Does chemotherapy work? Chemotherapy vs. “ spreading ” cancer.

Earlier this month, cancer quacks everywhere were touting a study that suggests that chemotherapy administered before breast cancer treatment can stimulate the spread of cancer, pointing to it as evidence that chemotherapy doesn't work and even makes cancer worse. In reality, the study was far more nuanced. It didn't show that chemotherapy doesn't work (quite the contrary) but does point to ways we can make chemotherapy more effective.

Source: Respectful Insolence - July 24, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Biology Cancer Medicine Skepticism/critical thinking breast cancer chemotherapy Chris Wark metastasis pseudoscience quackery Sayer Ji Source Type: blogs