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Breakthrough cancer test predicts whether chemotherapy will work

Breakthrough cancer test predicts whether chemotherapy will work

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·June 24, 2025
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jader201

I’ve not really educated myself on the details of cancer treatments (I’m fortunate I’ve not had to learn yet), so my uneducated assumption was that chemo always did something for cancer, it was more a matter of weighing how much it helped fight the cancer vs. the harm it did to the otherwise healthy tissue/organs.

I wouldn’t have guessed the there are types of cancer where chemo just wouldn’t work at all.

melling

Unfortunately, chemotherapy is still the best thing to treat many cancers.

We need to try harder to find other treatments. Poisoning the body is quite an unpleasant experience.

xupybd

Nice to be able to avoid it if it's not going to help you

pixelpoet

I've always been certain that if I got cancer, I wouldn't even bother trying chemo; a test like this completely changes the calculus.

toomuchtodo

https://www.england.nhs.uk/2025/04/nhs-rolls-out-5-minute-su...

yread

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-025-02233-y

mynameisash

https://archive.ph/4jZ8V