thomasdevos
10-05-2009, 12:28 AM
Ten questions on the best in the world battle against colon cancer
I give this article the title ? The battle over the much fought in the world ? Why? That's because the man involved in the battle against colon cancer, Tony Snow, the habit of walking along the corridor of power "in political office the most powerful on earth. For many of us in Malaysia, what happens to the United States of America is still the biggest and best. What America says we agree or agree and what America do we follow or eventually follow. I guess the most powerful man on earth would be able to do something big to help his fellowman staff loved and who was in great distress. I think the snow would have got the best ? the best advice, the best doctor, the best drugs and the best hospital ? for him to fight his war against cancer. So for me, this battle against cancer is probably the most battle well fought ever conducted in America ? the most powerful country in the world.
Facts:
1. Tony Snow was the press secretary of President George Bush ? the current (2008) President of the United States of America.
2. He was married and had three children attend school. Her mother also had colon cancer and died when the snow was 17.
3. Snow was first diagnosed with stage three colon cancer in 2005.
4. After surgery, he underwent six months of chemotherapy.
5. It has been said that cancer free after treatment. He was appointed press secretary of President Bush in May 2006.
6. At the end of March 2007, Snow's cancer reappeared in her abdomen and her liver also.
7. He underwent surgery in April 2007, followed by more chemotherapy.
8. A little over a year later, Snow died at Georgetown University Hospital ? a Saturday morning in July 2008. He was 53.
Quotations from the press about his fight against colon cancer metastasis:
The Associated Press. March 27, 2007 ~ He had recently reached the mark two years of being cancer free. White House deputy press secretary said: "He told me he beat this thing before and he intends to fight again."
Dr. Allyson Ocean, a gastrointestinal oncologist at Weill Cornell Medical College, said: "This is a very treatable condition. Anyone who looks at this as a death sentence is wrong."
USA Today, March 27, 2007 ~ Robert Mayer, former president of the American Society of Clinical Oncology ? "Suggests surgeons will not be able to treat with surgery, but may be able to control it with chemotherapy. When return of cancer in several organs, the goal is not cure, but control perhaps for a long time, which can now be measured in years rather than months. "
Daniel Laheru, a colorectal cancer specialist and assistant professor at the Kimmel Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, said: "Ten years ago patients with widespread tumors survived an average of 12 months. Now, new chemotherapies have doubled that to approximately 24 months.
The Oncologist joyful. March 28, 2007 wrote ~ "chemotherapy plus targeted therapy, however, has a chance to extend the life of patients with metastatic colorectal cancer. The average survival time of patients who did not receive anti-cancer ? 4 6 months, while those with treatment 20 to 21 months and hopefully more. This is an example of why medical oncologists give treatments designed to kill cancer cells turn off and humiliate. "
The Washington Post ? March 28, 2007. reported ~ "Snow, who beat cancer two years ago, has suffered from colitis for 28 years and in February 2005, he was diagnosed with colon cancer. Snow said, seventeen days after diagnosis, we are going to take the entire colon and throw it in a trash bag. "After treatment, the snow got" a clean bill of health from a doctor "and he continued to work at the White House.
Snow called Bush at about 7 o'clock to tell him about recidivism. Bush later told reporters: "He will not let this whip and he is optimistic." The blood test and scans are then came negative for cancer. Anyway, the snow has decided to having the growth removed to be followed by chemotherapy.
People May 14, 2007. In an article "fight of his life," wrote Sandra Westfall ~ "The cocktail of drugs he takes to keep her cancer at bay includes an assumed after the first treatment for colon cancer stage III. Snow said, I'd run out for two or three days. The pace of innovation is breathtaking. Anyone who can survive a few years hoping automatic.
The Associated Press. April 30, 2007 ~ "Tony Snow was back at work Monday, five weeks after doctors discovered a recurrence of his cancer. He said he would soon undergo chemotherapy just to make sure we knock the thing out. "
Slate September 4, 2007 ~ Snow said: "I finished chemo two weeks ago today. We do not have the CT scan and MRI last week and it indicates that the chemo did exactly what we hoped it would, which is hold serve. The tumors that we've been tracking have not grown. ? We will do what is called a maintenance dose of chemotherapy just to keep this thing Whacking. "He also noted that he would have tests every three months," just to stay on top of everything. "
Snow admitted: "I was lucky, I work at the White House." Snow noted that oncologists and patients have made heroic progress in turning "cancer into a chronic disease rather than disease mortal. "
The Washington Post. July 12, 2008 ~ After relapse, Snow said "it would suffer treatment of aggressive chemotherapy followed by further treatment, and hope to throw in remission and transform it into a chronic disease.If the cancer is only a nuisance for a long period of time, that's fine with me. "He had lost much weight and his hair had turned white thinning over several months of chemotherapy and others.
