Is treatment always necessary for cancer?

You don't *have* to treat it. One of my relatives decided it was just his time and spent three months eating pain pills until it finally killed him. It was that or leave his wife destitute from the treatment costs.

We saw the second option with a family friend and his wife, who kept fighting her metastatic breast cancer until it turned into liver cancer until it turned into everything cancer until she finally died; he'd been a millionaire (back when that meant something) and ended up broke and alone anyway.

It really depends on the type of cancer, though. I have a friend who apparently has some seriously fucked up genetics. He first had colon cancer when he was sixteen. He has had various other forms pop up over his life and has been on some form of chemotherapy at least every three years for as long as I've known him (about 17 years). He's pushing 60 now.
 
You don't *have* to treat it. One of my relatives decided it was just his time and spent three months eating pain pills until it finally killed him. It was that or leave his wife destitute from the treatment costs.

We saw the second option with a family friend and his wife, who kept fighting her metastatic breast cancer until it turned into liver cancer until it turned into everything cancer until she finally died; he'd been a millionaire (back when that meant something) and ended up broke and alone anyway.

It really depends on the type of cancer, though. I have a friend who apparently has some seriously fucked up genetics. He first had colon cancer when he was sixteen. He has had various other forms pop up over his life and has been on some form of chemotherapy at least every three years for as long as I've known him (about 17 years). He's pushing 60 now.
Thats quite the story.
 
Do your research, get educated. Join a cancer group. Visit https://www.inspire.com/. They have many discussion groups for all kinds of cancers with posts mainly by people who are in various stages of cancer from discovery, to treatment, to cures, to therapies. If you have cancer, after you do all your research, what ever you decide to do that is best for you is the best path to take. There is generally no one path that is best for all.
 
This thread is a good example for why general health insurance is valuable. The thought of having to decide whether you die miserably and leave your wife with some money to live the rest of her life or spend it all on treatment that may or may not help and end in poverty either way (that is for either both of you or just the wife) ... meh.
 
Most cells that would be called "cancer" tend to self-exterminate through the process of apoptosis (cellular suicide, if you like) unless and until their number becomes large enough to constitute a tumor.
Doesn't cancer by definition have an apoptosis process broken? And usually gets removed by your immune system?
 
Besides health choices and genetics what increases these risk factors?

(I already know lead and asbestos smoking are in the risk column)

Anything that is new i wonder if theres more
 
Besides health choices and genetics what increases these risk factors?

(I already know lead and asbestos smoking are in the risk column)

Anything that is new i wonder if theres more
Radioactivity does, also excessive X-rays which is why most of your body gets protection when you need an X-ray.
 
Besides health choices and genetics what increases these risk factors?

(I already know lead and asbestos smoking are in the risk column)

Anything that is new i wonder if theres more
Are you capable of doing ANY research for yourself???

LIFE causes cancer, dude. That's the long and short of it. Just the simple fact of being alive. The longer you live, the higher the chance you're going to develop some form of cancer. Live long enough, and it's all but guaranteed you'll get it. The only question is what type it will be.
 
Are you capable of doing ANY research for yourself???

LIFE causes cancer, dude. That's the long and short of it. Just the simple fact of being alive. The longer you live, the higher the chance you're going to develop some form of cancer. Live long enough, and it's all but guaranteed you'll get it. The only question is what type it will be.
Yes i am however there are bits i rather hear what the community have to say could be doctors or shamans

Something nobody knows about could be in someones knowledge
 
Yes i am however there are bits i rather hear what the community have to say could be doctors or shamans

Something nobody knows about could be in someones knowledge
Well, son, free hint: You're starting to sound more and more like Pillar and his constant refusal to actually *THINK*.

You've got the resources of the greatest store of information humanity has ever known, *LITERALLY AT YOUR FINGERTIPS*, yet you seem to expect the folks here to spoon-feed you. What's up with that??? The only conclusion I can draw is that you're some combination of stupid and/or lazy, to a degree that's REALLY starting to make you look pretty damned pathetic.

Google! Bing! DuckDuckGo! Even without going beyond those three, the answers to the questions you keep asking are no more than seconds away - IF YOU ACTUALLY USE THEM TO HELP YOURSELF, rather than waiting for somebody else to come along and feed it to you!
 
Well, son, free hint: You're starting to sound more and more like Pillar and his constant refusal to actually *THINK*.

You've got the resources of the greatest store of information humanity has ever known, *LITERALLY AT YOUR FINGERTIPS*, yet you seem to expect the folks here to spoon-feed you. What's up with that??? The only conclusion I can draw is that you're some combination of stupid and/or lazy, to a degree that's REALLY starting to make you look pretty damned pathetic.

