Her body, her choice.
Your marriage ends because your husband thinks you should have treatment to save your life?
I swear these people are so self obsessed it’s incredible.
The statistical benefit of chemo, when the cancer is caught early, is an interesting subject.
Her cancer in particular can be a very aggressive one, and is targeted by the new class of drugs that started with herceptin.
Her decision is hers, what gets me is the idea a marriage would be over because your husband would prefer you have chemotherapy.
And what is the state of her health today I wonder?
BS
There are a whole lot of other things that happen to end a relationship
Attention Wore
“My lovely wife! I don’t want you to die! Please accept the recommended medical treatment! I can’t stand the thought of losing you!”
“HA! If you feel that way, you’ve lost me! I’m out the door! And give me half your stuff!”
I don’t find this credible.
What is “holistic”? Steve Jobs thought it meant eating cauliflower.
The billionaire married this
https://swimsuit.si.com/swimnews/elle-macpherson-five-gifs
Mebe he wanted her to age gracefully
Farrah Faucet tried the same thing.
It didn’t end well
She had “intraductal carcinoma” (a.k.a. DCIS).
That means the cancer was Stage 0. It wasn’t invasive, yet.
So, her decision to forgo chemo sounds reasonable.
My good friend treated his prostate cancer holistically. He’s dead now.
My daughter might have breast cancer, and she’s already told me she’s not going to do chemo. If I get cancer, I’m not going to do chemo either.
I’m glad that holistic medicine worked for her.
There have been recent studies that Ivermectin works better than chemo on prostate, bladder, and breast cancer. Doctor may have used that or similar drugs to treat her.
Weird story.
There are some cancers - like her early-stage non-metastasized breast cancer - where one can make a reasonable gamble to forgo radiation or chemo after a surgery with good margins. The stress and aging that those therapies put on your body are one of the reasons, and if your stock in trade is being youthful and beautiful, maybe all the more reason to do so.
There are some cancers - like highly metastasized anything, or pancreatic cancer, or inoperable brain tumors - where the radiation and chemo impose a lot of pain for a very low level of benefit. Foregoing them to enjoy the few intact months you have left and then float on home on morphine in hospice is not a bad decision. Frankly this decision is more driven by how well your spouse and kids can cope with the inevitable. I’ve had several friends with totally hopeless cancer diagnoses put themselves through hell because their family couldn’t cope with them “giving up.”
But in between, come on. Survival rates with contemporary therapies for many cancers are an order of magnitude better than where they were. Shave your head, toke you medical MJ, buy yourself a $5,000 tailored suit to enjoy your new chemo-trim body, and live to see your grandkids graduate.
Never understand why some here are so nasty and bitter
Disconcerting
No I’m not perfect
Bash Dixie to virtue signal over my dead ancestors who’s shoes you never walked in
You’ll get the sharp end of my tongue lash admittedly