to the sick, more precisely, "ill"?
The most important thing is to believe in yourself and fight. Still be open to those who want to help. Many people immediately close, become hermits. It is necessary to do everything not to think about the disease, to somehow be distracted. I found the ideal remedy for myself: I constantly communicated with different people.
- Now, after a few months, do you think your illness gave you more or took it away?
Of course I gave more.
Now the beauty of the world is perceived much sharper. Today I planted a tree in a suburban village, and then lay down on the grass and looked at the clear sky. I heard the leaves rustling, the wind blowing, I felt it all so deeply and so strongly. Before the illness, I did not notice this. I was so happy just lying on the grass looking at the dandelions.
I stopped being nervous over trifles and became more tolerant. For example, before, if someone stepped on my foot, I could start sorting things out, but now I myself am ready to be the first to apologize.
I also have iron patience. I spent the last three years sitting in endless lines, so I learned not to rush anywhere. I understood an important law of life: "Wherever you are, your turn will still come on time."
And here's another. I began to prioritize differently. For example, before, if I was in a hurry to a meeting, but I met a woman with a stroller who needed help, I would pass by because I was in a hurry. And now I can't get past. I'd rather be late for the meeting, but help the person.
Great! You know, Sonya Lubomirskaya, a professor of psychology at the University of California, did a study and found out that helping other people cures depression. What are your plans for the future?
Well, I already planted a tree. Left a house and a son. And I would like to write a book that will help someone.
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At the beginning you said that we live in a world of inverted values. How has your value system changed now?
People are ready to spend a lot of money on a "wrapper": a cool phone, a car, pretentious restaurants. At the same time, they sit on buckwheat and do not feel satisfaction from life. We do not notice the world around, we do not pay attention to people, we get angry. We are moving in the wrong direction.
I think that it is necessary to invest in impressions, travel, mountains, nature. Only today I realized that I walk in torn sneakers, but I don’t care. I don't have an iPhone or a car and, you know, I'm happy. Now I feel like I'm truly alive.
Oh, do you remember the movie "Knockin' on Heaven"? The heroes, who had a couple of days left to live, escaped from the hospital to look at the sea, because they had never seen it ...
Of course! This is one of my favorite films. When I was sick, I also thought that I had never seen the sea in my life. But my dream, fortunately, came true during the treatment in Israel. I even wrote a letter to Til Schweiger.
- What did he write about?
About living in his film.
- I can't help but ask this question: is it scary that today could be the last day?
Each of us - both sick and healthy - today may be the last day of life. Of course, sometimes such thoughts slip through. No one is safe, but there is even some kind of romance in this, because it is this that allows me to smile like crazy every day and love this world like it's the last time.
If you could live your life again...
- I would leave everything as it is.
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Do you think we will beat cancer?
I am glad to welcome you, my name is Tatyana Panyushkina. No matter how you answer this question, I want to assure you that we will defeat cancer! Let me tell you my personal story.
This year, in 2018, I turned 64 years old. But today I am much happier and more energetic than 20 years ago.
At the age of 42, I had to endure serious stress, from which my path to a happy life and health began. The situation was connected with the financial sphere and my personal life. I have a strong predisposition to cancer in my family, both on my father's side and on my mother's side.
Two of my brothers, two aunts, three sisters died from oncology, and my mother also had to endure this disease. She went through treatment for six months, received a disability group. But she practiced herbs and treated herself, so she lived a long life for more than 30 years.
Return to yourself. At 42, I began to feel that something was wrong in the urogenital area. I had to endure all this for two years, but the pain intensified, the discomfort did not go away. I drove away bad thoughts from myself and did not think that it could be oncology. Therefore, no action was taken by me.
During this period, my mother passed away, the disease began to develop very quickly. I had to go to the doctors, I was brought to the hospital in an ambulance already in a semi-conscious state. The doctors performed an examination, a biopsy and gave me a terrible diagnosis. I was asked to have an urgent operation.
I had to agree and stay in the hospital. Then chemotherapy and long treatment awaited me, then disability. The standard cable car that many people have passed on.
These thoughts did not leave me all the first night when I was in a medical facility. At this time, I remembered my mother, who, after doctors, switched to self-medication with the help of prayers, various techniques, herbs, conspiracies. She knew this from her grandmother, who was once a healer.
My mother told me that without such treatment she would not have been able to live so long. If something like this happens to me, so that I do not agree to the operation and chemistry. She did not have an operation, she only had to undergo chemotherapy. Mom said that it was too much. I remembered that in the old box there were notes of my mother and grandmother.
I am practically not afraid of anything, so I decided quickly. I always believed in my mother, although she was not a literate person, she is a quick-witted and wise woman. She told me many secrets about the treatment of various diseases. I wrote down the recipes from her words. She also made notes, illiterate, but you can make out. I have the originals, as well as what I copied for my mother.
