suzie a - I am going to check out his other videos. Thanks for posting this. He may be right. My late husband had cancer and he took chemo and radiation. I wish we had access to this info maybe it would have made a difference.
lo_mcg - I think it's a rambling rant designed to sell me expensive and ineffective herbal preparations; what do you think?
It contains a number of factual errors - not least that something like 90% (can't remember the exact figure, and I'm not sitting through it again) of people who have chemo die as a result.
It's a sales pitch aimed at frightening people and at cashing in on the fears of people who have no actual knowledge of cancer and its treatments, but who have heard scary rumours about the treatment being worse than the disease and chemo causing death.
So - a few facts:
Sometimes people get hold of ideas like that because with most cancers there are few ill effects if any until the cancer is quite advanced, and a person with an aggressive and advanced cancer usually looks, feels and behaves like a healthy person.
Then if they have chemotherapy side effects of the drugs can make them ill, sometimes very ill and frail, while treatment is taking place.
So some people conclude that the treatment is worse than the disease, and myths about people being killed by chemo bolster this belief.
It isn't always effective. But in those cases it is the cancer, not the treatment, that kills the patient - they have died in spite of treatment, not because of it. Distressed relatives sometimes look for something or someone to blame, and some conclude that it was the treatment that killed the person.
With some types of chemotherapy, and in some cancers, there is a very slightly increased chance of developing a second type of cancer later.
Generally this is more likely to happen when the original cancer was a lymphoma, but it can happen very occasionally with other types of cancer.
Fortunately this very serious long-term effect is VERY RARE. But yes it happens, and yes very occasionally someone dies as a result.
People with aggressive and advanced cancers who agree to chemotherapy aren't duped; they do so in the full knowledge of these facts because they have a life-threatening disease and this is their best chance.
Chemo and other cancer treatments are not perfect, very far from it. But we know they save many lives, and prolong many, many more because they have been tested and proven in double blind clinical trials.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iHso23A14Q
suzie a - I am going to check out his other videos. Thanks for posting this. He may be right. My late husband had cancer and he took chemo and radiation. I wish we had access to this info maybe it would have made a difference.
ReplyDeletelo_mcg - I think it's a rambling rant designed to sell me expensive and ineffective herbal preparations; what do you think?
ReplyDeleteIt contains a number of factual errors - not least that something like 90% (can't remember the exact figure, and I'm not sitting through it again) of people who have chemo die as a result.
It's a sales pitch aimed at frightening people and at cashing in on the fears of people who have no actual knowledge of cancer and its treatments, but who have heard scary rumours about the treatment being worse than the disease and chemo causing death.
So - a few facts:
Sometimes people get hold of ideas like that because with most cancers there are few ill effects if any until the cancer is quite advanced, and a person with an aggressive and advanced cancer usually looks, feels and behaves like a healthy person.
Then if they have chemotherapy side effects of the drugs can make them ill, sometimes very ill and frail, while treatment is taking place.
So some people conclude that the treatment is worse than the disease, and myths about people being killed by chemo bolster this belief.
It isn't always effective. But in those cases it is the cancer, not the treatment, that kills the patient - they have died in spite of treatment, not because of it. Distressed relatives sometimes look for something or someone to blame, and some conclude that it was the treatment that killed the person.
With some types of chemotherapy, and in some cancers, there is a very slightly increased chance of developing a second type of cancer later.
Generally this is more likely to happen when the original cancer was a lymphoma, but it can happen very occasionally with other types of cancer.
Fortunately this very serious long-term effect is VERY RARE. But yes it happens, and yes very occasionally someone dies as a result.
People with aggressive and advanced cancers who agree to chemotherapy aren't duped; they do so in the full knowledge of these facts because they have a life-threatening disease and this is their best chance.
Chemo and other cancer treatments are not perfect, very far from it. But we know they save many lives, and prolong many, many more because they have been tested and proven in double blind clinical trials.