{"id":55829,"date":"2018-03-09T14:57:44","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T09:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=55829"},"modified":"2018-03-09T14:57:54","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T09:57:54","slug":"half-of-cancer-patients-die-of-chemotherapy-not-cancer-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=55829","title":{"rendered":"Half of cancer patients die of chemotherapy, not cancer: study"},"content":{"rendered":"

London March 9 (TNS):<\/strong> No matter how much doctors push the treatment, chemotherapy might not be the best option in the fight against cancer, as a new study shows up to 50 percent of patients are killed by the drugs \u2014 not the disease, itself.<\/p>\n

Researchers from Public Health England and Cancer Research UK performed a groundbreaking study examining for the first time the numbers of cancer patients who died within 30 days of beginning chemotherapy \u2014 indicating the treatment, not the cancer, was the cause of death.<\/p>\n

Looking at those death rates in hospitals across the U.K., researchers found an alarming mortality rate associated with chemotherapy.<\/p>\n

Across\u00a0\u201cEngland around 8.4 per cent of patients with lung cancer, and 2.4 per cent of breast cancer patients died within a month,\u201d\u00a0the\u00a0Telegraph said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut in some hospitals the figure was far higher. 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alarmingly, the one-month mortality rate at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals for those undergoing palliative, rather than curative, chemotherapy for lung cancer was a full 28 percent. One in five breast cancer patients receiving palliative care at Cambridge University Hospitals died from treatment.<\/p>\n

In certain areas \u2014 Blackpool, Coventry, Derby, South Tyneside, and Surrey and Sussex \u2014 deaths of lung cancer patients by chemotherapy were \u2018far higher\u2019 than the national average.<\/p>\n

Dr. Jem Rashbass, Cancer Lead for Public Health England \u2014 the national health care service, which requested the study \u2014 said, as quoted\u00a0by the\u00a0Telegraph:<\/p>\n

\u201cChemotherapy is\u00a0a vital part of cancer treatment and is a large reason behind the improved survival rates over the last four decades.<\/p>\n

\u201cHowever, it is powerful medication with significant side effects and often getting the balance right on which patients to treat aggressively can be hard.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose hospitals whose death rates are outside the expected range have had the findings shared with them and we have asked them to review their practice and data.\u201d<\/p>\n

For the analysis, researchers \u201cincluded all women with breast cancer and all men and women with lung cancer residing in England, who were 24 years or older and who started a cycle\u201d of chemotherapy in 2014.<\/p>\n

Long the mainstay for treating various cancers, chemotherapy has finally drawn criticism in recent years, as the medicine does not differentiate between healthy and cancerous cells. Now, this study \u2014 published in the Lancet \u2014 shows how that powerful cell-destroying property can mean the demise for patients as well.<\/p>\n

Researchers have advised physicians to exercise more caution in vetting which patients should ideally receive chemotherapy. Older and more infirm patients, in particular, might be better off without receiving palliative care, which is designed to offer relief instead of curing the disease.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe statistics don\u2019t suggest bad practice overall but there are some outliers,\u201d\u00a0noted Professor David Dodwell of the Institute of Oncology at St. James Hospital in Leeds.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt could be data problems, and figures skewed because of just a few deaths, but nevertheless it could also be down to problems with clinical practice,\u201d\u00a0he continued.<\/p>\n

All hospitals involved said they reviewed the information and remain certain chemotherapy is safe \u2014 with the caveat patient selection for the treatment may need to be more discretionary.<\/p>\n

Professor David Cameron of the Edinburgh Cancer Centre at West General Hospital in Edinburgh, Scotland, noted,\u00a0\u201cThe concern is that with some of the patients dying within 30 days of being given chemo probably shouldn\u2019t have been given the chemo. But how many? There is no easy way to answer that, but perhaps looking at those places\/hospitals where the death rate was higher might help.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, doctors in the United States should probably take note, considering the sheer number of patients forced to undergo chemotherapy at the State\u2019s behest despite objections from those patients and their families.<\/p>\n

In one example, a 17-year-old diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma decided to seek alternatives\u00a0to chemotherapy, but her doctors \u2014 so inculcated in state and Big Pharma propaganda \u2014 contacted family services, who then kidnapped the young adult and placed her in foster care.<\/p>\n

She was finally allowed to return home once she agreed to undergo the often debilitating treatment \u2014 but ran away once doctors informed her she\u2019d have to endure surgery for the implantation of a chemo port. In an incredible act of Orwellian Big Government, the Supreme Court ruled the State was in the right in this case \u2014 and after being kidnapped and forced into treatment against her will, was denied contact with her own family.<\/p>\n

As unfathomably invasive as that was, it isn\u2019t isolated.<\/p>\n

Alternative treatments do, in fact, exist \u2014 the most promising among them for many cancers are various formulations of CBD\u00a0oil, a cannabis derivative. But, thanks to the phenomenally failed war on drugs, cancer patients in most areas of the U.S. are unable to procure much needed medicine or are forced to receive treatment on the sly \u2014 risking time behind bars simply for wanting to cure themselves.<\/p>\n

This article was originally created and published by\u00a0The Free Thought Project\u00a0and is re-posted here with permission \u2014 Courtesy Health Consciousness<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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