Monday, November 2, 2009
Grim vs Cancer – notes.
10:43 AM | Posted by
Warwriter Widow
Magic and advanced tech could work, and Grim is open-minded enough to do it. With his new spell books, he can perform rituals that may be able to do what he wants.
Jack’s father has lung cancer. There are two kinds, small-cell lung carcinoma and non-small cell lung carcinoma. Since his father is on chemotherapy, he would have small cell lung carcinoma.
Chemo is the use of drugs to treat cancer. Wiki: “Palliative chemotherapy is given without curative intent, but simply to decrease tumor load and increase life expectancy. For these regimens, a better toxicity profile is generally expected.” Grim would have to have an idea of what drugs are being used, so as to not counteract or stimulate them. Again, Wiki: “In small cell lung carcinoma, cisplatin and etoposide are most commonly used.”
How these drugs act with the cancer is that they cause “programmed cell death”, this is a cell death which has intracellular (within cells) causes. The drugs attempt to stop the cancer cells from multiplying.
Grim can do a few things here. First, he doesn’t want a cure, so he can’t just exorcise the cancer. He can get some of the drug, make it more potent. If he does that, he will worsen the side effects. He did ask Jack for something of his father’s – his father’s essence. He can use sympathetic magic with that.
Now, the spell. It should address that he wants the cancer to slow, to go backwards, and eventually go away. This is working with time, and Grim’s not very good at that. However, we can use the spell book so that he learns. The spell should be in parts, such as for now, the cancer stagnates, then maybe a month later it will lessen, and a month later it will go away. This gives Jack’s character plenty of room to move, in case the cancer is more aggressive than they thought and they want more tragedy.
Jack’s father has lung cancer. There are two kinds, small-cell lung carcinoma and non-small cell lung carcinoma. Since his father is on chemotherapy, he would have small cell lung carcinoma.
Chemo is the use of drugs to treat cancer. Wiki: “Palliative chemotherapy is given without curative intent, but simply to decrease tumor load and increase life expectancy. For these regimens, a better toxicity profile is generally expected.” Grim would have to have an idea of what drugs are being used, so as to not counteract or stimulate them. Again, Wiki: “In small cell lung carcinoma, cisplatin and etoposide are most commonly used.”
How these drugs act with the cancer is that they cause “programmed cell death”, this is a cell death which has intracellular (within cells) causes. The drugs attempt to stop the cancer cells from multiplying.
Grim can do a few things here. First, he doesn’t want a cure, so he can’t just exorcise the cancer. He can get some of the drug, make it more potent. If he does that, he will worsen the side effects. He did ask Jack for something of his father’s – his father’s essence. He can use sympathetic magic with that.
Now, the spell. It should address that he wants the cancer to slow, to go backwards, and eventually go away. This is working with time, and Grim’s not very good at that. However, we can use the spell book so that he learns. The spell should be in parts, such as for now, the cancer stagnates, then maybe a month later it will lessen, and a month later it will go away. This gives Jack’s character plenty of room to move, in case the cancer is more aggressive than they thought and they want more tragedy.
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