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[quote=Anonymous]Another poster who lost a parent during cancer treatment. I think the worst is that the doctor's don't present chemo as a "choice". My dad's lung cancer was treated successfully in 2015 with radiation and chemo, but came back last year. He dutifully followed the oncologist's orders for chemo -- at one point he had to check in with the radiation oncologist and the RO was surprised that they were doing chemo because the tumor was so small. 3 months later, he was dead. The chemo absolutely killed him. He couldn't eat, drink, or anything. His doctor kept giving him the treatments, except for the week he ended up in the hospital with pneumonia and never went back home. He had probably lost 30 pounds during 4 treatment cycles, and wasn't eating hardly at all (throat was super sore and his stomach was off the rails) and yet this doc never thought about stopping treatments. Chemo is a valid choice. Not doing chemo is also a valid choice.[/quote]
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