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> "[...] I've been told a couple times that doctors who get cancer tend to decline chemotherapy/treatment [...] [Chemotherapy] was described as aging your body to a frail old person (not matter what your initial age was), that is not reversible"

Maybe in some cases, but as an overall statement it seems seriously misinformed. Not all cancers or their treatments are the same. My mom had breast cancer surgery followed by chemotherapy and it certainly didn't age her or make her body frail.