Interviewer:Dr. Farley, why not go to an oncologist. Talk about the more routine therapiesfor cancer and your opinion of those, mainly the chemotherapy, radiation, andsurgery.
Dr. Farley: I always toldmy patients to please go to an oncologist. I knew a great number of them. And Iwould ask them to ask a couple of basic questions. Can you give me studies thatshow that what therapy you're recommending will improve my quality of life?They can't do it. Will you show me studies that if I take this, chemotherapy,radiation, whatever they're offering, can you show me a study that I will livelonger than if I do nothing? They're aren't any. They can't provide it. If theycan't provide documentation that your quality of life is going to get better orthat you're going to live longer than doing nothing, why are you going to stay?Many of the cancer patients I saw were bankrupt. Their insurance would pay 80percent, and they go I'm covered, not realizing that the first chemotherapytreatment was going to be $30,000. And their 20 percent added up pretty quick,because there were 10 more chemotherapy on the horizon.
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Could this way of thinking actually be a better option than treating cancer the 'traditional way'? Dr. Michael Farley makes you think in this video and he has some questions you might want to ask the oncologist before starting treatment.
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