Google! Bing! DuckDuckGo! Even without going beyond those three, the answers to the questions you keep asking are no more than seconds away - IF YOU ACTUALLY USE THEM TO HELP YOURSELF, rather than waiting for somebody else to come along and feed it to you!
I dont believe everything i see or read on the internet. It can be altered or false.

I ask this because i must know everything from risks to preventive measures. Anything that isnt known yet or estimated to work.

I seek to know any risks to avoid any uncertainty. Government isnt a trustworthy entity to me.

Plus theres another reason why i ask but that topic isnt valid yet.
 
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I dont believe everything i see or read on the internet. It can be altered or false.
Ok, but why our information was estimated to be more reliable?

I ask this because i must know everything from risks to preventive measures.
You are asking for an encyclopedia sized response.

Anything that isnt known yet or estimated to work.
That is by definition unanswerable right now.

Government isnt a trustworthy entity to me.
Neither to me, look for some research or summaries and ask yourself whether they make sense. Always do simple checks on the results, you will exclude the biggest bullshit that way. Just make sure you do not make a mistake (that's why they should be simple).
 
I dont believe everything i see or read on the internet. It can be altered or false.

I ask this because i must know everything from risks to preventive measures. Anything that isnt known yet or estimated to work.

I seek to know any risks to avoid any uncertainty. Government isnt a trustworthy entity to me.

Plus theres another reason why i ask but that topic isnt valid yet.

OK, I'm gonna say this, then wash my hands of you entirely:

I retract my comparison of you to Pillar. And replace it with the statement that you *ARE* Pillar under an alternate name. There's no other explanation for the fact that you just offered a Pillar response so accurate that even *HE* couldn't have faked it.
 
Ok, but why our information was estimated to be more reliable?

The people who have real experiences trumps just plain graphs and numbers we arent 1s/0s we are people.

You are asking for an encyclopedia sized response.

A realistic human response not exactly a book here

That is by definition unanswerable right now.

Supposed to be unanswerable since the conditions arent met yet.

Neither to me, look for some research or summaries and ask yourself whether they make sense. Always do simple checks on the results, you will exclude the biggest bullshit that way. Just make sure you do not make a mistake (that's why they should be simple).

True again here i prefer a community over graphs and stuff
Answered them in there. However your not asking me the right questions
 
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OK, I'm gonna say this, then wash my hands of you entirely:

I retract my comparison of you to Pillar. And replace it with the statement that you *ARE* Pillar under an alternate name. There's no other explanation for the fact that you just offered a Pillar response so accurate that even *HE* couldn't have faked it.
Please dont question my honesty thats a insult overall. I never lie unless i have to defensively. Calling me someone im not who is worlds different from mine. Answer the question or not. Thats all that matters to me. No petty stuff or bickering
 
The people who have real experiences trump just plain graphs and numbers we arent 1s/0s we are people.
Then it's not me. (By the way, what is Trump doing here? He's not even a president anymore.)

A realistic human response not exactly a book here
... Read again, I'm talking about the size it would have to be.

Supposed to be unanswerable since the conditions arent met yet.
No, for something to be undiscovered, it has to be unknown. And I have to know something to say it. Or do you want me to make things up?
 
Please dont question my honesty thats a insult overall. I never lie unless i have to defensively. Calling me someone im not who is worlds different from mine. Answer the question or not. Thats all that matters to me. No petty stuff or bickering

Hey, I call 'em like I see 'em. And what I'm seeing out of you is "Pillar", from top to bottom, left to right, and all the way through. Keep it up, and you'll join him in the bozo-bin.
 
Then it's not me (By the way, what is Trump doing here? He's not even a president anymore.).

Trumps aka overrides definition. (My typo really)
... Read again, I'm talking about the size it would have to be.
Anything that isnt general knowledge or common sense.

No, for something to be undiscovered, it has to be unknown. And I have to know something to say it. Or do you want me to make things up?

More like if you saw something thats not proven or makes something worse point it out. Dont have to make it not honest. Just plain theres nothing more except on the Government site would suffice
Fixed my typo
 
Well if you want help, you better state your pathology so if anyone has any knowledge of your situation, they may be able to reply intelligently.
 
Doesn't cancer by definition have an apoptosis process broken? And usually gets removed by your immune system?
Not always. Apoptosis usually seems to kick in when something is so screwed within the cell that there's no hope of it dividing successfully. Exactly what the mechanism is, and how such damage is "detected" to trigger apoptosis is an unknown to me. A cancer cell that doesn't self-destruct generally tends to do QUITE well at dividing - and very little else besides soaking up "supplies" - which is, of course, the problem.
 
well, there's a buttload of ppl believing a prayer will help.... or does that count as treatment?
The power of positive thinking has its way, which sort of falls in line with prayer.

If you ever seen people in the hospital give up, they go downhill quite quickly.
 
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