If you found out you had cancer, would you have chemo?

its all a matter of will. I lost my brother in law early this year at the age of 32 dying of prostrate cancer. He was in so much pain that we couldnt let him be (without treatment).Cancer or any disease for that matter, does not affect the patient alone, it affects their families too.. and we couldnt let go of him without fighting and it was amazing to see his will to live... and he fought so bravely. now we dont have any regrets... science is also doing its best to provide solutions for recovering from chemo too.. there have been many survival cases too.

if i know i had cancer,then i will try to enjoy almost all the things wht we gonna enjoy in the future..i want 2 die as free as possible.

It would depend on the type of cancer I had and what the success rate of the chemo would be for me to have a long and prosperous life....not all chemo make you sick and makes your hair fall out....depends on your treatment

I have a friend who has stomach cancer and has been having chemo.Recently she found out the chemo wasn't doing any good,the cancer is still growing.She has decided to stop having chemo and go for quality of life rather than quantity.I have to say that I totally agree with her decision.Chemo makes you very,very sick as I have witness first hand from my friend.It is an awful thing to have to go through.She has been off the chemo for two full weeks now and is still feeling the effects.She said it has taken the two weeks just to get her taste back,now she can actually eat and taste the food rather than everything tasting bland.I applaud her,she is a very strong lady that I am proud to call my friend!

no i havent gone thru this.. but i have seen a couple of ppl around going thru this. its a horrible situation to be in. knowing u or someone around u is going to die with a particular time.. i just cant stand it

No I don't think so. Most forms of chemotherapy target all rapidly dividing cells and are not specific for cancer cells. Hence, chemotherapy has the potential to harm healthy tissue, especially those tissues that have a high replacement rate (e.g. intestinal lining). These cells usually repair themselves after chemotherapy.

I think I would! As long as there is a chance I will take it

my opinion is that any my parents have cured the cancer with aloe arborescens is they are in life

I would probably talk to my doctors, my family and see what they thought was best for me

Personally no I would not go through it, I saw my dad suffer through this treatment,he was miseable. He has asked all of us to make sure when the time comes that he not be placed on any type of support I respect that in him and I feel the same way. I would never be able to do chemo, it's to damaging.

I can't say that I would because I watched many loved ones,clients die faster from chemo.They were young and old. I know a lot of it depends on your immune system so that's why I brought up the age. I also wouldn't want my family seeing me lose my hair, or watch me become terribly ill until the very end. They have medication for cancer patients today to help with the sickness from chemo, and I haven't seen it work yet. What are your opinions? What would you do? Have you already gone through this?

Hello. I think I'd try alternative medicine first.. I know of people that have fought the disease with natural remedies when all western medicine has seemingly failed.

rawpoet, as i told u that i gone thru chemo for 4 months without any side effects permanantly. ofcourse it depends on the type of medicine and cancer. but even then the cancer cells has to be killed by antibiotics. otherwise it will keep growing. once u have a chemo u can keep urself healthy by taking naturopathy treatments like herbs, flower therepy ect. so dont worry. God is there to help u.

Yes, I sure would. I have seen some people respond very favorably to chemotherapy. Of course, if it had spred all over my body by teh time I found it I might not take chemo...but if it was in one place only...then sure...why not try!

This really is a challenging question to answer. I've thought about it at times being that I had a mother who went through both radiation and chemo treatment. She went through many stages and the treatments seemed to make her better and than were of none effect. I guess my decision would be based upon how far I can handle taking the treatment. Some people begin and then they stop.

so sad.. but i think i would have the chemo

There is a ground swell rising about body Ph being a large contributing factor to cancer. Over the last 20 years or so the acidic levels in a lot of the things we consume and use on our bodies have risen. There have been a number of people including some actresses who were diagnosed with cancer and refused standard treatment and went with changing their body PH and so far as I know all have beaten cancer with no medical treatment, the belief is that cancer cells cannot survive in an alkaline environment. The long and the short of it is changing your body PH costs nothing, if it doesn't work nothing lost and it won't interfere with any medical treatment. I research the net a lot and here are a couple of the sites I have found on the subject. http://www.cancertutor.com/Cancer/Alkaline.html http://www.cancercompass.com/message-board/message/all,1332,0.htm

i would do whatever i needed i have too much to live for too give up.

i dont think i would take chemo just dont think it would help me any

That is a very hard question to answer. I really would not know what to do. And it would probably depend on what kind of cancer it was. But it would be a very hard decision to make, eother way.