Fact Check: NOT True That 'Radiation And Chemotherapy Actually Causes Cancer,' Except In Tiny Percentage of Cases
Fact Check
Is it true that chemotherapy and radiation "actually causes cancer"? No, that's not true: Both treatments are rigorously studied, evidence-based effective therapies against this disease: They cure cancer, not cause it. Some people do develop another cancer after the initial diagnosis, about 16 percent. But an oncologist interviewed by Lead Stories says that less than 1 percent of those second…