Cancer treatments actually increase the number of cancer cells

After 30 years of failed cancer treatment, experts are finally conceding modern treatment of cancer has its downsides. Experiments conducted at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences in Maryland show that treatments like chemo and radiation do shrink the size of tumors, but they end up triggering a small population of cancer stem cells that drive the disease and promotes the spread (metastasis) of cancer. Source: Science Daily Sept. 22, 2007