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Someday soon they'll look at our insane chemotherapy with the same level of utter disbelief as we do about bloodletting and tapeworm diets I mean untargeted ch
by NetWonk_me 4y ago
Someday soon they'll look at our insane chemotherapy with the same level of utter disbelief as we do about bloodletting and tapeworm diets
I mean untargeted chemotherapy kills -the one thing- that protects us since before we were born from cancer, our immune system.
Killing our immune system to kill cancer makes as much sense as shooting off the leg you lead with so to run faster.
Its idiotic, stupid and, yeah its basically trying to stop the copy errors in genes that cancer does, before all the massive amount of DNA errors kill the cancer victim ...
It's like a really really bad CRISPR process as I understand it, like the computer program SED was majorly crapping out and it made your program an utter mess.
Anyway, chemotherapy is DAMN foolish, and I for one will be glad when we're rid of it with better therapies
- slyrus 4y agoI'd argue that our future retrospective view of chemotherapy will be more of how we view hunting with a club rather than, say, a bow and arrow. Not optimal but, at least in many cases, proven to be better than nothing by multiple randomized clinical trials.
- sonofaragorn 4y agoIf you got cancer and the onclogist recommended chemo, would you refuse it?
- adamredwoods 4y agoNanoparticle-delivered chemotherapy could also be a potential solution, and is actively researched. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7357073/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7357073/
- d_tr 4y agoInvent something better if you know how. For many people chemo is their hope and in many cases does wonders by itself or in combination with other methods, either in parallel or in succession.