• Question: So you use cancer to kill cancer

    Asked by Bob the Builder to Alex on 17 Nov 2014.
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      Alex Pool answered on 17 Nov 2014:

      Unfortunately there’d be no way of using cancer to kill cancer.

      If you had cancer from someone else and put it into a patient, the patient’s immune system would see it as a foreign object and kill it off.

      So we have to use drugs and radiation to kill cancer at the moment.

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