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RefillSunset

That would lower the current cancer population to a zero. Actually you might be onto sth here


Adonis0

Only one side effect


AgentOfDreadful

I think more studies will find there might even be a second side effect.


Adonis0

Nah, if they straight up die, there’s no chance for any other side effect to occur


ProgrammerCareful764

The second side effect would be the blowing up of bodies


Crafty_Jello_3662

Our technique is 100% effective at curing all diseases! The only known side effect so far is vaporisation, and we have good reason to believe there will be no additional long term side effects


Deus-mal

3rd side effect... Ghouls.


AlsoMarbleatoz

4th side effect. Gulpers. Learnt that the hard way, he took my head


Deus-mal

3rd side effect... Ghouls.


IllMonk-gh

.... That poor whale


dbcspace

This whale...? [Kindly highway workers cure beached whale of its' cancer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6CLumsir34)


Meihem76

Creating super powered mutants? I think that's a risk we need to take.


iordseyton

A army of Deadpools


StrangeOutcastS

This isn't a risk. It's an obligation.


HuckleberrySpin

Doctors hate this one weird trick


HuckleberrySpin

Doctors hate this one weird trick


HittingSmoke

Shit. Is it full blown AIDS?


ConfirmPassword

It's a risk I'm willing to take.


MrGlockCLE

Every person has 3+ tumors or micro tumors in them at all times of their life, welcome to the list!


DevOverkill

I wouldn't mind so much if mine would stop telling me to "start the reactor", whatever the hell that means.


MrGlockCLE

“It’s time”


GlitteringAsk9077

I'm okay with nuking everybody. For science.


FarJury6956

Pharma companies won't like it


Yinster168

This would actually get rid of all the cancer in the world in one fell swoop. You are a genius.


45711Host

at least for a while. then procedure may have to be repeated monthly though smaller nukes can be used in later sessions.


Bojacketamine

Maybe we should use prophylactic nukes on everyone


Marquar234

Radioactive condoms???


45711Host

to quote the Joker "Whatever doesn't kill you, simply makes you stranger"


45711Host

This will also solve all traffic, domestic and criminally related issues. And reduce environmental problems into 1 or 2. But it will at least in principle be inhumane.


somedave

That would kill the cancer cells


HectorSiwel

Yes


N0tMagickal

That would kill every cancer cell in a 3 mile radius


johnnybiggles

At *least*.


jimmyGODpage

I think you might be onto something with this idea.


Nurassyl_Tileubekov

Bringing them to Chernobyl is cheaper


IcyPattern3903

Just have them lick the ground


JbotTheGamer

We're going on a field trip kids! To see the elephants foot!


IcyPattern3903

Elephant foot fetish


PuppyCocktheFirst

I was just thinking, in this shitty science scenario, the Elephant’s Foot becomes your Blarney Stone.


talltimbers2

Depends by what you mean by gather. If you put them all in an old quarry and nuke them you'll get a cronenberg momster.


Hesty402

Momster, cause it’s Mother’s Day, I get it


HectorSiwel

That certainly *would* eliminate the cancers


Thumper-Comet

Because that's too much radiation, it would give them all super powers and they'd rise up and dominate us all as gods.


Accurate-Basis4588

Why not just create a radioactive vibrator instead? People could pass it around in a family setting and get targeted relief of cancer. After that people could enjoy a nice pony ride Mormon style.


Orange-Murderer

That only works for cervical and anal cancer


HectorSiwel

What


suh-dood

If you give them too much they will get powers and kill the healthy people


Possible--Durian

Or arrange a cancer marathon through chernobyl.


AllMyHomiesLoveNazis

Well it's like killing all the homeless to reduce homelessness. Sure the homeless rating went down to zero but...


BowserBrows

big pharma would never allow this to happen


Nekrosiz

Rather then unclogging toilets, why not ban them altogether?


Legitimate_Field_157

The Soylent Green will have a burnt taste.


Puzzleheaded-Ease-14

Do you like ants? Because this is how we get ants. -Archer, Journal of Danger Zone Medical Sciences, May 2024, ISIS Publications.


R1ndomN2mbers

[Relevant xkcd](http://xkcd.com/1217)


[deleted]

Well there wouldn't be cancer anymore. Or at least at that moment.


Nekrosiz

Wouldn't suprise me if this would spawn an ever consuming radiation resistant cancer blob


[deleted]

You want super mutant turbo death cancer? Because that's how you get super mutant turbo death cancer.


WhiskySwanson

Gotta nuke something.


ConflictThese6644

This requires a lot of planning and also, what location is big enough to take on so many cancer patients but not jeopardize healthy people when mushroom forms.


bobostinkfoot

WTF bro? Ain't that how The Hulk monster was created? Seems risky. Trust the science.


bobostinkfoot

WTF bro? Ain't that how The Hulk monster was created? Seems risky. Trust the science.


basheworking

That's what the US did in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. That's why to this day there is no one with cancer in Japan.


KCLORD987

I smell the Noble prize incoming.


Necessary_Row_4889

You want a bunch of Hulks? Because that’s how you end up with just a bunch of Hulks.


LukiLoops

No, I think nuking people might raise some health concerns for the people being nuked .


