Aggressive Cancer Treatments Are Buying More Time

June 2006 diagnosed w/esophageal cancer (stage 3) (age 56) October 2006 completed radiation an chemotherapy (aggressive) therapy. March 2009 Still "enjoying" LIFE...w/no signs of cancer!(age 59)

how can we cut through the length of time it takes when dealing with a place like MD Anderson?

Very interesting. But what ages/health condition were the people in these studies who did so well...and what about quality of life in this equation? Can't say I'd really have wanted the extra few weeks or even months with my ailing parent that aggressive treatments would promise given that she would still be in pain, in hospital, and still terminal; and in fact we reached a point where we decided against them. curious what others think.