Some chemos are very effective and some not so much. You need to find out about the specific one for the specific cancer you have. For years I’ve said if I had early stage breast cancer I don’t think I’d do the chemo if the borders were clear, and now more and more studies are saying just that, like the study mentioned above by another jelly. Suzanne Somers has been saying similar for a long time, although it’s not because of her I felt this way, I did before I ever learned about her thoughts.
But, some chemos have been shown to be very effective and skipping it on a fly by night hopeful natural remedy is not a good idea in my opinion.
Radiation can shrink cancers, maybe it completely gets rid of some I don’t know.
Surgery is effective treatment in some cases. Operable pancreatic cancer can mean a cure, when there is not any chemo or radiation that cures pancreatic cancer that I know of.
Surgery for breast cancer can be the best treatment sometimes, without anything additional.
Testical cancer often is radiation and surgery.
Now, they are coming up with treatments that use the patients immune system.
Also, now for some cancers they don’t do chemo in consecutive weeks, but rather give breaks between treatment, which is easier on the patient.