Why is my cancer being treated differently than my fathers cancer?
There is a tendency to think of cancer as one disease that just starts in different parts of the body. Actually every cancer is a unique disease process. As an analogy, you can easily understand that there is a different cause and treatment of a viral sore throat as compared to appendicitis (yet both are “infections”). Your fathers cancer was certainly not gynecologic in origin and would not be treated in the same way as your malignancy. Finally, the advances in cancer treatment appear so rapidly that it is unlikely that any particular cancer is treated today in the same way it was treated several years ago.
