Cancer Treatment Options Forum - May 5th, 2011 - 10 Comments
Simple Survey: If you were just diagnosed with Cancer, would take chemo, cobalt, or radium therapy?
Take your chances of having quality of life rather than quantity of life?
Which is more important to you:
A…Living as long as you can, even though you are going to be sick, losing your hair and more than likely vomiting a lot.
or
B…Taking a chance with the disease and not taking chemo, but living without all the side effects that chemo, radium, and cobalt does to the body, mind and spirit.
I would choose B. I have lived an amazing life and if it is my time to go, I will. I firmly believe in quality vs quantity.
I’ve already made up my mind. B
I would want to extend my life as much as I could. Maybe there would be a point where I eventually said enough is enough, but at least initially I would go for the chemo.
none, i would rather die then let all those metals in my body.
I would just smoke some weed.
Chemo doesn’t necessarily make your life miserable. My Grandfather has been diagnosed with cancer (intestinal) and they cut out half his intestines and he’s had to live with a bag on his belt for about 1 1/2 years now, he’s gone through 2 rounds of Chemo, and he’s happy as all get-out. He lost his wife and mother in law (my grandmother and great grandmother) during the time of his Chemo, and it was rough, but He’s happy to be alive. So don’t assume Chemo makes your life miserable. it Gets better afterwards. Pain’s only temporary…
My then 2-year-old niece endured years of treatment. She’s 10 years old now (and out of treatment for some years). I don’t know where she would be if she had not gone through treatment.
It seems a lot of people start off with B and end up with A.. Sometimes they wait too late, and the doctors will no longer offer A.
I think I would go with "fasting to the extreme" as a therapy. It is pretty effective for the people willing to do it, but most people quit the therapy because they can’t stand to drastically reduce their calories.
I had a mild form of skin cancer from Agent Orange. I went on a 40 day fast, and my body ate the cancer. — lucky eh? — That is right — when you body goes into the starvation stage, it will consume/eat what ever is not essential to your temporary survival (it will eat the cells that have been over producing – that is what cancer is — an irratic uncontrolled growth of cells because the cell walls were damaged and divide (metastasize too quickly ) . strange eh?
In short: (in the beginning) the body will eat the cancer when the body gets hungry enough.
(of course, if you try that therapy too late, it will not work. You will simply starve to death)
This is a very difficult question to answer. I have had loved ones go through this and it is never easy. One young fellow who I used to work with went through it several times. The last time he came out of, "remission" he decided not to go through it again. the chemo and all of the treatments had drained the family savings and had taken a toll emotionally on the family. The decision is up to the one thus afflicted. Family and friends need to understand this and try not to make his/her live/death about them and allow them to make the decision either way and be respected for the way she/he lived and died. My beloved grandfather had lung cancer back in the early 60′s. He decided to end his own life and although my grandma and others tried to make it all about them in the end my grandfather’s life and death was his. Blessed Be…~M~
been there, done that (mastectomy, chemo and radiation) you do what you gotta do to beat it. I was stage 3 going into stage 4; it doesn’t get much worse. that was 15 years ago. hooray!