[Yaelle]

One day perhaps chemotherapy will be seen as ghastly as bloodletting once was. It's one of the few tools we have now, though.

We have a lot of FReepers who are fighting cancer, and a lot of us also question the oncology world of today. It is my prayer that patients and their families don't get cowed by white coats and do plenty of research as they choose their treatments. And that prevention and cure be found swiftly.

[rlmorel]

Sure, I agree. It would be great to be able to look back in a more enlightened time when we have unlocked the knowledge of how to make the body heal itself, and look at the concept of pumping poison into the body to kill the invader as a barbaric approach, like cutting off a leg damaged by gunfire just to make sure it doesn’t get infected.

But this is what we have now.

Yaelle, people are free to refuse treatment. If they think that is better for them, I wish them the best. I don’t doubt that some number, however small who take that path will survive, treatment by apricot pits, vitamins, faith healing, whatever they decide.

I think it is a foolhardy approach. But it is their choice. We all have responsibility for our own health.

[erkelly]

As a cancer survivor, may I add my prayer that all cancer victims realize that their best chance at life lies with the “white coats,” and the path to a quick death is usually via “alternative” medicine. Please do what your oncologist recommends, and if you are exploring concomitant alternatives, please keep in mind that alternative medicine can actually cause you much harm if you are undergoing chemotherapy, so please discuss EVERYTHING with your oncologist, even seemingly innocent substances can be fatal.

[Blurb2350]

Much of what we think we know about cancer is simply wrong. And the standard treatments are medieval.

[Bonemaker]

Its an everlasting disgrace that medicine has not found a cure much less a better more humane treatment than the medieval chemo.Take welfare money and throw it at research.

[TheNext]

BIG MEDICINE wants your HOUSE

The ultimate desire of Big Medicine, pharma drugs, chemo, Doctors pursuing endless surgeries, endless procedures is to separate the patient from their house, assets, and children’s inheritance.

Dead Doctors Don’t Lie

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

One day perhaps chemotherapy will be seen as ghastly as bloodletting once was. It's one of the few tools we have now, though.

It certainly saved my life 30 years ago.