26 Or Bust!

Sometimes a cure or treatment may come from the place you least expect to find it. An excellent example is chemotherapy which developed out of mustard gas testing. During a World War II military operation, a group of people were exposed to the dangerous gas accidentally and later found to have very low white blood cell counts. It was reasoned that this same substance could be used to control cancer and the theory was tested in the late 1940s on lymphoma patients with promising results . You can read a bit about it on Wikipedia and a quick Google search will lead you to many other sources of information about it.

It’s pretty incredible to think that something so deadly could lead to a treatment that has saved so many lives. It also demonstrates that research by organizations like The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society into a specific type of cancer can help lead to cures and therapies that will help patients facing other forms of this disease. The cure just may come from the most unlikely place.