Without waiting for the morning, I knew that I would definitely leave. And so I did, despite all the obstacles. At my request, my twelve-year-old son brought me clothes to the hospital. I left. Of all my mother's records, I chose those that related specifically to oncology and put them into action.
I had to change the whole mode of life, nutrition, attitude to events, my own emotions and behavior. I searched and collected herbs, applied all the recommendations that my mother left me. There were conspiracies, and special technologies, and much more.
My results
What have I achieved? I have already said that cancer is curable. This was confirmed: any disease (oncology is no exception) originates from emotions.
And this is the area of life that lends itself to change on our part. This means that we can change our own attitude towards the disease. Even in the East they said that if you call your enemy by his true name, then you can rule over him. We should not be afraid of oncology and call it to win. Also in the East they say that while a person moves, he lives. We are moving, so cancer will be cured. As long as we live, it is possible to find a way out of any situation.
Today I am healthy. I think it's because I left the hospital on time. This is my personal decision. At that moment, I decided: I will never go to a medical institution, I will not go to a hospital or a polyclinic.
20 years have already passed, and I don’t remember any hospitals. I feel that my health has become even stronger than it was at that moment. Previously, I had a cold and even such a disease as hemorrhoids, I faced problems with the liver, large intestine, kidneys. Diseases overtook me periodically. Today it is not even necessary to remember this.
And I advise you not to lose heart, to use every opportunity provided by fate. No need to be afraid of life situations. As long as we live and breathe, we can handle absolutely everything. Be sure of it. I had to work a lot with people, I studied Chinese medicine, I know many conspiracies, technologies that make it possible to find a way out of any life situation. Don't miss any opportunity.
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The address of the Almaty Oncological Dispensary (Utepova St., 3) is familiar to our heroines firsthand. It has been many years since they stepped through the threshold of this institution for the first time. At our request, they recall what they have almost forgotten - they talk about cancer, how to fight it and how to defeat it.
Yesimbaeva Meiramgul, like many others, heard about cancer only that they die from it. Faced with him in 2004, she proved otherwise. And now, with a smile on his face, he recalls the events of bygone years:
- The first symptom for me was heavy menstruation. In this case, all women visit a gynecologist. I went to the local gynecologist. She suspected something was wrong and sent me to the oncology dispensary. It was in Semipalatinsk, where I was born and lived at that time. I underwent a biopsy, after which they said to urgently go to the operation.
They did not explicitly tell me about the diagnosis, they said this: “You have cells found, you need an urgent operation and radiation therapy.” I knew right away that I had cervical cancer. I was operated on and my lymph nodes were removed.
- The first thing I experienced was fear ... And immediately I thought: “I haven’t done so much yet, the children are small!”. I cried, but I didn't show my tears to anyone. I have a daughter and a son, they were on vacation, so they found out only after the operation. Immediately after I came to my senses, I called the children, and then told my relatives.
I was prescribed radiation therapy - 25 sessions of 5 minutes. When I left the hospital, I went to the library. I found medical books, read everything. She was treated with herbs and traditional medicine.
But 5 years later, the cancer returned:
- At night, I began to notice that my heartbeat became more frequent, I began to wake up in the middle of the night. I turned to a therapist, he sent me for a cardiogram, and then to do an ultrasound with suspected goiter. The doctors became alert and sent me to an oncology clinic for a biopsy, after which I was diagnosed with third-degree thyroid cancer. Then I was no longer afraid, I immediately informed my family. I was operated on, the right lobe of the thyroid gland was removed. There are no consequences as such, the only thing is that you need to take pills all your life due to a lack of hormones produced.
- I was born and raised in Semipalatinsk, they say that the root cause of all diseases is nuclear testing.
“I needed to live because I have children. I was not particularly a believer, but when fate brought me to this illness, I began to pray. I prayed, the words came out of me. My thinking and outlook after cancer changed 180 degrees. All this vain life, quarrels - all this is secondary. There is a reassessment of values. I began to notice how birds sing, and people rush to and from work and miss these moments. All diseases begin with thoughts, emotions. It is necessary that everything be clear in the head, without negativity, aggression. Then there will be health. Here I am in front of you, I was diagnosed with cancer twice, and both times the third degree, and I'm alive! Don't give up, fight to the end!
Suleimenov Ainis also a native of Semipalatinsk, she, like Meiramgul, suggests that nuclear testing is a possible cause of cancer:
– It seems to me that this happened because I was born in the Semipalatinsk region. While the tests were taking place. I grew up in a large family, we have 10 children, and I was the only one who had cancer. This is my guess.
In October 2007, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. Shortly before that, when I was vacationing in Issyk-Kul in the summer, I noticed a bump. Upon arrival, I could not get myself together, but in September I finally went to the doctor. There was a fear, I did not expect that this could happen to me. Doctors supported, said that now it's all curable. Reassured, but nevertheless internally I doubted. I did not hide from the family, I immediately informed my husband. He was upset, but the support from his side was huge, as well as from the side of relatives, children. But at work, no one knows, I don’t want to be pitied, it’s useless.
