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From: eli@spdcc.COM (Steve Elias)
Newsgroups: sci.misc,sci.med,sci.physics,comp.arch,sci.math
Subject: cancer -- radiation therapy / early detection
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Date: 14 Sep 88 21:52:22 GMT
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no flames about crossposting.  *please!*
if anyone has information on research in the areas described below,
please followup to sci.med.

>In article <6239@dasys1.UUCP>, tbetz@dasys1.UUCP (Tom Betz) writes:
>
>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; 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 seriously expecting an
	'anti-cancer' vaccine?

	early detection seems to be the key in fighting cancer.

	i believe that advances in NMR and parallel processing
	computers will combine to enable *very* early detection.
	specifically:  parallel approaches to interpreting NMR data
	which include time domain data as well as 3D data.

	does anyone know of any research in this area?