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- From: drand@spinner.osf.org (Douglas Rand)
- Newsgroups: sci.med,talk.politics.drugs,pnw.general
- Subject: Re: FDA still at large
- Message-ID: <DRAND.92Jul31143331@spinner.osf.org>
- Date: 31 Jul 92 19:33:31 GMT
- References: <1992Jul25.041036.16207@fylz.wa.com> <1992Jul27.082728.7426@samba.oit.unc.edu>
- <1992Jul30.191314.6358@island.COM>
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- In-Reply-To: keithl@klic.rain.com's message of Fri, 31 Jul 1992 05:18:43 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul31.051843.23946@klic.rain.com> keithl@klic.rain.com (Keith Lofstrom) writes:
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- ....
- For some forms of cancer, chemotherapy is used when it has no effect on long
- term survival. It just maintains the fiction that "something is being done".
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- In cancer treatment, chemotherapy, radiation therapy and surgery
- are used for both curative reasons and for palliative reasons. It
- is not just a fiction about something being done. This is not
- to say that it's always used correctly.
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- In palliative therapy, the aim is not to cure the disease or extend
- life, but to reduce pain or improve function.
-
- Usual disclaimer, the above from a medical physics course I
- took a decade ago, and a little learning when my mom was
- dying of cancer.
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- Douglas S. Rand <drand@osf.org> OSF/Motif Dev.
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