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Giving chemotherapy to cancer patients nearing the end of life can do more harm than good, a study has found.
The new research shows gruelling treatments given to people with life-threatening illnesses has no clinical benefit.
Instead, it can actually lead to a worse quality of life, with patients unable to perform many day-to-day functions.
Doctors said courses of treatment given to patients with end-stage cancer, whose tumours had spread to other parts of their bodies, had little or no positive effect.
The study at Weill Cornell Medical College looked at 300 patients in the final stages of the illness with about half receiving chemotherapy and half not.
Receiving the treatment was associated with worse quality of life among those who could still do daily activities like walking...
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