Delaying cancer treatment allows cancer cells to adapt and develop resistance. — Whalespan
Delaying cancer treatment allows cancer cells to adapt and develop resistance.
⚠ High risk
The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
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High-risk intervention — consult a physician before acting.Drug-drug interactions, dose-dependence, and screening contraindications apply.
“That's right. So the compensation that a cancer cell will be able to leverage by having now these built-in accelerants or more disabled tumor suppressors, like the ability to adapt and work their way around cancer with de novo resistance or rapidly acquired resistance is absolutely a huge risk the longer you wait.”