Re: Boys family forced into chemo.

"Caesar J. B. Squitti" <squittis@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:8f08902a-084a-4ae1-9fa5-010eea3c3025@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Boys family forced into chemo.

PM Because it offers the best chance of cure? This crops up regularly, but only because childhood cancers are among the few cancers where chemotherapy has quite a respectable cure rate, even after metastases have occurred.

The rest of this material is superficial and misleading. It fails to recognise that the vast majority of chemotherapy is used for cancers that are well recognised to be rarely ever cured by chemotherapy alone. That is not news to any informed person. But there can be other benefits, either as palliation, prolonging life, or as an adjunct to other treatments.

There are certainly some cancers which are very unlikely to respond significantly to chemotherapy and there will be argument as to whether such patients should be offered what small chances there are. Response rates are not wholly predictable.

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