What Really Kills Cancer Patients... The Disease or the Drugs?

Full quote - "It's not the cancer that really hurts people. Statistically, 42 to 46 percent of patients will die that have cancer will die of cachexia, which is basically wasting of protein. They basically lose all their lean body mass. So that leaves between 58 and 54 percent of patients that didn't die of cachexia. And the joke, which is only maybe half funny, is that the rest of them die from the treatment. In other words, really nobody dies from the cancer. If you think about it, when a patient gets immunosuppressed and they have cancer, what actually takes them? Liver failure, kidney failure, pneumonia, sepsis - but all these things are usually associated with also the person getting chemo and radiation." -Dr. Rachid Buttar

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