the-truth-about-cancer

The Truth About Cancer
and there’s no one in there even remotely near my age. I’m 26. I got
long, shaggy hair, a handle bar mustache like rock dude and I’m just
kind of checking it out. And who else is in the cancer club. It was me
and a bunch of seniors, senior citizens, not high school or college
seniors. And I just thought, God, I don’t belong here. The television was
on and out comes Jack Lalanne right as I’m sitting in the cancer clinic
couch and he starts going off about nutrition and fruits and vegetables
and the reason we’re sick is because we’re all eating junk food, right.
And you need—if man made it don’t eat it. And I was like, oh man, he’s
just speaking to me through the television right now. Like this is
exactly—he’s reaffirming everything that I had just started to
understand. And we go into see the oncologist finally. You know, its like
you wait in a waiting room for an hour and then they put you in a smaller
waiting room for another hour. And then you get in another little room.
Eventually the oncologist comes in. It was just very robotic. You know,
they see 20 patients, 30 – 40 patients a day and he just comes in and
he looked at my chart I’m sure for two minutes. What’s this guy got.
Comes in and gives me the standard pitch. He said look, you know,
you’ve got stage II colon cancer. You have—with therapies you have a
60 percent chance of living five years. And I thought…
Ty: At the age of the 26
Chris Wark: Yeah
Ty:
what did you think of those odds
Chris Wark: Yeah, I mean I was not impressed by those odds. And I
thought, gee, that’s not much better than a coin toss.
Ty: That’s true.
Chris Wark: You know, just…
Ty: 50/50
Chris Wark: …not much. And I asked him if there were any alternative
therapies available. And he said, “No. There are none. If you don’t
chemotherapy you’re insane.”
Ty: He literally said “you’re insane.”
Chris Wark: Yeah. Yep. I asked him about the raw food diet, he said,
no you can’t do that it’ll fight the chemo.
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