Study: Cancer Patients Overestimate Value of Chemo - Multiple Sclerosis - Health News

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NEW YORK (AP) -- Most patients getting chemotherapy for incurable lung or colon cancers mistakenly believe that the treatment can cure them rather than just buy them some more time or ease their symptoms, a major study suggests. Researchers say doctors either are not being honest enough with patients or people are in denial that they have a terminal disease.