Humaid Al-Shamsi, CEO of Burjeel Cancer Institute (BCI) Comprehensive Cancer Center, shared on X:
“Peace be upon you. I know that some people will attack this view, but God willing, it is scientifically and medically sound, based on practical and clinical experience with thousands upon thousands of cancer patients whose treatment I have overseen for more than a decade and a half.
One of the treatments most frequently attacked by many people is chemotherapy!
Did you know that millions of people have been cured of cancer using chemotherapy?
Chemotherapy is associated with death, and that is not true. This association comes from a completely mistaken assumption: when a patient with stage four cancer dies from and because of cancer, the cause of death is attributed to chemotherapy.
Chemotherapy prolongs the lives of patients with advanced cancer, but over time, the cancer becomes resistant to treatment and leads to death. At that point, the public associates the death with cancer.
Can chemotherapy cause serious complications and death?
Absolutely, but with extensive expertise in its use, these complications become far less common. Fearmongering about chemotherapy makes patients hesitant to undergo treatment and lose a real chance of being completely cured of this malignant disease.”
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