Is it possible to beat cancer without surgery. Conflict and Cancer. Olga Kharlanenkova, oncologist: “It is very difficult to tell a person that he has cancer”

They know everything about pain and despair. Do not argue - the argument called "cancer" is very difficult to oppose something. Unless it is spiritual strength and unknown to those who have not been touched by a terrible diagnosis, the desire to live. They all know about it too. Because they won.

There are 12 of them - participants in the project "Strong in spirit - always beautiful." Volunteers, an oncologist who helps people fight the disease every day, and women who once personally encountered an oncological diagnosis. Now they themselves help other sick people. They come to the patients of the oncology dispensary and tell by their own example that even the most terrible illness can be overcome. “Strong in spirit…” is a joint project of the Arina Tubis Charitable Foundation and ANO OncoLiga. According to the organizers, the goal is the rehabilitation of women through the creation of a new image that will help restore confidence and a positive attitude. Stylists, designers, photographers helped the participants create a new image, and the culmination was to be the appearance of the transformed participants on an impromptu podium. But before that happened, the strong-willed took the time to have a short conversation with us.

Olga Kharlanenkova, oncologist: “It is very difficult to tell a person that he has cancer”

- Fear of cancer is a completely understandable phenomenon, because even with a successful outcome, life is divided into “before” and “after”. Upon hearing the diagnosis, people react in different ways. Some panic, and that's the worst thing that can happen. Others sink into depression. And the third mobilize all forces and begin to be actively treated. It would seem obvious that this is the most productive way. But there are even such patients who, for various reasons, refuse to be treated. This should not happen in today's world! I would like to convey this to every patient, but, unfortunately, not every doctor has enough time to convince. Therefore, I really liked the project “Strong in Spirit”, because women who are not theorists participate in it, they experienced firsthand what it is like to get sick and recover. And who, if not they, can help others overcome the fear of illness?

Svetlana Demina: “After getting acquainted with my diagnosis, I answer “yes” to all proposals!

“I recovered 10 years ago. At first, when I found out that I had cancer, for some time I thought that my life was over. Then my friend just took it and, without explaining anything, took me to the monasteries. When I realized that many people were praying for me, I began to enter the Orthodox life, it became a little easier. I did not hide my diagnosis from my colleagues: I work in a pharmacy organization, and they helped me organize the treatment correctly and professionally. With the current possibilities of medicine and pharmacology, there are chances, and quite good ones. But the real relief came after the third course of chemotherapy, when the doctor said that the tumor began to decrease, and I realized that everything, we did it!

Now I work in a society for helping women with breast disease, which operates at an oncology dispensary. We try to go to the wards of those who are undergoing treatment twice a month, talk about our organization, say that if you need help, you can contact us, leave your phone numbers. Those who have not been ill with oncology do not understand what is happening to a person, and cannot always behave correctly. Often the patient is pitied. And this cannot be done! People immediately begin to cry, fall into despair, and in this case what is the use of this pity!

You just need to find someone who has gone through such a disease. Look into his eyes and ask: “How did you do it?” For me, the algorithm for solving the problem is important: to draw up a treatment plan so that it is like a corridor along which a person must walk, and not take a single step to the side. Of course, the treatment is very difficult. But before the illness, I was not a strong person. On the contrary, a prosperous girl who did not have to fight. And if I was able to go through this and win, then the rest can. We have very strong girls in Karelia.

You know, I used to put off a lot of things for later. Now I don't do that anymore, because I know that "tomorrow" may not be. It seems to me that I now have a richer life than before, a taste for it has appeared. If you want to travel, go ahead! There was an idea to please someone - do not delay, if you want to say - say, an idea arose to do something - do it immediately! Live now! Maybe that's why the disease was given to me, so that I could understand it!

Lyubov Nikitina: "I don't need pity!"

- When I was in the hospital after the operation, volunteers came to us and invited me to the patient's school. And then I, and other women who were undergoing treatment (I don’t want to call them sick), decided that this was not enough for us. And we began to meet in an informal setting: we go to the cinema, to exhibitions, we just talk. I don’t advertise my diagnosis, I don’t talk about it at work. Even my friends do not know that I am undergoing treatment. I'm afraid they'll start pitying me. And people like me don't need pity. I don't want to be different from healthy people. All my life I have been involved in sports and ballroom dancing and I am not going to quit.

Now I began to paint pictures - I studied in two art studios, I try different techniques, most of all I like painting. And it seems to me that the earth gives strength. According to the horoscope, I am a sign of the earth, and working in the country, I feel that the earth gives me energy. We travel everywhere with my family, including in Karelia: we go to the forests with tents, live on the lake, for a week or two together with our friends from other cities. I also love fishing very much - usually my husband and I go to the lake for a few days. In general, I began to appreciate life: I want to do everything, see, learn, try. Thank God, I have a very good husband who helps and supports, and thanks to this, I think there should be a favorable outcome.

Irina Kovalenko: “I grabbed the bed and said to myself: “I will live!”

