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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: NYAmerican

When obamacare kicked in, we started hearing that women don’t really need so many mammograms, colonoscopies are overrated, and early diagnosis has no beneficial effect on lung cancer patients. Same lies. Same reason.


61 posted on 09/07/2016 4:51:30 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: MarchonDC09122009
of course waiting till the patient is 99% dead before they get their treatments prolly has nothing to do with it...
62 posted on 09/07/2016 5:03:02 PM PDT by Chode (You Owe Them Nothing - Not Respect, Not Loyalty, Not Obedience, NOTHING!)
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To: faithhopecharity

More than chemo drugs are poisons. Many drugs are poisons. It depends on the dosage.


63 posted on 09/07/2016 5:06:53 PM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them)
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To: MinorityRepublican

My doctor did chemo. He’s still teaching 10 years later.

L


64 posted on 09/07/2016 5:11:09 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: bkopto

That was my 1st thought too!!!


65 posted on 09/07/2016 5:11:26 PM PDT by 2nd amendment mama (Self defense is a basic human right!)
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To: virgil

yes indeed agreed


66 posted on 09/07/2016 5:12:47 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born. They're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero.)
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To: MarchonDC09122009

My wife’s good friend was having back pain, she was “diagnosed” with cancer of the spine. She was put on chemo and died two weeks later. An autopsy was performed and it was found that she didn’t have cancer at all. Some silicone had leaked from her breast implants and settled near her spine. It most likely had nothing to do with her back pain, but caused her x-rays to look like cancer had metastasized to her spine. Apparently some of her blood work came back with unusual results as well, but there was no cancer found in her body. The chemo was determined to have killed her.


67 posted on 09/07/2016 5:16:07 PM PDT by fireman15 (The USA will be toast if the Democrats are able to take the Presidency in 2016)
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To: MarchonDC09122009

ultimately you have the decision to either take no treatment, and probably die a painful miserable death OR try a treatment, which may still give you a painful miserable death but also the chance to actually LIVE....


68 posted on 09/07/2016 5:16:26 PM PDT by cherry
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To: BykrBayb

“I don’t think they know how to properly administer the drugs. They seem to still be in the trial and error phase.”

Hav you considered that they DO know how to administer them and that this is the desired outcome? Chemo is comparatively cheap compared to new exotic treatments.


69 posted on 09/07/2016 5:18:53 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day")
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To: SgtHooper

Perhaps they gave him a minimal dose due to his age.


70 posted on 09/07/2016 5:29:29 PM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: henkster

I’m so happy for you and your wife. It gives hope to a lot of others on this site. Spread the word.


71 posted on 09/07/2016 5:30:01 PM PDT by Dick Vomer (2 Timothy 4:7 deo duce ferro comitante)
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To: MinorityRepublican
When doctors get cancer, they don’t take chemo. They let nature take it course.

not all of them.... trust me, not all of them.

72 posted on 09/07/2016 5:34:52 PM PDT by Dick Vomer (2 Timothy 4:7 deo duce ferro comitante)
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To: Semper911

When the chemo was all said and done and I finally started feeling better my oncologist said.....well, would you do it again? I told him he tried to kill me but it didn’t work. Lol. That was 7 years ago and I’m still clean.
Congrats to you!


73 posted on 09/07/2016 5:38:03 PM PDT by sheana
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To: henkster

I am glad for you and your family but Chemo definitely killed my mother. She was beating her Hodgkin’s lymphoma and feeling great but the doctors made her continue treatments (money) . She had a reaction to the chemo, lungs filled with crap from the reaction, next day dead.


74 posted on 09/07/2016 5:50:35 PM PDT by bluecollarman (P)
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To: Nifster
Stem cell treatment is very different than chemo

It was an autologous stem cell transplant. They give her chemo (taxol) in gallon jugs. I'd say it was different; it was chemo on steroids.

75 posted on 09/07/2016 6:14:59 PM PDT by henkster
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To: henkster

Rense.com says cancer is caused by dairy and meat.

Perhaps minimizing it’s influence could help.


76 posted on 09/07/2016 6:18:53 PM PDT by TheNext (Hillary Hurts Children & Women)
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To: TheNext

And smoking. And drinking. And asbestos. And working in chemical plants. And sunshine. And....


77 posted on 09/07/2016 6:23:48 PM PDT by henkster
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To: henkster
Yep. Chemo is poison that kills young and fast growing cells. Its use is a crap shoot and always will be. Some survive, where they were destined to die early.

My wife went through all of that, and is now 100% cancer free. She might choose death rather than go through that treatment again; but, she is grateful to be alive. I would be lost without her.

78 posted on 09/07/2016 6:26:52 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: Salvation

My wife went through it, and is now 100% cancer free. She is not sure she would choose to repeat the process it needed. I’m really happy to be around. She was given less that a year without the treatment. The math is simple, really.


79 posted on 09/07/2016 6:28:25 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: henkster

Well I don’t smoke, don’t drink, no asbestos or chem plants. Now if that last one sunshine, if that kills me then I will be pissed off.

Seriously, people must realize that you have a lot of control over prevention. Prevention is key.

I had a pain from a virus infection awhile back. One at a time I isolated sources. Sugar drinks, aspartame or HFCS corn syrup. SOLVED.

Other people would be getting cut up at a hospital by now.
When direct evidence finds the cause, it is just WOW.

God and Prevention.


80 posted on 09/07/2016 6:37:58 PM PDT by TheNext (Hillary Hurts Children & Women)
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