I have known people who have refused cancer treatments, and sadly, they are not here today to give their opiions.
My dad got kidney cancer and did chemo, etc. He didn't have all the vomitting and other usual side affects. He just got really tired for a day or two afterwards.
He lived a lot longer than expected especially since the cancer ultimately spread to his lungs and other organs. Still, he fought to the very end.
He was in a strange situation given that his wife, (my step mother) was considered far more ill than him and was placed in Hospice care.
He had dreams of coming to California to be closer to me and my sister and his brother and other family. It's going to sound horrible, but his wife was released from Hospice and I believe that the stress of taking care of her 24 hours a day is what finally did him in. We couldn't even talk to him on the phone without her yelling for him to come and clean out her portable commode or getting her something. She didn't have cancer. She was older than my father.
My poor dad had little chance to take care of himself.
I truly think he just gave up because he was over it. He'd been married to my step-mother for over 20 years. He was devoted to her. When she went into Hospice, I think he was trying to prepare for life without her.
The exact opposite happened.
I, personally, would do anything possible to save my life.
However, Suzanne Sommers did alternative treatments and she's still here and well.
This is one of those things where you can't really judge how someone else handles it. Admittedly, you don't know her well. There's not much you can do.
People get to be in charge of their health decisions. They can't be forced to take treatments they don't want to. They'll survive or they won't. They understand the risks and they take their chances or they don't.
You haven't been in this person's shoes so you'll just have to respect her health decisions, even if you don't agree with them.
Just my opinion.
No offense to anyone.