The hardest things about cancers is if you are well read about prevention and siblings or loved ones are not knowledgeable. They are getting sick and you are staying well.
No guarantees but you start out living others. It feels weird.
What can you do? You cannot convince non-readers that they are hurting themselves.
You can only be supportive in a positive direction. Healthy requires a lot of incremental small changes. One by one. But I have no delusions many of my relatives currently or will have preventable problems. ... SIGH ... God bless.
It would be nice if that were true. We could just read our way to immortality. Only ignorant people would get cancer, heart disease and strokes. But here in the real world, even intelligent people get sick and die.
I’ve had a couple of friends who died while on chemo.
I read an interesting article about this not long ago, by a doctor.
As some have stated, chemo is the process of injecting poisons into the body repeatedly in an effort to kill cancer cells.
It also kills normal cells. Chemo is very damaging to the body, it gradually destroys the internal organs, and eventually it will seriously compromise the immune system.
When the immune system is sufficiently compromised, cancer can spread to other areas of the body, and usually does, virtually everywhere in many cases.
That is why if it doesn’t kill you immediately, it will eventually kill you in the long run, and since it’s actually the spreading cancer caused by chemo, the doctors can claim cancer actually killed the patient. When they know it was actually the long term chemo that did the job.
Yes, in some cases it does work, but it’s no picnic.
Well, AML acute myeloid leukemia is not preventable. There is word that it is environmental from benzenes. But, even non smokers get it. It is not hereditary either. And it sneaks up on you in about a month and you just think you have the flu. Most don’t survive, because by the time they get to the dr too much organ has been done from lack of rdc and platelets.
I was lucky. My back was hurting. So instead of my dr giving me pain meds and sending me out the door. He sent me for an MRI - the MRI saw the bone marrow changes. Blood tests then biopsies lead to the diagnosis. Yes, I felt terrible. But, just tossed it up to everyday fatigue and every other thing. Thank God for my back Doctor.