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One day in the distant future, people will look back at us having treated cancers with radiation & wonder what the hell we were thinking!
by trollied 6y ago
One day in the distant future, people will look back at us having treated cancers with radiation & wonder what the hell we were thinking!
- jalk 6y agoI hope they will know that there was some level of science (statistics) behind doing so, and not because someone just thought it might help
- projektfu 6y agoHonestly, I think cytotoxic chemotherapy will be more shocking. Radiation oncology has made great strides in targeting the dose (cyberknife and other stereotactic approaches). Cytotoxic therapy is still basically poisoning everything and hoping the cancer dies first. Or, in the case of cancers like multiple myeloma, killing all immune cells and replacing the stem cells. The future of cancer therapy is likely to be heavily reliant on customization and precise drug delivery, to give an overwhelming dose of poison to the cancer without harming the patient.
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