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You've got to do more than just forego that expensive avocado toast! (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Chemo is fucking awful. Had a gf survive breast cancer (before we met) and the thing traumatized her so much it came up in conversation several times a day, years after the fact. Mom just died of breast cancer. All chemo did was steal the last 2-months of her life.

Want to put your pet through that? For what will likely mean them dying miserably anyway?

Here's some more info, too fucking depressing to really read top to bottom:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6681408

Seriously weird thing to bring up in an article regarding inflation and spending. Tacky at best. The author must have suffered something to have put that in there. The editor should have yanked it for sounding callous.

tl;dr: I see it as an ethical decision, not a financial one.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Your link didn't work.

Also:

Will chemotherapy make my pet sick?

Chemotherapy is very well tolerated in most dogs and cats. Most patients experience no side effects. Around 15% will have mild side effects that will last for a few days and many will improve on their own. About 5% of patients can experience more moderate side effects and less than 1% can have more severe/fatal side effects. Cats tend to tolerate chemotherapy even better than dogs, and both tend to handle chemotherapy better than people.

https://www.advetcc.com/cancer-care/frequently-asked-questions-about-chemotherapy/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

How do they assess how a pet tolerates chemo? Not like they express themselves as we do, let alone fill out quality-of-life questionnaires. Can’t speak to dogs, but cats tend to hide their suffering until it’s too late.