Chemotherapy and (some) radiation treatments are actually designed to kill patients, it’s just that they are designed to kill the cancer first/more. Side effects from most of those treatments is cancer, but since you already have cancer, it’s worth the risk.
The hard part about treating cancer, besides from that it’s a family/kind of disease and not a single thing, is killing it without killing the patient as well. Everyone has heard about a new cure that kills cancer in a Petri dish, but remember so does a gun. Getting better at targeting the treatment is what has really advanced the field in the past 20 years.
One example is rotating radiation sources which intersect in a 3D point in space. That way the total dose can be high, but the dose received by the healthy parts is low. Only at the focal point the full blast is applied, which is hopefully directly where the cancer is.
Prevention really is the way to go with cancer, by living healthier lives, eating healthier foods and getting vaccines where possible. For example the HPV vaccine is super effective at preventing a specific kind of cancer in women (and for a smaller part men). But getting girls (ages 8-14) to take the vaccine can be hard and the past couple of years have made it harder. Living healthier lives is also easier said than done, with the troubles most people are facing these days it’s more of a pie in the sky kinda thing rather than a real option.
Everyone has heard about a new cure that kills cancer in a Petri dish, but remember so does a gun.
Hey you’re not even gonna credit Randall?
Sorry, totally right to include the relevant XKCD in every post.
I wonder if Randall came up with that, or if he is quoting the well known quote.
I love rotating radiation sources that only target a tiny, precise point in 3D space. Saved my life one time, true story. The bleach and apricot tea didn’t do shit.
Chlorine dioxide is used in bleach and is both toxic and corrosive. People like these are not just stupid, but dangerous.
And ivermectin has never been anywhere close to being a cancer anything, so it’s anyone’s guess as to why those would be included here. I for one have no idea why those two specific things would be listed in this unhinged nonsense, though 🙄
If the world found that out, those things would be called medicine and doctors would prescribe them.
STORM!
People convinced that the expensive treatment is a scam and there’s a cheap cure never seem to realize that if the cheap cure actually worked it would quickly become a very expensive cure.
What if…?
Well, for start, people would start publishing papers in peer-reviewed journals presenting their findings. Then other scientists would propose studies to the FDA, get their studies approved, and eventually publish their findings. And eventually everyone would say, huh, it looks like our original methodology was wrong, and this other stuff is actually what ‘cures’ cancer.
Because that’s what happens when science fucks up. Eventually someone figures it out, runs an experiment, proves it, other people check their results, and then the collective knowledge adjusts to incorporate the new information.
Unlike, say, religion, and conspiracies, Karen.
What if dog was spelled cat.
What if the moon were made of spare ribs?
Would ya eat it?
I know I would!
If you were a hot dog, and you were starving, would you eat yourself?
I know I would! I’d smother myself with brown mustard and relish. I’d be so delicious!
We could prove it by my doing a study on all the people that rejected medicine in fav our of alternatives. Hkwever, we might find it hard. They are dead.
Dara O’Brian has a great but about what you call alternative medicine that is proven to work. We just call it medicine.
Something tells me that if these things were actually good at mitigating cancer, this poster would question why they are allowed to purchase them, and therefore not use them as a result.
What if the world found out that your head is empty?
Nice hypothesis. Now try to verify it on you and your cronies so that the average intelligence in the population rises.
Social media has certainly accelerated evolution, and not in a good way for dumbshits.
Why is cancer capitalized when patients are the emphasis. Capitalizing random words. Trump is that you?
What if you found out you were fucking nuts and everyone was just acting pleasant with you in hope you don’t go rabid and fucking bite them ???
It would mean that the scientific method is no longer a viable way to make discoveries.
What if trees were made of rainbows and rivers flowed with warm chocolate?
