Breakthrough cancer test predicts whether chemotherapy will work
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Re: Breakthrough cancer test predicts whether chemotherapy will work
#2Unfortunately, chemotherapy is still the best thing to treat many cancers.
We need to try harder to find other treatments. Poisoning the body is quite an unpleasant experience.
Re: Breakthrough cancer test predicts whether chemotherapy will work
#3Unfortunately, chemotherapy is still the best thing to treat many cancers. We need to try harder to find other treatments. Poisoning the body is quite an unpleasant experience.
Nice to be able to avoid it if it's not going to help you
Re: Breakthrough cancer test predicts whether chemotherapy will work
#4Re: Breakthrough cancer test predicts whether chemotherapy will work
#5Unfortunately, chemotherapy is still the best thing to treat many cancers. We need to try harder to find other treatments. Poisoning the body is quite an unpleasant experience.
Nice to be able to avoid it if it's not going to help you
I've always been certain that if I got cancer, I wouldn't even bother trying chemo; a test like this completely changes the calculus.
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#6I’ve not really educated myself on the details of cancer treatments (I’m fortunate I’ve not had to learn yet), so my uneducated assumption was that chemo always did something for cancer, it was more a matter of weighing how much it helped fight the cancer vs. the harm it did to the otherwise healthy tissue/organs.
I wouldn’t have guessed the there are types of cancer where chemo just wouldn’t work at all.
Re: Breakthrough cancer test predicts whether chemotherapy will work
#7Unfortunately, chemotherapy is still the best thing to treat many cancers. We need to try harder to find other treatments. Poisoning the body is quite an unpleasant experience.
Re: Breakthrough cancer test predicts whether chemotherapy will work
#8Re: Breakthrough cancer test predicts whether chemotherapy will work
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nice to be able to avoid it if it's not going to help you
I've always been certain that if I got cancer, I wouldn't even bother trying chemo; a test like this completely changes the calculus.
Based on personal experience, I believe that when confronted with the reality of a terminal diagnosis and chemotherapy is the available option, one's perspective often shifts—most people will choose to do whatever it takes to preserve their life.
Re: Breakthrough cancer test predicts whether chemotherapy will work
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nice to be able to avoid it if it's not going to help you
I've always been certain that if I got cancer, I wouldn't even bother trying chemo; a test like this completely changes the calculus.
I thought the same, until I got cancer (stage 4 even, so the chemo wasn't curative). I don't know if I was lucky or it was the type of chemo, but it wasn't nearly as bad as I expected. It's been nearly five years since diagnosis and I'm very happy I got treatment. Considering the fact that I have incurable cancer, my life is spectacularly good!