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Cancer is among the leading causes of death worldwide. In
2018, there will be an estimated 1,735,350 new cancer cases diagnosed
and over 609,640 cancer deaths in the United States alone (1). However, new research shines light on the truth that maybe it isn’t cancer that kills, but that chemotherapy kills.
For the first time ever, 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
cancer itself. The study, published in The Lancet Oncology, showed that chemotherapy treatments kill up to 50% of cancer patients in some hospitals (2).
Chemotherapy Kills
The British study looked at more than 23,000 women with
breast cancer and nearly 10,000 men with non-small cell lung cancer who
underwent chemotherapy in 2014. Almost 1,400 patients died within a
month of being given chemotherapy (roughly 8.4% of lung cancer patients
and 2.4% of breast cancer patients).
In some hospitals, this figure was much higher. In Milton
Keynes Hospital, the death rate for lung cancer treatment was 50.9%. At
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals, the 30-day mortality rate was 28% for
palliative chemotherapy for lung cancer.
According to the authors of the study by Public Health
England and Cancer Research UK, “patients dying within 30 days after
beginning treatment [with chemotherapy] are unlikely to have gained the
survival or palliative benefits of the treatment, and in view of the
side-effects sometimes caused…are more likely to have suffered harm.”
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