cancer and other thoughts
i'm taking a break from studying for my cancer final tomorrow to tell everyone that cancer is bad. you don't want to get cancer because it's really hard to cure. and the standard therapies they use aren't really targeted very well. standard chemotherapy targets rapidly dividing cells, and while the majority of cancer cells are rapidly dividing, there are other normal cells that also rapidly divide.... you know like... bone marrow cells to make red and white cells and cells in the gi tract so that your colon works properly... which is why people get sick from chemotherapy... sorry... i just read over our lecture on chemotherapy... and it listed the side effects of all the drugs they use.... it's kind of depressing. and the even sadder thing is that drugs that are better targeted that they're testing right now probably won't make it to the market for another 10 years. on a related note... i hope none of you people reading this are ever in a position to contemplate participating in a phase 1 clinical trial.
on a completely unrelated note... has anyone ever wondered what Jesus was like as a kid? actually, has anyone ever wondered what he was like as a baby? since he was both God and man... did that mean he could comprehend God-ly things even as an infant, but was just incapable of man-ly things like speech and walking upright?
on a somewhat related note... well not really... but sort of... i signed for a package today "Christ Garcia" ... but at least the thing was electronic so you really couldn't tell... i think...
yesterday i ran into the door of the dark room. it's a special black revolving door that doesn't let light in, so that people can enter and leave without disrupting another person's film developing (high tech, i know!). anyway, i entered the dark room with someone else already in it. and he was developing something, so the special red light was on... you know, so that the film doesn't get burned... so i developed my film and everything and was leaving... but with the red light on.. you can't really see things properly. but i knew that the black space on the other side of the room was where the door was. so i walked into the black space... only to walk into the black revolving door with a very noticeable *klunk* (because the high tech black revolving door is probably really, just a metal can with a sliding door) which was immediately followed by a feeble sad puppy noise before i found the actual space to walk into so that i could get out.
this is what real science is like =P
-c
on a completely unrelated note... has anyone ever wondered what Jesus was like as a kid? actually, has anyone ever wondered what he was like as a baby? since he was both God and man... did that mean he could comprehend God-ly things even as an infant, but was just incapable of man-ly things like speech and walking upright?
on a somewhat related note... well not really... but sort of... i signed for a package today "Christ Garcia" ... but at least the thing was electronic so you really couldn't tell... i think...
yesterday i ran into the door of the dark room. it's a special black revolving door that doesn't let light in, so that people can enter and leave without disrupting another person's film developing (high tech, i know!). anyway, i entered the dark room with someone else already in it. and he was developing something, so the special red light was on... you know, so that the film doesn't get burned... so i developed my film and everything and was leaving... but with the red light on.. you can't really see things properly. but i knew that the black space on the other side of the room was where the door was. so i walked into the black space... only to walk into the black revolving door with a very noticeable *klunk* (because the high tech black revolving door is probably really, just a metal can with a sliding door) which was immediately followed by a feeble sad puppy noise before i found the actual space to walk into so that i could get out.
this is what real science is like =P
-c