Worrying about my Professor, and Trying to Understand Her Psychology in Refugee from Open Diary Apocalypse

So I have this professor... she has been life changing for me and other students in my class, stimulating my critical thinking abilities, and disillusioning me about the inequalities of the wold (especially the food system). However, I think she may been a little bit skewed in her opinions about the healthcare system... long story short, she revealed to us that she may have a malignancy, and she is refusing conventional surgery, or chemotherapy, because she is opposed to them from an ethical viewpoint. She seems to be going to Naturopathic method... I know I was just talking about how I probably don't want to be a PA, but even I know (and have done the research) that evidence based medicine is definitely more or less effective in treating malignancies... If you have an unidentified mass in your body... the first thing you want to do is biopsy it... the next thing you want to do is remove it (or monitor it, if it is benign), then you want to use aggressive radiation or chemotherapy or tyrosine kinase inhibitors to eradicate or block the cancer cells... I have learned this in biochemistry... chemotherapy WORKS, perhaps it does get into your normal cells more easily than your lactic acid producing cancer cells... but it is quite effective at immobilizing your cancer cells. And if you have a mass, you DEFINITELY want it out, if it is operable (which it is in her case), you want that thing out before it metastasizes... I don't want her to die... however, from what she describes, it shrank from her Naturopathic method (this is when I wonder if her mass is not a malignancy at all...). Frankly I read the literature on Naturopathic medicine... I am absolutely not convinced, and she is much too valuable to society to die, due to her cynicism and distrust of the pharmaceutical industry... I have thought about her psychology. I know the pharmaceutical industry is pretty damn profit hungry... but with cancer, you either die, or you are under their mercy... perhaps she is really so opposed to them that she would rather die than be "cured" by them... if she understands, and if that is the case, then she is given her own free will...