WHAT CAUSES DEATH FROM PROSTATE CANCER?
Obviously, death is caused by vital body organs ceasing to function. This, in turn, is the result of a cascade of other component functions ceasing to function. Many of my friends who have died from prostate cancer have done so by virtue of blood markers (platelets, WBC, RBC) falling below those acceptable for continued treatments, thus allowing the cancer to progress unabated and commence destroying vital body functions and organs. A common scenario is for sequential treatments of chemotherapy and RT to systematically deteriorate blood markers to levels below those acceptable for treatments;–followed by treatments of blood transfusions, Neupogen, Epogen, or Procrit in an attempt to return the markers to levels that will allow cytotoxic treatments as an attack on the cancer. But, often the blood markers are so damaged by previous treatments that they will not recover and thus, the death spiral is inevitable. CAUTION During my most recent (12 September 2001) weekly chemotherapy treatme
