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Originally Posted by mrsD
I totally understand. Kitt... drugs are part of our environment.
I guess we just disagree on that?
Take a person with latent CMT... 100 yrs ago. They get cancer, and there is no vincristine... so they die of the cancer. Today they would be given this...and if they didn't know they had CMT, then they would react to it.
Chemo in general causes PN in non CMTers too. It damages DNA.
Only this action is more devastating to the CMTers than non. But both types suffer to some extent.
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Environment to me is where you live. That's what I find. Yes, we do disagree. A person with CMT would more than react to Vincristine. They could die. It is deadly to us. That's why it is on the list and with the highest priority. It is definitely high risk. CMT was given a name in 1886. It was just known as Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease or Peroneal Muscle Atrophy and there were no types yet given. Not until about 1991 and then it was just CMT 1 and CMT 2. No subtypes of it either then.
Yes, chemo in general does cause PN in non CMTers. I do know enough people with that problem. In fact they are going thru it right now and others I know have died not that long ago.
We will just have to agree to disagree I guess.
