Season 2, Episode 14: Cancer: Could The Cure Be Worse Than The Disease?

The expression “the cure is worse than the disease” is often associated with cancer treatment and rightly so as the first decades of cancer care were as likely to shorten a patient's life as lengthen it.  Most of us have some past or recent experience that justifies the statement. Due to these experiences, we conclude that anything bad that happens to someone once their cancer treatment begins is the result of the treatment, as the callers on this episode make abundantly clear.