I agree. I’ve heard over the years that cancer cures and promising research has been suppressed by the pharmaceutical industry. I didn’t want to believe it, I still don’t, but where are all those extraordinary profits going? They should be going towards finding cures but apparently that’s not happening. They just want to keep us in treatment of some kind forever.
Cancer is a big business, it’s practically a lifestyle, so I guess those in charge don’t want to rock their very lucrative boat.

Anyway, just to let you know, the very impersonal radiation treatments weren’t too bad until the last few sessions. I saw my surgeon today and he used the words ‘final blast’ or something like that. He suggested Aquafor which I think is the brand name of the ointment I’m using.

You said it just right when you said you felt like you were betraying your body. That’s how I feel - not sorry for me but sorry for my body and I feel like apologizing to it for the medieval-like treatments Corporate America is providing us in the 21st century while they’re drowning in profits!

I’ve finished with radiation and now the only issue is some fatigue but Monday I start on the AI Anastrozole. As I said to my surgeon today - the only thing I can do is try it. If the side effects are too much for me, I will try another AI but if I can’t tolerate that either then I’m done. The numbers I’ve heard convinced me to go through with radiation and reduce the chance of recurrence by quite a bit. I don’t know the numbers for AIs. But even if it’s convincing, if I can’t tolerate it, I can’t tolerate it. We shall see.

Please let me know about your radiation treatments and I’ll keep you posted on the Anastrozole.
Take care and thank you for your reply.

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