To add to this, cancer treatment and some chemotherapeutics are a form of let’s just kill everything and hope that your body will survive while the cancer dies.
The more a cancer progresses the more ethical it is to put a patient in more danger with treatments and side effects because they are more at risk of death. You wouldn’t give a healthy person these medicines but you could throw the kitchen sink at someone at death’s door.
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Reply to comment by frakc in ELI5 Why do doctors wait for cancer to progress to a further stage before prescribing certain treatments like immunotherapy? by JustMe182
To add to this, cancer treatment and some chemotherapeutics are a form of let’s just kill everything and hope that your body will survive while the cancer dies.
The more a cancer progresses the more ethical it is to put a patient in more danger with treatments and side effects because they are more at risk of death. You wouldn’t give a healthy person these medicines but you could throw the kitchen sink at someone at death’s door.