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Plant-Based Diet May Be Key Component in Treating Breast Cancer, UAB Study Says The Anniston Star October 20, 2019 Photos by Cameron Christopher ‘PINK QUEENS’ Local breast cancer survivors celebrate with a joyous photo shoot BY LISA DAVIS This was life-changing — for the better.” [email protected] We’re queens. We’ve made it. ••• Temecha Williams was in her last Last month, three Calhoun County “ semester of nursing school when she women got together for a photo shoot We stand for all women.” was diagnosed last year. She had waited to celebrate the fact that they had all — Shandrika Christopher to go back to school. She was 42, had survived breast cancer. a family and was working as a nurse at Shandrika Christopher, 38, has been RMC. cancer-free for six years. Temecha old when she found a lump in her breast preventive double mastectomy as well For two weeks, she had been Williams, 43, has been cancer-free for during a monthly self-exam six years as surgery to remove her ovaries and noticing a lump under her arm. She eight months. Jackie Judkins, 48, had ago. She thought maybe it was a cyst. fallopian tubes. thought it was just a swollen lymph her last chemo treatment in September. She prayed it was anything but cancer. “They’re just boobs,” she said. “I’d node. One Friday morning, as she was The photo shoot was Christopher’s But it was cancer. “My whole world rather be here and cancer-free.” finishing a 12-hour shift, she decided to idea. She made a list of props to round changed,” she said. “I had kids, family She also underwent chemotherapy head to the employee health clinic and up: pink glitter, pink sparkles, pink … I just got tunnel vision. I didn’t want and radiation treatment. get it checked out before the weekend. boxing gloves (“because we all fought to eat. I didn’t want to talk. I hoped if When she first got her diagnosis, She was already scheduled to have through this”), a pink crown and a pink I went to sleep, it would not be there she didn’t tell anyone outside her her annual mammogram the next week. throne. “We’re queens. We’ve made it. when I woke up.” immediate support network. “I didn’t Last year’s mammogram had been We stand for all women,” Christopher And then one day, she just checked want a pity party,” she said. clear. She had no family history of breast said. her attitude. “I said, ‘Stop crying, but on But then in 2015 Regional Medical cancer. The photo shoot was just for fun, just your big-girl panties and go forth. Don’t Center called and asked if she would The lump under her arm was indeed for them, but the photos quickly went waste your time not living.’” share her story for the hospital’s “Right a swollen lymph node. But the nurse viral on social media, appearing on She had a DNA test done and tested Care, Right Here” campaign. She ended at the employee health center also felt news reports in Montgomery, Atlanta positive for the BRCA1 gene mutation. up with her face on a billboard. “This is something suspicious nearby in her and Miami. “It’s bigger than us now,” BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations can raise not what I envisioned,” she said. “But breast. Williams went immediately Christopher said. “It’s about awareness. a person’s risk of developing breast God had another plan.” for a mammogram, followed by an It’s about life.” cancer up to 72 percent, as well as Christopher has been cancer-free ultrasound, followed by a biopsy. Most of all, it’s about “bringing joy raise the risk of ovarian, pancreatic or for six years. Her son is now 22, and her She had gotten off work at 7 a.m. that out of a dark situation.” prostate cancers. daughter is 8. “At this point, it’s all about morning. It was now 1 p.m. She had ••• Even though her cancer had not living,” she said. “Before, I was really just Shandrika Christopher was 32 years spread, Christopher opted to have a existing in the world. Now I’m living. Please see QUEENS | Page 4 Plant-based diet may be key component in treating breast cancer, UAB study says BY KATHERINE STEPHEN can change human gene expressions in research how scientists can efficiently Consolidated Publishing fatal diseases, including breast cancer. neutralize mechanisms that lead to and All breast cancers are either estrogen worsen ER-negative cancers. Up until Researchers at the University of receptor-positive or estrogen recep- this time, conventional cancer preven- Alabama at Birmingham have found a tor-negative. The tumors in estrogen tion has focused primarily on single dietary combination that transforms the receptor, or ER, negative breast cancer chemopreventive compounds. most lethal of all breast cancers