Much of the healthfully website has been devoted to who our healthcare system scams people.  Consider your doctor a sales person, and the literature and advice often not in your best interest.   We recommend a long hard look at the evidence in support of chemotherapy.  Remember that journal articles are positive biased--average over 30%.  Secondly the doctor and his employer have a financial incentive to push chemotherapy.  Third that most chemotherapy extend life only a few weeks and do not appreciable increase survival--jk.   Another British Medical Journal article estimates that only 10% of cancer cures can be attributed to chemotherapy, and most of that is in the few were the drug can actually destroy, rather than rest, the cancer’s growth, such as for a few types of  leukemia and testicular cancer. Finally in the push for the drug, the positive biased studies do not list absolute mortality only that from the treated cancer.  Balanced assessments are rare.  Good sources are Worstpill.org and Wikipedia.org.  If you want to make an informed decision, don’t rely upon those who have a vested interest.