Amazing the sparks of imagination (backed up then by years of hard research) that lead some researchers to a new way of looking at the problem. It reminds me of the researcher who first declared that most ulcers might be caused by a bacterium. He was laughed off the field, so to speak. Determined to prove that he was right, he continued his quest. Today, no one disputes his findings, and the treatment of choice for ulcers is a combination of antibiotics and other drugs to kill H-pylori, the bacterium that causes 99% of ulcers.
Here's to hoping that these researchers have had such a leap to the true cause of primary and secondary cancers! I'd love to live in a world where current oncology treatments could be relegated to the same shelf as trepanning...
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Date: 2007-01-27 05:23 am (UTC)It would, indeed, be so wonderful, if true.
Amazing the sparks of imagination (backed up then by years of hard research) that lead some researchers to a new way of looking at the problem. It reminds me of the researcher who first declared that most ulcers might be caused by a bacterium. He was laughed off the field, so to speak. Determined to prove that he was right, he continued his quest. Today, no one disputes his findings, and the treatment of choice for ulcers is a combination of antibiotics and other drugs to kill H-pylori, the bacterium that causes 99% of ulcers.
Here's to hoping that these researchers have had such a leap to the true cause of primary and secondary cancers! I'd love to live in a world where current oncology treatments could be relegated to the same shelf as trepanning...