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by rubatuga 2075 days ago
Chemo can be both curative or palliative. This means it can be used to cure the cancer, or simply prolong the life of a patient. Chemo can also be used in combination with surgical or used alone. Just because chemo affects most dividing cells doesn’t mean it is not a curative treatment. Targeted chemo therapies have less side effects and can be tolerated at higher doses.
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I think all of the things you just wrote are true, but I don't see how they answer the question I asked... ?
1. Cancer is characterized as local tumor, locoregional or distant (metastasis). 2. Our approach can certainly help patients with local or locoregional disease. 3. As we have presented in multiple cancer conferences, our approach seems to also help with distant disease, because by focusing more powerful therapy to the tumor, sparing the rest of your body, we give the body the opportunity to recognize the tumor as foreign and fight it. https://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/80/16_Supplement/... https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.10.13.337899v1