I wanted to just let this go without replying but I'm just too passionate about this topic. I firmly believe if my husband didn't get the chemo after the surgery he wouldn't have lived 10 yrs more. His cancer had spread to some lymph nodes. Also, his dr would have done the surgery wether he decided on chemo or not. I don't know where your getting the info that they won't do surgery otherwise. My husband's surgeon wasn't even his oncologist. He did the removal of the tumor and then he recommended the oncologist. It was our decision as to what we did afterwards.
In most cases, I believe, the doctor recommending a test or procedures is not the person who performs them, so I don't see a relationship between that and any compensation they might receive. Although I reserve a degree of skepticism of the medical community, I think that it would be unusual for a doctor to recommended unnecessary or harmful tests, at least not for the purpose of earning a buck. Where medicine goes wrong, I believe, is that it is geared toward managing problems rather than fixing them, and that the focus is generally too narrow, ignoring larger concerns of wellness. A cancer doctor is focused on getting rid of that specific cancer, despite the fact that other problems, including other cancers, may result.
I don't know here... there are some things I'll be the first in line to buy and test from the drug store... but a do-it-yourself colonoscopy test kit? I can honestly say that that's not one of them.... some things are too important to take such a risk on. @Chrissy Page , I'm so sorry this horrible disease has touched your life in such a devastating way.
I wish people were passionate about going after the people you should be mad at these are the people who have been given trillions and trillions of dollars to find a cure and when the government in the 1950s said we are going to have a war on cancer. They keep saying the cure is just around the corner. Today they are no farther advanced it has even got worst. They have even changed the terms they don’t use the cure word but if you survive 5 years from diagnosis it is a considered a successful treatment. People should go after the people who failed and failed badly. The people who died needlessly because they will not give one dollar to the other types of medicine who have a better record that the main stream. The main stream has chemo proven to cause cancer, radiation proven to cause cancer, and surgery.
I haven't seen the alternative methods that some have tried working at all either. Just a few people come to mind...Steve McQueen, Farrah Fawcett, Steve Jobs to name a few. By the time they went back to the tradition chemo it was too late. Might not be a cure but many people have survived cancer and your chances of surviving certain cancers are getting better and better. Finding it early is key, but there have been advances in the chemo's from the earlier years. Chemo is no picnic but it's come a long way and is doable and many people even manage to work thruout the treatments.
Steve McQueen according to his wife was getting better but chose to get surgery which is not a alterative treatment and died from the surgery. Steve Jobs when to another country to get treatment that in that country was main stream medicine not alternative. You forgot one Andy Rooney of 60 minutes who retired and was planning his vacation in good health the doctor convinced him to have a colonoscopy and they killed him
We will just have to agree to disagree on this subject. We seem to be hearing different versions of what happens. Of course there are mistakes made even in conventional treatments but I'll still take my chances with that, have not seen anything to convince me otherwise.
Chrissy if everyone agreed it would be a little dull world. I like to be challenged in by beliefs. So if we disagree it is not personal and enjoy other point of view. We did get a lot of interest with this thread did we not?
Very true, @Martin Alonzo ... wouldn't the world be extremely boring if everyone agreed on everything? I wouldn't have anything to raise my blood pressure suddenly!
Results good. It took more than a year to get it because of the Covid and they were dead serious saying not one person is getting treated for non-covid issues when it was at its peak. 74 years old. What was weird was the first attempt in December I failed to vacate all my waste despite following the prep instructions. So, they put me on two days with no food and a laxative two days prior to the procedure then a much larger prep fluid on the day before
Glad you could get everything out and the results were good. You are reaching the upper limit for testing unless you have lesions. They generally don't do any more colonoscopies after 75 if you have no lesions.
What? No more fun time for @Steven Stanick ? Glad you have that behind you and glad the results were good.
I really take issued with that threshold. I recently lost a friend to colon cancer...she was 86. I don't know what her history was. Congrats on the good news. Did they show concern when GoLytley was GoIncompletely? I've not had that happen. For my most recent colonoscopy, the doctor gave me a prep that was taken in two doses: half before bedtime and half several hours before the procedure. I was up at 4AM drinking the second half.