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I was diagnosed with an inoperable intestinal tumour in 1972. Luckily my brother was training to become a dentist and was able to argue with the surgeon and I got an operation and radiotherapy sessions to kill any tumour cells remaining. I was treated under the free NHS in the UK and I am now 57 and just recovering from the adverse affects of radiotherapy when my gut perforated last year due to radiation damage to the ascending colon. Radiotherapy has been in existence since about 1920 as were X rays. Cancer has been identified as a disease for hudreds of years hence the generic name,'a crab like growth' I think?Surgeons could remove the growth but were mystified as to why it returned. Radiation was the big stick used and it does work. Chemotherapy also is effective but it needs to be better targeted. Neither treatment is fun and perhaps a combination of the two is a good option. Treatments are getting better all the time and with more siccess rate-look at me, I'm not finished yet,
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