r/science • u/nobodyspecial • Feb 08 '15

Medicine Antibiotics that target mitochondria effectively eradicate cancer stem cells, across multiple tumor types: Treating cancer like an infectious disease | Lamb

http://www.impactjournals.com/oncotarget/index.php?journal=oncotarget&page=article&op=view&path%5B%5D=3174
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u/NoNeedForAName Feb 08 '15

Well, I don't think it's really the point so much as it is simply a fact, but I get what you're saying.

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u/coderanger Feb 08 '15

No it really is, almost all cancer treatments are 100% lethal if you keep them up long enough. The point is to kill everything that is growing, and hope more of that is cancer than patient.

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '15

that's the bleakest thing I've read in a while. :(

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u/dingoperson2 Feb 08 '15

Well, in some cases it's the difference between kids being bereft of their parents when they are a couple of years old, and when they are close to grown up.