One Last Hope

So dear patient, you have completed the Gemcitabine/Abraxane chemo treatment for your advanced pancreatic cancer. We shrunk your tumor, that's the good news, here's the bad news. You now have another 3- 12 months to live. Get your affairs in order and prepare to pass on in absolute agony.

What Doc, you are telling me I am doomed . 3-12 months, it's just not long enough. I want to live.
Afraid so dear patient, history is not on your side.
Doc, I'll do anything to hang around, what about my wife and kids?
Well dear patient, there is ONE LAST HOPE. Some clever guys in Australia who work at Oncosil, they have just marketed this new treatment, it involves injecting short term radiation into the tumor. It will give you a few more months, to be honest we don't know how long for each patient, and you will have less pain for your passing on. It's a little expensive but what price life.
A longer life Doc. Priceless. How much?
Dear patient, say $20,000 per treatment.
Doc, only $20,000. You had me worried to death. I thought you were going to say hundreds of thousands.
Doc, don't worry about radiation penetration distance or whether the third world can afford it too. It doesn't matter how it's administered, I WANT IT AND I WANT IT NOW.
Ok dear patient, there's a bit of planning to do, imaging the tumor, calculating the dose and injection sites. We can start next week.
Doc, can I have two lots?
Not just now, there's a long backlog of patients willing to pay any amount of money to get the treatment.
Spare me the detail Doc, here's my $20,000 cheque, JUST DO IT .