The rational for chemotherapy and radiation is that cancer is an enemy that must be killed or destroyed, even when the treatment causes the person great discomfort, perhaps even death.
Chemotherapy drugs originated out of mustard gas, designed as a poison for use in warfare.
No wonder chemotherapy is feared almost as much as cancer itself.
One of the ironic ” side effects” of chemotherapy or radiation is an increased likelihood that cancer will re-appear later on as secondary tumors or that it will eventually spread to other parts of the body (metastasis).
The attitude oncologists have toward these second malignancies seems to be that they are of minimal importance…. It is important to try to cure the patient, and certainly you cannot worry about second malignancy if the patient does not survive the first. ” In other words, cancer recurrence is considered an acceptable side effect of chemotherapy treatment for cancer
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