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Chemotherapy increases risk of heart disease

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To many nutrition fanatics (I'm one), traditional chemotherapy is a last resort for cancer treatment. The consumption of cancer-fighting (and preventing) foods is what is looked after. It's all in being proactive instead of reactive.

In the fight against unnecessary chemo treatments, new research stated this week that breast cancer survivors using chemotherapy may seen increased levels of heart disease.

Has the time come for the abandonment of chemotherapy? Of course not, as modern cancer treatment has evolved with medicine in the last few decades (although it's not preferable to me -- you?). Chemo is actually damaging to many parts of the body, but if it kills a tumor, it's done its job. The only side effect is a weakened body when the treatment is complete, and this new research reiterates that fact.

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