“I had four surgeries, and after each operation I was prescribed chemotherapy. The first time I went to a paid clinic. They say that I had the first stage, but initially a mistake was made, which led to the next three operations. I was advised to put an implant, but it was wrong. I had two relapses, after which the implant was removed. I don't know exactly what happened, but the implant was to blame. It could not be placed immediately after the operation, only a year later. The doctor who operated on me did not say that. He took no responsibility. After that, I went to the state oncology dispensary.
- After the operation, a treatment was prescribed, which, as it turned out later, had no effect on me. It turns out that I idly drank antibiotics and simply poisoned the body. After consulting with a professor from the oncology dispensary, I was given another appointment. Cancer treatment is expensive, the first time I paid 350 thousand tenge, the second - 250 thousand. In a private clinic, it was not cheap, but in a public hospital it was already free. The only thing was that I had to buy very expensive medicines. Each course of drug treatment cost almost 30 thousand tenge. There were 6-10 such courses. You know, in spite of everything, I think that everything is fine.
Ainisa Safargalievna admits that she is an optimist in life:
– I do not like to return to the past, my doors lead me to the future. This is what I learned after battling cancer. The doors to the past are closed. This experience changed me for the better. You need to be positive. I realized that I need to wake up with a feeling of gratitude: "Oh, I'm alive and well, thank you!" In the past, I've been more reckless about it.
I was horrified at how many people have cancer. Until you experience it, you don't know it. A man is walking along the street, and “I have cancer” is not written on his forehead, and yet there are many such people, and many cases with a fatal outcome.
This struggle for life helped me rethink what was happening: I became less nervous, became calmer. Something didn’t work out - okay, it will work out tomorrow. I used to tear my hair out, because today I should have succeeded.
Galiya Mukasheva she never went to the hospital and did not even suspect her diagnosis, it all started with the fact that she herself discovered a lump in the chest area. At that time, cancer for her was an incurable disease and meant death:
– It was in 2009. My daughter had a baby and was a breastfeeding mother. I gave her a massage, and when I came home, I did myself at the same time. And once I found a seal. I immediately did an analysis, after which they announced to me: “You know, you have cancer.” They just said so right off the bat. For me it was a shock. I don't remember how I got into the car and drove home. I cried for a long time and asked: “Lord, why am I doing this? I didn’t offend anyone, I didn’t steal, I didn’t kill.”
“We always think that when others get sick, it’s normal. And we will not get sick, we are cute and fluffy. It turns out that everyone can overtake it, I realized that we are not insured against anything. I could not believe it until the last, I hoped for a miracle, but the diagnosis was made - breast cancer of the initial stage. At home, I did not hide, I immediately reported.
“I was operated on and everything went well. Now I say that everything is fine, but then it was scary. After the operation, chemotherapy was prescribed, they said that her hair would fall out. I couldn't imagine it. I cried and asked the doctors to give me "chemotherapy", if only they would leave my hair. I will never forget what the head of the chemotherapy department told me: “Why do you need sick hair? Yes, let them all fall out, but you will be healthy! I went through six chemotherapy sessions. This is scary. You vomit, you turn blue, then turn pale. But I already forgot about it, I have no time to think about it. There is no time to cry about what has been and gone.
“It had to be experienced, this is my lot. Was it cancer? I ask myself this question sometimes. My life has changed dramatically, my character has changed, my attitude towards people and, especially, towards myself. I used to have a simpler attitude to life, now it’s more meaningful. Here it is - life: today it is, but tomorrow it is not. How many lay with me with a diagnosis of cancer, many of them were buried. We think that we will live forever, but life, it turns out, is short! I didn’t think that one day I would turn 57, I always thought that I would be 35-37. The fight against cancer put me in my place.
During the fight against cancer, Galiya gained faith in God:
- Somehow relatives came to me and said: "Let's pray for you." I was not a follower of any particular religion, but agreed. It gave me such hope, such inspiration. I remembered these prayers after the operation, and they helped me. Faith in God, medicines, chemotherapy and an active lifestyle are the key to a successful fight against the disease. I have no time to mope, not a minute. My children are very supportive, my daughters are my closest people, they are my friends, my partners. I already have grandchildren. And now God is with me, and there will be no relapse!
Irina Savelyeva considers stress to be the cause of most cancers, her work is somewhat stressful. Irina is an editor at a news agency:
– Six years ago, in the winter of 2008, I was diagnosed. I found out by accident, but this does not mean that I have not visited doctors before. I had mastopathy, so every six months I had an ultrasound. Ultrasound showed that everything was normal - this is already a question for domestic diagnostics. In January 2008, a colleague asked me to go with her to the city cancer dispensary. She was examined, given a direction. They also offered me an inspection. The doctor examined me and said: "I think you have cancer." Can you imagine how, by the way, to say such a thing to your face ?! Here, after all, the work of a journalist helped, in some way cynical, so I didn’t faint, I wasn’t surprised. I smiled and didn't take it seriously. No prerequisites, but here you have such a diagnosis. I had a biopsy, the result had to wait three days. The place where all these tests are carried out is depressive, even a healthy person will get sick there. I was nervous all three days. When I got the result, I read: breast carcinoma. For those who don't know, it's cancer. The doctor advised me to send this analysis to St. Petersburg to clarify the chemotherapy.
