Re: How would you answer this cancer question?


<awthrawthr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1144456733.168500.148890@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Peter Moran wrote:
<awthrawthr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1144413484.381332.264030@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Peter Moran wrote:
<awthrawthr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1144375490.781548.326980@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I've got a question for you...but first put yourself in this
situation:

You've been a board certified radiation oncologist for 30
years...and
you head the largest radiation oncology practice in the US.

So one day, a former patient shows up unexpectedly. The patient had
lung cancer with mets. Your treatment was merely palliative due to
the
advanced nature of the disease. So you're kind of surprised to see
him
walking into your office under his own power a year later. The truth
is, you thought he had died.

Which is not too suprising because after 30 years of practice,
you've
never seen such a case as this. You have never seen a case of
remission
in a case anyhting like this. It is only then that you discover that
the patient is cancer free.

So here's the question...do you become curious as to what the
patient
did to become well again? Or do you presume that it was just one of
those things?

(A bit of reading between the lines).

Very loaded choices.

They are simple questions which ask what YOU would do. Would YOU try to
find out what might have been different?

Here is what the other doctor wrote:

"I knew the patient's prior condition because this was a patient had
seen a year before. His cancer of the lung had matastasized to his
bones.

"There was no mistaking the improvement in this patient. When I saw
that his new films showed no evidence of cancer in either his bones or
lungs, I had to find out what had caused the remission."

So the question to you is, would you have also tried to find out what
caused the remission?

Well, my experience suggests that the patient would have been eagerly
telling me what they did "that was different".

While I'm sure the patient might have been eager, the doctor told me he
didn't need any encouragement...he was stunned by the experience. He
initiated the desire to find out more.

The expression "what caused
the remission" involves jumping to conclusions prematurely

Something caused the remission..unless you want to ascribe it to a
miracle.

- you can rarely
decide anything from a single case.

You can decide if you'd want to find out more, or if you'd let it go
without trying to find out more. That's what I'm asking...from a truly
dramatic case...and we can agree that a complete remission of lung
cancer with mets to the bone is dramatic...what would you do next?


But, OK, let me give a provisional yes. Now what?

I don't understand...what do you mean by "provisional?" This isn't a
theoretical question..

It IS a theoretical question. It has never happened to me. So, what now?

Peter Moran


.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Peter Moran admits hes never had it happen to him
    ... Peter Moran: ... But your version of the story claims that it was the remission of a patient ... this is why those with cancer cure claims need to publish their ... remains another of the hurdles Revici has yet to overcome.. ...
    (misc.health.alternative)
  • Re: Please answer this cancer question
    ... | You've been a board certified radiation oncologist for 30 years...and ... a former patient shows up unexpectedly. ... | the patient is cancer free. ... There have been cases of metastatic cancer that went into spontaneous remission by themselves, and certainly there are cases where remission has been achieved through treatment. ...
    (sci.med.diseases.cancer)
  • Re: How would you answer this cancer question?
    ... a former patient shows up unexpectedly. ... You have never seen a case of remission ... the patient is cancer free. ... His cancer of the lung had matastasized to his ...
    (misc.health.alternative)
  • Re: How would you answer this cancer question?
    ... you head the largest radiation oncology practice in the US. ... a former patient shows up unexpectedly. ... You have never seen a case of remission ... the patient is cancer free. ...
    (misc.health.alternative)
  • Re: How would you answer this cancer question?
    ... a former patient shows up unexpectedly. ... You have never seen a case of remission ... the patient is cancer free. ... His cancer of the lung had matastasized to his ...
    (misc.health.alternative)