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When cancer treatment side effects make you consider stopping therapy

I keep lying to my oncologist about taking my chemotherapy because the side effects make me too sick to take care of my kids but I cannot tell him the truth because he will think I want to die.

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The choice between quantity and quality of life becomes impossible when both feel like forms of dying.

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