- When I heard the word “cancer” from the doctor, I didn’t believe it at first. It seemed like it could happen to anyone but me. Now I am telling other sick people about the right attitude, but for a long time I myself could not understand what it was. I was in the hospital after the operation, and my medical indicators worsened every day. My attending physician came into the ward, and I knew from his face that he would not say anything good. And one day he came up to me with a completely blank look. I realized that everything is really bad. And it was at that moment that something happened in my mind.

I then clutched the bed with my hands and said to myself: “I will live!” This was the beginning of a turning point, it was after an internal decision that something began to change. There was some kind of inhuman desire to live, to be with a family, with children - after all, the youngest is still quite small! Later, the anesthesiologist told me: “If a person has children, then the brain quickly falls into place.” Of course, it is very hard physically. I can't even describe how much.

I was on sick leave for 8 months. And I am very grateful to the volunteers who managed to find an approach to each of us. After all, it was hard for them with us - we are all very different people, exhausted by the disease. Patients are not always willing and ready to receive help. But the girls found both warmth and love for us. No matter what they say, but our people are amazing! This winter I skied for the first time to the second fountain. Previously, I usually only got to the fork. And now I can reach the end of the track, come back, and after a three-hour walk, there will still be strength left. The main thing that I now say to everyone who needs help is that you should not panic, otherwise other sores will stick. Cancer is really not a death sentence. This is a test to be passed through.

Svetlana Chernokhvostova: “I honestly show my prosthesis”

“The girls and I have been volunteering for several years already - we go to the window dispensary, communicate with women who are faced with a terrible diagnosis, and try to convince them that not everything is lost. It seems important to me to convey this idea, because now there are a lot of sick people, and I want them not to give up. 10 years ago, after visiting a doctor, I myself was in a state of horror - I lay and looked at the ceiling. I lay like this for a month: my husband was on a flight, there were two children at home, my brother had just been “pulled out” after the 4th stage of cancer, my mother was sick after this story, and now this horror is repeated with me!

It is especially difficult for a woman: after chemotherapy, hair is lost, you cannot look at yourself in the mirror, you are afraid to leave the house ... But the only thing I can say is that when you go outside for the first time after the operation, you look - the birds are singing, and you are so glad that you live! I really want people to understand: life is wonderful, it's great, and you have to fight for it. The doctor of our oncology dispensary, Lyudmila Grigoryevna Simonova, helped me a lot. And Vasily Dmitrievich Chikalyuk, who operated on me, referred me to her. I went in, sad, of course, exhausted, only 10 days after the operation had passed. She asks how are you. I say: “I don’t know ... I’m used to beautiful dresses, to a neckline, how can I now ...” Lyudmila Grigorievna says: “Wait, I have something.” And he gets a prosthesis.

I put it on and thought: “Yes, Christmas trees, sticks, it’s like nothing!” I went to the attending physician for an extract, and he asked me to go to the ward with the girls, "otherwise they are not in the mood for something." I go in - the girls are not just not in the mood, but just all lost. I began to tell that I had recently been operated on, only the stitches were removed. "Oh, how are you?" they ask. Well, I unbutton my jacket and show what and how. And then I saw in their eyes ... you know, as if rays began to appear in these lost looks. And it seemed that God gave me this test so that I could come and help others. And my husband helped me a lot. After the operation, he told me: “This is such nonsense, for me you are the same!”

And now, talking about the fact that oncology can be defeated, I honestly talk about my story, undress in the ward and show the prosthesis. Today, the host of the evening uttered a very fair phrase: “It’s like returning from the war!” You can't really say. But still, both the sick and their families do not need pity, but a good shake-up that will make them hold on to life with both hands. I thought about having a reconstructive operation, but the family is afraid to subject me to new tests.

Lyudmila Goncharuk: "My character saved me!"

- I had an operation in 2008, now I go through an examination once a year in my clinic. And I want to say that those who have recovered are becoming more. The main thing is not to be afraid and do everything that the doctor says, now we have very good specialists, the treatment really helps. When I found out about my illness, I was also scared. It's like walking down the street, and suddenly they hit you hard on the head with a hammer. I think that my character saved me - I am strong and fighting. From the very beginning, I did not allow myself to cry and become limp. I don't even know where the power came from.

But now I can say for sure: the right attitude is 50% of success. Sometimes people get cured from a kind word. It's hard, but you have to force yourself to smile, meet friends, and look for hope everywhere. Even sitting in line to the doctor, we tried not to tell each other how bad we were, but to remember our comrades in misfortune who were cured and discharged.

God had mercy on me - I tolerated the treatment well. Some of them are bedridden after chemotherapy, and I ran to work. And the good thing is that there was less time left for bad thoughts. You get used to the changes in appearance. At the first moment, of course, it is uncomfortable, but then you learn to mask the traces of the disease. After chemotherapy, I had short hair - well, nothing, I began to wear haircuts. Before that, I had long curly hair. You can't wear a more open dress, of course. It is very important to love. Living for someone is the strongest incentive for many women. We try to remind sick women: “You are needed, you live, try, because you are loved!” I was divorced when I got sick. Therefore, I can’t say anything about male support or its absence. Now in my life there is a close person with whom we met after my recovery.