“I was quitting smoking at the time, and I've been smoking for over twenty years. After I found out the diagnosis, I bought a pack of cigarettes at the bus stop and immediately smoked about three.
It was not the consciousness that I was sick, I did not ask myself questions: why me? for what? Only one thought thumped in my temples: “If I die, how will my children get on their feet? How will my thirteen-year-old son grow up? I saw people, tomorrow they will live, but I will not. I was hysterical, I cried non-stop. I took a taxi and went home. All the way the taxi driver drove silently, seeing my condition. Maybe I'm not the only one who leaves that stop in the same state (laughs). There was no fear, there was regret, pity, concern for the children, specifically for the son. My daughter was 26 years old, my husband could marry again. And who will raise a teenage son? I arrived at work, locked myself in the office and cried until the evening. This state of impasse lasted for two days until I saw my husband, a strong man, crying. At that moment, I told myself - stop. I reassured him and assured him that everything would be fine. We decided not to tell anyone. We told the children later, because the consequences of chemotherapy cannot be hidden - it changes a person so much, you become just a lump of biological mass. The daughter was crying, and the son asked me: “You won’t die?”. I told him that I would not die. At work, they did not learn about the diagnosis from me, it happened. I don't know if I would say it myself or not. The reaction after all happens different, not only pity. Sincere support was about ten percent, the rest was like: "It's good that this didn't happen to me ...". It is felt by the skin. They put a cross on a person. When life is at stake, work is the last thing on your mind. Although work was my salvation, it took everything.
- I had the second stage with metastases in the axillary lymph nodes. Metastases complicated the matter, which means that shoots came from the tumor. Before the operation, a mammogram showed that after chemotherapy, the tumor had resolved. I was delighted, I thought that they would not operate, they would leave the breast. Even if you understand that life is at stake, a woman at any age remains a woman. It was difficult psychologically. The doctors explained why surgery is needed - because of metastases. The doctor told me that there is no need to worry, later you can make an implant. Although there were conversations that horrified me, that it is beneficial for doctors to put the disease on stream, so that after sending everyone to plastic surgery.
The most important thing is the right choice of chemotherapy. This is a separate layer for cancer patients. People usually die from the effects of chemotherapy. Now science is creating drugs that are more gentle, and we have old-fashioned drugs that are based on poisons. The little red riding hood that I was injected with causes alopecia (hair loss. - Note ed.) , bone problems. These are side effects. Chemotherapy rips off your body, destroying both cancerous and healthy cells. After it is very bad - terrible pain, depression, nausea. My bones ached, I could not walk, moved on all fours. Due to the peculiarity of the drugs, my veins were burned. Therefore, after the operation, instead of dripping, I was prescribed medication. There were also side effects.
“I need to understand what’s going on, how the drugs work. I was interested in treatment a lot, I asked doctors. Doctors don't like being asked questions. But I trust them, but I just want to understand.
At that time, we, people diagnosed with cancer, had to find answers to many questions on our own. We, those who lay in the same room, were divided among ourselves. This is how I learned how to get rid of bone pain. The body restores proper nutrition, you need to exclude a lot from the diet, you need to eat meat, although it goes very badly, you need proteins. To restore immunity, it is important to drink green leaf tea, because it removes toxins. Rosehip, buckwheat, lentils are the basis of nutrition. But everything is not limited to this. To restore blood, you need red and black caviar, fruits, real red wine. This is necessary for the restoration of blood components. At that time we paid the mortgage, I did not work. Financially, it was hard. I was helped by people who were not my friends, we just crossed paths at work. I will not name the names of those who donated for me then, for only one reason - I do not know how these people will react to the publication of their names. But I remember them all. My family remembers them all. Remembers and wishes health and all the best.
- Cancer is an epidemic. Six years ago, I did not expect to see 20 people a day who came for a biopsy! That is, those who already have a serious suspicion of cancer.
We paid, even though everything was free and no one demanded money from us. They put money into the doctor's card, no one returned it. It was such an unfixed dachshund.
For Irina, faith became the core:
- Inside, I know that I am walking the path of faith, this does not mean the obligatory observance of all rituals, no, this is something else that is difficult to explain.
