Originally Posted By: OneEyeJack
Originally Posted By: y_p_w
Originally Posted By: PeterPolyol
OneEyeJack - THAT'S AMAZING. Making the decisions you've made just might be exactly what saved you from early death or prolonged suffering. Never give in and never give up!! Sometimes we just have to PROTECT OURSELVES from convention. Hard decisions to make, but often times the best one
There is something to be said for accepting conventional medical advice. Steve Jobs would probably still be alive if he had accepted his doctors' recommendation to have his cancer surgically removed instead of delaying it almost a year while he attempted to treat it with acupuncture and diet. It had metastasized to his liver, which then required a transplant.
Don't talk about Steve Jobs if you don't know what was going on. I knew him since the days of the Lisa and we talked often about our cancer. His cancer was advanced to point of no return long before he turned down additional traditional treatment and he knew it.
If you take his cancer cell size and back track the cell size doubling cycle time his cancer started in his 20's. The 60 Minutes story was laughed at by oncologists and other practitioners of various disciplines. It was nothing but a fluff piece with no real substance. It was an insult to a man that knew exactly what was going on. He lived much longer than 90-95% of male adults with the same clinical diagnosis. His doctors agreed that his diet was a very positive force in surviving as long as he did. They also agreed that his work sometimes helped and sometimes did not. To infer that Steve was capricious, ill informed and out of touch with his cancer is not an accurate conclusion. He was not a very sociable, friendly, hang out with the crowd kind of guy and was disliked by a lot of people but he knew exactly what he was doing with his health.
Then why did he end up getting the surgery done 9 months after the diagnosis? As well as seek experimental treatment and go full force into conventional treatments? It's sounds more like those and the access to the best conventional healthcare are what prolonged his life after delaying the one surgical treatment that would have been the most effective.
I never said he was capricious about it, but it was pretty well known that people around him were telling him to get the surgery done quickly. Of course there are no absolutes, but given that he did get the surgery done, how did delaying it help?