My cousin died recently, about 10 years after they fried her throat (and brain?) with radiation. She, the past few years, couldn't talk and had to be tube fed because of the massive scar tissue in her throat. And then the cancer came back. My father died a year to the day the cancer doctor said treatment would give him 5 years. The first chemo treatment sent him to the hospital. The second one caused a stroke and he died a couple of weeks later. Those two treatments were $50,000.