The shame of mainstream cancer treatments and my anger

I am so sorry to hear of the loss. We will never know whether or not an alternative therapy might have made a difference.  Given his late stage, it might well have simply been too late - but it would have been nice to make the try.  I say never say never as long as their is life and I note that people who have used Budwig and other items such as oleander have literally risen from their death beds at times.

I am both outraged and saddened whenever I see maintream medicine fighting a losing battle and even having given up still stand in the way of any alternatives.  Most recently a person wrote to me whose father was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and given 3-4 months to live.  The doctor says nothing can save him but wants to give him chemotherapy as a palliative.  Chemo with all its side effects as a palliative?  I'm sorry, but I think maybe the fact that oncologists make 75% of their income from the markups on chemo drugs has more to do with such an outrageous idea than any "palliative" benefits from chemo.  It is almost like the doctor is saying, your dad is going to die but I might as well get some more profit before he does even if it makes him suffer even more while I milk him of all the money I can.

How can any doctor sleep at night who sentences someone to die and takes away all hope?  And whatever happened to "first do no harm"?

Worse, still, his son had convinced his father to try alternatives which have been succesful against pancreatic cancer and when the doctor heard he basically said, go ahead if you want to but they won't work and he is going to die regardless.

Much is the shame and much is the anger.