We still have a lot of work to do. 39% of people believe that cancer can be cured with alternative "natural" treatments alone. Nearly half of young people believe this. This is misinformation that kills.https://www.medpagetoday.com/hematologyoncology/othercancers/75998 …
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Just as an FYI: the year is 2018
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LOL, Right?? Mustard gas....this is exactly the kind of stupidity to which the OP refers.
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The fact is, cancer cells are _human cells_. Any therapy than can kill cancer cells can, by definition, kill human cells. The key is managing the effect, and targeting the toxicity onto the cancer cells.
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Which is what chemotherapy does: it targets specific attributes of cancer cells that aren't presented by most non-cancer cells in order to kill them.
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Lol, the irony. A person from a country that makes more money per capita and has a higher percentage of its GDP from the global pharmaceutical trade (Denmark) than any other country in the world complaining about traditional medicine. NovoNordisk, Lundbeck, biotechs, etc
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