I apologize to you, and all other hosts of cancerous cells, for the cruelty of too many supposedly human beings. Unconscionable! Not that "they" stick around to actually read your postings; but, you took 'em down a peg, thank you.

Slippery, slimy imposters climbing on the backs of the hopeful and vulnerable for the money in it.
Freaking mutherfvkers, all of them. I hope they live in their own-made hell now.

How they're allowed to operate is beyond me. There needs to be a GoFundMe that puts them out of business or finds the illegalities that would disallow the small print when a patient signs on.

I'm sorry and outraged that you and others are being preyed on like this, Ronni.

You're right. There should be a special place in hell for people who sell quackery. Got the same sort of "miracle cures" presented to me after my husband's massive stroke.

WAY beyond vile!

I am so sorry you are being subjected to this.

I worked for 33 years in the natural food co-op movement. We were exposed constantly to claims of miracle cures, and theories about how the medical “establishment” is suppressing known cures because it won’t profit from curing cancer, etc.

Then there is the flood of bad advice from well-meaning people. We learned to treat this the way we trained staff members to handle challenging members of the public: smile and nod.

Crap!

The chart from the Mayo Clinic is excellent. It makes the point that there are useful non-medical strategies to help a cancer patient, or anyone with a terminal diagnosis, cope with her situation. To the extent that anxiety, stress, pain, sleep deprivation, and other kinds of distress can throw the whole body out of kilter, and maybe damage whatever might be left of the body's natural defenses, dealing with these issues in any way that works can possibly even do a little bit to extend life. The basic takeaway from that chart is, it's fine to use all available avenues to make yourself as comfortable as you can.

It's a far cry from that to those phony "miracle cures." I am so sorry you are having to deal with the ghouls. In a way, you're suffering their attempted depredations on our account. 'This End Up' will be helpful to so many of us as we, each in our turn, come to our own final days. Thank you again for generously sharing your experiences and feelings even at this worst of times -- and console yourself that evil people also have to die.

I don't know about you, but me, I'd far rather finish alone with the life experiences and memories I have stored up inside my head, than the writhing mass of snakes and ugliness that must be inside theirs.

My late husband's oncologist went NUTS over these "miracle cures" because they cost her patients. People who could have been saved went to these alternative treatments; they bought into the idea of evil chemo and how it wasn't really needed. Our SIL sent us information about magic elixirs to cure cancer (without chemo) when my husband was diagnosed, and many people suggested trying x or y instead of those harsh treatments. I basically said, "When YOU get cancer, you can gamble on these wackadoodle things, but we're going with what our highly educated and experienced oncologist recommends."

What a ghoulish bunch of snake oil salesmen. Selling hope in a bottle, so to speak. By now someone should be enforcing laws against them.

For the record, the proton thing is legit, a refinement of radiation treatment for certain cancers, and immunotherapy is the latest development for some types of cancer.

However, legitimate medical practitioners don't do "cold calls" via email, phone, or doorbell. They are far too busy providing the best possible proven treatments to their patients, as I'm sure yours are, Ronni. Have faith in them and try to ignore the ghouls and profiteers. There's a special place waiting for them ...

Depravity right next to selling children for sex! I just can't fathom people like that. I'm so sorry you should have to deal with this kind of nastiness in the last part of your life.

Don't know if you're 'up for it, or if you even think it's do-able, Ronni. But combining today's thoughts from Jill Lynch and Elizabeth Rogers leads me to the conclusion that: whenever someone with a cancer diagnosis 'goes public', that their readers/friends should somehow be told, up front, that "you" are willing to trust your fate to oncologists and 'conventional' treatments. And that "you'll" be furious to be contacted by those who offer 'miracle' cures. I'll guess, Ronni, that one of your readers has a friend - who has a friend - who gave your email address to a charlatan. I'm sorry that this garbage has rubbed salt into your grievous wound.

Thank you, Ronni, for the clear and easily read list of what I like to call "Complimentary" ways of feeling better from the Mayo Clinic. They aren't harmful and most cost only our own attention and desire to improve our situation. Maybe only a placebo effect...but I'll take it!

I worked with a wise older Doctor as a student nurse (Gads-60+ years ago) who told me in one of these "healers" discussions.... "There have been enough pieces of the True Cross sold in Italy to build another Ark". Never forgot it. I was not Catholic but found one version of 'healing' in the main entrance of that hospital that I really liked. :-)

There was a lovely life sized statue of, I assume, Mary holding a baby boy less than a year old in her arms. He appeared to be fresh from a bath and cuddled on a towel. Someone had broken off his wee peenie at an earlier time and some other benevolent soul had put it back in its rightful place with a fresh new (hopefully sterile) Band-Aid. It made me smile each time I passed by, even on long night shifts. It stayed with that repair the entire 3 years I was there.

I never argue with success! I think keeping our sense of humor even in grim times is good medicine too.

Another bad side to the quackery cures is that makes it even harder for our hard working researcher-oncologists to help us find good reliable information! (Go Knight Cancer Institute!)

I find the worst are the well-meaning "friends" who push the miracle cures.

Ronni, I am disgusted to know you are getting bombarded by phony baloney "cures."

Losers.

You would never fall for that crap.

Hugs,

Your Montreal Fan

Not to mention the “legal” thieves in big pharma. The cost of cancer drugs is outrageous. More pigs to the trough. When your down one more kick for good measure.

I am so deeply sorry you were in their crosshairs, those slimebuckets.

The Mayo chart does not mention cannabis, which did a lot for persons very close to me for all the symptoms except fatigue. (Where I live it is now legal so what is the deal?)

Not saying cannabis products would be good for you, just wondering why Mayo is so conservative.