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Trauma-san:
I need some advice. 

Say you had a doctor tell you he saw a small, tiny tumour, cancerous, in your colon.  Your family has a history of Colon Cancer... he's saying that it will grow, grow, and grow, until eventually the cancer runs through my entire body, and kills me, but it'll likely take 20 years for it to happen. 

Right now I'm perfectly healthy, everything's fine.  There's two treatment options. 

The first is, I can take chemo, which likely won't eradicate the tumour, but it's cheaper than surgery.  The tumour will still be there, likely, but it'll shrink, and the chemo (which will make me sick for a while) will take longer to grow, but eventually it will grow, and take my life.  It'll probably take 30 years, instead of the 20 years, and I'd have to do chemo pretty consantly to keep the tumour halfway under control.

The second way is, I can have a very serious major operation, very expensive, and it'll remove the tumour, and I'll be healthy for the rest of my life.  I'll also no longer have to go to the doctor for Chemo treatments, so I won't have that hanging over me. 

Opinions? Which option should I take? 

Trauma-san:
Oh, there is a third option, too, of course.  Do nothing, and die in 20 years. 

Lincoln:
Surgery. Is this something that's happening to you personally right now Trauma?

Don Seer:
go for the operation.

however.. how bad is the cost... ?


sounds horrible... over here the operation would be free homie :(

Rampant:
definetly the surgery over chemo. Get rid of it completly.

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