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Originally Posted by mudshark
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Originally Posted by Kira
(I believe that we will have genetically-based cancer therapies in the next ten to twenty years that will be far more specific and effective than current chemotherapy
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A good thing, if it happens. It's been my impression that chemo is almost as deadly as the cancer it's supposed to cure. |
Urge... to ramble... rising....
It involves creating viruses that can only replicate in (and destroy) cancer cells. Oncoviruses, as they're called, are to current chemotherapy as carpet bombing is to a precise guided missile. It's very cool, if I do say so myself.
01-07-2005, 02:26 PM
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