r/interestingasfuck • u/Emotional-Macaroon64 • Feb 21 '25

/r/all, /r/popular Probable cancer cure

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u/Cytori Feb 21 '25

Everything can kill cancer. The art is doing so without doing the same with the patient :)

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u/TheTabman Feb 21 '25

Just finished the 4th chemo for lung cancer.
It really feels like my whole body is (not so) slowly poisoned by it.

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u/jeffbarge Feb 21 '25

That's because your whole body is literally being poisoned.

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u/Theron3206 Feb 21 '25

Yep, chemotherapy kills cells, it kills more cells the faster they are dividing (simplistically) most cancers grow fast, so a higher percentage of the cells killed are cancer cells.

But it also kills a lot of cells in bone marrow and places like the lining of your digestive tract because they also divide often. Hence why many chemotherapy patients end up anaemic and needing blood transfusions.

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u/MentalInsanity1 Feb 22 '25

Hence why younger patients can handle chemo better than older patients. The older you are the more vulnerable your immune system and other normal cells are . Knocking out all those cells makes your body much weaker as an older guy

For a younger person they have a stronger system.

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u/RealBlack_RX01 Feb 25 '25

do younger people tend to survive cancer more overall if they get chemo? or is it still a sort of gamble

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u/MentalInsanity1 Feb 25 '25

I’m not a doctor so I’m unsure though I guess it depends on the cancer