frakc t1_ja3zdvn wrote
Cancer treatment is VERY dangerous. In many cases it might kill faster than illness itself. Meanwhile early stages of cancer are often quite responsive to lighter drugs.
As a rule of thumbs - you want to treat, not to kill. And thus you will not use potentially lethal treatment before you tried safer options and cancer development pattern gives you time for such trials.
PlasticEvening t1_ja6gdby wrote
To add to this, cancer treatment and some chemotherapeutics are a form of let’s just kill everything and hope that your body will survive while the cancer dies.
The more a cancer progresses the more ethical it is to put a patient in more danger with treatments and side effects because they are more at risk of death. You wouldn’t give a healthy person these medicines but you could throw the kitchen sink at someone at death’s door.
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