The ultra-fast cancer treatments which could replace conventional radiotherapy

This is such a great example of why pursing knowledge for knowledge sake in pure science leads to advancement in areas we might not expect…

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This actually makes sense and mimics the results I got doing experiments with flashed high-intensity UVC for sterilizing surfaces a few years back. You don&#x27;t really need to leave UVC going for a couple of minutes. Two high-intensity pulses similar to what a camera flash would do for an exposure does the trick, assuming you put enough power per square millimeter down on the surface. Obviously I wouldn&#x27;t try that on important living tissues, but microorganisms certainly don&#x27;t survive what amounts to a photonic nuclear blast.

I sure hope they make some progress because current treatment seems pretty archaic. My wife recently went through chemo and rad.<p>I&#x27;m thankful that I was able to go to her treatments, because the first chemo. Shortly after it started, I pointed out that she was really flush and had started &quot;breathing funny&quot; (kind of repeatedly sighing). She hadn&#x27;t noticed, but decided to pull the &quot;oh shit string&quot;. A couple minutes later 8 nurses were in the room with a crash cart, working feverishly while one nurse kept taking her BP and calling out smaller and smaller numbers until it stopped registering. Meanwhile, I&#x27;m stuck in a chair in the corner, trying not to be in the way, and coming to terms that I might be going home alone. Which, thankfully, I did not.<p>Cancer is bullshit.

It worked very well for my father in-law‘s prostate cancer.