Cancer Treatment Options Forum - August 20th, 2011 - 4 Comments
Is chemo every 3 weeks an agressive cancer treatment?
A friend of mine, in his early 60s, was recently diagnosed with CLL. The doctor is starting him on a chemo regiment – every 3 weeks, 6-8 treaments each time.
I am hoping I can find out if this treatment schedule is considered agressive, and thus indicative of the disease being very advanced?
Or, is it possible, they’re starting off agressively with the idea of slowing up treaments later?
Thanks.
The first thing to realize is the futility of chemotherapy and how the medical industry has promoted it as the CURE to cancer. These guys are making a fortune on this abusive process and aggressively down playing any alternative cures that do work. I would never agree to getting this process done on myself for ANY REASON, and interestingly enough, neither would the majority of oncologists promoting it.
http://www.documentarychannel.com/movie.php?currID=9686&t=Burzynski:-Cancer-is-Serious-Business
This video will give you the ammunition to begin understanding what all this chemotherapy and radiation treatments being given to patients is doing to them. Now realize the Australian study done by about 6 oncologists that investigated all the clinics in America regarding the effectiveness of chemotherapy and found it to be overall 2.1% effective for a 5 year survival rate.
Chemo is NOT A CURE! Drug companies are NOT going to commit corporate suicide and come out with a cure to cancer. That is NOT going to happen, so looking to them for a solution to cancer is foolish and naive. Just look at the "Absolute statistics" and not the "Relative statistics" on the particular cancer your friend has to get the real truth.
good luck to you
Typical chemo regimen for colon cancer, FOLFOX-4, is every 2 weeks for 24 weeks, so every 3 for 6-8 rounds is moderate.
Aggressiveness of treatment is partially dictated by what stage the cancer is classified as.
Usually it is 1 treatment every 3 weeks for 6 months – that is what my sister had after the removal of a breast cancer lump last year and then 6 weeks of radiotherapy, she was only 45. I would imagine if they are starting with aggressive chemo that it must be very advanced cancer. Your friend will be very ill during the treatment and may be admitted to hospital on many occasions. Good Luck
A cycle of once every three weeks seems to be a fairly common time frame. I think the type of chemo and other treatment given is more likely to be indicative of how aggressive the treatment is.