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5. Chemotherapy Harms More Than It Helps
Injecting toxic compounds into your body is a risky activity, but to suggest that chemotherapy is more harmful than helpful is to deny a huge body of evidence and the accurate, up-to-date statistics that say otherwise.
Not surprisingly, treatments designed to kill cancer cells will also kill healthy cells, and chemotherapy may not eradicate cancer completely. However, the right chemotherapy treatment can slow the progress of cancer significantly, and it is often a very important part of a multi-faceted approach to treatment, along with radiation and surgery.
As new drugs are developed, chemotherapy is becoming even more effective, and several types of cancer now have a much greater survival rate because of chemotherapy drugs.
The right story can do a lot of good for your feelings and your perspective. You may even find some reassurance and resolution in these movies about cancer.
