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Does it even mean this though? If you’ve attacked 30%-40% of the tumours in each patient, no-one is cured.

• danachow 5y ago
  Yes, this is what it means. Why does everybody here assume everyone outside the software profession is an idiot. Obviously if it only attacked 30% of tumor cells it would be useless. I'm not going to go over the physiology of cancer here, but basically yes targeted therapy works because of the common progeny of cancer cells.
  • perl4ever 5y ago
    >Why does everybody here assume everyone outside the software profession is an idiot Why does everybody here assume everyone here is a SV software engineer, except for them? You could be insulting someone in high school. Cancer affects people from every walk of life, so there's a good chance a random non-medical person in a thread like this has some experience that they are drawing on, like seeing a family member die up close and interacting with oncologists. >Obviously if it only attacked 30% of tumor cells it would be useless I think both of you made up things that weren't actually stated. It didn't say that 30-40% would be cured or that 30-40% of the tumors would be eliminated.
    • headmelted 5y ago
      Yeah I really don't know. It was a genuine question.