Cancer Patients Often Do Better With Less Intensive Treatment, New Research Finds

Cancer Patients Often Do Better With Less Intensive Treatment, New Research Finds
Chemotherapy drugs are administered to a patient at a hospital in Chapel Hill, N.C., on May 25, 2017. Gerry Broome/AP Photo, File
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Scaling back treatment for three kinds of cancer can make life easier for patients without compromising outcomes, doctors reported at the world’s largest cancer conference.

It’s part of a long-term trend toward studying whether doing less—less surgery, less chemotherapy, or less radiation—can help patients live longer and feel better. The latest studies involved ovarian and esophageal cancer and Hodgkin lymphoma.