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[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

That's actually exactly how chemo works. It microwaves your cells on a molecular level!

Edit: turns out I confused it with radiation therapy!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think they may have been thinking of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_therapy?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Seeing the edit, yes, but that is also wrong. As the first line of the link says, radiation therapy uses ionizing radiation and not microwaves

It is possible to use microwaves for treating cancer (see https://www.bmc.org/content/microwave-ablation), but the two aforementioned methods do not use them (with the caveat that both "chemotherapy" and "radiation therapy" are very broad categories)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I used microwaving as a verb, as in cooking. English can be weird like that but I didn't mean the literal frequency range. My bad