# Ronnie Wood refuses chemotherapy to avoid hair loss

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [August 8, 2017, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ronnie-wood-refuses-chemotherapy-to-avoid-hair-loss/793054 "2017-08-08T02:28:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2017, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ronnie-wood-refuses-chemotherapy-to-avoid-hair-loss/793054/21 "2017-08-08T15:38:43Z")

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> [@Shoeless](#):
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> (Bolding mine.) Can you explain the math please? Or was that supposed wto be “2 out of five” rather than “2 out of three”?

Yes, it was supposed to be out of five. Apparently when I was proofing I saw what I meant and not what I said.

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**Author:** ![Nema98](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d2c977/32.png) [@Nema98](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nema98)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2017, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ronnie-wood-refuses-chemotherapy-to-avoid-hair-loss/793054/22 "2017-08-10T04:33:59Z")

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> [@Doug\_K](#):
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> I finished 24 weeks of chemo every other week a little over a month ago. I’m now cancer free with a 2 out of three chance it will come back some day. But as the oncologist says, that’s also a three out of five chance it won’t. Cancer treatment, including has come a long way, even in the last 10-15 years. Certainly not necessarily the beginning of the end. Doctors are even OK now with sometimes declaring the cancer cured, not just in remission.
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> It wasn’t fun, and I"m glad it’s over, but it ended up being better than the alternative for me. Obviously, if all it was expected to do was give me a few extra months that would have been different.

God bless you brother.

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**Author:** ![Reddy\_Mercury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@Reddy\_Mercury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reddy_Mercury)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2017, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ronnie-wood-refuses-chemotherapy-to-avoid-hair-loss/793054/23 "2017-08-10T18:01:52Z")

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> [@Doug\_K](#):
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> I finished 24 weeks of chemo every other week a little over a month ago. I’m now cancer free with a 2 out of three chance it will come back some day. But as the oncologist says, that’s also a three out of five chance it won’t. Cancer treatment, including has come a long way, even in the last 10-15 years. Certainly not necessarily the beginning of the end. Doctors are even OK now with sometimes declaring the cancer cured, not just in remission.
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> It wasn’t fun, and I"m glad it’s over, but it ended up being better than the alternative for me. Obviously, if all it was expected to do was give me a few extra months that would have been different.

God bless friend. Here’s hoping it stays away 🙂

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