New cancer therapy holds potential to switch off major cancer types

Re:New cancer therapy holds potential to switch off major ca... by 01100011 on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @01:09AM (#29401187)

Yeah my friend has been doing that for about half as long. It still sucks. Some of the modern, immune-based therapies don't make your hair fall out, but they still can wreck your digestive tract, thyroid, and adrenals(in my friend's case, permanently). There are surgeries as well, and getting slowly hacked up as they chase tumor after tumor isn't fun.

Still though, it's a better time to have cancer than ever I suppose.

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Re:New cancer therapy holds potential to switch off major ca... by sharkweek on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @01:59AM (#29401408)

I’m sorry your friend is in a similar position.

There was one treatment that they were going to trial my friend on that would give him another expected extension but basically make his digestive tract stop working so he’d be pooping out of a tube into a bag the rest of his life but he declined, said it just wasn’t worth it.

There have been a couple times that’s been the call he’s made and I appreciate why.

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Re:New cancer therapy holds potential to switch off major ca... by stanrivers on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @07:28AM (#29403042)

Good luck to your friend - sometimes it is not worth it, but the chances he has been taking and the suffering he has been going through in those trials where it is worth it is hopefully helping others in the future with the same disease.

Cancer sucks; why it is so hard for us to beat is so frustrating. need more research focused on this.

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