Living with Cancer: A view from a transformed oncologist

class="googleright">leukemia! Clarences health food advisor has
This morning started with an extra large drain on mysuggested he try a mixture of cleansing salts that
battery. Clarence needed even more of my timeyou simply add to water, and is œsure to cure. I
than usual. Once again he asked, œWhen am Ihave also noticed that Clarences relatives are not
going to start feeling better? Clarence has late-stagemaking as many visits to his room. Trying not to
prostate cancer and is now in his 80s. For 12 years,show the exasperation on my face, I reply,
nearly everything we have used to fight his diseaseœClarence, maybe it is time to let God take the
has worked”each time adding time to his life.reins. Im running out of tricks in my bag. But he
But the signs of decline are now clear: more lostinsisted, œNo chance doc, Im going to beat this
weight each visit, increasing pain in the bones, andthing. To Clarence, there remains no question who is
food tasting like cardboard. He has a clipping from thein control of his life, and no question of who will win
newspaper offering the latest œcure for cancer.this war of mind-over-matter.
Unfortunately, it tells of a new success in pediatric