My Mom's recent colonoscopy found a tumor, stage 4 colorectal cancer, subsequent scans found it had spread to her liver, but nothing in the lymph nodes and none of her other blood work or tests picked up on any of it. We just got done doing chemo for a month and a half, and her last treatment put her into afib and her heart stopped twice while she was in the hospital, but recovered on it's own. Doctor came in and basically told her the chemo will kill her before the cancer does and she's opted to go on hospice. We are looking into the Joe Tippens regimen, have literally had around a dozen people that we know recommend it or one of the antiparasitics, our neighbor behind us has been doing it for about 5 years now, drinking soursop tea, etc. for cancer they said would kill him in 6 months. Our local farmers market guy that sets up at the flea market here has been buying Ivermectin from Atwood's, self dosing 5cc's of it with orange juice in a shot glass every morning, and has lived 3 years with multiple cancers they said was going to kill him in 6 months. Part of me thinks doctors just don't have any clue how long it's going to take for some of this stuff to kill you, so it's always "you have 6 months to a year".
All that being said, just going through the process for the less than 6 months that we did, all the appointments, and watching my Mom literally degenerate over a month and a half doing chemo, all the stress, the expense, I decided I'm not going to do it unless it's something that can be done with a resounding success rate. Just that small amount of time and Mom has thousands and thousands of dollars of medical debt even with insurance. On the flip side, going through setting up hospice, getting a will made up, power of attorney, now looking at getting disability setup for her, it's all soul crushing. Will be looking into just getting this stuff done and out of the way, like
sleevedraw
recommends, so my daughter doesn't potentially have to go through the same nightmare.