What do you think about chemotherapy? Is is safe? What are the prognosis? Can you live a long time after Chemo. is chemo bad or good. It's chemo for colon cancer.
2007-08-20 18:14:48 · 6 answers · asked by Imdatchick 3 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Cancer
Typically, the drugs used in chemotherapy have long term risks associated with them.
However, you have to survive the cancer for these risks to come into effect.
Personally, I chose chemotherapy despite the associated risks as they were less than the risks of letting my cancer go untreated.
Your oncologist is the best person to advise you on your personal risk factors and survival chances.
2007-08-20 18:26:14 · answer #1 · answered by Tarkarri 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you have cancer my heart goes out to you.
Surgery, chemo, and radiation are treatments for colon cancer.
I am a chemo patient and personally I would take the treatment again.
Safe?
No medicine is safe, aspirin has side effects.
I have some not so nice side effects but I am alive and doing well. You learn to deal with the after effects and continue to live.
Most any illness and treatment for that illness leaves behind some sort of aftermath. To what degree depends on the illness.
There are combinations of treatments such as naturopathic and chemo. Check your options but do not take too much time, cancer can move rapidly thru your body.
Best of luck to you!
2007-08-20 20:06:00 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
My honest opinion is that for some it is a life saver and for others it makes everything so much worse.
After taking care of my mother and watching her die from breast cancer with liver mets, I will not choose chemo if I have cancer that is already Stage 2 or greater. I would rather not go through the dibitlitating sickness just to die anyway. I want quality of life, not quanity of life.
But, on the same token, I have also watched many people take chemo and radiation and do just wonderfully, and survive with NED and die of old age many years later.
It is all a coin toss, really.
2007-08-21 03:51:04 · answer #3 · answered by Stephanie C 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Chemo is very effective for early diagnosed cancers. It is basically a poison that should kill cancerous cells and tumors. The bad thing is can make you very sick and make you loose all your hair. But chemo can save your life.
2007-08-20 18:28:08 · answer #4 · answered by david r 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i know when my father had esophageal cancer he waited to long for treatment, so beating the cancer is harder.
I just got the news i have thyroid cancer and had it removed.
chemo is not something im looking forward to.
but if it helps be be here for my wife and kids and my cats...ill doit.
2007-08-20 18:56:20 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just to be safe, I'd go with the alternative route.
2007-08-20 18:59:41 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