When I asked the cancer doctor, what the survival rate was for this cancer, stage 4 in a 73 year old woman...she talked fast and said 85%, and continued talking.
What she quoted was stage 1, I know because I researched. It was something like 13% in my case. This was only slightly less than the survival rate of this cancer with treatment which was 14%.
She continued with, I have to TRY, telling me we would start chemo with 3 sessions, once a week. It would take hours in the day and I will lose a lot of weight. I will need a pic (?) which can be inserted in the neck or near the arm pit, should she order it now? No, not now.
Next stop the radiologist, who wanted a 7 week session, 5 days a week. I will need a stomach tube, since my throat will be useless for weeks, everything affected by cancer will bleed...ect. It would take months maybe a year to recover from the treatments.
NO ONE SAID, sorry, you are too old to withstand these treatments, your cancer is too advanced.
Next trip back to the cancer doctor for me to tell her I am going to decline treatment all treatments, not doing chemo either. She is upset, I am not even trying. I tell her I am not strong enough to go through these treatments and she said she thought I was a strong woman.
After numerous NO's she finally says, the only thing for her to do is put it in Gods hands.
I liked both these doctors but I felt they did not really, put my best interest first.
I am on Hospice. I get a visit once a week now since I am still in good shape. I can still do everything with out help, my Vital's are still good, I can still swallow and medication is at my fingertips.
So, we go from here......
a Number of these articles on line..this is one.
Do oncologists get paid commissions for the chemotherapy drugs they prescribe?
These are the old prices and benefits.
The Oncologists never get commissions from the Drug Companies; it is illegal, but they charge each dosage of Chemotherapy $12,000, they receive $5,000 from the insurance company for each dosage and the insurance company pays $7,000 to the Drug Manufacturer.
In this case, it is not called the commission; it is the legal business.
With this Business model, the oncologists become the best protectors of the Pharmaceutical Trust.
If the Doctors and Oncologists find someone that practice Cancer-Cure Without Chemo, they denounce the Practitioner on total egality!!!
You will find that in these conditions the LAW that is more important than the lives of the Patients are thoroughly respected!!!
In some Hospitals, the Hospital charges the Chemotherapies, but the employed oncologists have a substantial Salaries plus a Bonus for each Prescribed Chemo. Dosage.
The independent Scientific Researchers that work on Cancer-Cure without using Chemotherapy get legally killed or suicided, and their Laboratory and their Research Results get destroyed.
In the new future, when the people wak-up and brings this Criminal, inhuman association to the court, The Oncologist will say that "we were not taught that Chemotherapy is Dangerous", while a 2end year student on Chemical or Biological Science can affirm that Chemotherapy melts down the Serotonin stock of the organs and kills immune system.
Infliction of death under the most horrible tortures!!! BUT, legal!!