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Originally Posted by DanaC
Tough call for all concerned.
I do feel for the mother in this case, and indeed the father. Treatment options for cancer and other life threatening illnesses are often complex and the odds of surviving versus the odds of complications can be a difficult thing to balance.
I don't have a great deal of faith in doctors to be honest, having lost several family members to medical malpractice or negligence (an aunt who was told by her GP that the persistent pain she kept visiting her about was a symptom of depression - six months later dead of cancer; an uncle whose surgery was delayed on the grounds that there was 'no bleed' in the brain, when in fact their scans had shown the exact opposite - dead in 5 days; another uncle whose operation was messed up when a piece of medical equipment was left inside, and then on the second operation an accidental cut to the spleen, followed by several blood transfusions because they didn't realise he was internally bleeding to death, and a grandparent who effectively starved to death in hospital). But - I don't mistrust them any more than any other professional.
Doing some research, getting a second or third opinion and not assuming that your doctor knows everything isn't a bad thing necessarily. Sometimes there is disagreement over the best way to treat something. Treatments shown to be effective elsewhere sometimes take time to become available in our system, and sometimes treatments and practices simply become accepted as the done thing and are therefore not questioned as much as they should be.
But: her reasoning fell apart utterly when she made the decision that homeopathic/natural remedies were somehow a better option. For anything, let alone for cancer.
This from wiki sums up why:
If you start googling this stuff in relation to cancer treatment, you enter a world of anti-science paranoia and pro-alternative medicine propaganda.
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What horrible experiences dana, I can see why you would be sceptical towards medical professionals following these failings.
I thought the documentary very one sided, it was touching in that you could see they were so very desperate to try
anything to avoid invasive treatment.
The medulloblastoma he had was curable without radiation, and the most interesting thing to me was in her interview on Channel 5 news yesterday evening she said the action she requested would be available on the NHS in the UK from 2017....
The alternative therapies were in addition to and not as well as treatments.
Oxygen and nutrients can't cure cancer but they can aid the autoimmume system to support the bodies fight.