WEIGHING ‘COST AGAINST ‘BENEFIT’ WHEN CHOOSING TREATMENT – ALTERNATIVE TREATMENT
I use the word ‘likely’ because, of course, no one can ever look into the future and tell you exactly what will happen to you as an individual. You have to use probabilities and not certainties when weighing up the balance of cost versus benefit. This balance must be considered for each possible treatment. Always remember to include treatment Of symptoms only (with no actual anti-cancer treatment) as one of the alternatives to assess. This alternative will not always be mentioned by your practitioner, so it is easy to forget. Where the recommended anti-cancer treatments are very heavy in cost and very light in likely benefit, the decision to have no anti-cancer treatment at all may well be the best and bravest decision you could make.
This concept of balancing cost against benefit is very important. Try to keep it in mind as you read on.
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