It's a choice between the devil and the deep blue sea. I think in years to come once an effective --and profitable,-- alternative has been developed the scientific community will look at the veritable army of cancer patients who have suffered often irreversible damage from hormone therapies and say ''The poor things, it must have been awful back then.'
Until that time arrives, we are going to be told 'This is the best we can do.' Which is true.
I think time will also show exactly how many people on these regimes have had their lives, as regards general productivity, completely wrecked by doing the best they can to survive. That will probably happen once access to things like disability pensions because of the side effects becomes a 'thing' and someone starts to keep stats.. At the moment i don't think anyone collates the information. I've asked my oncologist, who I like and respect, what he does with the info I give him. He looked at me blankly. Does he tell the drug companies? No. Present a paper on it? No. Do he and his colleagues discuss it at a professional level? Only in general terms. Sigh.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't. This is a shit of a disease.