This is a post of psychological assistance to those whose loved ones have been diagnosed with cancer or some other serious diagnosis. How to cope with stress and panic, how to live on, what to do and where to find strength for all this.

I've experienced this twice and I really hope it's the last time. I know what a deafening shock is, what it's like to constantly live with a sticky fear inside that cannot be squeezed out of oneself; what is it like not to sleep at night, not to eat during the day and feel that your whole life has collapsed into an abyss irrevocably.

First thing take sedatives. Don't wave like I used to. They really work, I'm convinced. Novopassitis also helps, and even banal valerian. Alcohol? Well, if only on the first evening, but he does not take it. And don’t use it anymore, you don’t need to multiply problems.

Confirm the diagnosis. Almost every mature person in our country was either unreasonably diagnosed by doctors during his life, or he was suspected. I know a case when an ambulance refused to help a person, saying that he had metastases in the brain and everything was useless. They determined the presence of metastases by eye. Naturally, he did not have any oncology. So if the diagnosis is made without a thorough examination and is not confirmed by several clinical indicators, do not rush to believe. If none of the doctors voiced such a diagnosis at all, and you subtracted it on the referral or in the card as a presumptive one, this is not a diagnosis at all. In some cases, the doctor is obliged to formally exclude oncology by referring you to an appropriate examination - he has such an instruction. So, for example, during pregnancy, they definitely check to see if you have a tumor instead of a future baby.

Cancer is not a death sentence. We all have it firmly stuck in our heads: cancer = catastrophe, certain death, everything is gone. That's what I thought the first time.
Time passes, medicine does not stand still. Even in our country. Many types of cancer are quite successfully treated. Don't take it as empty words. Indeed, they are treated. Others have good chances. Even with those types of cancer that have not yet learned how to win, treatment can give a few, or even a dozen years of life. Ten years seems almost incredible happiness when you think that you have heard the verdict.

“But how,” you object to me, “about whom you don’t hear, everyone dies.” The fact is that everyone hears about deaths, only the closest ones hear about successful cases.

My mom beat cancer for the first time. We didn't tell anyone that she had cancer. I didn't even tell almost any of my friends. Not because I didn't trust them. I just didn't want to. And even more so, the mother herself was silent. They will begin to point fingers, look pitifully, make big frightened eyes, stare intently at each meeting, evaluate appearance, whisper behind their backs. Relatives will worry, why upset once again. Well, then, when everything worked out, they were all the more silent. Well, it was - and it was, and let's not talk about it. I told only in special cases, in my ear, when people had the same trouble. To support not unfounded, but facts.

When we faced with oncology for the second time, for a number of reasons it would not have been possible to silence it. And people were drawn to me. Not just some abstract, distant - people I've known half my life. They told me about their close relatives. who beat cancer. Ear, yes. I didn't know what happened to their loved ones. About a grandmother who was taken by her grandfather with the third stage of cancer to die in the mountains. Grandmother lived in the mountains for 20 years. About relatives who did not leave anywhere, but simply continue to live their normal lives.

One day, my conversation with my mother about chemotherapy was heard by an outsider ... not even a grandmother, but an elderly woman. Nimble, curious and straightforward. I whispered, I didn't want to discuss it in front of her. Granny, sitting on the edge of the bed (it was in a hospital ward), carefully listened to my conversation and commented loudly. I was terribly annoyed.
- Why are you all so afraid of this chemistry? Well, I did this chemistry of yours, three courses - well, that's fine!
We turn and look at her with a silent question, because the department was not at all oncological.
"I don't have both breasts," she continues, slapping her hands on the top of her robe. - And there are no pieces of lungs either.
At this point, I understand that since the lungs were partially removed, there were metastases. So, the stage of nifiga is not the initial one.
- And what kind of drug was used for chemistry, what was it called?
- Yes, I don’t know, they put a dropper.
- Well, what color was the solution - yellow?
- Yes, I remember something! 35 years have passed!
- o_o
Granny was the most cheerful, she narrated this, dangling her legs on the edge of the bed, and in general she was in the hospital for some reason not related to oncology, and generally trifling.

I read at miumau about a woman living in the fourth stage of cancer for 20 or 25 years, I don't remember exactly. 25 years, think about it! During this time, you can raise children and see grandchildren, and life still goes on. In general, she has a lot of encouraging things on the tag, I recommend it. I don’t know why the tag is called that, the meaning is exactly the opposite. Yes, and myself miumau - a person who is not just a cancer survivor, not just living a full life, but living for five))) Very inspiring.

So. Fuck the white flag. Cancer is not a death sentence.
Well, if not a verdict, we will what?

