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Advanced cancer patients overoptimistic
about chemotherapy's ability to cure,
study finds…
October 24, 2012
BOSTON––Findings from a nationwide study led by researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer
Institute suggest that patients with advanced lung or colorectal cancer are frequently
mistaken in their beliefs that chemotherapy can cure their disease.
The study, published in the Oct. 25 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, found
that 69 percent of patients with advanced lung cancer and 81 percent of patients with
advanced colorectal cancer did not understand that the chemotherapy they were
receiving was not at all likely to cure their disease.
Their expectations run counter to the fact that although chemotherapy can alleviate pain
and extend life in such patients by weeks or months, it is not a cure for these types of
advanced cancer except in the rarest of circumstances.
"There is a lot of harm in not having patients understand the finality of the
disease," said Borghaei. Chemo drugs "are very powerful, they have a lot of
side effects, the chemotherapy is going to harm you more than it helps you,
and it can actually shorten your life. All of this should be taken into account."
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