Cancer Information - 02 - General Information

There are a myriad of cancer treatments available.  We could grossly aggregate them into three different labels - conventional treatments, alternative treatments and integrative, this last one trying to mix the best of both.

Unfortunately every group works alone and depreciates the other.  No group is impartial in the sense that they all have financial interests in helping you.  Surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, or hormone therapies can be more expensive than most alternative therapies (depending on countries and their health systems), so when someone tries to convince you that a conventional treatment is the only route, and the rest is just snake oil, that doctor may be convinced on what he is saying, but the fact is that he probably knows little about alternative or complementary protocols.  The same applies to alternative therapies, most of them detract conventional therapies, attacking the harmful side effects (sometimes fatal) and promoting their success rates that no one can verify.

What I tried to do and I will do if I have to opt again, is to decide the best therapy or therapies that applies to my particular case, getting the most possible information and talking to as many doctors and therapists as possible, before I take my own decision.

Generally speaking I would try to restrict the use of conventional therapies to surgery and possibly to low dose chemotherapy if required, when this conventional therapy is the one that provides the best possible outcome to a cancer situation.  In my case, cancer was confined within my bladder, although it had already expanded to the bladder muscle, so removing this organ was the safest possible treatment, although by trying alternative treatments I could have saved my bladder.  This is one of those situations that you have to take your own decisions, myself I opted for safety by allowing a surgeon to remove the bladder, and a few other adjacent organs.

Cancer is a serious health hazard as everyone knows, taking the right decisions at the right time, sometimes are crucial for one's survival.  It is a health situation that should mobilize you 100 percent, mobilize your attention and action.  It is the time that you should take care of yourself, with the right kind of mental attitude.