Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 SMI; site sun.uucp Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!seismo!hao!hplabs!hpda!fortune!amd70!decwrl!sun!kevin From: kevin@sun.uucp (Kevin Sheehan) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Radiation Therapy Message-ID: <384@sun.uucp> Date: Sat, 10-Dec-83 23:09:27 EST Article-I.D.: sun.384 Posted: Sat Dec 10 23:09:27 1983 Date-Received: Wed, 14-Dec-83 02:36:12 EST Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc. Lines: 18 Just a simple minded synopsis of the problems of the world. Cancer is perceived as an uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells in the host body using large amounts of the host's resources, eventually killing the host with this interference in normal processes. The current forms of treatment for this disease are chemotherapy (treatment with chemicals), radiation therapy, and hoping it will go away while waiting for the host to die. s/cancer/humans s/host/world Any ideas?? To the cure. We may yet achieve it. kevin sheehan