It’s recently come to light that a shocking truth may be evident in the treatment of breast cancer, or more specifically in the conventional, chemotherapy treatment of breast cancer when it is in its more advanced stages and may not be able to be treated by radiation alone.  The allegations against the health community are that less educated women may get less in their chemotherapy doses than women who may be of a more affluent of educated stature in society. 

Not only that, but women who are obese may also get less than ideal dosages of chemotherapy as well.  This fact has recently been reported by US researchers.

How is this quantified?  Well, researchers are saying they have noticed this trend when studying the dosages given by health care providers, as a trend in the administration of chemotherapy in undereducated and obese women, for breast cancer.

They say that it’s not necessarily done in malice, but most likely is done under the doctor’s assumption that an obese woman may have more adverse side effects from the chemotherapy than a woman of normal weight, and therefore gives them less than optimal dosage, and with undereducated women the association may be there that they would be less willing or able to stick to a rigid health care regimen that is needed for chemotherapy to work optimally. 

This is an interesting study into the human mind, and is no doubt going to be followed up on, I would think, as researchers are saying this may help explain why some groups of women tend to have more breast cancer relapses, while others tend to go into permanent remission. 

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