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From: eli@spdcc.COM (Steve Elias)
Newsgroups: sci.misc,sci.med,sci.physics,comp.arch,sci.math
Subject: cancer, radiation, computing, & tomography
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Date: 5 Sep 88 05:09:03 GMT
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>In article <6239@dasys1.UUCP>, tbetz@dasys1.UUCP (Tom Betz) writes:
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< There is considerable evidence that radioactive cancer treatments cause more
< cancers than they cure, and modern medicine is increasingly looking to other,
<safer approaches to that sort of illness.  So we can do away with them as well,
<quite successfully, and by the turn of the next century, we probably will have.

	the statistical effects of radiation don't mean much
	to the individual who does have a cancer cured by radiation.
	i don't think we'll be 'doing away with' radiation therapy
	by the turn of the century.  is anyone expecting an
	'anti-cancer' panacea in 11 years ??  or 111 years ??

	early detection seems to be a key in fighting cancer.

	i believe the advances in NMR and parallel processing
	computers/software will combine to enable *very* early detection...
	although it would be enormously expensive at first.

	specifically:  using parallel & other high speed techniques 
	to analyze NMR data which includes time domain information 
	as well as 3d images.
	
	does anyone know of any research in this area ?
	
	i really don't know where to direct followups to this.
	please edit the followups line if you respond.