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To: chris_bdba
They will tell you there are other anti-nausea drugs but they will never name one.

My father was a physician who died from the complications of lung cancer. He underwent radiation therapy and I watched as he gagged on his favorite dinner, a very nice Porter House steak, due to the treatments. Chemo-therapy causes far worse nausea than radiation. He watched his life-long friend and cousin go through chemo before he died from his own cancer and my father swore he would never undergo that and he didn't.

As a physician for over 30 years I think he would have known of and used an anti-nausea Rx if there had been one.

63 posted on 10/02/2011 10:30:09 AM PDT by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: TigersEye

I’m sorry to hear that.I am sure you are right no one would willingly go through that if there was a way to avoid it.I watched my own father die in 1999 from esophageal cancer and it was not a good way to go.My father did not have chemo they did not think he was strong enough to go through it by the time they found it.From diagnosis and dead was a short 6 weeks which what he went through I see now as a blessing but even that was pure h*ll.


64 posted on 10/02/2011 9:20:42 PM PDT by chris_bdba
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