There are no good choices for therapies and everyone of them found the cure worse than the pain.
My dear wife went through chemotherapy and radiation for treatment of mediastinal lymphoma. Yes it was tough, but it was bearable, and we thank God for the medications and treatments that saved her life. She achieved complete remission and has been cancer free for over three years.
Your statement "there are no good choices for therapies" is incorrect IMO.
What I meant by the comment is there are no painless choices. It sucks to watch a friend or even a loved one go through cancer.
My Mom had Kidney cancer last year and thankfully God was smart enough to give her two, she now has one.
She too has gone through therapies, though I do not know which. Wasn’t a breeze though we all prayed and she steeled herself for it.
She expected the worst and while it was bad, it wasn’t as bad as she had expected.
We live in different states and my sister, who is a CNA, did most of the helping.
So far, so good.