An alternative model to the Skipper Schabel Wilcox one, the Norton Simon model, predicts that the best way to destroy an heterogeneous mix of cancer cells is to eradicate the numerically dominant, faster growing cells first, followed by eradication of the more slow growing, resistant cells [ 11].
Since early this year, Mr. Karzai has repeatedly declared his opposition to spraying the poppy fields, whether by crop-dusting airplanes or by eradication teams on the ground.
The defense minister, Luis Carlos Villegas, said instead of dumping glyphosate from American-piloted crop dusters, as Colombia did for two decades, the herbicide will now be applied manually by eradication crews on the ground.
I must say, however, that even in pathology, modern medicine increasingly considers the disease to be part of our body, often leading to successful treatment not by "eradication" and "elimination" but by holistic management of a chronic condition.
MicroRNA deregulation is not completely reversible by eradication alone in long-term H. pylori colonization [ 44].
Moreover, DNA methylation not only is induced by H. pylori infection, but also can be reversed by eradication therapy.
