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Originally Posted by velcro003
you absolutely do not need to answer this question, of course (and i know you dont need my permission), but i often wonder why so many people suffer the horrors of chemo. is it because there is absolutely a certainty it will kill the cancer, so you suffer now to live a better life? ( Cancer scares the ever-loving shite out of me.
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I don't think there is just one answer to this depending upon the person and their values, beliefs etc. Sometimes it seems to me, it is enough to just have more good days than bad. My person's is not curable but they are treating it for quality of life. That can be the bigger quality of life picture or the smaller one. Enduring the treatments thus far has allowed my person to still work, do some things she enjoys, travel for work and vacation overseas, etc. even though she has also been very sick and endured painful miserable side effects, is always physically exhausted and so on. A weighing of benefits I would say.