This Looks Serious

http://www.physorg.com/news165512266.html For some years I've expected a cure or near cure for cancer to resolve out of research into improved diagnostics. But, here we have an article leads me to question this, despite continued progress in diagnostics. The ability to clear the entire organism in 15 days might be sufficient--though in some cases a few cancer particles might remain in the bloodstream, requiring another round of nanorod treatment. And there was always a fundamental practical difficulty with the diagnostic route, which seemed likely to prevent it from becoming a cure-all (though it might be 90-95% effective): virtually all of us have multiple cancerous or pre-cancerous tissues in our bodies at any given time, almost all of which are benign--and if we can detect them all, this creates the dilemma of deciding which of these tissues to treat, since treating them all would do more harm than good for most patients. There would have to be a way to distinguish metastatic cancer from the body's many other non-threatening instances. A perfect cancer-killing treatment regime eliminates this dilemma.