CHEMOTHERAPY: I've started so I'll finish

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CHEMOTHERAPY:  I've started so I'll finish

 

This year marks the 60th anniversary of the first report of a trial for

chemotherapy to treat cancer.  And, on such an auspicious occasion,

it's good that we remind ourselves of chemotherapy's impressive past.

It evolved from the use of poison gas during both the world wars.  Gas

warfare killed 91,000 soldiers, and invalided another 1.25 million, in

World War I, including one sulphur mustard attack in 1917, which claimed

14,278 casualties in very short time.

And so the use of sulphur mustard continued, by the Italians against the

Ethiopians in 1936, and in an accidental explosion at Bari during World

War II, which consigned a thousand soldiers to a slow and agonising

death.

After the Bari attack, doctors noticed that the victims' white blood

cell count dropped alarmingly, and wondered whether nitrogen mustard

might have some medical use.

The rest, as they say, is history.

(Source:  Journal of the American Medical Association, 2006; 296:

1518-20).

[Guest guest]

--what chemo are you using? need to find a good one for my dad's

advanced PC????? - In cures for cancer , robert-blau@...

wrote:

>

> [wddty.co.uk]

>

> CHEMOTHERAPY:  I've started so I'll finish

>  

> This year marks the 60th anniversary of the first report of a trial

for

> chemotherapy to treat cancer.  And, on such an auspicious occasion,

> it's good that we remind ourselves of chemotherapy's impressive

past.

>

> It evolved from the use of poison gas during both the world wars. 

Gas

> warfare killed 91,000 soldiers, and invalided another 1.25 million,

in

> World War I, including one sulphur mustard attack in 1917, which

claimed

> 14,278 casualties in very short time.

>

> And so the use of sulphur mustard continued, by the Italians

against the

> Ethiopians in 1936, and in an accidental explosion at Bari during

World

> War II, which consigned a thousand soldiers to a slow and agonising

> death.

>

> After the Bari attack, doctors noticed that the victims' white blood

> cell count dropped alarmingly, and wondered whether nitrogen mustard

> might have some medical use.

>

> The rest, as they say, is history.

>

> (Source:  Journal of the American Medical Association, 2006; 296:

> 1518-20).

>

[Guest guest]

I think the title was meant to refer to a commonly expressed sentiment

among those relying on chemo.

Would recommend looking at the file on " Intravenous Vitamin C " in the

Files section. Also: http://www.chemoangels.com

Best,

RB

Posted by: " bombmel2 " bombmel2@... bombmel2   Date: Sun Oct 8,

2006 3:45 am (PDT)

--what chemo are you using? need to find a good one for my dad's

advanced PC????? -

In cures for cancer , robert-blau@... wrote:

[wddty.co.uk]

CHEMOTHERAPY:  I've started so I'll finish  

This year marks the 60th anniversary of the first report of a trial for

chemotherapy to treat cancer.  And, on such an auspicious occasion,

it's good that we remind ourselves of chemotherapy's impressive past.

It evolved from the use of poison gas during both the world wars.  Gas

warfare killed 91,000 soldiers, and invalided another 1.25 million, in

World War I, including one sulphur mustard attack in 1917, which claimed

14,278 casualties in very short time.

And so the use of sulphur mustard continued, by the Italians against the

Ethiopians in 1936, and in an accidental explosion at Bari during World

War II, which consigned a thousand soldiers to a slow and agonising

death.

After the Bari attack, doctors noticed that the victims' white blood

cell count dropped alarmingly, and wondered whether nitrogen mustard

might have some medical use.

The rest, as they say, is history.

(Source:  Journal of the American Medical Association, 2006; 296:

1518-20).