Broad-Spectrum Cancer Treatments

·Sarah Constantin··

Midjourney, “engraving of Apollo shooting his bow at a distant cancer cell”Introduction and PrinciplesThe conventional wisdom is that we can’t “cure cancer” because every cancer is different. And it’s true that cancer is genetically and biochemically diverse, and that targeted cancer therapies generally only work on very specific sub-populations. But some of the oldest, most reliable, and still most commonly used classes of cancer treatment -- radiotherapy and cytotoxic chemotherapy -- are also ...

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