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post #31 of 37
1/21/07 at 6:46pm
My uncle and grandmother both died of complications from cancer treatment - my uncle after surgery and my grandmother after a whole host of complications from chemo and radiation. My uncle's case was kind of a freak thing but I think a lot of people have experiences like my grandmother's.

That said, I also know people who are long term survivors of other types of cancer - mostly breast cancer, lymphoma, and childhood leukemia. I also know a couple of people who are doing fine years after surgery for non-metastasized colon cancer.

Surgery, I'd definitely do. But I'd want to investigate alternatives to chemo. Chemo shrinks tumors but for solid, inoperable tumors, it really doesn't produce cures very often.
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post #32 of 37
1/21/07 at 9:22pm
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I am a cancer survivor. 23 years in remission.
Would I go through the chemo again? Probably, even though it was horrible....the worst thing I have ever experienced. It beat me down real bad, but I bounced back better than ever.
I'd do it again because I know my family, friends and my bengals need me.
I of course hope and pray I'll never have to go through that again......
Wow I hope you never ever have to go through it again either!

I would go through it and fight it with every ounce of strength I had.

It of course depends on the situation. DH's mum was diagnosed with ovarian cancer when she was pregnant with him. She had a choice to either have treatment and lose him, or wait till he was born, hopefully be strong enough to deliver him, then hope it wasn't too late for treatment. She died when he was only a few months old

I have so much respect for her for making that decision, can you imagine having to do that?
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post #33 of 37
1/22/07 at 3:19am
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Originally Posted by Kai Bengals View Post
I am a cancer survivor. 23 years in remission.
Would I go through the chemo again? Probably, even though it was horrible....the worst thing I have ever experienced. It beat me down real bad, but I bounced back better than ever.
I'd do it again because I know my family, friends and my bengals need me.
I of course hope and pray I'll never have to go through that again......
Well done you Nial!, and i hope you never have to go through it again either!.
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post #34 of 37
1/24/07 at 11:33am
My Dad was diagnosed with prostate cancer in his 70s; he had chemo and lived another 12 years.
My DH was diagnosed with a form of leukemia last May. Thank God he's at stage 0; if &/or when it worsens of course I want him to undergo chemo. The choice would untimately be his; since he's been diagnosed so early, he could undergo chemo relatively early--before he became too ill--and the side effects would probably be minimal. I'd refuse to give him up without a fight, and if that meant chemo so be it.
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post #35 of 37
1/25/07 at 6:59pm
If I were ever diagnosed with a horrible disease like cancer I would want to try whatever I could to stay alive or possibly be cured. I love my life way too much, I'll never be ready for it to end.
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post #36 of 37
1/26/07 at 11:20am
I have never thought about it... I mean, obviously I've heard about the side effects of chemo but I guess I never really considered that it could be worse to take it than to not. How interesting.

I guess it depends on the situation I'm in. If I had kids, I think I would want to be around for as long as I could, anyway I could. Otherwise, maybe not.
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post #37 of 37
1/26/07 at 1:11pm
I think it depends on many different factors-type of cancer, my age, how much treatment has improved, etc.

My cousin had a malignant brain tumor removed in April, I think. She has been on chemo for almost a year now. She's 27. The brain tumor originally formed as a cyst, then moved on to be a tumor. Despite the chemo, she now has another cyst on her brain. For now, they are watching it. She has very little hair. She is too tired to work, so she moved away from her friends to move back here to live at home with her bro & SIL. She helps out as much as she can, but there's only so much she can do!
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