Comments:
I write this article to a feeling of deep respect for the deceased and also for the living. I do not want to add more pain or hurt anyone. I respect what the patient and his family had done and did not want to give my opinion on the case except to say that everyone had tried their best to help the snow, but the inevitable had happened ? the battle was lost.
Even if the battle was lost, it would be a great tragedy if we do not take this opportunity to learn something from this episode.
Let me ask some questions about the media propaganda and spin from this case. You can use your own common sense to answer these questions.
1. "This is a very treatable condition. Anyone who looks at this as a death sentence is wrong. "
What is the reality of life tell us? Slightly more than one year after the second battle, the snow is dead ? right or wrong to death?
2. What do you think is the real cause of his death?
3. The recurrent tumor in the abdomen was taken.Only certain cancers could have been left in his liver. It can kill Snow? Or was it the treatments used to treat cancer that killed him?
4. "It is a treatable disease." What do you think such a statement? Of course, every disease is treatable but can it ever be cured? Treatable does not curable at all.
5. Cancer patients should take note of this medical "patients a decade ago with widespread tumors survived an average of 12 months. Now, new chemotherapies have doubled that to approximately 24 months. "Is the survival of two years with new chemotherapy is sufficient or sufficient for cancer patients? Most patients who undergo chemotherapy have the mistaken idea that treatment will heal.
6. "CT scan and MRI ? indicates that the chemo did exactly what we hoped it would ? tumors that we have been tracking have not grown up." If this is the result of good news and why the battle lost? Is the withdrawal or temporary interruption of tumor growth only a sense, a false sense of security?
7. Oncologists and patients have made heroic progress in turning cancer into a chronic rather than fatal. As it is still set? Death, after a year of chemotherapy is not fatal?
8. Snow "received a certificate of good health from a doctor" and his first surgery and chemotherapy. What is the value of such a statement? It is much like "The operation was a success but the patient died!" What is the usefulness of such a statement?
9. Snow "had lost much weight and his hair had turned white thinning over several months of chemotherapy and others." What is your say about this? Is not that what most cancer patients suffer before they eventually die?
10. "Oncologists provide medical treatment designed to kill cancer cells turn off and humiliate." Is this true? The reality is this: who gets humiliated? Cancer cells were killed or the patient?
Reference Site:
colon cancer treatment (http://colon-cancer-treatment-cure.com)
www.nlm.nih.gov (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000262.htm)
en.wikipedia.org (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorectal_cancer)
www.cancer.gov (http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/types/colon-and-rectal)
medicinenet.com (http://www.medicinenet.com/colon_cancer/article.htm)
I give this article the title ? The battle over the much fought in the world ? Why? That's because the man involved in the battle against colon cancer, Tony Snow, the habit of walking along the corridor of power "in political office the most powerful on earth. For many of us in Malaysia, what happens to the United States of America is still the biggest and best. What America says we agree or agree and what America do we follow or eventually follow. I guess the most powerful man on earth would be able to do something big to help his fellowman staff loved and who was in great distress. I think the snow would have got the best ? the best advice, the best doctor, the best drugs and the best hospital ? for him to fight his war against cancer. So for me, this battle against cancer is probably the most battle well fought ever conducted in America ? the most powerful country in the world.
Facts:
1. Tony Snow was the press secretary of President George Bush ? the current (2008) President of the United States of America.
2. He was married and had three children attend school. Her mother also had colon cancer and died when the snow was 17.
3. Snow was first diagnosed with stage three colon cancer in 2005.
4. After surgery, he underwent six months of chemotherapy.
5. It has been said that cancer free after treatment. He was appointed press secretary of President Bush in May 2006.
6. At the end of March 2007, Snow's cancer reappeared in her abdomen and her liver also.
7. He underwent surgery in April 2007, followed by more chemotherapy.
8. A little over a year later, Snow died at Georgetown University Hospital ? a Saturday morning in July 2008. He was 53.
Quotations from the press about his fight against colon cancer metastasis:
The Associated Press. March 27, 2007 ~ He had recently reached the mark two years of being cancer free. White House deputy press secretary said: "He told me he beat this thing before and he intends to fight again."
Dr. Allyson Ocean, a gastrointestinal oncologist at Weill Cornell Medical College, said: "This is a very treatable condition. Anyone who looks at this as a death sentence is wrong."
USA Today, March 27, 2007 ~ Robert Mayer, former president of the American Society of Clinical Oncology ? "Suggests surgeons will not be able to treat with surgery, but may be able to control it with chemotherapy. When return of cancer in several organs, the goal is not cure, but control perhaps for a long time, which can now be measured in years rather than months. "
Daniel Laheru, a colorectal cancer specialist and assistant professor at the Kimmel Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, said: "Ten years ago patients with widespread tumors survived an average of 12 months. Now, new chemotherapies have doubled that to approximately 24 months.
