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medically relevant sideboob


Purple monkey dishwasher.

This is awesome, but it sounds like the kind of cure that someone would come up with when stoned.

"I've got it. What if we blast the cancer with ICE? And hey, if it doesn't work at least we'll get to see some hard nipples."

This is great news. Nothing, and I mean NOTHING should be allowed to harm the two greatest things EVAR.

From TFA:

BREAST cancers can be killed off by being frozen with streams of super-cold gas, scientists have discovered.


I bet you could kill a whole person that way.

That's pretty cool.

Also, the combination of "prostate" and "needles" tags is decidedly unpleasant.

Oh great. NOW what will women get overly dramatic about?

im scepical of any massivescientific breakthroughs that i find out from on Fark before anywhere else

Icecubes seem to have a pretty neat effect too....

Good one, Subby!

Good two, SkinInk.

Ishkur: So can this work for all forms of cancer? ...Not all malignant tissue is the same

I'd wager this wouldn't work on brain cancer. Brain no like cold. This doesn't do any damage to vital organs in the chest due to boobs, adding to their already impressive list of things they're good at, are great insulators.

okay... so that's actually fantastically awesome. Thank you medical science!

/rest a little easier women
//heart disease cure next?

RTFA
/facepalm

localized tumors are not the problem, we have myriad of ways to kills tumors and moms are still dying of metastatic breast cancer, which is a systemic disease that you can't freeze. I made myself sad :(

Brings whole new meaning to the phrase "I'm freezing my boobs off".

I'm more of a leg man myself

May have cured her cancer but now the poor woman has a hand growing out of her breast....

beaverfetus: localized tumors are not the problem, we have myriad of ways to kills tumors and moms are still dying of metastatic breast cancer, which is a systemic disease that you can't freeze. I made myself sad :(

True.

Even so, if it is treated before it gets through the lymph nodes all would be well.

Russ1642

you forgot the "Ice to see you"

beaverfetus:
RTFA
/facepalm

localized tumors are not the problem, we have myriad of ways to kills tumors and moms are still dying of metastatic breast cancer, which is a systemic disease that you can't freeze. I made myself sad :(

Me too, ass. And I was just nicely buzzing off the Salma Hayek pic.

MaudlinMutantMollusk: Damn socialized medicine.

FTA:
Dr Peter Littrup, interventional radiologist at the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute in Detroit, who led the study, said the findings suggested freezing tumours was both safe and effective.

Lol, Wut?

The likelihood of stunning progress in medical science is why you should NOT have a preemptive double mastectomy because of high-risk genetic disposition that makes you think you're better off without breasts. Don't bet against progress, as though nothing will be learned in the decades ahead of you that would make an irreversible decision unnecessary and tragic.

gunsmack: Fark Me To Tears: Translation: "We make more money cutting people up than we would just shooting freezing gases into them, so we consider the surgery to be the best option."

I'm going to start keeping my wife's boobs in the fridge just in case.

With the rest of her body?

I notice the charities don't seem to like this development. Cynical? Maybe.

The trial was carried out on 13 patients who had all refused to have breast operations to remove their tumours.

I can't really comprehend this. Were they given the option of surgery or the new treatment or did they just flat-out refuse surgery and the freezing option came later. Was their prognosis not that bad? I keep thinking the conversation went:
You have breast cancer, you're going to die unless we operate.
Nope, I don't want only one breast. I'd rather die
Or am i missing something here?

Hey Peter, man, check out channel 9. Check out this chick.

Nem Wan: Don't bet against progress, as though nothing will be learned in the decades ahead of you that would make an irreversible decision unnecessary and tragic.

You're saying I had my balls and prostate removed at 21 for nothing?

Fark Me To Tears: FTFA: Dr Caitlin Palframan, from Breakthrough Breast Cancer, said: "We are a long way away from knowing whether cryotherapy has potential as a treatment option. Where appropriate, surgery remains a gold-standard treatment and surgical techniques continue to improve all the time."

Translation: "We make more money cutting people up than we would just shooting freezing gases into them, so we consider the surgery to be the best option."

I think it has more to do with Cryrothereapy being a very new and very experimental treatment. The study only covered 13 people, so further studies will be needed before it can be deployed on a more public level.

If super-cold gas can cure breast cancer, then perhaps a good preventative therapy would be to bathe them daily in cold liquids held in place by absortant T-shirts.

Fark Me To Tears: Translation: "We make more money cutting people up than we would just shooting freezing gases into them, so we consider the surgery to be the best option."

OMG TEH DOCTORZ ARE JUST AFTER UR MONEY

This is crazy. So what happens in 100 years when cancer discovers a way to reanimate its cryogenically preserved pals and wages a superwar on the boobies? Who will save us then, Ted Williams' head?

WON'T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE FUTUREBOOBIES?!

FTFA: Although it is only minimally invasive there are side-effects and these can include damage to surrounding healthy tissue.

And surgery doesn't damage surrounding healthy tissue at all?

This technique sounds cheap and easy. Maybe they should do this first and surgery in cases where this doesn't work.

OKO: beaverfetus: localized tumors are not the problem, we have myriad of ways to kills tumors and moms are still dying of metastatic breast cancer, which is a systemic disease that you can't freeze. I made myself sad :(

True.

Even so, if it is treated before it gets through the lymph nodes all would be well.

Probably true of many cancers. I had breast cancer with no lymph involvement. While there were 2 "large" tumors, there were -according to the surgeon - innumerable microscopic tumors. But no lymph node involvement.

OTOH, a friend's wife had one minor tumor with several lymph nodes affected. She died within 2 years.

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