Right, we will be treated.
Instead of sitting on the couch and giving in to despair, let's roll up our sleeves and get to work. Who cares, but for me this is the best way to defeat horror. In addition, it will be the most useful. Talk to your doctor, find out how reliable the examination was carried out before the diagnosis. Is it necessary to do an additional examination, perhaps on your own and at your own expense. What medications are needed and if they are available. Is there a waiting list for treatment? How will they be treated. Where and from whom it is better to be treated. And so on and so forth. Thus, you gradually receive a certain set of activities and procedures that you have to do and go through to a loved one. There is nothing scarier than the unknown. Turn a vague nightmare into a set of specific, albeit unpleasant and somewhere heavy, but quite ordinary actions. We go to the hospital, take tests, do 7 days of droppers, take tests, take this and that ... And gradually the frightening diagnosis becomes an unpleasant and difficult job that you need to breathe in and start. You never know what you can do till you try. Already at this stage, it will become a little easier for you.

"But I was told chemotherapy is terrible!"
Not the nicest thing, to be honest. Sometimes it's hard to bear. And sometimes it's quite normal. And it happens quite often. If the patient has severe nausea, ondansetron can be taken during chemotherapy. Commercial names: ondansetron, latran, dogan. Sold without a prescription. In no case do I urge you to take it without consulting a doctor. Simply, for example, in our hospital, doctors do not prescribe it and do not talk about it themselves, although they are well aware of the results. We learned from an experienced patient. He says that in half an hour he changes his state from "I'm dying" to "no, I'm not dying at all." They ran to their doctor with a question. Yes, he says, of course, take it if you buy it yourself. Who does not know - stupidly endures. Damn, it costs something in the region of $ 10, and helps some colossally. But many do not need, and the very normal goes.

I personally accompanied a woman who had completed 10 courses of chemistry from the department. She was cured, she was discharged for good. She was a beautiful blooming woman with thick hair, beautiful makeup and stylish clothes. I would have seen on the street - it would not even have occurred to her that something was wrong with her health.
I have already mentioned a woman who has been living in the fourth stage for over 20 years. All this time she is doing chemo. As long as they do it, it's fine. Stop - it starts to grow. Don't worry, your loved one won't get 20 years of chemotherapy. I just want to illustrate that it is not so deadly after all. People cope with a large number of courses. All this is realistic and surmountable. Not the fact that they will appoint a lot. But do not expect a bright effect from the first course. At the same time, I have seen more than once that the results of several are evident.

Not all drugs make hair fall out. And if they fall out (usually during the first course), they quickly begin to grow back. Don't worry, hair is a small price to pay for life. Now there are so many cute hats, and wigs for every taste. In any case - a wig - it's temporary, you can be patient.

If the patient's condition before chemotherapy is very severe, do not be afraid that he will not tolerate chemotherapy.
The same blooming woman who was discharged after 10 courses of chemotherapy was in a very serious condition before the start of treatment. The disease twisted her suddenly when she was in a strange city. For 3 months, her relatives could not even take her to her hometown - she was not transportable.
I have seen more than once how people were transferred from intensive care at the beginning of treatment. And their condition was appropriate. Before the start of treatment, my mother's body did not accept food, it did not even take water. I had no idea how we would go to chemotherapy in such a state. I was afraid that the chemistry would just kill her. It turned out that as a result of treatment, even severe symptoms recede with small steps. Therefore - do not refuse treatment under the motto "so as not to prolong suffering." It may well turn out that getting rid of suffering is precisely in the treatment.

