I wonder if anyone on here can advise me? A very good friend of mine phoned me in floods of tears last night. Her 32 year old daughter has recently been diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer and she has decided NOT to have any conventional treatment and is instead going to use cannabis oil and follow a strict diet of fruit and vegetables and vitamin supplements to try to treat the cancer herself. My friend said that the whole family have tried in vain to get her daughter to change her mind and opt for the chemo-lumpectomy-radiotherapy that he Oncologist has advised her to have, but she is absolutely adamant that it is her life and her choice. My friend wants me to speak with her daughter because I have had breast cancer twice myself and have come through it, and also I have always gotten along very well with her daughter. My friend thinks that her daughter might listen to me.
The thing is, whilst I am more than willing to talk to my friend's daughter and try to persuade her to go for conventional treatment, do I actually have the RIGHT to interfere in another woman's decision? I desperately want to help my friend who is absolutely devastated about her daughter's decision not to have medical treatment, but I am not even sure what to say to her daughter? Do I tell her the brutal truth, that without proper treatment she will die? Or do I try the soft and gentle approach? Any advice would be very welcome. Thank you.
