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Because some weapons in the arsenal will be killing the patient as well as killing any possible cancer cells.

At some point the risks of the treatments outweigh the risks of leaving some cells.



This is correct. As a matter of fact, even dosing one chemotherapy may be a challenge for a patient if the side effects are too server (lowered immune resistance, can't keep food down, etc). We're talking about drugs with such small therapeutic windows that given too often can easily kill a healthy human.




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