Researchers Detail Chemotherapy's Damage to the Brain

'A commonly used chemotherapy drug causes healthy brain cells to die off long after treatment has ended and may be one of the underlying biological causes of the cognitive side effects – or “chemo brain” – that many cancer patients experience.'

Chemotherapy is a great invention of the modern age. You treat cancer by injecting a poison that kills cells. Er, that's it. The question is only this: will it kill the cancer cells before it has killed enough healthy cells to kill the body?

This lethal poison also devastates the immune system which is needed to ward off cancer and other attacks on the body even if the original cancer is suppressed. Brilliant. Oh, and it makes the drug companies, Big Pharma, a fortune every year.

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