Subj : Re: Stage Four?
To   : Ralph Smole
From : Finnigann
Date : Fri Sep 23 2005 03:14 am

-=> Ralph Smole wrote to Lord Eros <=-

 RS>   Re: Re: Stage Four?
 RS>   By: Lord Eros to Sniper on Thu Sep 22 2005 08:04 pm

 >   Re: Re: Stage Four?
 >   By: Sniper to Angus McLeod on Wed Sep 21 2005 09:24 pm
 >
 >  > Yea, my Dad passed like that... October they found it, Feburary he was
 >  > gone.  <not as fast as what you just went through, but, too fast for me.>
 >  >
 >  > Cancer sucks.
 >
 > Sorry. I am not an expert on cancer, but do you think that treatment of canc
 > speeds up the proccess? I am not sure that if I was diagnosed with cancer, I
 > would want to go through "hell" in treatment. I would just let the cancer ki
 > me. I guess it's easy to say, without having cancer. I am just curious and
 > don't meen to sound brash in any way.
 > *Lord Eros*
 >
 >
 RS> I'm not sure either, but I'd think that I'd rather not know that I had
 RS> cancer. I'm wondering if knowing you have it contributes to more rapid
 RS> decline in health. Maybe the psychosomatic effect coupled with
 RS> depression contributes to a rapid decline in health. Dunno.


But what if it were a treatable kind? Wouldn't you want to get that treatment
and survive to raise some hell on Dovenet?

We are learnign more and more about cancer and the treatment of cancer is
getting more effective. Cancer does not always = death.



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