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Life Sciences => Physiology & Medicine => Topic started by: thedoc on 02/07/2012 10:21:26

Title: Can poisons be used to cure cancer?
Post by: thedoc on 02/07/2012 10:21:26
Leukaemia is a deadly cancer of the blood affecting over 250,000 people every year, many of which are children. It isn't caused by an infection or virus, but by uncontrolled proliferation of the victim's own cells. How do you poison the cancerous cells without destroying healthy tissue? Professor John Gamel explores the history of the search for a cure...

Read the article (http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/articles/article/temp-the-doctors-who-poisoned-children/) then tell us what you think...