In a lot of answers (and questions) I hear about how AWFUL cancer treatments are. I don't usually hear it from people who have actually experienced them, but from someone who knows someone who said . . . These posters are often advising a terrified person, who knows someone who knows someone who said . . .
Now I know that reactions to treatments vary, and that some reactions might be pretty awful, even deadly. But I've known hundreds of cancer patients, including my mother, father, sister, brother, myelf and my son. While some of them died, very few of them who had treatment thought it wasn't worth it for the chance to live.
And the USUAL reactions I've seen are fatigue, nausea (treatable with drugs quite often), a tendency to infection, skin problems and baldness. There are certainly other side effects, but really, overall, most cancer patients I've known say they simply aren't that bad.
So why do people insist on telling these stupid stories to newly diagnosed people here?
2006-09-07
07:39:38
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LazlaHollyfeld
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