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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Completely agree with OP. My 79 year old mom developed small cell lung cancer— very aggressive. The oncologist recommended the full course of chemo and radiation because “she seems like a fighter.” The chemo killed my mom. One week of it, and she immediately deteriorated to the point where she died in a few weeks. The oncologist just put her on the standard aggressive protocol without considering that she was pretty frail, and even with treatment, life expectancy for SCLC is very short. We were so in shock by her sudden diagnosis that we didn’t even have time to investigate or get a second opinion. (This was also in March 2020 so getting any kind of quality health care was impossible because of the onset of the pandemic..)[/quote]

They use patients like guinea pigs.  The same happened with my dad and his terminal colon cancer.  They kept telling him how great he was doing and how it was working as he visibly was quickly deteriorating before our eyes...to the point of not being able to talk above a whisper, stay awake or walk.  Nobody was forthcoming. I still remember the liver doctor coming in and telling me how great my dad's labs looked after an ER doctor had basically looked at my mom, siblings and I and say he was riddle with cancer and his stomach was filled with ascites.  My dad never complained to us, but it breaks my heart how alone he must have felt and how much he kept putting up a front for us.

There is little compassion or directness in cancer care.  The last round of chemo killed him.[/quote]

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