Serious discussion: Cancer treatment.

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Just so nobody gets the wrong idea, let me say clearly that I do not have any form of cancer, neither does anybody I currently know personally (though I have lost a few friends to it in the past.) This discussion is purely academic, and is prompted by a book I have just finished reading, about a guy who is dying with cancer. Cancer is still one of the most frightening words in the English language. How do you think you would you respond if you were given a cancer diagnosis? Would you go for the traditional methods of "Cut, Poison, Burn" (surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy?) Or would you want to try alternative methods? Of course it is impossible for us to say with certainty how we would react in that situation, but from my present safe position I think that I would go for alternatives. The traditional methods knock out the patient's immune system, and to me it makes no sense at all to do that at the very time when you most need your immune system to do the thing for which God created it, namely to attack the bad guys (in this case the cancer cells.) To me, it makes more sense to strengthen the immune system as much as possible to help it to get on with the job. Like I said, I don't have cancer, and I can't know for sure how I would feel if I did. Maybe I would just grab whatever the docs offered at the time. But I don't think so.