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Wrapping up round 9 of Folfirinox chemo protocol, hopefully the last round of my life. This shit is nasty. I hope in the coming decades we can look back and rea
by Wonnk13 3y ago
Wrapping up round 9 of Folfirinox chemo protocol, hopefully the last round of my life. This shit is nasty. I hope in the coming decades we can look back and realize how barbaric it is to poison your body and hope for the best.
However, this is just a puff piece, not news at all. Not a single citation etc etc. Cancers are hard, I just hope if I ever have children the science will have advanced beyond what I'm dealing with.
- toomuchtodo 3y agoSorry to hear, wishing you the best outcome. The future can't come fast enough.
- bena 3y agoOne of the things that makes cancer insidious is that it is essentially you. Most diseases are caused by some foreign agent. Some bacteria or virus that invades your body and shuts down or takes over some critical function. Cancer can be triggered by a foreign agent, but it itself is not a foreign agent. It is your own body's natural processes gone haywire. That makes differentiating cancer cells from other cells more difficult. Chemotherapy works by essentially killing your most active cells. The cells that are constantly reproducing. Those are your hair follicles, your stomach lining, your cancer, etc. It's why the side effects include hair loss and nausea. It's a chemical shotgun blasted into your body with the hopes that one of the casualties is the cancer.
- kylecazar 3y agoI'm really sorry to hear that and I hope it's the last time you'll go through it. If must depend on the particular treatment and circumstance. I was by a loved one's side for the past several months during chemo (stage IV), and we were pretty shocked how few side effects there were. Basically none. Radiation, on the hand, was brutal.
- pantulis 3y agoI'm sorry to read that you're going through this. I truly wish you the best of luck, fellow hacker.
- timbit42 3y agoRadiation is also barbaric.