Cancer hot water

[oops]

This may be a dumb question, I know almost nothing about medicine, but I keep wondering why doctors couldn't inject scalding hot water into a cancerous tumor and burn the bad cells?

Edited December 19, 2020 by oops

[Guest]

I don't think it's a dumb question.  I don't know the answer, but I don't think it's a dumb question.

I have a dumb question:

Instead of grounding all those Boeing 737s for over a year, why didn't they just install a switch that would return complete control to the pilot if the software tried to do something stupid?

[OftenWrong]

Cancer care is in hot water.

[OftenWrong]

2 hours ago, bcsapper said:

I don't think

We know.

[Guest]

1 hour ago, OftenWrong said:

We know.

Ha ha ha, very good, yes.

[oops]

14 hours ago, bcsapper said:

Instead of grounding all those Boeing 737s for over a year, why didn't they just install a switch that would return complete control to the pilot if the software tried to do something stupid?

Sounds too simple. How is an engineer going to work with that?

[oops]

Water can be heated to 700 degrees fahrenheit , if a very small amount of super heated water was injected into the center of a cancerous tumor,  it would burn the cells it came into contact with, and the burn would spread. A small amount of water could kill a much greater amount of tumor. There would be no incision, and inoperable tumors could be treated. Also water is nontoxic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superheated_water#:~:text=Superheated water is liquid water,C (705 °F).&text=Over the superheated temperature range,expected by increasing temperature alone.

Superheated water is liquid water under pressure at temperatures between the usual boiling point, 100 °C (212 °F) and the critical temperature, 374 °C (705 °F). It is also known as "subcritical water" or "pressurized hot water."