eli@spdcc.COM (Steve Elias) (09/05/88)
>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, 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.