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Fighting Cancer with Math

Posted by Zonk on from the what-can't-math-do? dept.

zoloback writes "A group of scientists have developed a mathematical method to fight certain forms of cancer. The study has taken the team several years, but the first trial on a human has been successful. You can read the actual paper. It looks like a huge advancement in science, because there's a possibility to extrapolate the method to other types of cancer" From the article: "The researchers have evidence to show that all tumors grow in the same way, irrespective of the tissue or species in which they develop. In a previous paper, these researchers reported that tumor growth, rather than being exponential as commonly believed, is a much slower "linear" process similar to the growth of certain crystals and other natural phenomena."

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  1. She cured my cancer with math by Dancin_Santa · · Score: 4, Funny

    But she blinded me with science!

    I'm Dancin Santa, bitch!

  2. Re:I can hear it now... by mangus_angus · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Nurse quick I need 20cc's of the quadratic equation STAT!!!"

  3. A joke... by MagicDude · · Score: 5, Funny

    Remind me of the joke on how mathematicians fight fire...

    A physicist, an engineer, and a mathematician are staying in a hotel in separate rooms. A fire breaks out in the physicist's bathroom. The physicist wakes up, sees the fire, does some calculations on his calculator, fills a cup of water, and throws it at the base of the fire putting it out while getting the rest of the bathroom hardly wet at all, and then goes back to sleep.

    A fire breaks out in the engineer's bathroom later that night. The engineer wakes up, sees the fire, runs into the hallway and brings the firehose into the bathroom and lets the stream go full blast. After a minute or so, the fire is out, and the bathroom is soaking wet with water dripping everywhere, but the fire is out and the engineer goes back to bed.

    A fire breaks out in the mathematician's room. The mathematician wakes up and sees the fire, does some lengthy calculations on paper, lights a match and drops it in a glass of water, says "It can be done", and goes back to bed.

    1. Re:A joke... by IntelliTubbie · · Score: 4, Funny

      A fire breaks out in the mathematician's room. The mathematician wakes up and sees the fire, does some lengthy calculations on paper, lights a match and drops it in a glass of water, says "It can be done", and goes back to bed.

      A mathematician doing an experiment? Never! (And yes, I am one.) The mathematician sees the fire, notices a glass of water on his nightstand, proclaims, "A solution exists!" and goes back to bed.

      Cheers,
      IT

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      Power corrupts. PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.

  4. Against my faith. by Seumas · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm sorry, but my faith does not allow for medical/mathematical intervention. You must allow my child to die to fulfill god's glorious plan.

    You can stuff all your "evolution" and "math" voodoo. Fucking heathens!

  5. sound methodology... by aendeuryu · · Score: 5, Funny

    1. Confuse the tumours with complex calculus.
    2. When they're not expecting it, nab 'em!

  6. 3.141592654 by Kinky+Bass+Junk · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now fighting cancer is easy as pi!

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