into a are much less likely to respond to hor- “One reason many in the field shy highly treatable breast cancer. mone therapy than are tumors that are away from combining two or more Specifically, scientists involved in the ER-positive, which means that ER-neg- compounds at a time for treatment Scientific Reports study say a particular ative breast cancers are typically very research is the fear of adverse plant-based diet may be the key. aggressive. effects and potential inter- Trygve Tollefsbol, Ph.D., D.O., profes- “Unfortunately, there are few options actions that are unknown,” sor of biology in the College of Arts and for women who develop ER-negative Tollefsbol said. “To overcome Sciences and senior scientist with the breast cancer,” Tollefsbol said. “Because that concern, we chose com- Comprehensive Cancer Center as well of the poor prognosis this type of cancer pounds that we felt confident as Yuanyuan Li, M.D., Ph.D., a research carries, new advances in prevention and would interact well together, assistant professor of biology, use epi- treatment for ER-negative breast cancer because they have similar favorable genetics — the study of biological mech- have particular significance.” biological effects but still have different anisms that will switch genes on and off With that in mind, Tollefsbol and — as a mechanism to identify ways we fellow researchers set out to further Please see UAB | Page 5 Denton • Swedish Kimberly Alabama LMT#4928 • Deep Tissue 256-770-9171 • Neurological Massage 1408 B Pelham Road South • Hot Stones Jacksonville, AL 36265 [email protected] • Aroma Therapy Page 2 Sunday, October 20, 2019 BREAST CANCER AWARENESS The Anniston Star Submitted photo Calhoun County gets its own pink fire truck BY LISA DAVIS but you need to get your own chapter.’ Jacksonville, Fla. personal or home visits. It was recently [email protected] He put me in touch with Dave Graybill Now based in Calhoun County, scheduled for a visit with an 83-year- — the founder of Pink Heals in Arizona. the truck can travel as far as Auburn, old woman in Oxford before a chemo Calhoun County and East Alabama After talking with Graybill, he said, ‘I see Montgomery and Pell City. treatment. now have their own pink fire truck, you’re sincere, so I’m going to give you a For now, however, the fire-engine-pink The pink truck is available to support thanks to B.R. Wilson, chairman of the chapter.’” truck has been making appearances close those suffering from any life-threatening east Alabama chapter of Pink Heals and And so this spring, Pink Heals Eastern to home, including this month’s Fast Feet disease, not just breast cancer. Wilson said the assistant fire chief of the Quad Cities Alabama bought its own pink fire truck. Breast Cancer 5K at the Anniston Aquatic he is starting to reach out to Clay County, Volunteer Fire Department. “I love helping. If I can do something to Center. Talladega and Heflin to let them know the For the past four years, Wilson lift somebody up, make them smile, that’s “People can sign our truck, have pink truck is available to visit those areas. had been working with the central what I like doing,” Wilson said. pictures made with it,” Wilson said. “We You can follow the adventures of the Alabama chapter of Pink Heals outside “Ours is a real pretty truck. It’s got two talk to them, try to lift them up.” pink truck on the Pink Heals Eastern Birmingham, arranging for that chapter big ol’ pink bows on the front of it,” he said. The pink truck was scheduled to Alabama Facebook page. To book an to brings its pink fire truck to Calhoun When people see the pink truck coming appear at the Venecia’s Foundation appearance by the truck, call B.R. Wilson County to help raise awareness of breast down the road, they’ll wave and take 5K run in Piedmont, but Wilson got an at 256-310-0252. cancer and collect money for local pictures. emergency call about a house fire and charities. The truck was purchased from the had to respond to it instead. (He took the Lisa Davis is Features Editor of The “One day, the guy from over there said, national Pink Heals organization. It was regular fire truck to the house fire.) Anniston Star. Contact her at 256-235-3555 ‘B.R., I don’t mind coming over there, previously a touring truck stationed in The pink truck can also be booked for or [email protected]. Piedmont charity aims to f lush cancer What started as an inside joke and they agree.” chemotherapy, including comforts Foundation, said the organization between Venecia Butler and her friends Today, the largest fundraiser for such as blankets, pillows, a journal and continues to run in honor of Butler.
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