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Chemotherapy warning as hundreds die from cancer-fighting drugs (chemo may kill up to 50% patients
UK Telegraph ^ | 08/30/2016 | Sarah Knapton

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cancer; cancersurvivors; cancerthread; cancertreatment; cancerwarriors; caregivers; chemicals; chemotherapy; deathrate; mortality; pharmaceuticals
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To: MarchonDC09122009

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.


41 posted on 09/07/2016 4:10:20 PM PDT by NYAmerican
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To: DoughtyOne
Cancel kills 100% of them. Some many folks don’t consider this.

Life is fatal. No one gets out alive.

It's not *if*.

It's *when* and *how*.

42 posted on 09/07/2016 4:10:23 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: henkster

That’s a wonderful story. Not many people may know this but chemotherapy may become obsolete in 5-10 years. Immunotherapy is the future and the early results from clinical trials are spectacular. For example, Jimmuh Carter’s melanoma had spread to his brain (assuming he had one), lungs and liver and normally he would have months to live. But thanks to a checkpoint inhibitor (immunotherapeutic) drug called Keytruda, today he is walking around cancer free. This is nothing short of a miracle.


43 posted on 09/07/2016 4:13:36 PM PDT by libh8er
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To: MarchonDC09122009

My mother had chemo for her pancreatic cancer. The chemo she was taking had a complete drug facts insert. Part of the information was a chart detailing the mortality rate of users.

By 14 months the mortality rate was 100%

Cancer sucks. Chemo prolongs the suck.


44 posted on 09/07/2016 4:16:59 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: MarchonDC09122009

When I was diagnosed with lung cancer, I went through a period of obsessing over “how long do I have?” I scoured the Internet for information about prognosis. Over and over, I turned up stories about people dying from their first dose of chemo. And every time I was able to discover where this happened, it was in the UK. I don’t think they know how to properly administer the drugs. They seem to still be in the trial and error phase.

Cancer treatment is very complicated. If you’re diagnosed, do your homework and find professionals who know what they’re doing.


45 posted on 09/07/2016 4:20:30 PM PDT by BykrBayb (Lung cancer free since 11/9/07. Colon cancer free since 7/7/15. PTL ~ Þ)
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To: NYAmerican
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.

Yup, It surely was.

Now, after decades of providing Chemo, suddenly they are “concerned” about the outcomes.

Yup. The concern is that 50% survive the first month and cost the government millions for extended care...

46 posted on 09/07/2016 4:23:30 PM PDT by null and void (Has there ever been a death associated with the Clintons that *wasn't* beneficial to them?)
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To: metmom

I agree. You would have to rub it in. “:^)


47 posted on 09/07/2016 4:23:40 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (He wins & we do, our nation does, the world does. It's morning in America again. You are living it!)
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To: henkster

Bingo.


48 posted on 09/07/2016 4:25:52 PM PDT by Stop the decline
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To: Yo-Yo

When doctors get cancer, they don’t take chemo. They let nature take it course.


49 posted on 09/07/2016 4:25:52 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: DoughtyOne

And it’s also where you end up going that’s the most important part.

Sorry. Had to get the last word in. I shouldn’t have forgotten that part.


50 posted on 09/07/2016 4:27:02 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: MarchonDC09122009

Aren’t these cancer patients in the UK system put on hold for months if not years before treatment is even approved and can be started?


51 posted on 09/07/2016 4:30:11 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: Salvation

Don’t skip chemo!

I can testify to that with the effects it had on me.


52 posted on 09/07/2016 4:31:57 PM PDT by BykrBayb (Lung cancer free since 11/9/07. Colon cancer free since 7/7/15. PTL ~ Þ)
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To: metmom

There you go, being right again.

“:^(

“:^)


53 posted on 09/07/2016 4:32:33 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (He wins & we do, our nation does, the world does. It's morning in America again. You are living it!)
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To: IamConservative

Since this is NHS, I wonder what impact the delay in beginning treatment has on this study?


Spot on, my thoughts exactly.


54 posted on 09/07/2016 4:34:42 PM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: Salvation

My Father was diagnosed with bladder cancer in the muscle wall at age 87. He underwent chemo and radiation. The chemo never produced nausea or hair loss. The cancer metastasized into his lung and finally into his brain. He died at 89. I was surprised that he had no side effects. It made me wonder if he was given bogus chemo drugs, or was seriously under-doped.


55 posted on 09/07/2016 4:37:33 PM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: MarchonDC09122009
I wonder if they factor in the time from diagnosis to initial treatment in that study ... methinks not, since it would make the pinko-commie-lib™ NHS look even worse ...
56 posted on 09/07/2016 4:40:18 PM PDT by SecondAmendment (Restoring our Republic at 9.8357x10^8 FPS)
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To: DoughtyOne

It happens on occasion.

:)


57 posted on 09/07/2016 4:41:04 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: henkster

Two considerations for the data set. Are these hospitals seeing 50% deaths within 30 days treating people that would not survive, no matter the treatment? Therefore artificially inflating the data? Other hospitals may not even treat these patients to begin with.

How long after cancer onset/diagnosis are these patients getting treatment? We hear the “horror” stories of waiting lists. That can also be a contributor.


58 posted on 09/07/2016 4:42:36 PM PDT by ican'tbelieveit
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To: metmom

You’re right. It takes a lot to get through cancer. Choosing the right hospital is very important.


59 posted on 09/07/2016 4:45:00 PM PDT by BykrBayb (Lung cancer free since 11/9/07. Colon cancer free since 7/7/15. PTL ~ Þ)
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To: metmom

“:^)


60 posted on 09/07/2016 4:45:13 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (He wins & we do, our nation does, the world does. It's morning in America again. You are living it!)
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