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[-] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago

"They have also refined it to ignore healthy brain tissue and focus on the cancer cells."

Uh, I feel like that should've already been covered by the first sentence. Kind of a weird "clarification" to make, and now I'm more worried about its effect on healthy brain tissue than without saying that part.

[-] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 11 points 10 months ago

it's not that strange, chemotherapy for example kills a lot of things that are not cancer

[-] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

when my gram decided not to do chemo the hospice nurse basically explained to me that chemo is like your body playing a game of chicken against the cancer. basically making itself a really hostile place for anything that's trying to grow rapidly and hoping that the cancer is destroyed before the rest of you.

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