Have always suspected this. Happened with my father who had a very small localized tumor-—chemo seemed to make it spread and killed him.
Yes the treatment is as bad as the disease itself.
Wait wait... what does the ObamaCare bureaucrats say...
What makes cancer even harder to kill is that no two people are alike and the same treatment may not work from person to person.
Hoo-boy! This article certainly does nothing to boost my spirits. My dad’s been battling prostate cancer off and on for about 20 years and just found out he now has lung cancer. His first chemo treatment begins this week. He sounded so tired this afternoon when I spoke to him on the phone, so I was already worried about him before seeing this.
All I can do at this point is pray.
Many a surgery for organ sag was done.
One things for sure, 50 years from now they will look at us like the barbarians we are.
My father was diagnosed with colon cancer and had it removed surgically. He is on a bag.
He refused chemotherapy and every other kind of therapy.
He went to see the doc about a reversal a year after.
The doc almost fell out of his chair at the sight of him.
The reversal couldn’t be done, NOT because of cancer recurrence, but because of old tissue that couldn’t be stretched to accommodate the distance removed in the previous surgery.
But, a biopsy was sent out and came back cancer free.
Dad has been a vitamin addict ever since Linus Pauling. He eats sweets and drinks a vodka tonic everyday. He also takes colloidal silver. Can’t tell you how much of anything he takes, but he said even doctors wouldn’t go through chemo.
God love him...I hope he passed on his genes, but I doubt it.
(gonna take up vodka tonics, though! Life’s too short!)
He’s 89 years old.
The side effects aren’t always immediate or obvious. Chemo can and will kill cancer but it also targets “weak” spots in the body. It has added years to my wife but there is a price to pay for that time.
Yep, found a tumor in my mom’s ovary, started chemo and spread to liver, stomach, etc... within 2 months.
I am not surprised. One day, chemotherapy will be seen as we now see leeches as medical treatment.
Personally, my policy is to muddle through as best I can without treatment, and then go to bed with a fifth of Jack and a handful of pills. To relieve pain.
Having been at death's door, I'm not afraid of it.
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Have to go with the Doc’s expertise, and knowledge of the percentages.
I was trying to play google-doc and was determined to select my own chemo type, but fate stepped in and made that impossible.
Had to go with Doc’s recommendation....
Later learned that my “studied” preference would have likely killed me.
7 weeks of low dose cisplatin & radiation saved me....7 years ago.
another Duh article. We docs always knew a small percentage of those who got chemo would develop another cancer, usually a blood cancer since the chemo affects growing cells such as in the bone marrow.
But of course, there is a subgroup of patients who get multiple cancers too: one of the “risks” for breast cancer is having breast cancer. Often they find a small one in the other breast when they biopsy the first one.
Both problems have to do with the immune system....when it gets weak, it doesn’t destroy the cancer mutation.
However, like most medical treatments, it’s “not as bad as the disease”: its a benefit risk ratio. If you had cancer, would you rather die right away or die twenty years later from a chemo induced cancer?