eli@spdcc.COM (Steve Elias) (09/15/88)
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?