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Re:Why Early Detection Is the Best Way to Beat Cancer by brazzy on Friday November 16, 2012 @11:36AM (#4794504)
> Surgery, radiation therapy and chemo-therapy are very invasive techniques

A not so well-known fact to drive that home: cytostatics (the bulk of traditional chemotherapy) are derivatives of some of the nastiest chemical weapons developed in WWI, specifically mustard gas.

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Re:Why Early Detection Is the Best Way to Beat Cancer by elemeno on Friday November 16, 2012 @11:49AM (#4794580)
More than that, Mustard Gas was fairly important in the development of chemotherapy after US Army Doctors noticed it's effect on white blood cells following an air raid in WW2 when a ship carrying Mustard Gas was bombed. From there, in part, was sparked the idea of using similar drugs to attack cancers.

http://www.the-hospitalist.org/details/article/243771/From_W... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfur_mustard#Development_of_t...

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