If your cancer is DICS and early stage,you can take Tamoxifen only and have close observation.I believe if it is advanced,it is up to you.Some people can live for some time without any treatment.I have met many people who go through the agony of treatments just for the family.In the end, the result is the same.Maybe they get a month more but,is it really quality time???Sometimes yes,alot of times no.Example… you may get another two months but is it worth it when you are suffering from nausea or are too tired to enjoy it.In the end,it is up to you!!! Good luck my friend.|||Yes, they are posted on many alternative medicine websites. However, remember the exception proves the rule, it doesn't refute it.

Someone with cancer, should seek all the best treatments they can get; medical, holistic, spiritual and dietary. My wife's oncologist said the only thing for sure is that you think you are going to get well, those without a positive attitude never survive no matter what treatments they seek.|||My sister in law who was 56 year old had advanced breast cancer (metastasis to brain) and chose not to pursue treatment. She lived for a year after that decision. I think she had six really good months but the rest was basically the process of slowly dying. She just didn't want to go through treatment and felt she had lived a good life, her children were all grown, married, and had children of their own (she had married young). She had traveled the world and she had been happily married over 30 years. Her decision may have brought her peace and my brother helped her through this final journey (she died peacefully in his arms) but it took a real emotional toll on everyone else. She had plenty of medication to control the pain at the end. I miss her terribly as she was a beautiful and loving person.|||depends on what type of breast cancer. Some types develop open ulcerations that are both very painful and very hard to deal with on a practical level. I knew one woman that opted to not treat her breast cancer except with alternative medicine. She lived several years but she did have an open ulceration that required she take lots of pain medicine plus constantly treat the open wound. In my opinion this was not a good quality of life.

On a side note, one of the first historical references to breast cancer can be found in Rembrandt's 1654 painting called Bathsheba at Her Bath. Drs and scholars have speculated for many years that Bathsheba had untreated breast cancer and that was the reason for Rembrandt painting her one breast as he did. You can read more about this controversy here and elsewhere on the web. good luck with your decision

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