He looks horrible. Thats not from the cancer either, it’s the chemotherapy. That stuff is poison and destroys you quicker than the cancer will. Yet doctors dole that stuff out like candy. I am convinced that is the next big scandal, the cancer industry. Its a big money maker and I think a lot of people have gone through more than they had to. Oncology is a racket.
I agree as I have been reading a lot lately about this.
When a relative turned down chemo and radiation the doctors turned cold and distant and pretty much said there was nothing more they could do.
“.. I think a lot of people have gone through more than they had to. Oncology is a racket.”
I think you are right. It may turn out to be the biggest, deadliest scandal of all time.
I pray that you are wrong...but very much suspect that you are right!
You are right. The cancer industry is a beast. If you want to see real collusion, look at it and the media - there is a blackout on alternative cancer therapies that have cured many. All we see in the media is complex, expensive high-tech medical treatments for difficult cases that sometimes help.
But I think the market will prevail over time, as people become educated and begin to look at alternatives and reject the medical model
“Oncology is a racket.”
My mom had colon cancer and chose to just have it cut out along with an ostomy. She went to an oncologist who encouraged further treatment with chemo. As a nurse who had seen too many severely debilitated by the treatment, she decided she wasn’t going to spend her remaining time miserable from chemo. I think the oncologist was amazed when she lived another 3 years past the surgery. She only spent her last 10 days out of her house at a nursing home in that entire time.
You're hanging around the wrong Oncologists.I worked closely for 20+ years for the physicians and surgeons at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.
While their "cure" rate was less than 100% and their treatments were often difficult they most assuredly weren't running a "racket".
As someone who has Leukemia and has been through four Chemotherapy Regimens during the last twelve years, I find your all encompassing viewpoint ignorant and uninformed.
If not for the Chemotherapy Treatments I received, I would not be alive today. I have outlived the initial "expiration" date I was given when I was Diagnosed by over two Years.
The improvements in the Chemotherapy Drugs used and the use of a “cocktail” approach using multiple formulas when planning the Chemotherapy Regimens have vastly improved both the experience and the outcome.
As an aside, we had a close Friend who bought into the type of nonsense you Posted and chose to use “alternative” Treatments for her Breast Cancer. The result is she paid thousands of dollars for unproven Treatments to charlatans and she experienced a long drawn out painful Death from Stage four Bone Cancer less than two years after her initial Diagnosis.. Those Posters who supported your Comments are no less ignorant of the reality that people deal with when facing a Cancer Diagnosis.