Posted on 09/07/2016 3:33:50 PM PDT by MarchonDC09122009
Chemotherapy warning as hundreds die from cancer-fighting drugs (cancer drugs may kill up to 50 % patients)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/08/30/chemotherapy-warning-as-hundreds-die-from-cancer-fighting-drugs/
Sarah Knapton, Science Editor 30 August 2016
Patients should be warned about the dangers of chemotherapy after research showed that cancer drugs are killing up to 50 per cent of patients in some hospitals.
For the first time researchers looked at the numbers of cancer patients who died within 30 days of starting chemotherapy, which indicates that the medication is the cause of death, rather than the cancer.
In Milton Keynes the death rate for lung cancer treatment was 50.9 per cent, although it was based on a very small number of patients.
Deaths of lung cancer patients from chemotherapy were also far higher than the national average in Blackpool, Coventry, Derby, South Tyneside and Surrey and Sussex, according to the research.
Similarly, around one in five people who underwent palliative care for breast cancer at Cambridge University Hospitals died from their treatment.
Public Health England (PHE), said it had contacted the hospitals concerned to ask them to review practices.
More than 1,300 breast and lung cancer patients died because of chemotherapy in 2014, the study shows Chemotherapy is toxic for the body because it does not discriminate between healthy and cancerous cells.
They advised doctors to be more careful in selecting patients for treatment where it could do more harm than good.
“I think it’s important to make patients aware that there are potentially life threatening downsides to chemotherapy. And doctors should be more careful about who they treat with chemotherapy.”
Professor David Cameron, Edinburgh Cancer Centre, Western General Hospital, added: “The concern is that some of the patients dying within 30 days of being given chemo probably shouldn’t have been given the chemo.
The research was published in The Lancet Oncology.
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Glad to hear you beat this horrible disease.
Bless you!
I had chemotherapy for Hodgkins about 30 years ago. It was extremely unpleasant and painful, but it worked.
It might have killed me, but if I hadn’t had it, I certainly would have died within a year or two from the cancer.
22 year cancer survivor here —they used Cisplatin and 5FU on me —it’s allowed me to see my daughter grow up and marry and spend time with two beautiful grandbabies....
Been there, done that, have the surgery scar to prove it.
Had colon cancer 20 years ago. I found the radiation worse than the chemo. Felt like I had burns inside my body, which of course I did.
Thanks, 7 years this month. Fit as a fiddle.
“This pertains to England’s socialized National Health Service conducting a first time study that found up to 50 percent of cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy died within 30 days in some hospitals, implying treatment caused mortality. “
IIRC, cancer survival rates in the UK/NHS have always been poor. This may reflect more upon the care than the method of treatment. What are the comparable figures for US ?
Same thing here.
Church member strong iron worker, very active, went in for Chemo at a local third tier hospital.
Died two weeks later.
Chemo killed him.
The oncology chemo treatment efficacy tables show a range of mortality odds.
New targeted cancer treatment drugs show promise, along with early detection diagnotics.
May all of fellow Freepers and your loved ones be blessed with the best of health.
A miracle!!! Praise God.
While that may often be the case, I wonder how true that is for cancers other than localized tumors.
In January, I had a lobectomy on my right lung. After recovering from surgery, I had 15 stereo radiation treatments for a separate mass on my left lung.
To finish things off, in case there were some rogue cells "floating around", my oncologist recommended a 4-dose course of chemo. (While it was hardly a pleasant experience, I was blessed to have only had minimal side effects.)
Why do they nail down the coffin lid at funerals?
To keep the oncologist from giving one more round of chemo.
save
Don’t do chemo!
I can testify to that with the affects it had on my husband.
A reporter too stupid to know what palliative care is, or was her source the idiot?
Whole purpose of chemotherapy based on my wife’s oncologist is to kill cell growth as the cancer cells grow and die faster than normal cells - by killing the cell growth the cancer cells die off faster than the good cells which after the treatment can recover.
Radiation basically does the same thing, but more localized. Hormone therapy prevents some, not all, cancer cell types from reproducing but this is dependent upon the hormones present in the body (pre-post menopause for example) and the persons genetic makeup can also have an impact.
THAT being said - every cancer type and every chemotherapy assigned to the type s different and each type (breast, liver, lung, etc) has different meds and doses depending upon current state in the body (tumor size, in the nodes, in other organs) and the specific metabolic rate of the cancer in question. Type, Stage and rate drive the selection of the therapy to be used.
My wife did surgery, chemo, radiation all in 5 months and then hormones for 5 years. Thank the good Lord and her docs she’s still here to harass me every day.
<Since this is NHS, I wonder what impact the delay in beginning treatment has on this study?
Exactly my thought! They are notorious for mis-diagnosing, resulting in delayed treatment for the actual disease. My understanding is that cancer patients in the UK die at higher rates than in the US; I’m assuming it’s because of delayed and/or marginal treatment.
It saved me from stage b3- I remain a big fan!
My chiropractor told me this last year.
What an atrocity.
And all for the big bucks for the pharm industry.
Actress Shannen Doherty is sharing on twitter as she gets chemo again today . https://twitter.com/DohertyShannen
The timing is incredible. NHS was in the news just a few days ago for announcing that “routine” surgeries will now be denied anyone who is deemed to be overweight or a smoker. Now, after decades of providing Chemo, suddenly they are “concerned” about the outcomes.
I hate Chemo as much as the next guy, and pray for the day a more civilized treatment regimen is available. But the timing? The overseers are ready to begin their planned Euthanasia.
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