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by JoshTko 3544 days ago
Doubling survival rates while having far less severe side effects along with proven effectiveness on multiple different types of cancer is definitely a major breakthrough. This is also based on human trails and not rats in a lab.
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I wish most cancers treatments were tested in rats in the lab - most of the time they only get tested in inbred mice which are a terrible model for human cancer.
That sentence is such a pleasure to read.