What treatment did your doctors recommend that you are refusing, could you tell us a little more about it?
And may I ask why you are choosing this route?
I did some research on the web and one of the reasons doctors may not want to give you any time frame is because it seems to vary so widely. It might be possible for you to have no further involvement for a short time or for a very long time. No one knows. What they have a better idea of is how people do when they follow different protocols of treatment, because that's been better studied. No one can tell you for sure whether or when your cancer, left unchecked, may start invading other organs.
This forum has some people discussing refusing treatment in different stages:
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Dear TeeTeeGirl,
What treatment did your doctors recommend that you are refusing, could you tell us a little more about it?
And may I ask why you are choosing this route?
I did some research on the web and one of the reasons doctors may not want to give you any time frame is because it seems to vary so widely. It might be possible for you to have no further involvement for a short time or for a very long time. No one knows. What they have a better idea of is how people do when they follow different protocols of treatment, because that's been better studied. No one can tell you for sure whether or when your cancer, left unchecked, may start invading other organs.
This forum has some people discussing refusing treatment in different stages:
http://www.bcadvisor.com/refusing/declining-treatment-61695.html
and the same here on the breastcancer.org discussion boards:
http://community.breastcancer.org/forum/16/topic/735573
Can you tell us a little more about your decision, TeeTeeGirl? How do friends and family feel about it?
December 14, 2009 - 8:25amThis Comment
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