Doctors should monitor leukemia patients taking Gleevec, researchers say
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One more sign that the cure is worse than the disease.
If a body is unfortunate enough to get cancer, of any sort, or location in the body the medical thrust is for Chemo regardless of the consequences for the patient. I am in recovery from radical colon cancer surgery and the surgeon recommended another Oncologist who's specialty is Chemo and set up an appointment. I was asked to arrive 30 minutes before the scheduled appointment in order that I get checked in and be available for my appointment. 2 hours after the scheduled time I went to the receptionist and said that I was going home since I did not need that sort of frustration at 86 years of age! I also told her to tell the doctor that she was fired since I no longer wanted her services if she treated her patients in such a manner. The doctor God syndrome was in full swing there since I was asked if I was aware of the amount of money that this doctor had spent in order to become a doctor to which I replied that I was paying top dollar for those services which made her my employee and because of a less than stellar performance, on her part, I was firing her.
I have a brother in Christ who was recently diagnosed with ALL. His doctor told him that chemotherapy would be more of a problem than a cure.
I hope that your brother gets better, truly! My first contact with chemo was in 1985 as a result of Thyroid cancer and it was a bear. I have never seen nor heard of anyone getting through a chemo series where the cure wasn't almost as bad as the disease. I seem to have a thing for cancer or rather it does for me since this adventure for me started in early May with the location and surgical removal of cancer from my bladder and it was all downhill from there until just recently when this confrontation took place. As I said previously, at 86, I do not need this sort of hassle any more and my research has shown that colon cancer is a very slow growth cancer so I am willing to take the gamble. My fury, if you will, was directed at the doctor's arrogance in her cavalier treatment of me as her patient and the little pressed fact that since I had hired her for her knowledge and expertise I could fire her also which I did.
Again my sincerest best wishes for a recovery for your brother.
My mother was diag. with uterine cancer (advanced in Feb 09. ) 4 mos later, 4 mos. into chemo she was gone. I often wonder if the chemo didn't actually shorten her life.. anyhow, I belong to an online cancer survivors network and it's amazing how many drug cocktails some poor cancer patients get. They get not just chemo, but a slew of other drugs to mask the SE of chemo, and other drugs to mask the SE of those drugs. And they still get SE and half the time, the dr. tells them,"oh I've never heard of that, that can't be a SE of chemo.." It seems like so many drs. can't find their rear ends with both hands, couldn't smell a fart at a bean dinner. Yet we're supposed to hang on their every word, and not ever question them.
My sincerest condolences on the loss of your Mother. The doctor God syndrome is in full effect there it would seem. They seem to forget just who is paying their salaries!