Chemotherapy and Bloodletting

Objective of chemotherapy is part of the patient's body to kill cancer without killing the patient. This is deadly drugs do serious damage, so the side effects. The drugs work by damaging the RNA or DNA which controls cell division. If the cells are unable to divide, they die. Healthy cells repel. We hope that cancer cells do.

Pharmaceutical company are risky. Their prescribed and monitored by a physician is a measure of protection, but it makes it safe. In his book, another day in the neurosurgeon Katrina Firkin Frontal lobes pointed out that

Something strong enough to you help is strong enough to hurt you. No treatment, at least no useful treatment is delivered without risk. Natural supplements, if you are taking abnormally large quantities, can have adverse effects... There are many drugs that work wonders without having a clear idea as to how or why they work. For me, that means it is probably also other things these drugs are that we can't wait. It would be unlikely for a medication only have an effect on the body. This is not how the body works. A physiological mechanism can convey many different functions. A natural chemical substance, blocked or improved by a certain drugs, can have dozens of different targets. These objectives are probably not included yet.

This is a devil, but I've adopted approach of Dr. Firkin, "I will a drug when I need when the time comes, if benefits clearly outweigh risks." But I do expect get something for nothing.

Bloodletting

One hundred years of chemotherapy now can be seen with the same aversion as we back have bled today as a barbaric pre-enlightened medicine rite. For nearly 2,000 years, sincere doctors drained abundant amounts of vital fluid to relieve patients "bad blood."

The practice was supported by the best minds science era and based on the observation of the body itself, specifically the menstruation. None other that the father of medicine Hippocrates who gave us the word "cancer" - believes women menstruation bled from bad moods. His most famous student, Galen, began bleeding doctor initiated in the second century.

Bloodshed was once prescribed to treat cancer, with the rest of cholera, diabetes, herpes to leprosy, the plague pneumonia and scurvy, smallpox. The treatment of cancer early records comes the Egyptians, who used a "fire exercise" for cautery of the tumor. Medical science lurches forward by trial and error.

Even great progress sometimes have unintended consequences. A popular theory about how input AIDS human population says that he just chimpanzees whose bodies and fluids have been used in culture strand of oral polio vaccine used in the Congo, the epicentre of the pandemic.

Regardless of the danger inadvertently, modern chemotherapy causes lots of collateral damage. It is a shotgun indiscriminately kill terrorists and hostages. But many forms of cancer, it is the best weapon that we have.

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