Originally Posted by
StackinGreen
My best wishes on strength and understanding in difficult times.
That said, I feel it is my duty to dispel myth and rumors, as I am a physician. I think and hope what I am about to say gives you a better, more real understanding of what is going on and what isn't.
The first is that we've pretty much figured out (in a historical sense) every disease that ever afflicted humanity. If we didn't already cure it (and yes, we have cured a LOT of things by this point in human history), we have a good understanding of it. Do we find out more and realize we don't know more over time, therefore? Of course. But what I tell people is the truth: The average life expectancy for a human being for over 95% of the time we've all been on this planet was between 20-50 for males, and a bit longer for women, on average. The goalposts have changed so much because you take all the cures we have for granted. In days of old, women and children died from childbearing and/or related infection frequently. That doesn't happen anymore. Sterility from promiscuity and STDs is a thing of the past (thanks again, antibiotics). More recently, cardiovascular and neurovascular therapies (generally antihypertensives) including angiography and stents, as well as defibrillators have literally brought people back from the dead.
Not taking these things into consideration (generally out of ignorance, I'm not saying you should know, why would you?) leads to these conspiracy and money driven "They don't want to cure it." There's no doubt that pharma is happy to sell drugs over and over for symptoms, but saying that we don't or can't cure things misses a lot of important points:
1. We all will, and have to, die.
(related) 2. When you figure out how to not die from something, what happens? Something else replaces it, because (1).
3. When you figure things out and live longer, new and different challenges arise.
There are a lot of boomers that never really took care of themselves (and this problem is going to get worse by 2025), and we literally keep them alive. A lot of times it sucks for them because they never worked out, exercised (maybe they smoked and drank too much too), and they are a bag of bones so of course they beat on, but with much nagging pain and otherwise foul symptoms.
Related to (3) also is, if you live long enough, you'll get cancer. This is even related to the cost benefit on telomerase, which you may have heard of, but is too high level of a discussion for this forum.
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There are many great doctors and centers out there. A potentially fatal illness is never easy, but there are many places in this country (you're lucky to be here, we have WAYYYYY higher cancer survival rates than any other country, because we spend a lot of money on them and welfare central planning countries don't) that have therapies with potential. Ultimately, these decisions are up to you and as others have recommended, the place to go are large cities with academic centers.