I went to the village church and told the priest about my diagnosis. He replied: “Calm down, doctors must be trusted. They are sent by God to help us. He not only reassured me, he warned me that physical death does not end our lives. It meant finishing many things: forgiving, forgetting, finishing important things. It was psychotherapy. We are all mortals, no one knows when he will die, how he will die. They prayed for me in the church. There was such a feeling of serenity. There was a click. Everything will be fine, I didn’t just believe it, I recognized it. This did not mean that I would definitely survive, it meant that no matter what the outcome, everything would be fine.
I began to perceive myself not as a sick person who wants to recover. I began to perceive myself as a healthy person who is defending himself from a disease that wants to destroy him. It seems to be the same thing, but these are different understandings. And interestingly, for the last three years I have not been sick at all with anything. And I'm going to live a hundred and twenty years!
If you met in life Egizbayeva Zhursyn, then they would never say that this cheerful and energetic woman is 60 years old! Meanwhile, life tested her for strength more than once:
- I am the eldest in the family, I also have three younger brothers and a sister. I always helped them, was a support. I raised the children myself - my husband died in 1990, I was left with a two-month-old daughter and eldest son. Over the years, life began to improve: the son got married, the daughter grew up.
For Zhursyn, it all started in 2006:
- In 2006, I decided to be examined because menopause had come, and I went to see a gynecologist. I had an ultrasound and everything was fine. Then they offered to check the chest. I agreed, although there was no pain, but sometimes I felt a burning sensation. I was sent for an ultrasound, then a mammogram. Then I was told that I had cancer. They said right in the forehead, they say, you have cancer, and they sent you for a biopsy.
I'm a doctor myself, you can't do that. The patient needs to be prepared before talking about such a terrible diagnosis. Naturally, the first thoughts were that life was over, since such a diagnosis was made. There was a shock, I did not know where to go. As I left the building, I sat down on a bench and began to sob. In my heart I was offended - after all, there was still so much to do!
“Then I had to pull myself together. Called a friend, she had breast cancer. She immediately came to me, understanding the state I was in now. Together we went to the Institute of Oncology to find out for sure. There I was checked and confirmed that a biopsy and a puncture (breast puncture) were necessary. The tumor was benign. I had the bump removed, everything was fine. Discharged a week later. The results of the biopsy came 10 days later. I was told that cancer cells had spread throughout my incision. It was impossible to delay. I immediately went into surgery. Within a few days I was operated on, my breasts were removed. I remember telling the doctor that I don’t need a breast, so you can remove the second one at the same time. The oncologist answered me: “What are you doing?! You are still young, you still need breasts, do not lose heart. Everything will be fine".
I didn’t worry about my chest, I was worried about health, for life. Then I said to myself: “Well, why am I so worried?”. I pulled myself together, because healthy people leave the house, get into an accident and die! What am I? Well, they made a diagnosis, and okay, people live. Maybe I didn’t worry about my breasts, because there was no man around? I was not worried about how I would look without breasts, at that moment I would have easily parted with the second one. Then I met my future husband, then I thought about breasts. At first I did not tell him, I thought about how best to do it. I decided to tell you anyway, and then let him decide for himself. We met, talked, now we are together.
- I went through 4 chemotherapy, endured them very hard. The condition was broken, I didn’t want to eat, I didn’t want anything. From one procedure to another, I barely revived, came to my senses. Then there was radiation. I was prescribed the drug oxyfen, but I had an adverse reaction from it. The nails began to turn black, itching, the skin began to peel off. I stopped taking this drug. Now I do not take medication.
In the fight against such an ailment, not only medicines are important, but the support of relatives is also important. The son reacted like an adult, and the daughter cried a lot, hugged me with the words: “Mommy, we are with you, everything will be fine with you.” Well done children, I'm without a husband, they supported me, my whole family. Support during this period is very important. In the hospital, I saw how some children treated their sick mothers insolently and rudely. God forbid that children are like that. My little sister took care of me day and night, fed me, cared for me. My friends also supported me, crying with me. I have a lot of friends! In Remizovka, where I live, everyone knows each other. Visitors came to my hospital from morning to evening, all the nurses were surprised.
Zhursyn works at the Healthy Asia Foundation, she has a medical education and experience in cancer treatment, she travels by ambulance and helps children with cancer:
I understand them, I went through it myself. The child and his parents need support, especially psychological support. An adult struggles with this disease with difficulty, and now imagine what it is like for a child. In Almaty, 175 children have cancer, but this is far from complete data. Many are not registered, some polyclinics do not report sick children so as not to spoil the positive statistics of the district, we still do not know about many children.
As for me, after the victory over cancer, my life has changed for the better. Now I live a full life, I am a cheerful person. I have a husband, a house, children. You need to love life, love children. Love for them gave me strength. Now I have grandchildren. And life goes on in them - in children, grandchildren.
