Paridel,
Thank you very much for your extensive reply. That is what I was looking for here, and happily, almost always find - another point of view, and usually it is well supported.
I do wonder about why it is that being treated by Dr. Burzynski disallows a patient from being treated by any one else? It is unconscionable that the medical establishment would in any sense , punish a patient for trying something in such a life ending scenario. It would seem that, in my view, that some one is may still be trying to put this doctor out of business. Interesting too, since they have patented his procedures? (Question mark since all I know is what I learned in the documentary).
Again, thank you for your response, and I pray that you and your mom can find an effective treatment that will help her, and soon.
May God bless.
Tatt
Thank you for the kind words for my mom. It is an ugly decease, but it is remarkable the outpouring of support that my parents have received and her spirits are still high.
Different treatment plans may interact badly with each other. Unfortunately, most cancer treatments are very invasive. Sometimes it isn't safe for the patient to pursue multiple treatments at once, and in other cases one treatment will prevent the other from working properly. For instance, my understanding is that some of the newer vaccines can't function if you still have avastin in your system, so you have to wait a number of weeks for the avastin to clear out before you can take them. That isn't punishing people for taking Avastin, it is just the physical reality of the treatments.
It isn't that they are punishing Dr. Burzynski’s patients, most of the time when you pick a treatment regimen it rules out other treatments for quite some time. I think it is very important for doctors to explain all these options to you: you can do surgery and then chemo, or you can do radiation but then that rules out surgery, etc. (These are all hypothetical, it clearly depends on the individual patient). Once you pick the treatment you may have to stick with and forgo other options, which is why patients deserve to have all the facts. And since he simultaneously treats patients with more conventional approaches it does reduce their options quite a bit.
Rick