Cancer Treatment Options Forum - June 20th, 2011 - 2 Comments
how to confront or encourage to live for cancer patient that cannot be cured by surgery and radiation therapy?
serious answers only. cancer specialist or doctors and nurses who had such situation or experienc can answer.
Tell the patient that there are so many cases where these things can’t be corrected by any kind of treatment, but they still live for A LOT longer than they were told they would live. Offer to be their support and try making a relationship with them.
I’m not a cancer specialist, but I’d be more concerned with the quality of life as opposed to the quantity of life.
Help the individual fill his/her life with people they love, and do things that they might not otherwise do. I’d rather have a few months with my family than a few years in a hospital with tubes in every orifice.