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A line from a passage I remember reading as a medical student, has stuck with me after a decade and a half. It described anticancer therapies as having the effe
by Lordarminius 7y ago
A line from a passage I remember reading as a medical student, has stuck with me after a decade and a half. It described anticancer therapies as having the effect of "... poisoning patients to the edge of their existence..." It is not my belief that the side effect profile of anti tumor drugs has improved much.
So, yeah. Treatments for cancer can suck just as badly as the disease itself.
- FakeComments 7y agoThat’s not just the effect, it’s the mechanism of action for chemo — right? It takes advantage of cancers rerouting blood and being overly aggressive in gathering resources to make those the first of your cells to die as you’re poisoned to death, on the theory that there’s some slightly sublethal dosage that kills only some of your cells (and hopefully, the cancerous ones).
- Lordarminius 7y agoDifferent classes of anti-tumor drugs employ different mechanisms; some more than one.