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Hot Dog Eating Contest and Chemotherapy

The Anthropocene Reviewed

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The History of Cimotherapy

Cancer is the second leading cause of death, behind only cardio vascular diseases. It's not really one disease at all, but hundreds of different diseases, or thousands. The same cemotherapy regimen may be curative in one patient and not in another - even if they have very similar cancers. One of methotrexats potential side effect, for instance, is that it can cause cancer. All of this makes cancer and its cemo therapeutic treatment difficult to make sense of in a world that is supposed to make sense.

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