Category: Chemotherapy(Kills 50% of Cancer Patients)

August 31, 2016 by Carol Adl

New research has shown that chemotherapy drugs are killing up to 50 per cent of patients in some hospitals.

Based on the numbers of cancer patients who died within 30 days of starting chemotherapy researchers found indications that the medication was the cause of death, rather than the cancer.

The research was published in the Lancet Oncology

The Telegraph reports:

The study by Public Health England and Cancer Research UK found that across England around 8.4 per cent of patients with lung cancer, and 2.4 per cent of breast cancer patients died within a month.

But in some hospitals the figure was far higher. In Milton Keynes the death rate for lung cancer treatment was 50.9 per cent, although it was based on a very small number of patients.