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To: mph who wrote (138928)	3/28/2007 1:22:54 PM
From: KLP	Respond to of 225578

Thanks for the info....It looks like we'd better enjoy each Snow and Edwards while we can. I wonder how long man has had cancer...Has it always been a killer of people, or is it a fairly new disease? Even 150 years ago, the people of Civil War time, had no antibiotics, nor any anesthetics....

To: mph who wrote (138928)	3/28/2007 2:01:16 PM
From: MulhollandDrive	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 225578

hi mph... from your second article linked For patients with metastatic, or stage IV, colon cancer, the average survival is about two years. That compares to 10 months' survival average from 10 years ago, Fuchs said. "Clearly that is not sufficient, but we are making some measure of progress with some of the newer drugs we are now testing," he said. anyone who's watched the treatment phase of stage IV cancer knows the trauma that the treatment itself causes....it's really such a tough call...i feel so badly for anyone facing that ordeal when my FIL had exhausted all of the treatments, it was his DOCTOR who had to convince him that further treatments were futile and that he needed to concentrate on palliative care instead...i remember very well sitting in the hospital with him when the doctor told him this, and my FIL became crest-fallen and said words to the effect that 'well i guess this means there really is no HOPE' he was such a strong person....once he realized there was no hope, he reconciled very quickly to his impending death (he was 79 years old) and lived his remaining days surrounded by his family and friends (we elected for home hospice care) i guess the point i'm making is there is a line between hope and denial that is pretty hard to navigate.