X-Message-Number: 12450
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 09:54:05 -0700
From: Tim Freeman <>
Subject: Re: Cancer

>Cancer cells appear and disappear in organisms. If they test to
>frequently every one may end up under radiation therapy.

The test doesn't detect individual cells, it detects the immune
response to the cancer.  The result is a number that increases
smoothly as the cancer grows.  If it is below a certain threshold,
then you don't do anything.

-- 
Tim Freeman       
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