Re: Please answer this cancer question

awthrawthr@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Anonymous wrote:

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awthrawthr@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
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| I've got a question for you...but first put yourself in this situation:
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| You've been a board certified radiation oncologist for 30 years...and
| you head the largest radiation oncology practice in the US.
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| So one day, a former patient shows up unexpectedly. The patient had
| lung cancer with mets. Your treatment was merely palliative due to the
| advanced nature of the disease. So you're kind of surprised to see him
| walking into your office under his own power a year later. The truth
| is, you thought he had died.
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| Which is not too suprising because after 30 years of practice, you've
| never seen such a case as this. You have never seen a case of remission
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| in a case anyhting like this. It is only then that you discover that
| the patient is cancer free.
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| So here's the question...do you become curious as to what the patient
| did to become well again? Or do you presume that it was just one of
| those things?

Sounds like another naïve Immaculate Conception question. Go away!


Are you afraid to face the question? It comes from a real life
situation. So what would you do? Would you try to find out more, or
would you let it pass?

OK ... I'll bite. Sure, I'm curious. But I maintain a balance in what I listen to and don't jump to any conclusions and I might end up concluding that it was "just one of those things". There have been cases of metastatic cancer that went into spontaneous remission by themselves, and certainly there are cases where remission has been achieved through treatment.

L.
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