My wife, literally “the-girl-next-door”, lost a battle w/breast cancer at 28....just 7 months after it was discovered.
Thankfully, she suffered only in her final 2 months - it is truly an evil & insidious disease.
The math doesn’t make any sense. The fatality rate for breast cancer has been steadily declining. It’s been cut in half since 1975: https://seer.cancer.gov/statfacts/html/breast.html
(Click on: “view data table”)
If chemotherapy is “spreading cancer”, why is the death rate from it declining?
“Many are given chemotherapy before surgery”
Hmmm - not part of my Mrs. treatment lo these 10+ years past. Her chemo was after surgery. Surgery, then chemo, then radiation, then hormone therapy...
Surgery was the worst as she lost some lymph nodes and still has to deal with the scar tissue. She did ok with the rest.
Still have her so I think I’ll keep that treatment...
“In this study we only investigated chemotherapy-induced cancer cell dissemination in breast cancer. Study was only on Breast Cancer...
Sounds to me like the NHS is trying to wiggle out of paying for cancer treatments.
This is not your father’s chemotherapy.
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Ping to myself so I can read the whacko responses later.
Or maybe chemo kills off the easy cancer cells ... allowing the more aggressive cells to survive, multiply, and take hold.
I did much of my internship and residency at a major academic cancer hospital.
What they taught us then is still the truth: “There are two interesting things about chemotherapy. First, that it works at all. Second, why doesn’t it work more often?”
Chemotherapy cures childhood leukemia, Hodgkin’s disease, testicular cancer, and not a whole lot else.