Founder of the Healthy Asia Foundation Nagima Bad survived a heart attack and battled cancer. These events inspired her to create a foundation that would help everyone who was in a similar situation:
- My life has always been very good, I never complained about it. There were difficult moments, but during such periods I was not lost. Two children, a family - I was always busy with something. Even when everything fell apart in the 90s, people were left without work, I found my niche. It became psychology. I began to study the psychology of unemployed people, social projects. Then I wrote a program for the development of the National Lottery of the Republic of Kazakhstan, with this program the TV Bingo lottery was launched. There wasn't a day when I didn't do anything. If I had free time, then I read something, studied, wrote methodological manuals. It was a pleasure.
– In 2003, after my illness, the Healthy Asia Foundation was established. People who find themselves in such a situation need support: medical, psychological, any ... After a mastectomy (removal of the mammary gland), women are left without a breast, it is very difficult for them morally. I remember how hard it is. I tortured my doctor who operated on me. I then told him: “Until you find a prosthesis for me, I will not leave the department.” Psychologically, I understood that I should return home with a prosthesis. I don't know where he found it, but he brought me a prosthesis. For me it was happiness. I remember how I came home, tried it on, showed it to all my relatives. Then I realized how serious this problem is. In 2005, we started purchasing prostheses.
The disease is aggressive, sometimes we lose our girlfriends: someone is killed by cancer, someone is spared. Cancer loves dull, angry, touchy people. Where there is positive, smile and laughter, he has nothing to do. My work helps me, it is related to cancer. There is an opinion that the more you say it, the less you have left. Therefore, the more we talk about the disease, the less it remains in you. We are fighting this.
– I would never have known about my diagnosis if I had not ended up in the cardiology department with a heart attack in 2002. Just before I was discharged, the cardiologist examined my mammary glands and referred me to a mammologist. At that time I didn’t even know what kind of doctor he was and what he treated. I checked out, ignoring this direction. Six months later, I felt discomfort and pain in my chest. Then I started looking for a mammologist, it was difficult to find him. When I found a doctor, it turned out that I had cancer and needed to be operated on.
- The doctor, perhaps, was afraid to present this diagnosis, I was not afraid. After a heart attack, I somehow stopped being afraid. The doctor himself could not tell me about my diagnosis for a very long time, but I took everything calmly. After that, I started looking for information about what cancer is and how to treat it.
And there was shock, and there were tears, but I cried so that no one could see. When you cry in public, everyone starts crying. I didn’t want this, the children were small, my son was a student, I didn’t want to scare them. Although my husband cried more, hid from me and cried. He was afraid for me. I accidentally caught him several times and asked him why he was crying? He replied that something had got into his eye. Of course, I understood and told him: "Don't cry, I will live." For myself, I decided that everything is in my head, and how positively you take it, so your fight against cancer will be successful. I was determined that I would defeat him.
Only my youngest daughter did not know, we spared her, she was small then. And the son was already working, immediately took responsibility, talked with doctors like an adult. Arranged for operations. The smiling faces of my son and husband were the first things I saw when I came to my senses after resuscitation. They usually don't let you into the intensive care unit, but they got there somehow. When I saw their smiles behind the glass, I realized: “I will live!”
– I accepted only surgical treatment. Due to the fact that I had a heart attack and had a bad heart, the operation was difficult. I was given more heart drugs than anesthesia. I lay in the ward until my heart got stronger. Because of this, I refused chemotherapy and radiation therapy, although the doctor suggested to me. Since it was the left side, it was impossible to irradiate. An alternative for me was immunotherapy, immunomodulatory drugs that I chose for myself. For many years and still I maintain my immunity. In my case, I think there will be no relapse, 12 years have passed. Relapse occurs, as a rule, within 5-6 years.
Nerve cells are not restored - this is not said in vain. We are nervous, the cell is dying. What is this cell? This is a cancer cell. Cancer is a gallbladder disease. The more positive and good deeds, the healthier you will be. A positive mood is very helpful in the fight against cancer.
– Once you find yourself on the verge of life and death, you begin to appreciate life. I had moments when I thought I would leave now and never come back. And when you come back, you understand that you have to live, and you live. Our foundation is a family. I want to live long, 115 years! One hundred years to live, 15 years I will write a book!
According to statistics, about 145,000 people are registered with dispensaries in Kazakhstan. Every year this figure is growing. Contrary to popular belief, cancer is a curable disease. The key to success in the fight against this terrible disease is early diagnosis.
Note from the editor:
This report was prepared for a very long time, most of the time was spent on the search for heroes who would agree to tell their stories. Therefore, we express our deep gratitude to those who agreed to take part in the preparation of this material. Unfortunately, not a single man who has overcome cancer has given his consent to participate.
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A terrible tumor is far from what people want to tell others about. Unfortunately, our society has acquired such a terrifying stereotype that it is impossible to cure a cancer at all, and people who have already been diagnosed with it will simply die in 2-3 years. But everyone should understand that cancer is not a death sentence. It is not uncommon for an ordinary person to die because he did not treat an oncological disease in time, and now the stage is already so advanced that nothing can be done. At the same time, the people around him (friends, relatives, neighbors, acquaintances, etc.) watch him suffer, and this does not always last for some short months. It also happened that patients with advanced stages of cancer lived for several years. At the same time, every day they got worse and worse, the doctors said that 2-3 months was their limit. But they didn't give up, they tried to fight. And they managed to resist this disease, because in fact, they could not live more than six months, but they extended their life, although, of course, they suffered a lot. But if they immediately went to the doctor, even at the first sign of illness, they might have been on our list, called "People who beat cancer." They could get rid of the disease, as did the heroes of this article, which you will learn about a little later.
