Tomorrow is Jason's first radiation appointment. I have to admit.......I am really scared and so is he. We struggle with this decision because we know how terrible radiation is for ones body but on the other hand we are dealing with an agressive cancer and it needs agressive treatment.....whether this is the right thing to do or not is unknown.
I stay up really late mosst nights researching and researching only to come across things that are screaming at us to NOT do the radiation. But I always leave the decision up to Jason. He does not want to do it but is going forward with it because he is hopeful that it will at best slow the tumor down long enough for the other alternative treatments to have time to take effect.
Here is a some very interesting information about radiation and other treatments. If you have the time I would encourage you to read the whole document if not here is the first two paragraphs. Information obtained from http://curezone.com/diseases/
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Let us take a look at the results and benefits of the so-called cures obtained through surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy.
Radiation
The rationale behind X-ray therapy is the same as with surgery. The objective is to remove the tumor, but to do so by burning it away rather than cutting it out. Here, also, it is primarily the non-cancer cell that is destroyed. The more malignant the tumor, the more resistant it is to radio therapy. If this were not so, then X-ray therapy would have a high degree of success—which, of course, it does not.
If the average tumor is composed of both cancer and non-cancer cells, and if radiation is more destructive to non-cancer cells than to cancer cells, then it would be logical to expect the results to be a reduction of tumor size, but also an increase in the percentage of malignancy. This is, in fact, exactly what happens.
I stay up really late mosst nights researching and researching only to come across things that are screaming at us to NOT do the radiation. But I always leave the decision up to Jason. He does not want to do it but is going forward with it because he is hopeful that it will at best slow the tumor down long enough for the other alternative treatments to have time to take effect.
Here is a some very interesting information about radiation and other treatments. If you have the time I would encourage you to read the whole document if not here is the first two paragraphs. Information obtained from http://curezone.com/diseases/
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Let us take a look at the results and benefits of the so-called cures obtained through surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy.
Radiation
The rationale behind X-ray therapy is the same as with surgery. The objective is to remove the tumor, but to do so by burning it away rather than cutting it out. Here, also, it is primarily the non-cancer cell that is destroyed. The more malignant the tumor, the more resistant it is to radio therapy. If this were not so, then X-ray therapy would have a high degree of success—which, of course, it does not.
If the average tumor is composed of both cancer and non-cancer cells, and if radiation is more destructive to non-cancer cells than to cancer cells, then it would be logical to expect the results to be a reduction of tumor size, but also an increase in the percentage of malignancy. This is, in fact, exactly what happens.
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