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Anonymous wrote:My aunt is dying from HPV cancer right now. It showed up as throat/mouth cancer almost two years ago. She's a MAGA/MAHA type who thought chemo was poison and did "alternative" therapies for a while. Had the vaccine been an option, I'm betting she wouldn't have gotten it.

This is a totally preventable cancer for our kids' generations. I can't imagine choosing to not vaccinate one's child against HPV knowing that there is a chance your kid may end up being the one who gets cervical or other cancers due to having HPV (by the way, most adults do get the HPV virus at some point in their life, there are just a small number of people for whom that infection becomes cancer later in life. Why take the risk???)

She isn’t wrong. Chemo is poison. We just hope it kills the cancer, before it or the cancer kills you. But that often doesn’t happen. I’ve seen countless people suffer terribly from chemo, which only proved to worsen and prolong their suffering and give them a miserable last months/weeks of life. That doesn’t mean it can’t sometimes cure people and ultimately help- but I completely understand why some would forgo it. Don’t be so judgmental

Stupid health care decisions affect us all, in the form of higher expenditures for Medicare and insurance premiums.

Wait, are you saying that someone can’t choose to decline chemotherapy? They must do it for the good of us all?

Sure, decline chemo, but then start privately funding all of your end-of-life care if you're going to ignore medical best practices recommended by the doctors.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My aunt is dying from HPV cancer right now. It showed up as throat/mouth cancer almost two years ago. She's a MAGA/MAHA type who thought chemo was poison and did "alternative" therapies for a while. Had the vaccine been an option, I'm betting she wouldn't have gotten it.

This is a totally preventable cancer for our kids' generations. I can't imagine choosing to not vaccinate one's child against HPV knowing that there is a chance your kid may end up being the one who gets cervical or other cancers due to having HPV (by the way, most adults do get the HPV virus at some point in their life, there are just a small number of people for whom that infection becomes cancer later in life. Why take the risk???)

She isn’t wrong. Chemo is poison. We just hope it kills the cancer, before it or the cancer kills you. But that often doesn’t happen. I’ve seen countless people suffer terribly from chemo, which only proved to worsen and prolong their suffering and give them a miserable last months/weeks of life. That doesn’t mean it can’t sometimes cure people and ultimately help- but I completely understand why some would forgo it. Don’t be so judgmental

Stupid health care decisions affect us all, in the form of higher expenditures for Medicare and insurance premiums.

Wait, are you saying that someone can’t choose to decline chemotherapy? They must do it for the good of us all?

Sure, decline chemo, but then start privately funding all of your end-of-life care if you're going to ignore medical best practices recommended by the doctors.