Re:Scientists Are Finding Fungi in Cancerous Tumors
by smt88 on Monday October 10, 2022 @10:01PM
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> $5 of anti-fungal medication cuts some cancer death rates in half?
I read an interesting hypothesis that many cancers can be treated by changing (perhaps unpredictable) variables in the patient's body.
We already know cancers thrive in nutrient-rich patients and that many tumors have a narrow set of survival conditions than the unaffected tissue. That's why chemo works: you start to kill the whole person, and the tumor (hopefully) dies first.
So what if you just randomly messed around with the conditions of the body? Give someone a diabetes drug, change their diet, add an antifungal... we've seen random successes like this, and the unifying theory might be that the cancer was thriving because it had exactly the right conditions, and now we can change them to cause the cancer to stop thriving.
I read an interesting hypothesis that many cancers can be treated by changing (perhaps unpredictable) variables in the patient's body.
We already know cancers thrive in nutrient-rich patients and that many tumors have a narrow set of survival conditions than the unaffected tissue. That's why chemo works: you start to kill the whole person, and the tumor (hopefully) dies first.
So what if you just randomly messed around with the conditions of the body? Give someone a diabetes drug, change their diet, add an antifungal... we've seen random successes like this, and the unifying theory might be that the cancer was thriving because it had exactly the right conditions, and now we can change them to cause the cancer to stop thriving.