blood letting
I have long thought that in 100 years, we will look back at chemo- and radiation therapies much in the same way as we now look at blood letting. I’m not saying that I’m smart enough to figure out what will work instead, but it seems to me that pumping poison into someone, even to help them, doesn’t make a whole lot of sense.
This article says that maybe we’re targeting the wrong cells. This could be a major advancement, but I still think that there has to be another way. Sure, radioactive material will certainly kill cancerous cells, but it’ll kill the good ones, too. It just seems a little like a waste of effort.
Our church just lost one of our dearest members to a long battle with cancer. She was a deacon’s wife and has been in our church for more than twenty years. It just doesn’t make sense to me that we should give poison to the already sick. I hope we can find something soon.