Refusing Chemotherapy

John23 said:

Annie53
Re:
"The chemo just does not feel like the right way to go this time
around. I did it 4 years ago, and the way I look at it the cancer
came back. The way my oncologist looks at it, it worked and I had
4 years cancer free. "

When we consider that it takes a cancer cell about 1-1/2 to 2 years
to grow big enough to identify, it's a bit disingenuous for a physician to
claim that a patient was "cancer free" for that period of time.

Cancer doesn't really "come back"; it is a normal cell that's been
damaged and no longer can respond to our body's directions.

When the cell is removed, it can't "come back", but the condition
that had allowed it to remain, will allow more damaged cells to exist
in the future, unless we fix that condition.

Damage to normal cells occurs often, and our immune system
usually removes the damaged/dying cells. When our immune
system neglects to do that job, the defective cell tries to stay alive
by using the fermentation process. Once again, it lives and grows,
but it's isolated from our body's orders, so it grows in any direction
it can, displacing the cells that need that area.

Isn't it odd....... that a problem so simple, avoids any organized
industry that claims it's trying to solve that problem?

Curiously odd.

Chinese medicine
Thank you for all the info. I have refused chemo and would like to try Chinese medicine. I'd appreciate any details you might be willing to share. Regarding Herbs and choosing someone skilled in this area. I live in San Diego.
thank you. Nancy

MY DECISON/MY CHOICE
what i did; colon cancer 12/12/08 surgery 3t 3/30 positive nodes. very strong at 6 weeks after surgery. started folfox,,,nearly killed me, 7 sessions/hospital 10 days. 5/09 told to go home and recuperate. I was never the same. 3/10 recur mets to liver. 6/1/10 surgery at one of our 2 cancer hospital.,onc on staff. could not do, liver a mess, lots of liver damage from chemo.refused chemo. I have been referred to hospice 10/12, haven't decided yet..bedridden from chemo/cancer. what i wish i had done. after inital surgery, refused chemo. when it met to my liver I probaby would have tried folfox then...i do believe chemo is not the answer and can kill you...but that is my decision and belief..only a fyi on my life. i do not think i would have survived another chemo, my body would not have endured, pat

Lifeisajourney said:

MY DECISON/MY CHOICE
what i did; colon cancer 12/12/08 surgery 3t 3/30 positive nodes. very strong at 6 weeks after surgery. started folfox,,,nearly killed me, 7 sessions/hospital 10 days. 5/09 told to go home and recuperate. I was never the same. 3/10 recur mets to liver. 6/1/10 surgery at one of our 2 cancer hospital.,onc on staff. could not do, liver a mess, lots of liver damage from chemo.refused chemo. I have been referred to hospice 10/12, haven't decided yet..bedridden from chemo/cancer. what i wish i had done. after inital surgery, refused chemo. when it met to my liver I probaby would have tried folfox then...i do believe chemo is not the answer and can kill you...but that is my decision and belief..only a fyi on my life. i do not think i would have survived another chemo, my body would not have endured, pat

I too refused chemo and I am NED, cleaner then ever is what my onc said after my latest colonoscopy and endoscopy. CEA is rising a little, but still very low.
I do my own health routine, try to eat right but do cheat, drink some wine and most of all I LIVE and so far it works for me, BUT again this was MY decision and mine alone.
Positive thinking, meditation and I stress again, lots of laughter and happy thoughts.
not always easy with my daughter so very very ill on heavy pain killers etc. (MS and needs a brain surgery). I live day by day, new man in my life who makes me laugh and makes me enjoy every moment, music and the grandkids. I am a very lucky woman.
Marjan