An Australian study suggests that the benefits of chemotherapy have been oversold… Why has it been oversold? Are you suggesting that medical oncologists in Australia are just sort of marketing shysters or what?

These were some of the questions posed by Dr Norman Swan when he presented the Health Report on ABC Radio National on 18 April 2005. Dr Swan was quizzing Associate Professor Graeme Morgan, the lead author of a controversial article entitled ‘The contribution of cytotoxic chemotherapy to 5-year survival in adult malignancies’. This article reported that chemotherapy has improved survival by less than 3% in adults with cancer.

In 1987 Dr. Lana Levi, of the University of California wrote, "Most cancer patients in this country die of chemotherapy… It does not eliminate breast, colon, or lung cancer. This fact has been know for over a decade. Women with breast cancer are likely to die faster with chemotherapy than without it."

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