If resolving what happened to your loved one requires a lot of resources from you(no matter what - temporary, physical, material, moral), you should think about their competent distribution. Do not try to squeeze everything out of yourself to the last drop and live to the fullest. You will give your all in the first few months, and then what? What if the rush doesn't end in a few months? No, this is not selfishness. If you think that you are obliged to help and support - you need to be in the ranks and able. So:
1. Sedative drugs.
No need to "get by and do it." You will still have the opportunity to play the hero more effectively. Well, the serious sores you have already acquired on nervous grounds will now be extremely inopportune for you.
2. Dream.
Find an opportunity to sleep at least some sane number of hours. For the first couple of months, I sacrificed sleep in order to read medical articles, search the Internet for good clinics, medicines, find out about diagnostics and therapy, and endless other things. And I think it's a very smart investment of time. But it's impossible to live that long. Destroy the peak of the emergency and start recuperating.
The ambush here is that it is simply impossible to fall asleep. We look at the first point, plus we ventilate the room at night, plus we warm our feet if they are cold. Physical activity helped me a lot. I went to the gym and wrapped myself up in such a way as to simply knock out the body, otherwise I couldn’t sleep. By the way, adrenaline, which is produced during stress, is neutralized only by physical exertion - I didn’t come up with this, this is what the cardiologist said. Before going to bed, we drive away terrible thoughts, forecasts of the future and fears. Here we are filtering thoughts rigidly. At first it will seem that this is impossible, thoughts come against your will. But after a little practice, you will start to succeed. No forecasts and fears for the night. You will think about it tomorrow morning. And now you think of something nice. Or just about anything else. It helped me to read something like a LJ top or a bashorg, nothing more serious came up - just throw my mind with anything, with all sorts of easily digestible garbage so that it does not start to eat you up.
3. Outsourcing.
Delegate as much authority as possible to others if you are the main problem solver. Or unload the one who destroys them. Accept the help of others, good, they will offer it to you. To hell with modesty, the habit of not burdening others and shyness. Use the help, you really have a good reason. Address unfamiliar and even unfamiliar people - act, a lot is at stake.
Here I want to say a huge thank you to everyone who offered help to me. They offered so many that I did not take advantage of all the offers. But you know, it gave me tremendous moral support and warmed me a lot.
4. It is impossible to embrace the immensity.
Highlight the secondary and tertiary things that you will now score. Do not try to do all the things that you dragged on yourself before. I am a good housewife, but, I remember, in the most critical times, everything in my house was in the mud. I said to those who came to the house: "I have a mess now, but I don't care." And didn't give a damn about it. I recommend that everyone will understand you.
5. An oasis of well-being.
Get yourself an "oasis of well-being" - some kind of zone where you will crawl to recuperate and draw positive. Favorite book, favorite movies (only without dramas), communication with someone. For me, my magazine has become such an oasis. It was a place-where-everything-is-good. I did not write a word about what was happening there. I wrote something positive there - something funny, about children, about vacation. It wasn't just a place where everything was good - it was a place where I was doing well. This "me" was very important. The worse I was, the more positive my posts were). A fair amount of funny texts were written like this: wiping tears with one hand, the other on the keyboard. Well, then you get drawn in, already with both hands, there are no more tears, you already smile)).
That's why I really treasure every reader, friend, commenter (especially commenters))). All this was a great distraction in the most difficult times, showed that there is some kind of life beyond grief and horror, gave strength. I am very, very grateful to you for helping me without knowing it.
6. Mark yourself a big tasty gingerbread that you will give yourself when you have the opportunity.
Only it should be such a gingerbread that you can really hand yourself later. Introducing a new Porsche is fine, but not therapeutically effective if you don't have enough money for it later.
I imagined how I would go to the sea. How I will pass the sand through my fingers, lie down and look at the water. Just lie down and look at the water. Sometimes I glanced at the sites of travel agencies with one eye. I thought about what to take with me. I mentally planned that I would have it, and sometimes I mentally lived it.
7. Change the environment if possible.
My delicious gingerbread unexpectedly came true before I expected it. And it had a huge effect. I was leaving for a deep neurasthenic with a completely shattered nervous system. And, although I didn’t manage to either lie down or sleep there, I returned a completely different person. I highly recommend.
8. Do not be offended if the reaction of one of your acquaintances to your misfortune was not the same as you would like.
Maybe you were dryly offered specific help, and it was important for you to cry into your vest and hear words of support. Well, or they got everything to climb into the soul, it would be better if they hit the road to the pharmacy. It's just that usually people react in their own coordinate system and each offers what he would like to receive himself in a symmetrical situation. If they reacted in a wrong way, it wasn’t such a bad person, it’s just that your coordinate systems do not match.
9. Eliminate energy leaks.
I had to shift the lives of people into a distant orbit, communication with which brought a stable negative. It's just that the forces for it ceased to be.

Do not waste energy thinking about why this happened to your loved one and that he did not deserve it. It just happened. This happens sometimes. Dot.
10. A person gets used to everything.
Do not think that now you have only years of impenetrable horror and longing ahead of you. The psyche has its own mechanisms of protection and adaptation. It turns out that over time, you can learn to live normally side by side with the most terrible circumstances. And Gerasim got used to city life, yeah. You and your loved one will still have moments of joy, and pleasure, and even happiness. Not, of course, if you have some kind of internal motivation to prolong the state of depression and despair - you have an iron reason, it can be exploited for years. But if you are determined to get out, you will get out.
11. Set priorities appropriately.
One wise man gave me advice that was very difficult for me to accept and comprehend. But rationally, I understand that there is truth in his words. He said, "Your parents are the past. You are the present. Your children are the future. Take care of the children, they matter most."
12. Without becoming sour in a global sense, still allow yourself to let off steam sometimes.
If you feel that you have accumulated - relieve stress. Sob, bang a couple of cups, beat the wall with your fist - do what you want. Don't be embarrassed or ashamed of it. Imagine a boiling kettle that doesn't have a hole in the spout. If the process dragged you out so much that you can’t get out of a state of hysteria - climb into the shower, open the water at a pleasant temperature, sit on the floor, substituting your back. Due to the fact that the back is low, jets of water hit the back with force. Immediately and massage, and water, which, in principle, soothes. Stay like that until you let go. Released, verified.

Support your loved one.
No matter how hard it is for you - remember that it is much harder for him. Do not load it with your feelings, fears, fears, tears and lamentations. Smile, radiate calm confidence and optimism. Even if you do not have a drop of confidence and optimism. On the most difficult days, I painted over red swollen eyes (white shadows, including on the strip of the eyelid between the eyelashes and the eye rule), drank a sedative and entered my mother's room, smiling. And every, every day I came up with something new to encourage her. She never allowed herself to cry in her presence.

