• kevlar21@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    Current cancer treatments including radiotherapy and chemotherapy can cause secondary cancers too.

  • amio@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    That’s nothing new. Aside from resistance (vaguely the same mechanism as antibiotic resistance), some chemotherapy regimens could end up causing other forms of cancer - after all, fucking with DNA is what a lot of it does.

    Irony sucks, huh.