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Young boy dies after parents abandon chemo plan for holistic approach
The Cancer Blog
May 24th 2007 10:47AM newsflash. lots of people who endure chemotherapy and radiation die. cancer therapy is, in effect, experimental. everybodys genetic makeup being different - you can have two people with the same cancer, same 'percieved' stage, have very different outcomes. there is no 'sure thing'. i don't care what the so called '5 year survival rate' is. i know. i lost my beautiful sweet daughter at 18 after a horrific 3 year battle with bone cancer, chemotherapy, radiation, extensive surgerys, experimental therapy...and you know what? I cry when i think of what we put her through to try to save her and I wonder if holistic may have made a difference. what i would give to do it again and let her live her life instead of suffer it. do you have any idea what the side effects of these drugs are? do you know what the secondary cancer rate is for those 'cured'? my 16 year old developed permanent congestive heart failure from one of the drugs. you don't know the details of this childs life. i imagine her parents did what they thought was right in a very difficult situation. have some compassion.
Journey Through Cancer: State-Of-The-Art Medical Care
The Cancer Blog
Nov 20th 2006 9:40AM "Some cancers -- like Hodgkin's disease, testicular cancer, and childhood leukemia -- were once considered deadly. Now, they can be cured"
please don't perpetuate this myth...childhood cancer is the number one disease killer of children. there is no magic pill - lots of children of the even specific diseases mentioned still die, and survivors suffer late term side effects...we have not reached a place where we can say cure and childhood cancer in the same sentence...we disrespect all of the children that die from lukemia each year and those that survive to face secondary cancers...we've a long, long way to go...