The Oncologist joyful. March 28, 2007 wrote ~ "chemotherapy plus targeted therapy, however, has a chance to extend the life of patients with metastatic colorectal cancer. The average survival time of patients who did not receive anti-cancer ? 4 6 months, while those with treatment 20 to 21 months and hopefully more. This is an example of why medical oncologists give treatments designed to kill cancer cells turn off and humiliate. "
The Washington Post ? March 28, 2007. reported ~ "Snow, who beat cancer two years ago, has suffered from colitis for 28 years and in February 2005, he was diagnosed with colon cancer. Snow said, seventeen days after diagnosis, we are going to take the entire colon and throw it in a trash bag. "After treatment, the snow got" a clean bill of health from a doctor "and he continued to work at the White House.
Snow called Bush at about 7 o'clock to tell him about recidivism. Bush later told reporters: "He will not let this whip and he is optimistic." The blood test and scans are then came negative for cancer. Anyway, the snow has decided to having the growth removed to be followed by chemotherapy.
People May 14, 2007. In an article "fight of his life," wrote Sandra Westfall ~ "The cocktail of drugs he takes to keep her cancer at bay includes an assumed after the first treatment for colon cancer stage III. Snow said, I'd run out for two or three days. The pace of innovation is breathtaking. Anyone who can survive a few years hoping automatic.
The Associated Press. April 30, 2007 ~ "Tony Snow was back at work Monday, five weeks after doctors discovered a recurrence of his cancer. He said he would soon undergo chemotherapy just to make sure we knock the thing out. "
Slate September 4, 2007 ~ Snow said: "I finished chemo two weeks ago today. We do not have the CT scan and MRI last week and it indicates that the chemo did exactly what we hoped it would, which is hold serve. The tumors that we've been tracking have not grown. ? We will do what is called a maintenance dose of chemotherapy just to keep this thing Whacking. "He also noted that he would have tests every three months," just to stay on top of everything. "
Snow admitted: "I was lucky, I work at the White House." Snow noted that oncologists and patients have made heroic progress in turning "cancer into a chronic disease rather than disease mortal. "
The Washington Post. July 12, 2008 ~ After relapse, Snow said "it would suffer treatment of aggressive chemotherapy followed by further treatment, and hope to throw in remission and transform it into a chronic disease.If the cancer is only a nuisance for a long period of time, that's fine with me. "He had lost much weight and his hair had turned white thinning over several months of chemotherapy and others.
Comments:
I write this article to a feeling of deep respect for the deceased and also for the living. I do not want to add more pain or hurt anyone. I respect what the patient and his family had done and did not want to give my opinion on the case except to say that everyone had tried their best to help the snow, but the inevitable had happened ? the battle was lost.
Even if the battle was lost, it would be a great tragedy if we do not take this opportunity to learn something from this episode.
Let me ask some questions about the media propaganda and spin from this case. You can use your own common sense to answer these questions.
1. "This is a very treatable condition. Anyone who looks at this as a death sentence is wrong. "
What is the reality of life tell us? Slightly more than one year after the second battle, the snow is dead ? right or wrong to death?
2. What do you think is the real cause of his death?
3. The recurrent tumor in the abdomen was taken.Only certain cancers could have been left in his liver. It can kill Snow? Or was it the treatments used to treat cancer that killed him?
4. "It is a treatable disease." What do you think such a statement? Of course, every disease is treatable but can it ever be cured? Treatable does not curable at all.
5. Cancer patients should take note of this medical "patients a decade ago with widespread tumors survived an average of 12 months. Now, new chemotherapies have doubled that to approximately 24 months. "Is the survival of two years with new chemotherapy is sufficient or sufficient for cancer patients? Most patients who undergo chemotherapy have the mistaken idea that treatment will heal.
6. "CT scan and MRI ? indicates that the chemo did exactly what we hoped it would ? tumors that we have been tracking have not grown up." If this is the result of good news and why the battle lost? Is the withdrawal or temporary interruption of tumor growth only a sense, a false sense of security?
7. Oncologists and patients have made heroic progress in turning cancer into a chronic rather than fatal. As it is still set? Death, after a year of chemotherapy is not fatal?
8. Snow "received a certificate of good health from a doctor" and his first surgery and chemotherapy. What is the value of such a statement? It is much like "The operation was a success but the patient died!" What is the usefulness of such a statement?
9. Snow "had lost much weight and his hair had turned white thinning over several months of chemotherapy and others." What is your say about this? Is not that what most cancer patients suffer before they eventually die?
10. "Oncologists provide medical treatment designed to kill cancer cells turn off and humiliate." Is this true? The reality is this: who gets humiliated? Cancer cells were killed or the patient?
Reference Site:
colon cancer treatment (http://colon-cancer-treatment-cure.com)
www.nlm.nih.gov (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000262.htm)
en.wikipedia.org (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorectal_cancer)
www.cancer.gov (http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/types/colon-and-rectal)
medicinenet.com (http://www.medicinenet.com/colon_cancer/article.htm)