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People seem to be disturbed by the indiscriminate nature of this cure. The immune system, unleashed, will target not only cancer cells but healthy ones as well.
by darkerside 8y ago
People seem to be disturbed by the indiscriminate nature of this cure. The immune system, unleashed, will target not only cancer cells but healthy ones as well. If this feels somehow aesthetically displeasing to you, ask yourself whether it feels more or less clumsy to shoot radiation in your tumor's general direction and literally poison yourself. Immunotherapy seems positively elegant in comparison.
- bsder 8y agoUm, actually, radiation is MUCH better than most of the chemical options unless you are one of the very fortunate few that has a particular receptor than can be targeted. Radiation has gotten extremely good at being far more targeted. The doctors actually model the absorption curves and let computers target the specific areas to make sure that the specific area gets the necessary dose while keeping the dose down in the surrounding tissue. If you can do radiation, it is by far the best option nowadays. Sadly, you can't always use it--sometime surrounding tissue is too sensitive to radiation (intestines) and sometimes things are simply too large. Chemotherapy, though, just really, really, sucks. Almost anything is better.
- darkerside 8y agoYeah I hesitated at putting radiation therapy in there because I didn't know how targeted it was. Thanks for an informative response.