One patient recently told me that her years as a scientist obliged her to opt for the treatments with the most documentation and research behind them. She therefore chose surgery and chemotherapy and has only recently come to realize that these have not worked for her. Another patient said that she watched various members of her family die despite use of conventional treatments, that she would therefore never go that route herself. When I hear these statements, I feel it is my responsibility to support the decision unless I know something so terrible about the treatment that I feel I am being asked to comment. I am a metaphysical counselor with some knowledge of herbal medicine and a lot of familiarity with the strategies people have used to beat cancer.
People go from one treatment to the next seeking relief and reprieve.
Besides the three main conventional treatments, there are a host of alternatives, and I know people for whom each method has worked and those for whom the apparently identical methods have failed. People therefore need to select what seems most appropriate to their circumstances and to do so based on information as well as intuition. In the case in point, the patient had had a growth for many, many years. According to some accounts, it had been there 5-6 years and as much as 11 years by other accounts. This said, I suggested she see a physician because the area involved was infected and enormous.