Olivia has breast cancer and follows the recommendations of her oncologists, but also consumes natural herbs. This is complementary medicine. A tiny window into the world of cancer patients who use alternative and complementary medicine has been opened by a team at Yale School of Medicine.
They excluded people with stage IV cancer meaning cancer with distant metastases in order to study only curable cancers. They wanted to know, compared to similar patients, do cancer patients who use either alternative medicine AM or complementary medicine CM fare worse? And who are these people? But what about those who embraced both medicine and complementary remedies?
The good news is that, in this study sample , they did not delay medical treatment. The bad news is that many of them flat out refused it. Because certain cancers are treated with more than one modality e. Patients who chose AM and CM were not poor and illiterate; they tended to be well-off and educated. In this sample, the patients with cancer who chose either alternative or complementary therapies tended to be younger; to be women; to have breast or colorectal cancer; to have higher socioeconomic status and educational level; and to live in the Western part of the U.
The kinds of people who use complementary treatments—younger on average, with better means—would normally live longer, but because of the refusal of medical treatment that seemingly comes with the complementary medicine culture, they die earlier.
Theoretically I would advocate living meaningfully dying joyfully actually I'm awake 3 a. GP looked so anxious I don't want to go back there. What can they do they are overwhelmed with pressure of work.
I have not one person I can trust that's just the life I'm in. Afraid to do the hormone therapy I already have arthritis there is no way I want to live in pain crippled. Supposed shouldo not complain that's the Fate of many old people to just die alone in a flat be found after 3 months but it's still causing me panic. I'm afraid I have little sympathy for your GP - they get paid to do their job and have a very powerful and influential union to put their case to the government.
My empathy lies with you and anyone who has a cancer diagnosis The choices are pretty grim and the odds are anything but brilliant. Chemo can be pretty gruelling, along with surgery, radiotherapy and immunotherapy. None of these comes with any guarantees - but opting out of treatment to me feels like a cop out and an acceptance of the inevitability that a cancer diagnosis is a death sentence. Sadly my friend Max can't answer your post as she died after a long and hard fight against the odds.
She did get to do and see things as a result of her treatment which she would not have done without the treatment. Anniversaries, birthdays, her daughter's wedding and many other personal milestones. I have refused chemotherapy and radiotherapy to my doctors approval. Im single with no children , self employed and have no family left alive , its just me and my dogs.
Life for me is all about quality , independance and chemo does cause chronic fatigue which i could not live with.
Its my life and my body , not friends so im going with quality as my condition is terminal. Have already had one brilliant holiday and have booked for me and my dogs to go away in September for two weeks. Before anyone says what about the dogs a very good friend is taking them on once i fall off my twig. In the meantime im enjoying life to the full , energetic , not tired , out in the fresh air and feeling great.
I have been through chemo radio and dissection and whilst I admit it was hard it was my choice to try. It was a really difficult time in my life 8 years ago which took my job my bank balance and much much more but I lived long enough to meet my 1st granddaughter and now expecting a second any week now. I have just recently be diagnosed again and awaits date for surgery in next few weeks which scares the hell out of me and I was a paediatric nurse.
It is of course your choice to make and your friends and family should support your decisions I intend to get through this again no matter what.
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