Peter Attia· MD
other than those four everyone Who develops a spread cancer will die of it despite all the best treatments that we have
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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.
other than those four everyone Who develops a spread cancer will die of it despite all the best treatments that we have
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There are a couple of exceptions to that there are two solid tumor exceptions that have existed for several decades one is Chio carcinoma these are Cancers that start in the placenta of pregnant women that then spread and you can have 90% of the lung replaced by that tumor receive Methotrexate a chemotherapy drug and it will all disappear still don't understand exactly how germ cell tumors in the male uh tumors of the test like Lance Armstrong or at brain Mets and lung Mets no matter how much they've spread if you give patients Platinum derived chemotherapy regimens you can cause complete durable regression of that metastatic disease up until 1985 those were the only cancers that could be cured we can now add to that list solid cancers we can now added that list melanoma and renal cancer because interlukin 2 administered to patients back in the mid 80s caus complete regressions of widely metastatic cancer and patients that are still alive today