Cancer robots

It was reported in the press that the former CEO of DBS Bank Mr Richard Stanley succumbed to infection after two rounds of chemotherapy and died. It seems that the chemotherapy does more than what it was intended for. The chemotherapy destroy both cancerous as well as normal healthy cells and as a result of this his body immune system was severely compromised.

At times I wonder if any cancer patient should be subjected to chemotherapy at all. Looking from statistic, things don't look that much promising with regards to the success recovery rate of patients subjected to chemotherapy. In fact I bet doctors themselves might not even want to consider chemotherapy either for themselves or their loved ones. Chemotherapy treatment is just like doing carpet bombing of an entire city just to get one or two bad guys from population of thousands. Really makes no sense at all isn't it?

At times I wonder which disease is more difficult to cure? AIDS or cancer? Would science be able to cure cancer just like the common cold in the near future? After all, scientist claimed they have successfully developed certain type of vaccine to help protect women against cervical cancer and such vaccine is already available in the market.

One of the more promising and interesting technological marvel pertaining to cancer treatment is the development of tiny robots that is programmed to track and destroy cancerous cell. Such tiny robots are injected into the blood stream and cancerous cells are selectively targeted and destroyed by the tiny robots. You can find out more about this Israel breakthrough biomedical technology by clicking on this link.

Such technology reminds me of the 1987 Hollywood block buster movie 'Inner Space' starring Dennis Quaid whereby human could be shrink to the size of a pin hole and travel within the human body via specialized miniature submarines or bots.