I'm very sorry about your father. My father was just diagnosed with cancer (literally today). Obviously what you wrote is not sound advice for all kinds of cancers. I have two close family relatives who were cured of two different kinds of cancers (yes "cured", as in they lived for a decade plus after being cured and one died from other causes and the other is still alive). There are also people who are cured through these poisons, even of late stage deadly cancers like stage iv pancreatic:
http://www.pancan.org/section_stories/story_details.php?id=1...
Ultimately how you choose to treat cancer depends on the stage, type of tumor, and the advice of your doctors. With that said, there are people who beat even the deadliest cancers, and that very small chance, is one worth thinking about.
No, it's not for all types of cancer. My advice relates only to those with terminal, metastatic cancer, and is not an admonition but rather a reflection on what I wish we had done.
>With that said, there are people who beat even the deadliest cancers, and that very small chance, is one worth thinking about.
I vividly recall looking at the 5-year survival rates for people diagnosed with Stage IV colon cancer. <5%. <. I don't know if I've ever stared at a single character on a screen for so long. That was about a year or so before he died, and I remember the mental gymnastics I went through trying to rationalize how he would be the exception. At the time, it seemed unthinkable that we would give up. Of course we would pursue every option.
I can't say what I would do if I were in that position again; I can only say what I wish I'd done at the time.
Thanks I'm 26 and my dad is 59 and it's a serious cancer (not that any are "not serious") so I'm a similar age. I respect your story. I just wanted to point out the flip side of the equation - the real life, completely true, stories of the 5%.
Ultimately how you choose to treat cancer depends on the stage, type of tumor, and the advice of your doctors. With that said, there are people who beat even the deadliest cancers, and that very small chance, is one worth thinking about.