Patch Makes Certain Skin Cancers Disappear

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday June 20, 2012 @03:04PM from the peel-and-no-sick dept.

kkleiner writes "What if treating skin cancer was just a matter of wearing a patch for a few hours? At this year's Society of Nuclear Medicine's Annual Meeting one group of researchers presented such a patch. The patch is infused with phosphorus-32, a radioactive isotope used to treat some types of cancer. In a study of 10 patients with basal cell carcinoma located on their faces, the patch was applied for three hours, then for another three hours four and seven days later. Six months after treatment, 8 of the patients were cancer free."

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CancerOff! by Daetrin · 2012-06-20 15:11 · Score: 5, Funny

Apply directly to the [cancerous] forehead!

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Science! by Georules · 2012-06-20 15:12 · Score: 3, Funny

All that science and what we do is put radiation creme on a bandaid. good 'nuff.
1. Re:Science! by Mystakaphoros · 2012-06-20 15:20 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Worked in Fallout.
Re:Too Small A Sample by interkin3tic · 2012-06-20 18:52 · Score: 3, Funny

Well, you do slough off a lot of cells with your genome in them with every stool, so you are in fact shitting genes every time.