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I hope the way we surgically treat cancer by cutting it out and hoping we got enough margin will be viewed by future generations as primitive. I’m hopeful medic
by elliekelly 5y ago
I hope the way we surgically treat cancer by cutting it out and hoping we got enough margin will be viewed by future generations as primitive. I’m hopeful medicine will eventually advance to the point where cancers can be treated (or, fingers crossed, cured) with a pill, or perhaps even prevented altogether.
- Joker_vD 5y agoKinda doubt that. For example, stitching the wound's edges together is pretty damn primitive if you ask me but it's not going away anytime soon. And so is excision: if there is a part of body you'd like to be absent, then cutting it away is a pretty obvious, straightforward and reliable way to achieve that. "Doctor, my ear hurts, and the surgeon told me that he'd have to cut it off" — "Ah, those surgeons, they only know how to cut things off. Here, take this pill, and your ear will drop off on its own".