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Cabal | 10 days ago

> The doctor who was to perform it literally said "I want you to think of this procedure in terms of a cure"

I have difficulty believing a medical professional would say that.

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helterskelter|10 days ago

This is what my family told me. They may not have been his exact words but he believed it had a very strong possibility to go into complete remission. This was after they had gone through other therapies like HIPEC, where they told me it'd buy them a few years (they got 8). The problem is CRC will often metastasize into areas current treatments can't really get at and that tends to be where the cancer comes back. Apparently this procedure got right in there.

ikrenji|10 days ago

why? state of the art therapies eg genetically reprogramming patients own immune cells to hunt cancer are curative in cases that were previously a death sentence