This is why we don't allow medical threads

mattyg · 12 Apr 2014 at 15:34

dowie said:
bump - another alternative medicine numpty has tried this 'cure'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...tml?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

Beat you like a ginger step kid

arknor · 12 Apr 2014 at 15:39

Sounds like his cancer is gone and all the hospital did was tell him how to treat the wound properly.
it even says in the article it healed...

dowie · 12 Apr 2014 at 15:39

doh! just saw that...

Bennie-Mac · 12 Apr 2014 at 16:04

arknor said:
Sounds like his cancer is gone and all the hospital did was tell him how to treat the wound properly.
it even says in the article it healed...

Yes it healed his skin cancer, in the same way that cutting off your hand would heal your broken finger.

arknor · 12 Apr 2014 at 16:21

Bennie-Mac said:
Yes it healed his skin cancer, in the same way that cutting off your hand would heal your broken finger.

your hand wouldn't grow back his flesh did so it's not exactly a good comparison ...

Any surgery would have just cut the cancer out anyway and left a whole that needed to heal.

Personally I wouldn't touch the stuff but I can see how some people end up so desperate that they will

Energize · 12 Apr 2014 at 20:29

arknor said:
your hand wouldn't grow back his flesh did so it's not exactly a good comparison ...

The flesh does not grow back normally, it does not have the capacity to regenerate, it will form scar tissue which can have numerous complications. Surgery does not leave a crater in the head like that.

bazzabear · 12 Apr 2014 at 20:37

[FnG]magnolia;25613566 said:
Old member.

He's the man,
The man with the shiny ****
That ****'s a brick.

bazzabear · 12 Apr 2014 at 20:37

I might have digressed slightly there, sorry.

Also, it didn't even make sense, as I was free associating when I wrote it, and somehow moved on to 'Gold member'.

Did I mention I'm very jet lagged?

Sorry.

Deleted member 77746 · 13 Apr 2014 at 10:55

Lysander said:
I would never seek medical advice on the internet anyway.

He doesn't. But you have Annoying New Poster Syndrome.

ANPS

arknor · 13 Apr 2014 at 11:15

Energize said:
The flesh does not grow back normally, it does not have the capacity to regenerate, it will form scar tissue which can have numerous complications. Surgery does not leave a crater in the head like that.

it would if they had to cut a huge lump of cancer out but they would seal it with gauze and he didn't

shadow_boxer · 13 Apr 2014 at 11:30

Energize said:
The flesh does not grow back normally, it does not have the capacity to regenerate, it will form scar tissue which can have numerous complications. Surgery does not leave a crater in the head like that.

Correct

arknor said:
it would if they had to cut a huge lump of cancer out but they would seal it with gauze and he didn't

With a gaping hole like that the skin would most certainly not grow back. Surgeons would do an excision of the BCC including additional margins. The wound probably wouldn't be closed initally but subsequent operations would involve plastics and skin grafting. No way would skin regrow or regenerate with that level of excision. Gauze doesn't help with skin regrowth but is used to pack deep wounds temporarily.

Stovepipes · 13 Apr 2014 at 12:45

Wish I'd never read this thread, that woman's nose will haunt me forever.

I know people get desperate with cancer but wow, there's a lot of nutters out there.

Sankari · 13 Apr 2014 at 15:00