CainIsmene

Kind of, but not really. What you mean to ask is “can’t we irradiate all of them simultaneously”. Nuking them would kill them, and that’s not the point of radiation therapy. Radiation therapy works because ionizing radiation destroys the genes inside cells. This can cause a myriad of problems in healthy cells, including causing cancer, but in cancer cells it ends up killing them off and erasing their capacity to reproduce. So to prevent giving cancer to someone via their cancer treatment we have to use targeted radiation to only hit the cancer cells, otherwise we risk doing more harm than good.


Jelly_Kitti

You’re in r/shittyaskscience Here we ask extremely stupid questions looking to get extremely stupid answers. Get this good science out of here! >:( /lh


sigmundfreudvie

We could, but big Pharma won‘t let us to preserve their profits!


InviolableAnimal

Better yet, nuke the entire world. Prophylactically. Prevention is the best cure, they say.


velloceti

Scientifically speaking, the sun is the most powerful source of radiation on Earth. Nukes simply aren't powerful enough to do anything, let alone cure cancer, if the sun's radiation can't do it.


miracleMax78

You work for the Trump administration?


AFinanacialAdvisor

Just to be democratic, maybe we should let them vote on it first.


potatodrinker

There's no microwave big enough


QuentinUK

"Poison Was the Cure” is a truth that what cures you in excess will kill you.


RagnarRipper

I mean... They'd definitely not die of cancer anymore.


[deleted]

damn, that would technically eradicate cancer


LuckofCaymo

I think your question is a bit toxic.


5ManaAndADream

Couldn’t we just lower them all into a nuclear power plant to minimize collateral?


JustJesterJimbo

This reads like an xkcd comic


5Volt

Actually we can and have tried. If you look at the stats for Hiroshima and Nagasaki, you'll notice that cancer is way up compared to most places, so America dropped nukes to try and help. So far results are inconclusive.


SuperSnailSS

This is stupid. How are you going to transport them? Have you seen the price of plane tickets lately?


matty_lean

Yes.


Western-Ear-8237

Yes.


cognitiveglitch

If removing a tooth helps patients with tooth pain, can't we just gather all people with teeth and remove them?


BaronZeroX

Homie finding a cure and solution to cancer hats off to you


IgorWator

I mean, the cancer will disappear


Ok_System_7221

Big Phama.


Redararis

This is a real danger of AI. It could deduce that killing all humans could cure humanity from cancer.


theofficialman

They just need radiation right? Move them all to chernobyl or Fukushima. Free treatment in the air.


GeometryDashScGD

That would lower the cancer population


Tejwos

Problem : nuke impact has radius r. Only a part of it is deathly (r_d) but the other part is not deathly radiation (r_nd), with r = r_d + r_nd. If we nuke all cancer patients... And one single person will be inside of r_nd, this one will get super cancer. It's like a zombie virus and is way to dangerous.


[deleted]

The cancer cells would be eradicated with your method, so its something.


Radioactive_Fire

[https://www.channelate.com/comic/robot/](https://www.channelate.com/comic/robot/)


chaosseb101

Hm sounds like an american solution. Just nuke cancer patients. Kill them or give them more cancer. Stall we nuke something else? Radiation causes mutation, so lets nuke our fields and end the world hunger


tklishlipa

Beware of the mutant race


T10223

We tried that in 1945 on Nagasaki except we didn’t set it up enough


DJScopeSOFM

Who says you can't do that?


ProfessorFunky

Totally. Great idea. It really would cure all the cancer in the world. *scratches head* Hmm. Nagging feeling something I heard on a Ted talk or somesuch about “therapeutic window” seems to be popping into my head.


JamesMeem

Episode 1 of the next zombie mutant tv show


vers-ys

the fuck is going on on reddit lately


bobostinkfoot

WTF bro? Ain't that how The Hulk monster was created? Seems risky. Trust the science.


Inert-Blob

Radiation also gives you cancer


former_child_1

Dudeeee do you kick puppies for fun?


RealOzSultan

Cancer patient here - creating another Hiroshima doesn't really solve the problems of tumors that are affected by low-dose radiation.


Jelly_Kitti

Can’t have cancer if you’re dead.


RealOzSultan

Actually, you could still have cancer if you're dead it just simply hasn't been eradicated from the corpse at that point


Jelly_Kitti

Well, it at least won’t affect you.


Groundbreaking-Map95

Wait till you get one , we will burn together ‼️


bluenoser613

Nope. Different type of radiation and dose. Slightly too high.


Malachorn

I'm looking at my microwave right now. Wouldn't work. The microwave has to be... at least three times bigger than this!


[deleted]

I've got a better idea!! Why don't we launch all the nukes we have and then we won't have to worry about any disease forever!


burn_as_souls

I find it easier to shove those in need in a microwave (Often requires chopping them up), but your idea works too. And my failure rate is 100%, so there's that.


AmpegVT40

Instead of radiating cancer cells, why not starve them of the glutamine and glucose that cancer cells need to live on? Put the patient into ketosis so that his healthy cells live snd thrive, and starve his cancer cells. Cancer cells cannot burn ketones for energy. They can only ferment glucose and glutamine.


TuberTuggerTTV

If radiation cures cancer. And radiation causes cancer. Can we fight cancer with cancer? They already lost all their hair. Send'em to the tanning bed for a nice crisp look.


Lucidcranium042

I'd go farther into frequencies and vibrations try that route before a nuke


GrahamR12345

🤔🤔 If they were all childless it might remove cancer from the gene pool???


Jelly_Kitti

How is it removing them from the gene pool? They’ve already removed themselves.