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No, it's not for all types of cancer. My advice relates only to those with terminal, metastatic cancer, and is not an admonition but rather a reflection on wha
by redthrowaway 13y ago
No, it's not for all types of cancer. My advice relates only to those with terminal, metastatic cancer, and is not an admonition but rather a reflection on what I wish we had done.
>With that said, there are people who beat even the deadliest cancers, and that very small chance, is one worth thinking about.
I vividly recall looking at the 5-year survival rates for people diagnosed with Stage IV colon cancer. <5%. <. I don't know if I've ever stared at a single character on a screen for so long. That was about a year or so before he died, and I remember the mental gymnastics I went through trying to rationalize how he would be the exception. At the time, it seemed unthinkable that we would give up. Of course we would pursue every option.
I can't say what I would do if I were in that position again; I can only say what I wish I'd done at the time.
I wish the best of luck to you and your father.
- WoodenChair 13y agoThanks I'm 26 and my dad is 59 and it's a serious cancer (not that any are "not serious") so I'm a similar age. I respect your story. I just wanted to point out the flip side of the equation - the real life, completely true, stories of the 5%.
- srean 13y agoHey WoodenChair ... no cerebral HN comment here, just a sincere wish: all the best. Details were different, but been there, almost, more than once.