Often the people who beat cancer are the ones who immediately went to the hospital. These are those who discovered in themselves a terrible disease, from which a large number of people have already died, even at the very initial stage. But it is during this period that it is easiest to suppress a tumor in the body. Such people do not disclose the information that they managed to defeat cancer, but it is simply impossible not to say about such a great achievement to their relatives and friends.
people who beat cancer
Some very famous personalities in the entertainment industry are also diagnosed with cancer. While the average person would not want to disclose their illness, the world will know about the tumor of this or that celebrity almost instantly. Apparently, the walls really have ears. No one is immune from such a terrible disease, preventive measures simply do not exist. However, doctors do not cease to convince people that cancer is not a death sentence. To defeat this disease is within the power of anyone who only wants very much, who has an incentive to live.
There are actually a lot of stars that have overcome the tumor. Cancer survivors are strong in spirit. It is necessary to respect those people who not only got rid of the disease, but also told their story to a huge number of ordinary people. Now we will talk in more detail about celebrities, we will learn the stories of our pop stars who defeated cancer, beloved by many singers and singers, actors and writers.
Robert DeNiro
Robert De Niro was 60 years old when he found out that he had cancer. In mid-2003, the man, as usual, went for a preventive examination, as he always monitored his health very closely. The tumor had not yet developed, so the doctors did not doubt their predictions a bit and confidently declared that everything would be fine, that there was no danger to life. Doctors gave only the most optimistic forecasts, because the operation awaiting the man in front was not very difficult.
Robert De Niro had a prostatectomy. This operation is one of the most radical in surgery, and the doctors performed it successfully. A 60-year-old man endured a procedure only performed on people with horrific male prostate growths.
The recovery process itself took place quite actively, quickly and without any complications that could lead not only to a famous actor, but, of course, to death. More than 12 years have passed since Robert de Niro defeated his illness, and the hero continues to act in films. For such a decent period of time, the audience saw this actor in more than 25 films, where he played the main and secondary roles. Now Robert De Niro boldly declares that there is life after cancer.
Darya Dontsova
A very famous writer of detective stories, which, by the way, remain popular even though more than 10 years have passed since their release, can also claim that she is very familiar with cancer. For the first time in her life, she faced this disgusting disease a long time ago, more than 10 years ago. In 1998, Daria found out that she had cancer, but this was not the worst news for the writer, because a little later the doctors told her that she had the last (fourth) stage of cancer. This proved the words of one of the doctors: “No more than 3 months left ...”
It is precisely because Daria nevertheless overcame the fourth stage of the disease that people have been asking for many years how Dontsova defeated cancer. A terrible tumor of the mammary gland simply made the woman afraid ... afraid that she would die. At this time, Daria could not think only about her fatal illness, because at that time she already had several children, as well as an elderly mother who needed to be looked after, and in the end, ordinary pets who also needed care. Because of this, Dontsova simply could not die, she began to fight, realizing that her path would not be the easiest. The woman coped with terrible cancer, she overcame him, and the fact that she began to write books helped her in this. She found her favorite pastime - a hobby that she lives to this day.
Angelina Jolie
This young and attractive girl has gone through a lot: more than 5 years ago (in 2007), Angelina Jolie forever broke up with her beloved mother, whose name was Marcheline Bertrand. The mother of the actress died of ovarian cancer. This disease came to a woman at the age of 57, when she was already physically unable to overcome its causes. One of the most beautiful girls in Hollywood, Jolie, was very worried about the death of her own mother, but it was too late to do something. After the funeral, the famous lady thought about whether it is possible to defeat cancer at all?
But a few years ago, a Hollywood star told the public that she underwent a very difficult operation - a mastectomy. When the lady was tested again (after the surgical intervention was performed), the doctors informed her that her risk of the disease had decreased by more than 80%. Recall that earlier the probability that Jolie would get cancer was almost 90%, that is, there was almost no chance of “bypassing” the disease.
Yuri Nikolaev
In mid-2007, the famous TV presenter in Russia, as well as the person who became the founder of the well-known and beloved competition in all Slavic countries called "Morning Star", learned the terrible news that he had cancer. And it was almost impossible to win.
This man did not even think about giving up, he fought with an increasing tumor for more than two years. After Yuri found out about his terrible fatal disease, as he himself says, the world suddenly turned into something terrible. He turned into gray-black as if from something colorful and bright.
