When it comes to cancer treatment, trust the professionals
KAMLOOPS — This morning, as you read my column, I am at the Kelowna Cancer Clinic and blissfully unaware of everything, as my radiation oncologist launches her nuclear attack on my prostate cancer. Diagnosed last December, this is the final step in eradicating any trace of my cancer through an implant procedure called Brachytherapy.
I don’t mention this moment in search of sympathy, as quite honestly, if you’re going to have cancer and you’re a guy, this is the one to have. Caught early, the treatment is straightforward, involves radiation only and comes with a success rate better than 95 per cent. Suffering is pretty much limited to the indignities resulting from discovery, planning and treatment but you soon put that embarrassment aside and focus on the outcomes.
No, the reason I mention it is that I still see and hear people telling me and other cancer patients to abandon traditional and proven medical treatment in favour of the latest online remedies that guarantee “The Cure”
Many of these charlatans begin their pitch by touting a conspiracy theory by Big Pharma and the medical profession. In order to keep you in the system and profit from your cancer, the medical industry purposely schemes in a cold, heartless and greedy fashion to deny you a simple, quick, painless and easy cure. A cure that each snake oil salesperson says he or she has but must fight corporate America to get it to you.