Quote: "It is important for folks to be aware that uncontrolled inflammation *itself* increases a patients relative risk of developing cancer. People suffering with moderate to severe AS and RA, risk poor health outcomes and very real dangers (that are not rare) when they choose to forego effective treatment options, due only to fear rather than fact."
Mig, one is speaking of patients who ARE on these drugs, who have been on the drugs for a time. There is nowt else in France anyways! You either 'do' and 'take' or you are not treated! That is the whole point over here. Thre are no 'other treatment options'. Heck, even the pharmacies (chemists) do not stock much by way of alternatives. CODEX has stopped it...
I bring my own alternatives over from the UK or chums pick em up for me - same with all the Brits over here. Alternatives are pretty much non-existent.
Again, just speaking with my felow student this evening. He has had a hell of two days. His guts are ripped apart with the NSAIDs and he is unable to take the biggie drugs - and, NO alternatives available to him!
Pretty dire when there are NO alterntives available - and there aren't, not in France. Sigh. One but wished that these biggie drugs DID work, and worked for everyone. But, they don't and with no alternatives available then...difficult.
One sooooo wishes that it were not so. 'Smile'.
