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The main idea was that, like a virus, the cure would insert itself into cancer cells and use them to multiply. Theoretically it was an ingenious move, turning an incurable sickness into another, which can be cured. He then used his nano-technology to include a killswitch, in order to disable the virus, once the cancer has been dealt with.