Chemotherapy for People with End Stage Cancer
March 9th, 2014Is this the most egregious scam in the world?
Via: CBS:
More than half of end-stage cancer patients receive chemotherapy during the last few months of their life, and those who received such treatment were more likely to die in a hospital intensive care unit, hooked to a ventilator, rather than at home as they would have preferred, says a new study.
Patients were also less likely to have discussed their end of life wishes with their oncologist compared to other end-stage cancer patients who opted not to continue chemotherapy.
just one of so many, I suppose. So damn many traps-
“I am uncomfortable lying to a child
feels like building a trap… for something wild” Crosby
-the war racket, education, propaganda, evolving police states, retroactive surveillance, private prisons, torture, robots of every conceivable configuration, genetically modified life forms, drug-disease, insect politics, corexit, matryoshka conspiracy structures, Faceborg, Microsoft Mosquitoes®, Godzilla and Fukushimasaurus Rex…
australian oncologists criticize chemotherapy
Wherever data were uncertain, the authors deliberately erred on the side of over-estimating the benefit of chemotherapy. Even so, the study concluded that overall, chemotherapy contributes just over 2 percent to improved survival in cancer patients.
http://www.curenaturalicancro.com/oncologists-criticize-chemotherapy.html
I’m not a fan of Obamacare, but the Republican’s outrage concerning “death panel” counseling for terminally ill patients is patently absurd. Looking at options at the end of life could spare people the additional suffering (and expense) that chemotherapy requires. To be against the counseling means that the objectors are either in the pockets of the pharmaceutical companies, they are into pathological denial of death, or both.
I forgot to mention that oncologists make a profit on the toxic, ineffective chemotherapy drugs they sell and administer:
“Unlike other drugs, chemotherapeutics are bought and sold in the doctors’ office,” they explain. This system evolved some 40 years ago, when “only oncologists would handle such toxic substances, and the drugs were relatively cheap. A business model evolved in which oncologists bought low and sold high to support their practice and maximize financial margins.”
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/752801
My mother died of lung cancer (self-induced from 30 years of smoking, I might add). She was terminal from the time they found it, but she went through months and months of chemo and radiation, right up until the end.
Her doctors never told her they couldn’t save her. They never told her she was going to die. They just said each new treatment would buy her a little bit more time.
Even at the tender age of 20, I was disgusted by the whole thing.
A relative of mine was diagnosed with 2nd stage colon cancer in 2007, when she was 90 years old. She refused chemo and radiation, despite her doc pressuring her. I supported her refusal and told her about the survey conducted on oncologists — the majority of them would refuse chemo themselves, if diagnosed with terminal cancer. She’s still going strong at age 97. I’m convinced she would have died a long time ago (Death by Chemo) had she chosen to go the conventional route.
Yep. I witnessed what the oncologists “prescribed” for my father, with non-hodjkinsn lymphoma, and my sister, with mesothelioma. They both chose to do what the doctors prescribed.
In hindsight, stupid, they both chose I think, senseless radiation. But they both wanted to live.
A few weeks ago I finally burned the box of papers of Medicaire statemets, amd all the prescriptions my dear mother was on. I about threw up down at the fireplace. But at least that box of papers is out of my house.
My thoughts on end stage cancer therapy- well, if you can make money off of it as a hospital its a go for it attitude.
I think that this is tantamount to a felony for a hospital to offer their freaking c-scans and what not to people who are quite obviously dying and that hospitals who “offer” their “services” to people who are obviously terminal should be prosecuted as criminals.