so did they look at the cancer cells yet? Are they all dying off or what?
Or do you not find that out until the treatment is finished?
well physically my neck is better and I've had no breathing problems since starting chemo. they won't really know how down it is till later in the treatment cycle though, buttttt from just like WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE, the tumor is responding to the chemo. we don't know though.
yeah steel you had mentioned hopkins as a better place so i had been wondering why you werent getting your chemo done there. are you waiting until your next round of treatment or something?
well I'm in North Carolina, and Hopkins is a bit north. I'm going to call them and chances are they will say BEC is the best treatment, which is what I'm on, but who knows.
anyways doktormatini please answer the following questions which occured to me last night.
1. Earlier in this topic, valerian root was suggested as a sleep aid. My doctor immediately said not to take it. Which of the following was your understanding of the situation?
A. The doctor doesn't know about alternative medicine and is a bad doctor.
B. Chemotherapy is the act of poisoning the human body. BEC, or the type of treatment for my cancer, is relatively new having been found in the late eighties, early nineties. Thanks to the Lance Armstrong cause celebre, it's one of the more well researched chemotherapies. The C in BEC stands for cisplatin, which includes large levels of platinum. While BEC is better known, effects from unregulated substances the patient hasn't been taking might be risky, considering you are filling them with platinum and other chemicals. As a result, it's better for the patient to take something like Benadryl, researched as being safe with chemo, for a sleeping aid then something that might adversely react with his new blood stream.
2. Do you realize how incredibly stupid A is when you think about B at all?
3. You mentioned doctors that had MDs that did not cure, or harmed, their patients. Are you aware that if we were to increase the number of doctors that were guilty of medical malfeasance up to 50%, they would still have a higher cure rate than all the naturopaths in the world put together? Are you aware we'd have to increase this number to above 90% for all diseases and every doctor ever before examples like Hundley's kelp and other naturopath cures would become statistically significant enough to outweigh the doctors that were bad? Do you realize most naturopathy cures do not, in fact, work, and there's a reason the ones that do are limited to many conditions that tend to alleviate themselves? Like, that this is a fact?
4. In addition, no naturopath has ever cured cancer. Ever. You have found several highly suspect studies of potential tumor reduction from eating algae. You have not, and will not barring a real scientist in the coming months potentially extracting something from an algae, find a single scientific study proving any of these curing cancer. TREG suggested a clinic that at worst, will give me the same odds of curing, 50%. You conversely suggested I seek an alternative course of action
proven to have a 0% cure rate and a 100% death rate.
In further addition, numerous naturopaths have killed patients by convincing them to delay actual treatment and their cancers going from benign to malignant as a result. This means the naturopathy side has a
negative cure rate when it comes to cancer; every person who chooses naturopathy over a doctor will DIE because naturopathy has never cured cancer. In order to illustrate this, it would be the same as if every oncologist in the world not only never ever could cure cancer, but a large number of which would make their patient worse. Why on earth would you suggest I kill myself?
5. Why not faith healing or Peter Popoff miracle water, both of which have better cure rates than naturopathy?
if you do not answer these questions to my admittedly arbitrary satisfaction, I'm going to report every post you make in this topic next because while I'm not sure it's against the rules, I think we can rule of thumb stretch the fact that you suggested a course of action that will kill me and have refused to back it up since into "attempted murder of a gw member" which is hopefully a warnable offense???
earlier in this topic I ripped into Mog for being insensitive and suggesting I need to be a "better person" after this. compared to his comment, yours is infinitely worse. you don't seem to realize that you seriously suggested I seek a second opinion that would kill me if I took it, and continue to claim it wasn't at best maliciously fucking stupid and at worst straight up evil to do so. so answer the questions above (mostly because I've got a week off chemo and you're a funny motherfucker when you babble incoherently about shit you don't know) or don't post again.
