Interesting. I know with my father and his ongoing urinary tract infections, the idea was to manage/monitor the bacteria level and treat only when it reached symptomatic level...and then with drugs chosen based on sensitivity tests. So it was essentially an approach that gave up on cure.
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Read studies malaria in mice, where he has found that a lower dose or shorter course of antimalarial drugs can sometimes work much better than a higher dose when there are mixtures of resistant and nonresistant strains.
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Makes me wonder if an option for advanced cancer might be a sensitivity test informed metronomic or staggered approach.