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Originally Posted by Evans, Marv
This is an irritating topic for me because of my father's situation in 1991, when he died of cancer. He had colon cancer & had a portion of it removed. While in there, they looked at his liver which had cancer spots on it. They told him (& my mother) about it and said it would most likely continue to spread. Not much later on, it did spread to his brain, optic nerve and other places. They told my parents (both very simple people) if they operated on his brain, he could live another six months. If not, me might live six weeks. Of course my parents opted for the operation. After the operation, he was pretty much a vegetable and died within a week. However they made their $250K+ out of it, which was the going rate around then.
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Can relate. My take is to use your gut feeling, research to the best of ones ability, seek more than a few others opinions. Nor should one be at the mercy of them.
Sadly, many in the cancer 'business' today are worse than the disease itself. I'll add, some of the US leading research and treatment centers are rather aggressive for the business. Note I said aggressive.... not 'competitive'.
Proof is when talking with those in the profession that essentially speak negative to even 'bad rap' other researchers or treatment methods. Get down to the nit grit with them and it'll blow your mind. And to think its among their peers.