[graciegirl]

Chemo and radiation do not stop all cancers to be sure. Young womens breast cancer is almost always the worst form. And some cancer is so advanced when discovered that nothing can arrest it. There are many variables and cancer is really many diseases.

But when you are diagnosed, you don't have time to get a medical degree, you have to find the best medical facility and go by what they say.

When a person has a form of cancer in a stage that is irreversible then no treatment can save them but in many cases it can make it into almost a long time chronic condition with pretty liveable years to enjoy.

Fear of cancer and of death make people seek unproven alternative solutions. A neighbor diagnosed at the same time as I was with the same cancer opted to go to New Mexico to receive treatment there from a doctor who claimed to have a new way to deal with cancer. She begged me not to have chemo and radiation. You all know what I will not say out loud. She should not have chosen that route. She was very sure it was helping her but it ultimately did not and she died. She may have died with chemo and radiation, I don't know. But I feel I must tell others to trust large medical facilities who have a reputation for valid treatment of cancer.

I almost foam at the mouth when I hear people like Suzanne Sommers say not to have chemo and radiation.