(December 8, 2021 at 1:14 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: IDK. Cancer is always treatment, we're never really cured of cancer, because to animals like us cancer is a feature, not a bug. No human being is ever in anything other than remission..which may last their entire life, but only because they died before cancer inevitably returned.
I've got a family member in a position where it's pretty clear medication for one of his conditions has caused or contributed to him being diagnosed with cancer (to the point that there's a lay down class action case over the drug)....but, otoh, now, every treatment that might help with the cancer, no promises..is well known to exacerbate the condition for which he took the drugs that contributed to that cancer. Effectively, he's being asked precisely how he wants to die. Column a, or column b.
Medicine cant create a new reality whole cloth no matter how much or where we dump our cash.
When I was diagnosed, I was presented with two regimens of chemo. This was after being told, after having my chest surgically removed, that if this and that came back negative I wouldn't have to do chemo at all...when this, that, and the other thing came back negative I was pronounced as having Triple Negative Breast Cancer and my only hope of survival past three years was either behind door number 1 or door number 2.
Door number one - This has a high probability of damaging your heart
Door number two - This has a high probability of giving you leukemia.
Ummm...no door three, huh?
New oncologist says that if chemo causes leukemia you are just fucked. That can't fix leukemia that they caused with chemo by using other chemo.
I opted for none of the above except the surgery.
That was 2009.
I am convinced it's a crapshoot.
I'm your huckleberry.
