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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 3222240" data-attributes="member: 14159">Because ther is a world of difference between radiation poisoning and cancer?Radiation poisoning is having many of the cells in your body, throughout your body, killed by powerful ionizing radiation.  Before her final flight she was already losing her hair, meaning she had taken a dangerously high dose already, before her final flight.  Cancer is an irregular growth in the body that could be checked by the immune system.  The treatment was also based on using cylon stem cells from the human/cylon hybrid fetus to augment the immune system to be able to fight cancer, not using mature blood from a humanoid cylon to repair the massive cell death from heavy doses of ionizing radiation, big difference there especially since they don't exactly have the best scientific facilities in the galaxy at their disposal.  A treatment for cancer is radically different than a treatment for massive radiation poisoning.  Cylon blood isn't some magical Heal Potion, if it was I think Athena would be regularly stopping by Doc Cottle to bank it for cure-all use, and even if it was, it was Baltar who figured out how to use it, and they don't exactly have access to him right now (and if they did they likely wouldn't trust him).</blockquote>