Try to unobtrusively give your loved one the meaning of life, some specific goal for which he should rise from a hospital bed. One of my friends rests on the fact that her niece said: "What are you doing here, and who will help me with the kids ?!" And the friend knows for sure - she cannot become limp, she needs to be in the ranks, her relatives need her. I think my first thought about how selfish her niece is is wrong ;).

Health to you and your loved ones.

I am not a doctor or a psychologist, perhaps some of what I wrote is incorrect. Traditionally, you can criticize, supplement and discuss.

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We are often asked - how to evaluate the effectiveness of training by the method of manual control of immunity, if the cancerous tumor has already been removed. Natalia's story answers this question. The woman had invasive ductal breast cancer. Before coming to us, she had an organ-preserving operation and came to us, in fact, without a tumor. Nevertheless, we consider the result of the classes in her case to be positive.

Elena first heard the diagnosis of stage 3 breast cancer in 2012. This was an occasion to reconsider my whole life, to carry out tremendous work on myself and, as a result, to get a result in the form of positive dynamics. Thanks to a responsible attitude towards her own body, Elena was able to do without surgery.

Prostate cancer often develops asymptomatically, and men learn about a shocking diagnosis from doctors simply at a routine examination. This happened in the story of Nikolai Bondarenko from Kharkov. It is interesting that Nikolay says about the illness: “by the will of fate”, “it happened”. And about recovery - exactly the opposite: "my business", "my victory", "took it into my own hands." And this distinguishes everyone who succeeds in working according to the Arbuzov method.

Breast cancer is one of the most "popular" diagnoses. Natalia encountered him for the first time in 2005. Eight years later, a relapse began. Natalya asked not to give her last name and not to show her face in order to avoid consequences at work. But she told her story and experience of getting rid of breast cancer very frankly and sincerely.

Lymphosarcoma is, of course, a very serious diagnosis. Mikhail, wishing to help other patients with the same diagnosis, allowed to publish his story of recovery from lymphosarcoma. He only asked not to indicate the surname in the text and slightly darken the video. And he spoke frankly about his experience of treatment and healing.

The question "Why?" probably every sick person asks himself. So in the case of Sergei, there were absolutely no external reasons for a serious diagnosis - prostate cancer. An athletic and fit man, very youthful, leading a healthy lifestyle - did not expect to see the result of a PSA test at a routine check in November 2011 ...

Many Russian cancer patients are sure that the disease will recede if you choose the right clinic or, for example, the country in which the clinic is located. It is hard to argue that foreign clinics have a good level of service, good equipment, medicines and new technologies - and this is worth a lot. However, does all this matter? The following example is very revealing in this regard. Thanks to the hero of the story, we can look at the problem from the inside and draw conclusions.

Ivan Fedorovich fell ill with prostate cancer. Symptoms appeared gradually and at first succumbed to the influence of folk methods. And when they stopped helping, it turned out that prostate cancer had reached stage 3 and treatment was no longer suitable for everyone. The man himself actively began to look for ways to recover.

Among the many impressive stories, this one is one of the most powerful. The fact is that Kuttykyz - Katya, as we used to call her - by the time she found out about Arbuzov's technique, she was practically immobilized. A woman diagnosed with stage 3 ovarian cancer was prescribed 15 courses of chemotherapy. A week after the operation, carried out in October 2013, chemotherapy began. And after eight passed Katya just fell ill.

Vladimir Nikolaevich, by a cruel twist of fate, learned about the diagnosis of "stage 2 prostate cancer" the day before the wedding. But he did not despair, but very quickly chose which way to go to health. And just as quickly, having received the first results, he returned to his young wife.

Olga Alexandrovna was faced with a very common problem: cataracts, due to which her eyesight was rapidly deteriorating. However, the thin retina made a simple operation impossible. Ahead loomed the prospect sooner or later to be in complete darkness... The woman did not surrender to the will of fate, but took the solution of the problem into her own hands. I achieved amazing results in just two months.

Arbuzov Stanislav Aleksandrovich - the son of the author of the self-regulation methodology Alexander Arbuzov. Today Stanislav is a certified psychologist, a teacher of the Foundation, helping patients with severe malignant diseases to return to a healthy life. Helping not only with knowledge and skills, but also with his own example. Stanislav should not have been in this world for a long time. In 2005, doctors diagnosed him with a fatal diagnosis: Goodpasture's syndrome.

Yevgeny Mikhailovich was diagnosed with a terrible diagnosis - prostate cancer - at a venerable age. In his eighth decade, the man was left alone with the disease, the doctors could not help him: an inoperable form of prostate cancer. But Evgeny Mikhailovich was in no hurry to give up. Having found information on the Internet about Arbuzov's method of self-regulation, he hurried to class. Systematic work to combat prostate cancer brought results very soon.

Nadezhda Tsai achieved excellent results in a very short time. In two weeks, she managed to completely defeat uterine cancer. When Nadezhda Alekseevna first heard the diagnosis, she was amazed. She did not have any symptoms of cervical cancer, she went to the clinic for an examination with a friend. And suddenly - such a result. Like thunder from a clear sky. But the woman did not despair. Nadezhda traveled from Kazakhstan to St. Petersburg for an examination. Alas, here the doctor confirmed: squamous cell carcinoma of the uterus.

