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Originally Posted by NuclearFart
At the risk of derailing the thread, where did you hear this? There's never been any link between chemotherapy and schizophrenia. If you must point the finger somewhere, blame your genes, not "the system".
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Her psychiatric doctors were the source of this information, and it wasn't her chemo that caused her schizophrenia, it was an experimental treatment they administered to her during the 1970s. It wasn't an optional treatment ... if her parents refused the treatment they were told social services would assume custody of their child.
As for blaming genetics, I can only think of three people in the family tree who have had cancer, out of about 500. Two of the three were in their 70s and were smokers and alcoholics. The third is the person discussed above. Our clan as a whole had been remarkably fortunate in that regard. There are other health issues in our genes, but cancer isn't one of them.