Rush Limbaugh Says Side Effects Led Him To Stop Chemo Treatments For His Cancer

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RUSH LIMBAUGH told his listeners FRIDAY (3/27) that he has discontinued chemotherapy for his Stage 4 lung cancer and is seeking alternate treatment for the disease, citing side effects from the chemo as his reason for ending his participation in a clinical trial of a chemotherapy regimen.

LIMBAUGH said that he had been in a stage 2 trial and while the drugs had seemed to be working on the cancer, they caused fluid retention and swelling of his legs that left him needing a wheelchair and recording fevers. "After about five weeks on this stuff," LIMBAUGH said, "it all just hit me, and all of last week I was unable to get out of bed, primarily because I couldn’t walk.... We just kept going with the treatment hoping that it would be something my system would metabolize and move beyond, but it didn’t." He said that treatment ended MONDAY and he is taking steroids to reverse the effects of chemo, despite doctors asking him to continue the chemo and fight through the leg pain. "There are other alternatives that we’re looking into," he added.

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