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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m sorry OP, I just realized we all jumped to give advice without understanding the most important aspect of your cancer.

If you don’t mind sharing, what stage is your cancer and what is the prognosis if you were to follow the standard treatment? [/quote]

Metastatic breast cancer. Diagnosed five years ago. I’m doing well but now oncologist wants to start radiation as there seems to be a mild uptake on the last CT scan. I don’t want to  that route.[/quote]

What do you think will happen if you decide to treat metastatic breast cancer with alternative therapy, OP?[/quote]

[b]Callous response.[/b] You really think OP doesn’t understand what will happen?

OP, I apologize for myself and on behalf of every person that jumped the boat to ridicule the idea of alternative treatments or push the ultimate idea of standard medical treatment considering your situation. I am sure you are looking at all your available options. I wish I had the information you are looking for. Good luck![/quote]

NP. Metastatic breast cancer patients can live 10+ years with conventional treatments. It is a different animal than many other end-stage cancers. There are a ton of options out there. I had stage 1 triple positive 18 months ago and there are stage 4 people in my support groups who have been living full lives with "terminal" cancer for almost 20 years. New treatment options come out all the time and when one thing stops working, they go to the next. Even metastatic BC is no reason to give up on actual doctors and fall prey to woo. Integrative oncology or complementary treatments are a good balancing act, but going full alternative even with metastatic BC can cost years of life. The alternative board on breastcancer.org was such a disturbing mess of misinformation and crackpot theories like "cancer is a fungus." People are often NOT well-informed about the risks and do not truly understand their disease when they go down these paths.

OP, I hope you are able to find options that are satisfying and work for you.[/quote]

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