"D. C. Sessions" <dcs@lumbercartel.com> wrote in message
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> In message <hobik.31$r55.24@fe127.usenetserver.com>, vernono wrote:
>
>>
>> "D. C. Sessions" <dcs@lumbercartel.com> wrote in message
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>>> In message <egaik.26$r55.20@fe127.usenetserver.com>, vernono wrote:
>>>
>>>> Don't trust anything, but Chemo works on many people.
>>>> I think Tony Snow was totally wrong in total trust.
>>>
>>> The whole Tony Snow job starts with the (mistaken) notion
>>> that his second round of treatment was anything remotely
>>> like an attempt to cure him. The cancer was by then well
>>> disseminated and inoperable. The chemotherapeutic agents
>>> he was on were strictly to give him additional time to
>>> enjoy life as much as possible before the end.
>>>
>>> In other words, you only fail if you don't meet the goals
>>> you set -- and "cure" was not the goal of Tony's treatment.
>>
>> Do what?
>
> It's called "palliation." Don't knock it until you've
> tried doing without.
I don't think they know what palliation is...
my own mother was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 47(many years
ago)....she had the only treatment known then...which was radical
mastectectomy (yuck) at the five year mark when she was so called "cured"
(tho she had multiple positive lymph nodes)...her recurrence was first in
her spine..with a huge tumor and excruciating pain...in that time they
really only had radiation...which did indeed shrink the tumor...
but she still was dead at age 53...
>
>> He went along with the super Doctors. There is no indication that he
>> realized that chemoseldom works OR that there were any other
>> alternatives.
>
> I realize that your "chemo seldom works" is hyperbole.
> Obviously for many types of cancer (e.g. pediatric leukemias)
> it works almost all of the time; in others such as Snow's
> it's not intended to "work" in the sense of effecting a
> remission.
>
> ASSuming that Snow (who, as you point out, had plenty of
> access to resources) was too stupid to find that out is
> rather more of a reflection on you than on anyone else.
>
>> If you have a 90+% chance of dying, it seems that one would have about
>> ten
>> opinions. He had resources and money.
Tony Snow also had bad colon genes
his mom died of colon cancer at age 38
so he was likely doomed
>
> And, interestingly enough, chose one that gave him a
> couple of active years with, apparently, pretty decent
> quality of life right up to the end.
>
> --
> | The brighter the stupid burns, the more |
> | chance that someone will see the light. |
> +- D. C. Sessions <dcs@lumbercartel.com> -+
