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Hospitals Look to a Nuclear Tool to Fight Cancer
The feed points us to a NYTimes article about hospitals using particle accelerators to treat cancer. While expensive, proponents say that the proton beams generated by the accelerators are more precise than conventional X-ray radiation therapy. This results in fewer side effects and reduced irradiation of surrounding tissue. The technology's critics say that the cost is not justified by a measurable increase in the level of care given to the patients. Nevertheless, this is an excellent example of "pure scientific research" leading to a useful, unrelated technique. From the NYTimes:
"Tumors in or near the eye, for instance, can be eradicated by protons without destroying vision or irradiating the brain. Protons are also valuable for treating tumors in brains, necks and spines, and tumors in children, who are especially sensitive to the side effects of radiation."
although 'modern' medicine offers some benefit, a lot of it is still 'guess your best' & experiment on the rest.
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is it time to get real yet? please consider carefully ALL of yOUR other 'options'.
we're intending for the whoreabully deceptive (they'll do ANYTHING for a bit more monIE/power) corepirate nazi felons to give up/fail even further, in attempting to control the 'weather', as well as a # of other things/events.
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micro management has never worked (for very long). it's an illness. tie that with life0cidal aggression & softwar gangster style bullying, & what do we have? a greed/fear/ego based recipe for disaster.
the creators will prevail. as it has always been.
corepirate nazi execrable costs outweigh benefits
(Score:-)mynuts won, the king is a fink)
by ourselves on everyday 24/7
as there are no benefits, just more&more death/debt & disruption. fortunately there's an 'army' of light bringers, coming yOUR way.
the little ones/innocents must/will be protected. after the big flash, ALL of yOUR imaginary 'borders' may blur a bit? for each of the creators' innocents harmed in any way, there is a debt that must/will be repaid by you/us, as the perpetrators/minions of unprecedented evile, will not be available after the big flash.
'vote' with (what's left in) yOUR wallet. help bring an end to unprecedented evile's manifestation through yOUR owned felonious corepirate nazi glowbull warmongering execrable. some of US should consider ourselves somewhat fortunate to be among those scheduled to survive after the big flash/implementation of the creators' wwwildly popular planet/population rescue initiative/mandate. it's right in the manual, 'world without end', etc....
as we all ?know?, change is inevitable, & denying/ignoring gravity, logic, morality, etc..., is only possible, on a temporary basis. concern about the course of events that will occur should the life0cidal execrable fail to be intervened upon is in order.
'do not be dismayed' (also from the manual). however, it's ok/recommended, to not attempt to live under/accept, fauxking nazi felon greed/fear/ego based pr ?firm? scriptdead mindphuking hypenosys.
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"If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land."
meanwhile, the life0cidal philistines continue on their path of death, debt, & disruption for most of US;
gov. bush denies health care for the little ones
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/03/bush.veto/index.html
whilst demanding/extorting billions to paint more targets on the bigger kids
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/12/12/bush.war.funding/index.html
& pretending that it isn't happening here
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article3086937.ece
all is not lost/forgotten/forgiven
(yOUR elected) president al gore (deciding not to wait for the much anticipated 'lonesome al answers yOUR questions' interview here on
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article3046116.ece
The ambition is to destroy; specifically to destroy our cell wall linings so our biological building blocks explode. There is no cure for cancer, this is just another destructive con job that makes patients sicker while they are in the confines of the hospital.
As cool as the scifi miracle cure rays would be, we're a hell of a long way from them, all existing radiotherapy and chemotherapy does is kill us in small doses and hope we kill the bad bits too, nevermind that the bad bits are on a molecular scale and there's no chance of changing the dna. The resident medics are sadists of the worst order, we can escape their clutches only through faith.
Polly wants a cracker.
It does say so in the article:
"Debbie Hirst, 56, from Carbis Bay, wants to pay privately for the breast cancer drug Avastin. But she has been told that if she starts taking it privately her free treatment on the NHS will end."
Apparently, if it is discovered that she has paid for the drug privately, she would no longer receive any free treatment in the NHS as it quite clearly says here. I would assume that whether she takes the drug in the UK or whether she jumps on the Eurostar to France to take it before going back doesn't matter. My mistake though, I thought they would reclaim the costs spent so far, which they would clearly not, but she would have to shell out for bed space, tests and cancer drug cocktail by the night in the future, and those expenses would clearly dwarf that of a single drug. So house would go in any case.
Apparently, as the article states, because allowing payment for drugs could have the effect of creating a system whereby some patients could get the same free health care as everyone else and then pay for additional drugs out of their own pocket, which would have the effect of relegating the non-payers to a lower class of person.
That's the legalities of the situation anyway - whether they would actually start expensing her by the hour as they promise is difficult to say, some rules are just made for deterence.