[mekasan]

I am so disturbed by this article that I can barely articulate it in words! It sounds like once again money is the problem. Are insurance companies pressuring to reduce treatment for those reaching the end. We all know it is not the end until it actually is. How dare someone else decide that the chance of pulling through is so slim that they will not pay for treatment. What is the basis for stopping treatment? Statistics? Well I had something like less than .01 percent chance of getting this disease at 29 and I sure as hell will not let someone say that my chance of pulling out is too low to persue treatment. If it was unlikely that I could get cancer and I did, I can imagine that for some it may seem unlikely that they will pull through and they will. That will never happen if treatment stops and everyone quits JUST TO GIVE THE PALLITIVE CARE PEOPLE MORE TIME TO DO THERE JOB!


-shannon