Cancer. What can you do?

[Gatopescado]

Got back from a great day of skiing. Cooked up some chops for the family and got deep into some homebrew.

See? Its not all that bad!

[gigi]

@Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker

We don’t do well for *cancers that have metastasized, and maybe never will. I remember reading an article in which one doctor said that based on what we know that he envisioned the most likely long-term treatment for *metastasized cancer was to treat it as a chronic condition (like hypertension and diabetes), and not something with an endgame ‘cure.’

*In this article he was speaking specifically about pancreatic cancer, which is pretty much always metastasized when it’s found, but I think the same would apply to others as well.

I was just talking to a friend whose friend has a tumor on the pancreas, and they claim it looks like a contained…discrete…localized…don’t remember the exact word but essentially, that it has not spread and should be able to be removed intact. Given what you’re saying, I wonder if that is really true.

/hijack

[Charlie_Wayne]

When I started this thread, I didn’t realize that the person behind the documentary “Healing Cancer from the Inside Out” arranged for that doc in support of selling his book or DVD or something else.

After giving it some further thought, I am persuaded that Shodan may well be correct and I could very well be wrong.

Sorry.

[LSLGuy]

@gigi

I was just talking to a friend whose friend has a tumor on the pancreas, and they claim it looks like a contained…discrete…localized…don’t remember the exact word but essentially, that it has not spread and should be able to be removed intact. Given what you’re saying, I wonder if that is really true.

/hijack

Bolding mine.

As I said above, all medical care is an experiment with an n of 1 and no control group. Cancer care especially so. Right now all anyone can speak of in your friend’s case is probabilities.

So they’ll do their best to cut it out intact, and perhaps fire off some chemo just in case. Time will tell whether that does the trick. There’s no other way to find out for sure. Wait, and watch, then react to what is seen in the fullness of time.

[GrumpyBunny]

@Charlie_Wayne

As I understand it, conventional treatments have an appallingly low success rate.

You would be wrong.

We have reduced deaths from cancer immensely over the past several years. 22% over 20 years, from an ABC news report.