Thanks for the reply, but it doesn't answer my question. Your advice means little. I don't have cancer, nor does anyone I know. In the past I have known a couple folks who went through months of painful, uncomfortable treatments for various cancers, only to die. This includes my sister-in-law's elderly father who died of colon cancer. That's why i'm wondering how long these folks may have lived w/o treatment.

In the past I have known a couple folks who went through months of painful, uncomfortable treatments for various cancers, only to die. This includes my sister-in-law's elderly father who died of colon cancer. That's why i'm wondering how long these folks may have lived w/o treatment.


I do not have an answer for you either, but sure wish I did. I cannot find an answer to your question anywhere on the web, and surely no doctor is going to tell you... only to get treatment. I understand your question fully, as I have a friend right now that is refusing any treatment whatsoever and it would be nice to know what to expect.

I also understand completely the people that refuse treatment. Fully and completely. If the cancer is not diagnosed quickly, they go through numberous treatments, including chemo... which in the end is a terrible end. I myself would opt out of treatment as well, and find out what hospice is all about, or go about it on my own. I would never put my friends or family through what I have gone through, having my mother pass away from Lymphoma.

Good luck to you, always!

Sorry I could not be of help to you...

I just lost my father last year to colon cancer....three years before that he'd had prostate cancer. His physican told him if he had not gone for treatments, he would only have had several months, compared to the couple of years he did survive. The treatments played hell on him, his physical appearance and his life in general, but without those treatments he would have also had a slow and miserable death. I do beleive he opted for medical treatment to prolong life.......had it been me, knowing what the treatments were and the odds I was going to die anyway, I'd opt for the fastest route possible. I would hope Dr. K would be near to help me, because I would never want to go though the years of misery my father went through just to stay alive a little longer. I owuld not want ot be a burden on anyone and my quality of life would have to come first. If I knew there was a chance on beating hte cancer, then and only then would i go for the treatments.....as I did with melanoma!

The answer to your question. There is no complete cure, for any cancers, after you get
cancer. Even skin cancer, However, If you are
looking for a cure, then don't do things to
your body, to get it in the fist place. Don't
smoke, Don't drink alcohol. Don't abuse drugs,
Don't over eat, Don't eat red meats raw,or burned on a grill.
Don,t Heat with coal and ect., however Some people have it,
built into their genes. Every cancer is treated differently. I am sorry.
I don't feel I am a burden to nobody. I am a Grandmother, I helped to care
for my grandparents and my Mother and Father in-laws until they died,
They were not a burden to me. I raised my Two children, They are in their 30's.
Now I am helping to raise the grand-kids. So Life is a circle of love, challenges,
ups and downs.Life is birth, living, and death. The dying part is easy,
what is hard is the living. Cancer treatments with surgery puts us in,
remission. I am not ready to give up without a fight. Then I would feel
I would be letting, those around me down. They still need me
If God was to take me while I am asleep, then job well done.
The Doctors do as much as they,can to save every persons life that they can,
However it is a 2-way street. It is hard to, cast a life line to a drowning person,
When the drowning person refuses to grab the rope.
Cancer treatments does help to save and prolong lives, but not others.
It depends, if it was caught in time. And what type of cancer it is.
My prayers are with you. I hope this answers your question.
I am a cancer survivor.

ELS1, Welcome to eHealth. Thank you so very much for your input. I am certain this can help a lot of people out there wondering the same. I've been thrown the line twice (melanoma in 2000) (breast cancer last Arpil-mastectomy), and I grabbed on both times! I also believe its staying postive and not allowing negative energy to take control over you. You have to have that will to live attitude and be willing to fight the fight....and you did it as well! So you know what I am talking about. Glad to have you onboard! FGM