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'''Diloxin therapy''' was given as a [[Wikipedia:Cancer|cancer]] treatment option  to President [[Laura Roslin]] by Dr. [[Cottle]] to battle her breast cancer.
'''Diloxin therapy''' was given as a [[Wikipedia:Cancer|cancer]] treatment option  to President [[Laura Roslin]] by Dr. [[Cottle]] to battle her breast cancer.


Diloxin therapy is likely a form of [[Wikipedia:chemotherapy|chemotherapy]].  President Roslin tells Dr. Cottle of having her mother endure two years of diloxin therapy as she wasted away, and therefore the President wanted to explore alternative treatments such as [[Chamalla]].
Diloxin therapy is likely a form of [[Wikipedia:chemotherapy|chemotherapy]].  President Roslin tells Dr. Cottle of having her mother endure two years of diloxin therapy as she wasted away, and therefore the President wanted to explore alternative treatments such as [[chamalla]].


Roslin's account of her mother's treatment suggests that the side effects of diloxin therapy (hair loss, nausea, muscle degeneration), like many chemotherapy options in the real world, may be just as debilitating and uncomfortable as the illness it is intended to cure.
Roslin's account of her mother's treatment suggests that the side effects of diloxin therapy (hair loss, nausea, muscle degeneration), like many chemotherapy options in the real world, may be just as debilitating and uncomfortable as the illness it is intended to cure.
==Note==
Diloxin, a chemotherapy drug with dibilitating side effects, may have been named to evoke the poison [[Wikipedia:Dioxin|Dioxin]].


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Revision as of 13:30, 3 November 2006

Diloxin therapy was given as a cancer treatment option to President Laura Roslin by Dr. Cottle to battle her breast cancer.

Diloxin therapy is likely a form of chemotherapy. President Roslin tells Dr. Cottle of having her mother endure two years of diloxin therapy as she wasted away, and therefore the President wanted to explore alternative treatments such as chamalla.

Roslin's account of her mother's treatment suggests that the side effects of diloxin therapy (hair loss, nausea, muscle degeneration), like many chemotherapy options in the real world, may be just as debilitating and uncomfortable as the illness it is intended to cure.