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In WW1, the Germans used mustard gas on French troops. Chemotherapy is derived from mustard gas... here's why poison remains the treatment of choice for cancer - if this sounds bad, it is. Here's why it's true and how we move forward (a thread🧵)

Wanted to share with /science - pretty wild that the treatment for cancer is just poison!

Dosis sola facit venenum — only the dose makes the poison.

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True but we also need to evolve methods, poisons as risk/reward won’t be the future of medicine

Actual mechanistic understanding will

Dosis sola facit venenum — only the dose makes the poison.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithridatism