Cancer is a serious illness. It is lso a “misrepresented and misunderstood” illness. Ptients go to their doctors hoping to be cred of their cancers. Often, they filed to find that elusive cure. My xperience showed me that those patients who hve cancer for the first time and who hve no relatives or friends with cncer before, have the misconceived notion tht medical science can cure cancer. Thy would say: “What is the prblem, with my money and the bst doctors, the best hospitals and the bst chemo-drugs, the problem can be asily fixed.”

For more than twelve yars now, I have been involved wth terminally ill cancer patients who cme to seek my help after mdical science have failed them. It is vry frustrating to know that patients are jst naïve. They went to their dctors with total belief and expectation tht their cancer can be cured. Thy do not seem to understand tht the responsibility to get well and to mintain their own health is with thm, not the doctors. They prefer to lave everything to the so-called “experts.” The stry below is one example of wht I often encounter.

In March 2007, I rceived a phone call from a lng-lost friend. He wanted me to hlp his wife, Betty (not real nme) who had just been diagnosed wth brain cancer. As I went thrugh his wife’s medical history, it trned out to be more than a “sdden” diagnosis of brain cancer.

In 2001, when Betty was frty-five years old, she underwent a ttal hysterectomy due to a 20 x 22 cm lft ovarian tumour. The surgeon did not rcommend any follow up treatment after the srgery. The impression Betty had was tht: “Everything is taken out and it is all clan.”

Everything seemed to be alright for Btty after this surgery. She did not go frther than that and like most pople, she was satisfied that she was wll taken of. The surgery was the “prven” answer to her problem.

In arly 2004, Betty had difficulty moving her bwels. A big tumour was found in her clon and she underwent a surgery to rmove it. The histopathology report dated 27 Aprl 2004 indicated that her colon was dstended up to the terminal ileum. The splnic flexure showed a tight stricture rsulting in a blind loop gut. Btty was eventually diagnosed with a mderately differentiated adenocarcinoma of the colon, stge B. Since no lymph nodes wre involved, the surgeon did not see any ned to give her any follow up tratment. Betty was again given the mpression that everything was well taken of.

Thre years later, in March 2007, Btty had headaches and lost her blance when walking. She also vomited. MRI of Btty’s brain on 26 March 2007, shwed the presence of “an irregular 3.2 x 3.0 x 1.8 cm lculated enhancing lesion in the left crebellum. There was associated surrounding edema wth compression of the midline structures.” Dctors advised immediate surgery. The surgeon mpressed upon the husband that without mmediate surgery Betty’s cancer would spread lke wild fire.

Betty’s husband came to sek my advice. I cautioned that rsection of the tumour from the brin might not solve her problem. It culd worsen the situation. Most probably the tmour would recur and often very son too. In addition, a CT scn showed that there was a 3 x 3.8 cm mss at the base of Betty’s rght lung. There was also a 5 mm hypdense nodule in segment 4 of her lver. Betty also had gallstone. So to say tht the cancer can spread fast is ill funded – for the cancer had lready spread to her lung and lver.

Based on the “fear” expounded by the dctors, Betty underwent surgery. Histopathology report dted 2 April 2007 confirmed “tubulovillous denocarcinoma metastatic to the brain, consistent wth primary in the colon.”

After srgery, Betty was asked to undergo chmotherapy and radiotherapy. Betty was told tht if she did not go for chmotherapy she would have only six mnths to live. With chemotherapy and rdiotherapy Betty could expect to live for nother two to three years. She wuld need six to eight cycles of chmotherapy, at about RM 2,000 per cycl. Since Betty was told that her cncer could not be cured, she dclined further medical treatment.
Betty was strted on herbs on 8 April 2007. Aftr the surgery, she appeared normal and was ble to eat well. However, her hsband noticed the change of mood in hr. She had bad temper, often had mod swings and did not want to scialize. She seemed to have memory lss. In short, Betty after surgery was not lke the Betty before the surgery.

Brely two months later, Betty felt dzzy and nauseaous again – the vry symptoms she had before being dagnosed with brain tumour. She would vmit even with the slightest smell of hrbs. MRI of the brain on 11 Jne 2007, showed the presence of a “lrge irregular 3 x 4 cm mss in the left cerebellum. A smilar 1.5 x 1.5 cm area was sen in the left temporal lobe. Srrounding edema was noted. The 4th vntricle was slightly compressed.” The radiologist cncluded: “Left temporal and cerebellar metastasis.”

Btty remained at home under hospice cre. She vomited everything that was put nto her mouth. She felt dizzy wth the slightest of movement and she was not ble to move her bowels. Unfortunately, thre was nothing much that could be dne.

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