The life of a modern person from a large city is full of stress, worries and experiences. At some point, the body refuses to work at such a pace and gives up. Galina Petrovna's critical moment came 7 years ago. I didn’t have the strength even for the simplest, everyday activities, I had to leave work and take care of my health.

UPD. A year after classes (February 2012) Galina Petrovna sent good news. See her letter and documents on the page below.

Anna Gorbach arrived in Ufa in October 2010. By that time, she realized that official treatment was a dead end for her, medicine was not able to help. After two surgeries and a course of chemotherapy (six sessions), the tumor immediately reappeared. A second round of chemo was scheduled. A vicious circle began. The woman began to look for other ways to help her body - and ended up on the site "Cancer - win!". But I could not come right away, I had to continue the treatment.

Marina Vladimirovna, herself a doctor by profession, faced a very rare and unexplored autoimmune disease: seronegative spondyloarthritis. Alas, fellow doctors could not help the woman. A bleak prospect loomed ahead of her: disability, and maybe even death. The mood was right. Marina tried to turn to various figures of alternative medicine, but the disease still progressed.

Oksana Ivanova was diagnosed in 2009 with breast cancer. They operated on and removed the lymph nodes. Oksana, considering herself now a healthy person, was not ready to hear further prescriptions from doctors: 25 sessions of radiation therapy and 5 years of hormone therapy. In desperation, she read about the side effects of hormone therapy, tried to find another way in line with her beliefs. The woman reasoned logically: if she leads a healthy lifestyle, eats right and plays sports, then only stress can cause breast cancer.

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 life. 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 region, 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, for them it is very difficult 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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Alexander Poleshchuk could not live to see his 32 years. In 2008, he learned that he had oncology: Hodgkin's lymphoma of the third stage with distant metastases - that was the diagnosis. But the guy had no plans for an imminent death, and he decided to fight. Chemotherapy, radiation, surgery and two relapses of the disease - and seven years after the end of treatment, Alexander sits in front of Sputnik correspondent Irina Petrovich, completely healthy and talks about how it is to survive cancer.

Diagnosis as relief

When I found out about the disease, I was almost 23 years old. I started complaining of sharp pains in my spine. The pain was so bad that I couldn't do it without painkillers. Some time after the diagnosis was made, it turned out that it was metastasis to the vertebrae.

Blood cancers often begin with the same symptoms as the flu. It's just fatigue, fever, possibly pain and profuse sweating at night. I had this. I could not recover after a working day, I got tired to such an extent that I could only lie down.

I went to a therapist, got a sick leave, drank antibiotics. And then he just discharged me, saying that I was very stale and that it was time to work. I went to work and constantly injected myself with painkillers, because the pain in my back was unbearable. At this point, relatives began to recommend that I turn to grandmothers. They even found some chiropractor in the Gomel region and wanted me to go to him. I do not know what would have happened if I had obeyed, with my dilapidated vertebrae.

Later, I turned to the head of the therapeutic department, he gave me a sick leave, and I began my journey through medical institutions. In the end, I arrived in Borovlyany, a rather banal study was done - computed tomography, and it became clear that there was a tumor in the thymus - a small organ of the lymphatic system. When I found out the diagnosis, I was relieved, because four months to live with an incomprehensible illness is very difficult. It became clear that the chances of survival were high and that treatment would finally begin.

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The third stage is not a sentence

Four months passed from my first visit to the doctor to the diagnosis, time was lost. In oncology, it is believed that disease factors that do not change can only exist for two weeks. Therefore, if no help is provided during these two weeks, it means that the cancer is progressing.

I was ill with stage III Hodgkin's lymphoma, metastases were already widespread and were located in remote parts of the body from the original tumor. The third stage is not a sentence at all, you can be treated. As far as I can tell, the irreversible curability of my type is up to 70%.

I was operated on: they removed the lymph nodes that could be removed, along with the thymus. Then there was chemo and radiation therapy. After that, I lived safely for seven months and relapsed. If anyone is interested, in the series "Doctor House", if I'm not mistaken, in the third episode of the third season - my case.

My parents supported me and I was quite young. Of course, everyone goes through the stages of denial of the diagnosis, then reconciliation. You have to live with it somehow. Chemotherapy is very similar to intoxication during pregnancy, I really don't know to what extent. You are irritated by smells, different tastes. Chemotherapy, radiation treatment and surgery are quite cardinal treatments. But the body can overcome it and after a while fully recover from severe consequences.

A person during treatment feels disgusting. First of all, this is due to the fact that somehow the drugs affect the hormonal background. Therefore, they give medicines that help the body survive this. But when the reception is stopped, withdrawal syndrome sets in, and this can reach the point of hallucinations. For example, it seemed to me that my parents were killing a parrot in the kitchen. I don't know where it comes from.

Steroids cause aggression, a need for violence, but it can be overcome. During chemotherapy, I did not lose weight, but my hair fell out. Well-being becomes normal in just a month, when a person recovers. Only the appearance for some time is grayish and dead. But that goes by pretty quickly.

