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Chemo is fucking awful. Had a gf survive breast cancer (before we met) and the thing traumatized her so much it came up in conversation several times a day, years after the fact. Mom just died of breast cancer. All chemo did was steal the last 2-months of her life.
Want to put your pet through that? For what will likely mean them dying miserably anyway?
Here's some more info, too fucking depressing to really read top to bottom:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6681408
Seriously weird thing to bring up in an article regarding inflation and spending. Tacky at best. The author must have suffered something to have put that in there. The editor should have yanked it for sounding callous.
tl;dr: I see it as an ethical decision, not a financial one.
Your link didn't work.
Also:
https://www.advetcc.com/cancer-care/frequently-asked-questions-about-chemotherapy/
How do they assess how a pet tolerates chemo? Not like they express themselves as we do, let alone fill out quality-of-life questionnaires. Can’t speak to dogs, but cats tend to hide their suffering until it’s too late.