The idea that we'll basically poison you just up to a point that's nearly fatal in order to kill the cancer is such a terrible way to treat someone. TB

The idea that we'll basically poison you just up to a point that's nearly fatal in order to kill the cancer is such a terrible way to treat someone. TBH that's how a _lot_ of drugs work - for instance, sabotaging certain parts of cell division can be an effective treatment because the disease needs that mechanism more than the patient. It's also a hazard in drug discovery - the linked blog has plenty of examples of compounds that did a GREAT job of disrupting biological activity of a pathogen in a Petri dish because they're GREAT at wrecking biology in general. One other note, re: "started from mustard gas" - many antibiotics are really just chemical weapons we're borrowing from fungi.