What to do to survive

There are several rules that people with cancer must follow. First of all, no attendants, midwives, conspirators, masseurs, chiropractors and others. Treating cancer with a raw food diet is nonsense. The nutrition of cancer patients should be high-calorie, because the body spends a lot of resources on the production of new cells. And be sure to follow the instructions of doctors. Traditional methods of treatment have no evidence base.

There were cases when people came to the hospital who, after the first treatment, decided to be treated with herbs, prayers, conspiracies, and then died. On the next bed lay a boy from Ukraine, whose parents belonged to one of the religious sects, they refused medicine and treated him with prayers. But when they realized that this did not help, they arrived in Minsk, but it was too late. The boy is dead. The total illiteracy of the population reaches monstrous proportions.

The realization that you are not alone in getting sick does not help, but hinders. People with cancer should communicate with healthy people and, if possible, behave as usual. Even doctors tell patients not to communicate with each other, because it can drag them into this swamp even more. Many die, in fact.

The cure for suicide

- There is an opinion that oncology is inherited. In my room, a guy with terminal non-Hodgkin's lymphoma was dying painfully. The most terrible thing in this situation was that his father, at the age of 23-25, fell ill with the same disease and was cured. He had a child, knowing that his disease could be inherited. I don't know how he felt.

At one point this dying guy tried to strangle himself with a chain, but he didn't have the strength. I wrote a note to the medical staff, and we were immediately transferred to a ward with bars on the windows. Many people simply go out of the windows, so they began to put bars and limiters. There are no hecks in hospital toilets, a measure taken after a string of suicides.

Since Belarusians are one of the most depressive nations, suicidal thoughts arise, probably, in many, regardless of oncological status. I had suicidal thoughts during treatment. This is probably a typical situation.

We do not provide psychological assistance. If a person has cancer and has suicidal thoughts, he needs literature to help him cope with it. Perhaps it will be books on psychology and sociology, books on how to survive cancer. There are groups in social networks for psychological assistance for cancer patients. I did not turn to a psychologist for help, because my situation was not so critical. Yes, I felt bad, but not like others.

The main thing is diagnostics

— It is believed that oncological care in Belarus is available. In principle, the state has the capacity to treat such people. But there is one big problem in the oncology industry - this is diagnostics. Why doesn't the president equip each clinic with a CT scanner or an MRI machine before the next election? It would be great PR. In the oncology center, due to the fact that there is not enough capacity for the same computed tomography, there are huge queues for several months in advance and speculative phenomena. Okay miners. And what about foreigners? In addition, the detection of the disease at an early stage will significantly save money on treatment that the state spends.

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Oncology in the early stages can only be detected through population screening. But people here for some reason do not like to be diagnosed. They think that they will never get sick with something serious, they can walk with illnesses for years. And they don’t go to the doctor for the same reason they don’t go to the Philharmonic to listen to the classics: they have certain financial problems, and when solving them, they don’t think about the high. People should understand that they need to love themselves, treat themselves with care, not tear their veins and consult a doctor.

Now there is a center for genetic analysis in Belarus, which uses international databases. A person can be tested to type his DNA and find out what diseases he has a genetic tendency to. It is, however, not cheap. Such an analysis was carried out by Angelina Jolie, and when it became clear that some of her genes indicate a very high risk of oncology, the doctor strictly recommended removing the mammary glands.

How to deal with a cancer patient

- With any sick person you need to communicate on an equal footing. No need to stigmatize him. You just have to do what you always do. It is not necessary to focus on the disease. Pity is a stigmatization. The best thing you can do for a cancer patient is to communicate with him in the same way as you communicated before. If you had a bad relationship, then you need to continue communicating in their context. It will be better than if you flatter.

Many people begin to help the sick person live each day as if it were their last. But if a person is asked what he would do if he knew that he had one day left to live, he would most likely answer that he would like to spend it as usual.

It's sickening to be told that you'll get better. You understand that you have a real chance of dying, and the words are, of course, polite, but annoying. Basically, support is important. But if you committed a crime or got sick with cancer, then the only people who will stay by your side will be your parents. If you managed to get married or get married, then, perhaps, your spouse or spouse will go to you. Nobody else needs you. Friends can come, but all help is on relatives. I am very grateful to them that they supported me, although everything was not going smoothly with us.

Unlike people with severe infectious diseases and HIV-infected people, people with cancer are rarely stigmatized in Belarus. Although some people think that oncology can be transmitted through some kind of viruses, this is unfounded. People have a dump of medieval prejudices in their heads.

It's good now

I no longer fear death. This allows you to focus on what is now called the pathos word "gestalt" - to pay attention to what is happening now, to be aware of the moment, and not to suffer because of what happened in the past or may happen in the future. This allows you to focus on how good it is now.

I stopped being afraid of all the things that disgust people. This also applies to physiological processes. I love anatomy. It remained after the illness, because I became interested in how our body functions.

I don’t make plans for the future for myself, because I haven’t decided what to do yet. For now, I live the way I live, and I enjoy it.