But when one has lived on this earth a long enough time, they certainly know many cancer survivors as well as those who did not make it.....and can weigh the differences, not to mention having friends and neighbors in the medical field who share their own hands on opinions and experiences. We know many in the medical field who say they WOULD NOT go through chemo if they or their spouse was diagnosed with cancer. To each his own; this is just personal opinions of those in the know, from what they've seen and experienced first hand.
Back in 1968, and earlier, there wasn't chemo ( that I know of anyway.)
My 50 year old mother in law first was diagnosed with uterine cancer, then kidney cancer which then spread to her bones and brain. It was a sarcoma. She had no treatment as there was none, or so we all were told. She died a painless death.
Amazing but true. However, she was confined to a wheelchair at the end after it spread to her brain. Doctors later thought that it had been related to her x-rays back when she was pregnant with her 4th child in 1950..........they had thought he might be a twin.........at that time they didn't realize the dangers of radiation and xrayed her, often.........which "might" have resulted in her subsequent uterine and kidney cancer...........I wish she had stayed around on this earth longer as she was a good mother in law. That also is a rare comment, but I did have a very nice mother in law.
If my memory is correct, most recently, many doctors have said that so many "tests" involving a form of radiation, have now been deemed not really necessary......or not necessary as often as earlier thought. So, that would either be due to "cost restrictions" by the medical industry or else they know that too much over testing with radiation can result in other problems.
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