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.
Some cancer tumors are slow-growing, nonaggressive, and easier to beat. Plus, if the surgeon can remove all of it, the patient has a better chance. I lost three family members (including my father) to aggressive colon cancers. My dad was denied chemo, and the cancer grew very quickly without it. OTOH, I know a woman whose father refused surgery for colon cancer and takes no treatment at all, and the cancer doesn’t even seem to be spreading. I’m always glad to hear that a cancer is nonaggressive, but some of us need chemo - sometimes it’s our only chance.