• kevlar21@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    Current cancer treatments including radiotherapy and chemotherapy can cause secondary cancers too.

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      11 months ago

      They sure do. That takes 10-20 years and in the meantime many patients experience an increased quality of life rather than a horrible death. I hope someday we develop a better method and I expect that doctors of the future will view this practice as barbaric, but at the moment it’s the best we got and better than nothing.