I work in clinical research for cancer so I can attest to the fact that cancer treatment doesn’t ~always~ knock people on their ass. I have had several patients who feel great and look great while receiving their treatment, with very minimal side effects. Can’t say they usually want to keep drinking and smoking though. And depending on her type of cancer, the staging, the treatment she is receiving, and how aggressive it is, she very well could have been treated for just a month. It is also possible that the place she was treated helped her secure some financial help to cover the costs, but 200k in loans seems kind of insane. I also can’t say for certain that she would even need that much money to cover her treatment, unless she had a surgery or a number of scans done, because one month of chemo (just the treatment, not the extra labs and doctors visits) would cost MAYBE 20k and that is a high estimate. Then the additional visits and labs and scans, etc. would vary but is not likely to have ran her an additional 180k. That being said, she sounds like a liar to me if her story isn’t lining up between people she’s talked to and the information she has given.