Chemotherapy is just medieval. It's such a blunt instrument. We're going to look back on it like we do the dark ages.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
For most people, chemotherapy is no longer the chamber of horrors we often conceive it to be. Yes, it is an ordeal for some people, but it wasn't for me, nor for most of the patients I got to know during my four months of periodic visits to the chemo suite.
Chemotherapy is brutal. The goal is pretty much to kill everything in your body without killing you.
Chemotherapy is an opponent in itself - simultaneously curing you and hurting you.
Chemotherapy is such a hard, hard kiss. Anything we can do to alleviate its side effects should be intelligently explored with an open mind.
Chemotherapy isn't good for you.
Chemotherapy tests your sanity.
We're not curing cancer, people. I wish we were, but we're not. It's entertainment.
Our approach to medicine is very 19th-century. We are still in the dark ages. We really need to get to the molecular level so that we are no longer groping about in the dark.
The chemotherapy was very peculiar, something that makes you feel much worse than the cancer itself, a very nasty thing. I used to go to treatment on my own, and nearly everybody else was with somebody. I wouldn't have liked that. Why would you want to make anybody sit in those places?
Medicine has changed greatly in the last decades. Widespread vaccinations have practically eradicated many illnesses, at least in western Europe and the United States. The use of chemotherapy, especially the antibiotics, has contributed to an ever decreasing number of fatalities in infectious diseases.