Rc72 OP t1_iuhug2d wrote
Reply to comment by jrignall1992 in TIL that chemotherapy can be traced back to the sinking of an Allied ship secretly carrying chemical weapons in WW2 by Rc72
Thing is, the insights on mustard gas in WW1 didn’t go much beyond: “Geez, this shit is nasty”, whereas in the aftermath of this WW2 one-off, one military surgeon noted that mustard gas appeared to interfere with the cell-splitting process, and his boss then realised that this could be made useful against cancer…
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