Chemotherapy - they poison you
but they poison the cancer worse,
so they say.
Radiotherapy - they fry you
but they fry the cancer worse,
so they say.
Sledgehammers
to crack invisible nuts.
Maybe the cancer has already gone.
But are you a betting man?
If therapies, so they say,
make your chances evens or better,
would you back the rank outsider
of operation only?
Or would you put yourself through
some short-term pain
and hope for long-term life
(and that the side-effects will go away) .
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