The disease began to progress, there was little time, but the man did not give up and continued to fight desperately. Yuri Nikolaev believed in God, he was not going to let cancer spoil his plans for the future. And he won, he overcame this disgusting disease. Now the TV presenter is absolutely healthy and does not need medical attention, which could not be said then. Unlike other stars, Nikolaev does not trust European medicine, so he was treated in Moscow.
Kylie Minogue
This very famous young pop diva in 2005 went on tour throughout Europe, where, in fact, she found out that she had a terrible deadly disease - breast cancer. According to the girl, when the doctor told her that her earth simply began to leave from under her feet. The girl instantly resigned herself to her illness, she thought that she was already dying, but, thank God, she was mistaken. The day after Kylie found out about her diagnosis, the girl canceled all subsequent planned trips and concerts, apologizing to her fans, who had already purchased tickets for the show. Naturally, the lady had to inform the whole world: she is ill, she is mortally ill. They supported the pop star, wished her good luck, and most importantly, health. The girl, in turn, promised that she would defeat cancer and return to the big stage to delight her fans. In the end, she kept her promise. She overcame breast cancer and returned to the stage again.
First, the girl survived a long operation to remove part of the mammary gland, and then withstood several courses of radio and chemotherapy at once, after which, in fact, she returned to her work, informing everyone that she had got rid of a fatal illness.
Vladimir Pozner
Back in 1993, Vladimir Pozner, a well-known correspondent from the Russian Federation, learned that he had cancer. Medical workers convinced the man that in his particular case, the disease did not pose any danger to health, since the oncological neoplasm was detected at a very early stage. Therefore, we can say that Vladimir was lucky, because he did not need to undergo a course of expensive and painfully long chemotherapy. However, for some reason, the doctors urged the journalist to agree to an immediate operation to remove the tumor.
A big role in the speedy recovery of Vladimir was played by his relatives, who always tried to be there. The Posner family behaved as if everything was in perfect order, as if nothing had happened, and no one had heard of the disease at all. And what did Posner get in the end? Someone does not know how to beat cancer, and someone simply does not think about it. But some people have to overcome a terrible disease, doing it in every possible way. And Posner was able to defeat cancer!
And for more than twenty years, Vladimir Pozner has been living quietly. But he is still undergoing examinations, because he understands that health is the main thing!
Charlotte Lewis
Charlotte at the time when she was diagnosed with lung cancer was a young and charming girl. Looking at her, it was difficult to say that she was sick with a terrible disease, which often leads to death. When the doctor only saw the actress with her earlier diagnosis, he was surprised, because the lady looked very good. Therefore, the doctor decided that this was some kind of mistake, but nevertheless conducted an examination and tests.
Lung cancer is the disease that Charlotte defeated. More than thirty years have passed since getting rid of the terrible disease. But at one time she was not afraid to refuse chemotherapy. And it was, as we see, the right decision.
Lance Armstrong
This man can easily be called a legend because he is a seven-time winner of the famous competition in France called the Tour de France. Lance is one of those individuals who beat cancer, despite the fact that doctors did not give them a chance at all. Doctors diagnosed "testicular cancer" when the disease had already passed into the last stage, which proved that there was simply no chance of winning.
Then, in 1996, the man gave his written consent to the use of a new, very risky method of treating genital cancer on him, which could easily lead to a variety of troubles and side effects. True, which, in fact, is inherent in a professional athlete, only helped Lance Armstrong win the most important victory in his life - the victory over cancer. Lance is the kind of person who knows firsthand how to beat cancer.
Joseph Kobzon
The Russian pop singer also once overcame an oncological disease, however, the treatment for such an elderly man did not go so smoothly, as, of course, we would like. Exactly 10 years ago, in 2005, he learned that he was terminally ill. The doctors insisted on an immediate operation, so Kobzon himself went to Germany, where, in fact, a low-quality neoplasm was removed from him. But everything turned out to be much more complicated, because the surgical intervention, performed for good, entailed a number of completely different health problems for the artist. After the operation, the man's immunity was so weakened that he could be infected with anything. It should also be noted that after the treatment of the tumor, or rather, its removal, Joseph Kobzon developed a small blood clot in his lungs, and inflammation of the kidney tissue also occurred. Four years later, Kobzon underwent another operation. And to this day, the famous Russian artist continues to be treated, and so far, despite his age, he manages to defeat the disease.
Laima Vaikule
A terrible disease did not bypass one of the most famous Russian singers - Laima Vaikule. More than twenty years ago, in 1991, in the United States of America, doctors diagnosed the girl: This, as you know, is a very insidious disease that could easily lead to the death of the singer. Since the pathology was discovered by American doctors too late, Laima Vaikule simply had no chance of survival. The singer herself regarded this disease as something important, something more. She is sure that God thus gave her a small impetus to ensure that she once and for all rethink the purpose of her life. A long and intensive treatment of the tumor followed, but Vaikule nevertheless defeated cancer, immediately after which she returned to her creative activity.