Cancer is a progressive disease. What that means is that it starts out as one very tiny mutated cell. That cell begins to grow. It will grow into a nodule, than a tumor, with cancer there is nothing to tell the cell to stop growing so it continues until it reaches a point where it is so large it begins to ‘seed’ or ‘shed’ tiny microscopic cells into the blood system. The blood system carries all those tiny cancer seeds to other areas of the body and begins to grow new tumors and the whole cycle repeats itself indefinitely.

The problem is that no one knows how to make the cells stop growing. When the cancer is really small, before it has spread . . a doctor might be able to operate and remove it all. However, it only takes one missed microscopic cell . . and the tumor could regrow . . remember that any escaped cells still are growing . . they can never turn off.

As cancer tumors grow they begin to invade organs and tissue . . like the liver or lungs or the colon. Cancer begins to multiple . . and can soon have two, three, or a hundred new tumors. Eventually the tumors will begin to seed sending all those tiny cells throughout the body. When the cancer starts to send all those cells throughout the body . . its called metastasis. It is metastasis that is hard to treat.

I understand why you are angry, but I would recommend that you be angry at the cancer. There is no known cure for all cancer, there is treatment that might lead to a remission for some types of cancer. Early cancers are treatable and that can lead to cure. Advanced cancers are treatable, but cure is more difficult.

Be angry with the cancer. It’s cancer that sucks.

There are indeed rules for treating cancers. If a tumor is too large, a surgeon may not excise it, or if an organ is at risk, for example. There is no outright cure.

Many many people are cured of cancer by doctors in the US (I was).

I was treated and cured at the Cleveland Clinic, one of the best hospitals in the world. I noticed that about half of the other patients there were forigners. They come to the US because the best healthcare is in the US.

I’m sure your father is getting the best care available.

If you don’t like the treatment your father is getting in the US and if you feel that most Americans are greedy, then maybe you should go somewhere else.

Good luck to your dad.