Hello all

I know this probably isn't the right place to be asking these
questions but I really didn't know where else to turn. I have a
firend, who I suspect is a compulsive liar and he is saying that he
has cancer of the large intestine. Now I worked in the cancer
services department for a year a couple of years ago so am fairly
clued up on treatment types but I have never heard of the treatments
that he is coming out with. He claims that he had cancer 7 years ago
when he was 14 and had a course of radiotherapy and that they didn't
get it all and now the cancerous cells have returned. His treatment
now is a daily injection of 10% or more of Barium into the stomach
(or leg as he's told some other people)now to me, this sound very
odd, barium is used for diagnostic tests, not treatment and If I type
it into google you don't get anything back! He also says that he's
having radiotherapy every few weeks at home (he claimed to be having
it at 2am one morning when a drunken friend tried to call him - i
think this was a guilt tactic!) but from the research that I've done -
radiotherapy (apart from not being a mainstream treatment for colon
cancer - correct me if I'm wrong) needs to be done far more often
than once every 3 weeks and certainly not "overnight" as it's a very
short procedure.

I'm aware that this is probably very inappropriate and if you feel
that it is then please tell me and I do apologise but I'm really
worried about my friend and just want some truthful answers.

Thank you for your help

Kelly