Please Google” Stage IV Shuffle”. It’s sadly very common in diagnosed stage four cancers. Dr’s are ill equipped to deliver devastating news and are geared to providing treatment. Laymen will do what the Dr advises as they are desperate. I’m sorry you had to experience this. It a rare physician who will say, “ Your cancer is too advanced to cure, and any treatment we provide will likely weaken you further at worst and provide a modest gain in life expectancy at best. “ it’s not in the medical culture.
"How is it that the tests keep showing improvement?"
How, indeed. I keep wanting to scream at these doctors for their ludicrous (and deflecting) answers to your logical questions. I have a good friend currently on that cancer treadmill and Fear is the currency that keeps her undergoing all of the chemo and testing, even when the answers to reasonable questions seem vague and unhelpful.
I had a doctor tell me, “in the future, no one will die of cancer. We can treat it forever to keep it under control,” ….till one dies of something else, like the treatment regimen.
What can one say, the doctors have an excuse, your mom's cancer is unusual, it doesn't behave like we would expect it to. Cancer, behave, now shrink because we gave you poison, pain go away because we have poisoned it. Does any of this make any sense? Just dollars and cents.
I am so sorry, you, your mom, your family & friends had to go through this, just write me a script and let me go, oh, but no, we might make you an addict. We'd rather have you addicted to pain!
There is a reason for those fentanyl patches, and that's what it is.
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Please Google” Stage IV Shuffle”. It’s sadly very common in diagnosed stage four cancers. Dr’s are ill equipped to deliver devastating news and are geared to providing treatment. Laymen will do what the Dr advises as they are desperate. I’m sorry you had to experience this. It a rare physician who will say, “ Your cancer is too advanced to cure, and any treatment we provide will likely weaken you further at worst and provide a modest gain in life expectancy at best. “ it’s not in the medical culture.
"How is it that the tests keep showing improvement?"
How, indeed. I keep wanting to scream at these doctors for their ludicrous (and deflecting) answers to your logical questions. I have a good friend currently on that cancer treadmill and Fear is the currency that keeps her undergoing all of the chemo and testing, even when the answers to reasonable questions seem vague and unhelpful.
Editorial fairy:
>Both unlikely. But one happened.
I think there may be an extra space in between the sentences here.
>new promise. We were
Extra space?
>desperate. She was
Extra space?
I had a doctor tell me, “in the future, no one will die of cancer. We can treat it forever to keep it under control,” ….till one dies of something else, like the treatment regimen.
Blame it on the patient “your cancer is unusual.” Let’s them off the hook.
‘It was also unlikely, but possible, that the cancer had spread more recently, at an extremely accelerated rate, despite the chemotherapy.’
NOT despite the chemotherapy, but because of the chemotherapy (and the medications, and the jabs) - in my opinion.
What can one say, the doctors have an excuse, your mom's cancer is unusual, it doesn't behave like we would expect it to. Cancer, behave, now shrink because we gave you poison, pain go away because we have poisoned it. Does any of this make any sense? Just dollars and cents.
I am so sorry, you, your mom, your family & friends had to go through this, just write me a script and let me go, oh, but no, we might make you an addict. We'd rather have you addicted to pain!
There is a reason for those fentanyl patches, and that's what it is.
Again, so sorry.
Doctors not acknowledging what many of us know! The jab causes turbo cancers!!
I wish there was a hug emoji to use. You need a huge hug.
Have you ever heard of the Book “What Really Makes you ill?” Why everything you thought you knew about disease is wrong! I highly recommend you purchase a copy. You can also watch videos on you tube of people interviewing the Authors who spent 10 long years researching and writing it!