Cancer Treatment Options Forum - April 22nd, 2011 - 6 Comments
If you have stage 2 cancer and decline chemo what happens?
If you have stage 2 ovarian and have your ovary removed but refuse chemo. What happens?
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Typically, I would say you made a great choice. Chemotherapy is far too over-rated.
Surgery is the main-stray of treatment in any cancer. When a cancer is inoperable, prognosis is usually poor. Chemotherapy helps, as far as tumor shrinkage, but it does nothing to prevent or reverse the metasis process. Therefore, if you have had surgery and have declined chemo, the only thing you can do is hope all the cancer was removed in the faulty ovary.
You should ask your Physician to do a Positron Emission Tomography (PET) and Computed Tomography (CT) scan. The PET scan will show if there is cancer in the body. If not, then you’re good. If it does show cancer, on-the-other-hand, show traces of cancer, you might want to reconsider you decision to not have chemo.
Hope this answers your question!
You reduce your chance of recovery. On the other hand you might have a better quality life meanwhile. This is an entirely personal decision, but I recommend being guided by your oncologist. If the chemo is just precautionary he might say it is entirely up to you.
It won’t make any difference if you have an ovary removed, being stage II. Read this from the Livestrong website: Stage II ovarian cancer is divided into three sub-stages. The National Cancer Institute describes Stage IIA ovarian cancer as including cancer that is in one or both ovaries and has spread to either the uterus and/or the fallopian tubes. In Stage IIB, cancer is in one or both ovaries and has spread to other tissues in the pelvis. Stage IIC is diagnosed when cancer is in one or both ovaries and, in addition to the uterus and/or fallopian tubes and/or other pelvic tissues being cancerous, cancer cells are found in the fluid of the abdominal cavity.
Read more: http://www.livestrong.com/article/155498-prognosis-of-stage-2-ovarian-cancer/#ixzz1JeRTmTv3
It would be the worst thing you can do for yourself.
go to http://www.cancertutor.com, you have time to do other things, but you need to do something, this tells many natural healing ways for cancer, and you can choose from the stage 2 cancer ones which ones you want to use..if you get chemo, it will tell you about that also.
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