tumours

This is a drug that works very well at shrinking tumours and controlling disease in incurable lung cancer.

As child comment mentions, do get this checked by an ENT who will check for a few things, including tumours.

Treatment for the most common solid tumours remains woefully inadequate, unless you compare it to even more woeful older therapies.

Brain tumours are reasonably rare but they are also unpredictable and turn up at any moment.

>everyone has all sorts of little cancerous growths that are entirely benign When discussing tumours, cancerous and benign mean different things.

Put another way, only a minority of prostate tumours are highly aggressive and life-threatening, while the majority are slow-growing and indolent.

Although the 10-year cancer-specific rate is equally good (87%) for grade 1 and 2 tumours, the latter have a significantly higher progression rate, with 42% of patients with these tumours developing metastases (Table 8.4).

The most telling correlations are probably for rare tumours, like soft tissue cancers eg sarcoma, which show an increased risk post CT.

I suspect we'll find that we're positively riddled with parasites, subclinical tumours, and all kinds of squick.

For solid tumours like lung cancer, breast cancer, colon cancer etc it will probably be much harder to find a similarly useful target.

But a hyperexpensive drug that prolongs the life is an example of Herceptin; it increases the survival of patients with HER2+ cancers, previously a poor prognisticator, to that of the hormone-receptor positive tumours.

To make matters worse, some tumours even suppress the capability of immune cells to fight in the local area, rendering this vaccine useless.

If I showed data that shooting a person in the head was an effective means of removing brain tumours, it would be very unlikely that anyone anywhere under any circumstances would ever agree with the proposition, "shooting a person in the head words in removing brain tumours".

Well, the counter argument is that even if the whole population is going to not have brain tumours - I _still_ don't want "someone who's not a rocket surgeon" doing brain surgery.