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This corresponds to absorbed doses far above those that already kill a significant fraction of cells as shown in Fig. 1.
We had originally acquired them because they're known to scare vipers away; their mighty beaks can attack and kill in a fraction of a second and their legs have no blood vessels a snake can bite into.
The fractional kill hypothesis states that a defined chemotherapy concentration applied for a defined period of time will kill a constant fraction of cells in a population regardless of tumour size, relative to cell sensitivity to treatment.
A central principal of cancer chemotherapy is that treatments kill a high fraction of the cancerous cells, and therefore multiple courses of cancer chemotherapy are required so that the number of cancerous cells asymptotically approaches zero.
We also speculated that the metronomic use of SSAs may also synchronise the cell cycle of the tumour cells, thus making them a much more sensitive target for the cycle-specific cytotoxic drugs, enabling them to kill a greater fraction of in-cycle tumour cells.
Interleukin 2-activated killer cells (LAK) however, killed the fractions containing clonogenic cells in all 4 cases.
Macrolides including azithromycin can kill off a large fraction of Eggerthella lenta bacteria and therefore increase the serum digoxin concentration.
From figure 3, we can see the largest cell killing rate per fraction is less than 17% (if we use 20 fractions, the cell killing rate per fraction is much smaller than 8%).
The current crop of terrorists, unlike the bombers of World War II, has no chance of conquering us or (realistically) of killing a large fraction of our population.
