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Cancer but not treating it

Posted by shorthairptr66 @shorthairptr66, Aug 2, 2025

I was diagnosed with inoperable Liver Cancer in Oct 2024 but decided to leave it alone. I've always said that if I ever got cancer I am not having chemo. So now that I do I'm just going to live my life and hope for the best. I'm almost 60, single with no kids. I lived my life. My decision was made basically because I have severe arthritis (literally head to toe) so if I do beat cancer I'll still have severe pain. It's the arthritis that's keeping me from playing sports. Not the cancel.

I am great with my decision. Whatever happens happens but right now I'm feeling good and doing what I want.

So the reason why I'm posting this here is I'm wondering if anyone also decided not to get treated for their cancer and just like the board says "if you just want to talk"..

Be happy and be well

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nanem | @nanem | Dec 11, 2025
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I have always said the same thing. If I ever get cancer I am not getting chemo. I wish I had stood by that when my family begged me to get treatment. I didn't and still would never agree to chemo but they acted like this new form of treatment was nothing like that. The classic "oh it's so easy now, we are worlds away from all that old stuff". Well it turns out this new form of treatment makes you horribly sick as well, so I basically ended up in the exact state I didn't want. Too sick and miserable to enjoy any part of living and with no hope of an actual cure so it will just drag on this way until it fails enough to call it quits. It's so unfortunate that doctors feel the need to pretend like treatment isn't going to make you horribly sick or else maybe they really don't get just how bad it makes you feel. I don't know which but it's unfortunate either way that they are not more willing to make you feel like you really have options, including one to just only treat your pain because before my diagnoses, that was my only real complaint. I was in so much pain, I was desperate to do anything to make the pain better. If they had just offered to treat my pain and let me just live out what ever time I had with palliative care, that would have been ideal for me. My body is still just a hopeless mess of disease at this point and the treatment has just added to my problems instead of helping them. They keep telling me I am doing great when I get my ct scans, but I don't feel it, so what's the point? If it was just being extra sick for a few months/years and then you get better and go back to normal, maybe that would be worth it for most but my cancer is not curable. There will be no remission. It's basically a chronic illness now that makes me so sick, I can hardly function. I wish I had never let it become that and wish that my family had respected my initial decision to just let it be, instead of hounding me to try something.

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I was diagnosed with stage 3b colon cancer about 2 years ago after having appendix pain. The cancer had started on my cecum and surrounded my appendix. The cancer was not anywhere else. Long story short, I had a resection and did the protocol of chemo and radiation. After all treatment, low and behold a lymph node in the same area but close to my spine in my abdomen showed up cancerous and again I had surgery for removal. They recommended another regiment of chemotherapy which I politely refused. I knew in my heart that what I was doing with taking chemo and exposing myself to more radiation did not feel okay with me. A scan over the summer showed a couple of new nodes in my lungs in which inflammation could not be ruled out. They again recommended chemo and radiation. I did 5 rounds of radiation on one lung node and that is where I have left off. After 2 surgeries, 12 rounds of FolFox, 30 rounds of radiation in the span of 14 mos, I had enough! Once you are in their system, it just keeps going from another to another finding. They "practice" on us, they do not cure us. I have since stopped all scans as I am sure the amount of radiation cannot be good and most likely is the cause for 2nd cancers and or metastasis. I am living my life and have continued to grow my faith. God made all of us and has already given us all healing through the death of Jesus on the cross. I am taking advice from the only great One, my true Father. I am mindful of what I eat and I take care of my body physically. spiritually and mentally. I have never felt better since removing myself from their system. I believe that these cancer protocols only make it worse and keep you in the corrupt system. Chemo does not cure cancer. They dole out chemo, radiation and scans on people as if they are handing out M&Ms. It is an enormous money maker. The Oncologists may think they are helping but they are part of the problem whether knowingly or not. I have found that they continually stoke fear. Fear is a bad spirit and does not come from God. 2 Timothy 1:7 "For God has not given us a spirit of fear but one of power, love and sound judgement."
If it does not bring you peace then do not do it. I base all my decisions on this now. If it's causing anxiety, don't do it. It is the Holy Spirit talking to you when you have doubts. I am learning to listen to him. May God bless you in your journey.

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margitdill | @margitdill | Dec 17, 2025

Thank you for this. It is inspiring. I am about to make the same decision …. For 2 1/2 years, I’ve been treated for stage 4 cervical cancer … 6 different chemo drugs … 2 rounds of radiation. It has been exhausting with no lasting results.

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shorthairptr66 | @shorthairptr66 | Dec 17, 2025
In reply to @craigcraig "To any and all on this thread. I am a person of faith and also a..." + (show)
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To any and all on this thread. I am a person of faith and also a person of science (big time). I wish the very best to all. I respect your decesions and in no way am trying to suggest you change your mind. But I do suggest you reach out to God. I have seen literal miracles and know Jesus is so very real. You may have decided to be done with your time on earth. Understood if that is your decision. But why not prepare for what will come after ? Jesus is real and can help you through this most difficult of times. Best wishes and prayers up.

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I am not Catholic and don't pray to Jesus BUT that being said there's a few neighbors who have an ongoing prayer group. When they heard about me they included me in their prayers.

I was diagnosed in Oct 2024 but symptoms started a few months earlier. I'm posting this 12/17/2025 and I still have had no treatments and I still feel as good as I did before being diagnosed. Fatigue is real so when my body says "lay down" I need to listen to it.

I truly appreciate them including me in their prayers and I believe it helps. So as long as they continue that's my treatment.

There's a lot about religions I do not believe (more of I need physical proof) but I definitely believe in positive energy. Prayers are positive energy.

So I thank everyone (real life and online) who pray for me and others. It works so keep it up.

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