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7 Things Oncologists Should Never Say To Their Patients

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This is doctor to doctor advice...I still like the one from The Mayo Clinic best..if you live long enough you will die from prostate cancer

Gus

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Back in 2006 the Urologist that diagnosed me, told me it would be very painful, and that I would probably be dead within a year I said thanks for the info , but I am gonna live a lot longer than that, to his reply" Its good that you are being positive but most Men do not make it much more than a year , I fired him thinking if he could not do better than that I would go elsewhere . Then I got a good medical Oncologist. why would you tell a Patient that? Don't they know how important hope is in this battle, And that saying things like that would make us just fold up and obey that prediction.

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BigRich

Gus,

I agree with you; that comment was a defeatist comment. Since I am taking casodex and supplements too; do you take 150 mg.of casodex, daily? In your nine years did you ever take a vacation; if so, how long and what where the results. Did you have any mets initially, and have they been reduced, by how much?

Rich

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Soccermom28

Our doctors have always said. If you are old enough, something will take you before prostrate cancer will.

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toml77

The urologist that initially DX'd me told me on the first visit to announce the results of my biopsy: "Dont worry we'll have you having erections in no time". I should have dumped him then and there. He was wrong!

Tom

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