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I'm not a hard rock fan at all so I didn't know about this until you brought it up. I had to go look it up to find out who you're talking about. You're speaking of Peter Criss who was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2007. I haven't found anything that says he had Paget's disease but after reading through an interview he did in 2011, it sure sounds like that's what it was. Here's Criss's description of what happened:
"It was a nodule, like a lump in my nipple and I discovered it when I got back from the gym. Look out for bumps and pain, a kind of pain where you just know — this is a kind of pain I’ve never had before. I’ve had cysts and I remember them and I remember the doctor taking them out. This was different, it hurt like hell, it got bigger as I screwed around with it.
I don’t know why, of all things, cause men just don’t think of breast cancer, we just don’t, but I swear, buddy I just knew that breast cancer had hit me for some reason. I think that was my angel speaking, and the red light went on, like, this is something more, Peter, you’ve got to check this out now. By the grace of God, my wife was going that day for her own cancer problems, and told her doctor about me. She checked me out, and said ‘if my husband had that I would send him over to (doctor) Alex Swistel immediately, like now.
So she calls and says, ‘I got a V.I.P. here’ — sometimes it’s nice to be famous, it does open the door, and trust me, I’m a down to earth guy, I don’t look at things like that, but boy it was a blessing. I got right in to the waiting room, and I started to get ill because I saw these beautiful women with no hair, wearing these turbans, and you could tell, the look of death was all over this room. There were other men, but they were all there with their wives. I just felt like, ‘what the hell am I doing here?,’ but thank God. He said, yes there’s something there and we should do a biopsy.
Some time went by, at first they said it was negative, but then, a few weeks pass and I was healing. Then I got a call on a Saturday morning, you know that ‘are you standing or sitting’ type phone call? You just know, the bottom of your stomach falls out. He goes, ‘I got good news and really bad news. What do you want first?’ Well, the bad, of course. ‘You’ve got breast cancer, Peter. You have to come back in now, and I want to remove your nipple and your breast muscle and take your lymph nodes out and make sure we get this son of a @#$%& immediately, because I can because you came in so soon.’ It’s a miracle, and that’s how it can be treated.
That is the key, early detection, my friend. The minute you feel something, I don’t care if it’s under your arm or your leg or your testicles or behind your ear. You must tell someone or go to your doctor immediately. Just sitting around, you won’t be here next year. When I went in for surgery, I was a wreck, my blood pressure must have been 300, it wouldn’t come down, but after they give you the (drugs), forget about it, you’re not on the planet anymore. When I woke up, he was smiling, ‘there’s no sign of it at all anywhere, I got everything, you’re gonna be great, you don’t need chemotherapy, you don’t need medication.’
I'm really surprised that he didn't have some kind of adjunct therapy. The thing about cancer is... the surgeon can remove the cancerous tissue, but you have NO way of knowing if there are cancer cells floating around elsewhere. If there are... and they land... and grow... they can really wreak havoc. That's why radiation and chemo are around to kill any rogue cells which could be roaming around looking for a new home. But... Criss has done well since his surgery and so far the cancer hasn't come back so it worked out for him. Cancer is a nasty beast, though. Once you've had it the chances are higher that it'll return."
My symptoms were very different from his. Mine you could SEE. His, he could FEEL. There's a list of symptoms and you don't have to have them all to have that type of cancer. Another important reason to be educated and learn as much as you can about your diagnosis.
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 03/30/2017 06:41PM by MamaRAMa.
"It was a nodule, like a lump in my nipple and I discovered it when I got back from the gym. Look out for bumps and pain, a kind of pain where you just know — this is a kind of pain I’ve never had before. I’ve had cysts and I remember them and I remember the doctor taking them out. This was different, it hurt like hell, it got bigger as I screwed around with it.
I don’t know why, of all things, cause men just don’t think of breast cancer, we just don’t, but I swear, buddy I just knew that breast cancer had hit me for some reason. I think that was my angel speaking, and the red light went on, like, this is something more, Peter, you’ve got to check this out now. By the grace of God, my wife was going that day for her own cancer problems, and told her doctor about me. She checked me out, and said ‘if my husband had that I would send him over to (doctor) Alex Swistel immediately, like now.
So she calls and says, ‘I got a V.I.P. here’ — sometimes it’s nice to be famous, it does open the door, and trust me, I’m a down to earth guy, I don’t look at things like that, but boy it was a blessing. I got right in to the waiting room, and I started to get ill because I saw these beautiful women with no hair, wearing these turbans, and you could tell, the look of death was all over this room. There were other men, but they were all there with their wives. I just felt like, ‘what the hell am I doing here?,’ but thank God. He said, yes there’s something there and we should do a biopsy.
Some time went by, at first they said it was negative, but then, a few weeks pass and I was healing. Then I got a call on a Saturday morning, you know that ‘are you standing or sitting’ type phone call? You just know, the bottom of your stomach falls out. He goes, ‘I got good news and really bad news. What do you want first?’ Well, the bad, of course. ‘You’ve got breast cancer, Peter. You have to come back in now, and I want to remove your nipple and your breast muscle and take your lymph nodes out and make sure we get this son of a @#$%& immediately, because I can because you came in so soon.’ It’s a miracle, and that’s how it can be treated.
That is the key, early detection, my friend. The minute you feel something, I don’t care if it’s under your arm or your leg or your testicles or behind your ear. You must tell someone or go to your doctor immediately. Just sitting around, you won’t be here next year. When I went in for surgery, I was a wreck, my blood pressure must have been 300, it wouldn’t come down, but after they give you the (drugs), forget about it, you’re not on the planet anymore. When I woke up, he was smiling, ‘there’s no sign of it at all anywhere, I got everything, you’re gonna be great, you don’t need chemotherapy, you don’t need medication.’
I'm really surprised that he didn't have some kind of adjunct therapy. The thing about cancer is... the surgeon can remove the cancerous tissue, but you have NO way of knowing if there are cancer cells floating around elsewhere. If there are... and they land... and grow... they can really wreak havoc. That's why radiation and chemo are around to kill any rogue cells which could be roaming around looking for a new home. But... Criss has done well since his surgery and so far the cancer hasn't come back so it worked out for him. Cancer is a nasty beast, though. Once you've had it the chances are higher that it'll return."
My symptoms were very different from his. Mine you could SEE. His, he could FEEL. There's a list of symptoms and you don't have to have them all to have that type of cancer. Another important reason to be educated and learn as much as you can about your diagnosis.
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 03/30/2017 06:41PM by MamaRAMa.
