if you found that you have an cancer what will you do will you have a treat and be tired or stay as you are?

Question

i want to see what will you do if u found it are u going to have a treat and lose ur energy and evrey thing and hair ..

Answer 1

In 1998 I was diagnosed with osteosarcoma (bone cancer) and given a less than 15% chance of beating it. I was 28 with 3 young kids. My wife and I researched many alternative treatments and decided to go with the treatment the doctor prescribed. It was very heavy chemotherapy (I was young and a big strapping guy, so they threw everything they had at me) and then a surgery to remove the tumor, then more chemo, then radiation (proton therapy at Loma Lind University).

The chemo was a living hell. I lost over 80 lbs (18 in one week!) and all my hair all over my body. I could barely get out of bed or off the couch for weeks at a time. The chemo nearly killed me twice by destroying my immune system and I got pneumonia. One time they told my wife to make her peace with me 2 nights in a row, because they did not believe I would live till morning. The surgery left me with partial numbness in my left hand and back, neck and shoulder problems (the tumor was on my spine). I have since had 2 more surgeries and things are much better, but I still have some pain every single day. None of that is anything I would wish on my worst enemy.

However, I do not regret the treatment one tiny bit. It was hell, but it was worth it because I have gotten to see my kids growing up (and we added a 4th three years after my treatment ended) and spend 8 more wonderful years - and counting - with my family, friends, and especially my guiding light and personal angel, my beautiful wife.

I am now almost 8 years out of treatment and doing fine. I would not change the decision to fight the cancer for anything in the world and would do it again in a heartbeat if I had cancer again.

By the way, the comment that very few people are helped by chemo and radiation is pure bullsh**. They have made great advances in cancer treatments and the very best treatments are done at university medical centers across the country. My treatment was done largely at the Univeristy of Utah Huntsman Cancer Institute and I thank God every day that I was treated there. Proton therapy (a form of radiation therapy) has a nearly 100% survival rate for many cancers that were previously untreatable or killed over 90% of the people who had the, including tumors in the eye and some forms of breast cancer.

Talk to your doctor, weigh your options, and decide with the help of trained professionals and your loved ones. But mostly it is worth it, even if it buys you just a few more months with those you love.

Answer 2

My teenage son was diagnosed 22 months ago with stage IV abdominal sarcoma that had metastasized throughout his body. He had multiple abdominal tumors, his primary was the size of a volley ball. He had a solid cake of tumor on the right diaphragm. Tumors on the chest wall, liver, lungs, large and small intestines, lympth nodes, and spleen. A week before diagnosis he was playing high school basketball and other than a few odd feelings . . seemed perfectly healthy.

My son was admitted to the hospital (we didn't know he had cancer) because he had ascites (fluid built up in the abdomen and legs) and had developed 3 blood clots to the lungs. A CT and biopsy of the lympth nodes revealed the grim truth. His pediatric team was totally honest with him. He was given the choice to go home with no further treatment or to stay and fight this battle. After listening to his options, he made the choice to fight. This meant he spent 8 months of high dose chemotherapy (Doxirubicin, Cytoxan, Vincristine cycles with Etoposide and Ifosomide), had two surgeries, and an experimental procedure (peritoneal hyperthermic chemoperfusion) where they placed heated chemo directly onto the diaphragm and in the abdominal cavity . . 8 more months of a lower dose chemo and currently has only a few nodules left on the dome of the liver.

Chemotherapy treatment and his surgeries literally saved his life. He had significant tumor shrinkage from the first cycles of chemotherapy . . some totally disappeared . . enough shrinkage that he can start eating normally . . enough shrinkage that his heart fell back into place (tumors push your organs all around).

He has had excellent quality of life during this whole process. He completed high school, goes out with his friends, visits friends at college, enjoys life, talks up a storm, follows politics, online gaming, practicing for drivers license, plays a ton of ping pong, travels, and has been taking college classes. In other words . . he's been living.

Now you tell me . . was it worth it?

Answer 3

If I found that I had cancer I would get early treatment. It is said that early detection makes it so much easier to fight, then if it has become an advanced cancer that has gone all over your body. If you go for early treatment there might not be a need for chemo or radiation.

Answer 4

I would fight it, get the treatment, & look for alternative medician. It would be hard, but I would try to keep some of my life from before the same. If the doctors say there is no hope, it would be hard, but they don't know everything...people fight cancer & win all the time. I use to work with a lady who had a tumor the size of her heart on her heart. They didn't think she would live, but she did.

Answer 5

i have lung cancer--i had 38 radiation treatments eight I.V.chemo and now i am taking chemo pills ilost all my hair but now its growing back I WOULD DO THE SAME THING AGAIN IF I HAD TO. My cancer is disappearing!!

Answer 6

If you are young, it be beneficial to have treatment because there is a potential cure. you could feel quite normal within months.

It just depends on where the cancer is and the rate of malignancy.

I, personally would not have treatment because I have lived my life.

Answer 7

I base my decision on each treatment solely on quality of life. My doctor bases his decision on damage done to my body, both of us know that my cancer is terminal and respect each others decision on when to stop treatment.

Answer 8

I would look into nature alternatives like something on TV - cancer treatment centers of america. Very few people are "helped" by the norm chemo - radiation bs. Thanks, hope this helps!