Modern Medicine
Do these treatment methods remove every cancerous cell?
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Discovery Channel
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No, it's impossible to remove every single cancerous cell. For one, single cells are hard to find, and two, the dosage of chemotherapy and radiation necessary to kill every single cell would be unsafe. Both chemotherapy and radiation work by attacking cancerous cells as they divide, but some cancerous cells may go for years without dividing, allowing them to survive the treatment intact. However, these treatments are designed to destroy enough of the cancerous cells that the remaining ones lack the ability to do any damage.
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