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Re:The excruciating final hours of George Washington (2014) by williamdclt on Sunday October 07, 2018 @01:05PM (#18161560)
To be fair chemotherapy does sound barbaric already today, but it's one of the few things we know that kind of works
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Re:The excruciating final hours of George Washington (2014) by tcj_phx on Sunday October 07, 2018 @02:36PM (#18161979)
Otto Warburg figured out a lot about cancer. Unfortunately he was a jew in Nazi Germany, and his insights were mostly forgotten when the “bad genes” theory of cancer took hold of the medical profession. There was a semi-recent NY Times article about the resurgence of Warburg’s metabolic theory of cancer.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4493566/#!po=5....

> but it's one of the few things we know that kind of works

Chemotherapy as a treatment for cancer is one of many pseudo-scientific medical practices commonly used by conventional medical practitioners.

Edit: link to NY Times article on Warburg: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/15/magazine/warburg-effect-a...

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