Good to see others get it.
Doctors and medical science are great at a host of things - but cancer - not so much. They are using the same types of chemo and radiation to fight cancer. It’s not a cure they are looking for - but someones coin!
Doctors are practitioners - they practice on people and hope they get it right. Per the drug companies - and those wanting to be Google Doc’s - have available to them - clearly academic and peer reviewed publications that state the very thing that cure is not an option - but it serves great for advertizing.
I'm sorry, but you don't know what you are talking about. My daughter has brain cancer, two types Anaplaxtic astrocytoma and oligodendroglioma.
She started with surgery. When the surgeon worked on her, he could see what he was doing on a 3d computer screen that displayed the MRI of her brain/tumor and the location of his instruments with an accuracy of less than 1mm. Becasue of its location, 10 years ago she would have had to undergo intense speech therapy. Thanks to the miracle of modern medicine she was taling our heads of within a week.
After surgery, her first treatment consisted of radiation, actually IMRT or Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy. This machine is so precise that the intensity of the radiation beam can be varied in increments of 1mm and from full intensity down to the equivelant of an intense light beam. This allows them to attack the cancer while preserving things like her optic nerve.
After radiation it is chemo. The levels and consitency of both the radiation and chemo were determined by testing the removed tumor down to the genetic level. The presence or absence of specific genes determines the make up of the final treatment regimen.
10 years ago she would have been lucky to survive 18 months, 3 years tops. Today her doctors are telling her what side effects to expect when she hits 40, then 50 and then 60. Don't tell me they don't know what they are doing. What they are doing is absolutly amazing.
Over the past three years two very prominent docs in our community were diagnosed with cancer. They were both given the surgery, chemotherapy, radiation option. Both of them chose to treat the pain and live out their shorter lives to the fullest. What does that tell you about their beliefs in the surgery, chemotherapy, radiation treatments?