Gentle attack on cancer may help us live with it

• Autores: Sam Wong
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3063, 2016, pág. 11
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • From an evolutionary perspective, the "kill all" approach to cancer doesn't make much sense. Instead, letting some tumor cells survive might help people to live with the disease. Standard cancer treatment involves giving people high doses of chemotherapy in an attempt to eradicate the cancer cells. Often this leaves behind a population of cells that are resistant to treatment. These cells go onto multi ply aggressively and spread to other organs. The person can be put on a different type of chemotherapy only for the same thing to happen.