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Right here is essentially the most controversial entry from the unique submit: “When you’ve got stage 3 (and positively when you’ve got stage 4) most cancers, SKIP THE CHEMO! It is probably not going to avoid wasting your life and may very well hasten your dying and/or destroy the standard of the little time you could have left (as a result of it would make you so sick, weak, and drained). Benefit from the time you could have left FEELING (comparatively) GOOD (not vomiting and coping with painful mouth sores, infections, and a number of different miseries that include chemotherapy remedy).”
“If I ever get most cancers and am advised it is stage 3 or greater, I’ll by no means take chemo (and can solely do radiation if it is palliative and essential to lower my ache, not for remedy of the most cancers). I’ve administered chemo brokers throughout my few years as an oncology nurse, and I’ve seen how awfully sick and depressing it makes individuals. It additionally usually makes it next-to-impossible to benefit from the little issues like consuming or being with youngsters, to offer simply two examples. Why does it smash consuming? Chemo usually causes stomatitis and different painful mouth/throat infections and sores. It additionally usually causes nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea.
Why cannot youngsters be round? Usually, chemo makes a affected person neutropenic (very low white blood cell rely), placing them at excessive threat for a life-threatening an infection. Children are germy, in order that they’re normally barred from visiting (until the affected person is dying and now not getting remedy).
Chemo is a poison that I would not want for anybody. Sure, it may be a lifesaving poison, however that comes with a value more often than not (neuropathies, listening to loss, organ harm, elevated threat for different cancers, and many others.).
Docs will maintain providing you with remedy options as a result of that is what they’re educated to do, and that is what they assume everybody needs. However at ANY level in your remedy, you may (and may in the event you do not need to maintain enduring distress) inform the physician that you do not need any extra chemo or different painful remedy or meds that make you sick (like oral chemo medication). A superb physician ought to all the time current ‘not doing any remedy’ as one among your choices, particularly for late-stage cancers.
PLEASE NOTE: That is solely my opinion, in addition to that of each nurse I’ve ever labored with. It’s not a medical suggestion, and sure, I do know some (few) sorts of stage 3 and 4 cancers DO reply to chemo (generally). In my expertise, it’s the exception and never the rule.”
—Lisa M., Quora
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