Colorectal Cancer Part 3: Do you die if you do not do surgery after chemotherapy?

Two people came to mind as I write this article about colon cancer. Let me tell their stories.

Story 1:

Mat (not real name) is a 45-year-old professional who is diagnosed with Duke's C rectal cancer. Eight of 16 lymph nodes were involved. He had undergone surgery and then chemotherapy with 5-FU + leucovorin. The first chemo treatment, his made life miserable for serious side effects. He decided to phase out chemotherapy and came tous for help. He was started on herbs and felt really good afterwards.

Mat is a good friend, a doctor. Knowing when his doctor friend came that he had abandoned chemotherapy, he was excited and came to see Matt and asked him to continue with his chemotherapy treatment. According to this doctor friend who was doing what Mat was wrong and he would not want to see his best friend die, nothing. He must go through the "best way" of treatment. After all, to a doctorHerbal therapy is not definitive or scientifically proven.

By sincere concern for his friend used to soften and Mat took his chemotherapy. The second treatment caused such severe side effects as before. He felt like dying. Then he came to realize, and wondered: "What am I doing to myself?" I suffered so much get any treatment that I was not sure that would help me too. Why, oh why do I "kill" myself? Am I doing the Send to my doctor, please mail or I amThis for me? "Mat was awakened this fact and decided that he himself would like all the others. He decided to stop further chemotherapy.

Mat made the decision weighed heavily on me. When he came to me, I have explicitly stated that the decision to undergo chemotherapy or not, is entirely his own decision. I can not make the decision for him. So, he probably had his decision based on his own sense of courage, and we must respect that. It has for some yearsand Mat is still doing well. It could be the question: Would "Mat survive six or eight cycles of chemotherapy, given the fact that the first two cycles already caused severe reactions?"

It is a common practice, or golden rule, so to say that patients are asked after the surgery, undergoing chemotherapy for colon cancer. At some point, if the doctor does not believe that chemotherapy is appropriate to the patients themselves do not feel safe.

Story 2:

It was on 29 July2001, 9.30 clock, I was on the phone talking to a lady from England. Your Malaysian-born sister had colon cancer sometime in March 1999. She underwent an operation. The doctor said that was done in the UK since the cancer in its early stage (Duke 2,) there was no need for them to chemotherapy. Not satisfied, she came to Singapore to another oncologist to see. Since she was still young (46 years old, the oncologist) recommended chemotherapy. This would be "safer" for them --Pension or insurance against possible problems later. So she let the six cycles of chemotherapy in Singapore.

March 2000 - A scan showed a 3 cm mass in her liver. They came back to Singapore. Further investigation by doctors in Singapore have shown that a 1 cm diameter in the lungs. The doctors recommended surgery for the liver and / or lungs. But when the doctors opened his stomach, they saw many nodes in the abdomen. The removal of the liver-lungabandoned. The abdomen was closed back. She underwent another eight cycles of chemotherapy.
After the fourth chemotherapy, the tumors were in the size, followed by chemotherapy showed no further improvement. Just do not reach, chemotherapy, its intended purpose. She felt hopeless and decided to leave and returned to England.

She started at the Gerson Therapy in Liverpool for five months. During this time, the tumors had grown to twice their size. Then decidedParticipation in a clinical trial in one of the best hospitals in London. She was again subjected to another eight cycles of chemotherapy.

29. July 2001 - The goal of the sister phoned to seek my help, since it seems to leave no other way for them. Sometimes she was in pain, and she needed sleep.

This is the perception of the world today, in relation to cancer treatment. Chemotherapy is the answer, and it needs to be done, otherwise do not dieit. Seemed With all due respect, Mat's doctor friend that chemotherapy is the only key to survival Mat. Other possibilities are suspect and unreliable for lack of evidence. This Mat has to go for chemotherapy or he will die. The truth is, Matt is still alive! But the lady from London, she was "emotionally a wreck" and died not long after her sister talked to me.

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