Killing Cancer With a Virus

just___giver writes "The U.S. National Cancer Institute has just decided to fund multiple human clinical studies to test the reovirus. This naturally occuring virus has a remarkable ability to infect and kill cancer cells, without affecting normal, healthy cells. Here is a before and after picture of a terminal patient with an actively growing neck tumour that had failed to respond to conventional treatments. This tumour was eliminated with only a single injection of the Reovirus. Researchers at Oncolytics Biotech have shown that the Reovirus can kill many types of cancer, including breast, prostate, pancreatic and brain tumours. Human clinical trial results indicate that there are no safety concerns and that the reovirus shrinks and even eliminates tumours injected with this virus. Numerous other third party studies show that the reovirus should be an important discovery in the treatment of 2/3 of all human cancers."

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Re:Okay, lets try it then...

[Spl0it]

You must be an american, here in canada people don't get $500million for say, spilling hot coffee on their own leg, etc.. Not to mention no family here would sue if a 'last-measure-shot-in-the-dark' didn't work. Also no judge would give any family in this situation XXXX million dollars. If you guys wants to see something interesting, find CBC's Talking to American's... its a shame how ignorant the US is. I like lots of things about the US but lets be realistic alot needs to be changed.

Re:Okay, lets try it then...

[clifyt]

Here in America that doesn't happen either.

People get $50k to cover the skin grafts from idiot employees pouring scalding hot coffee on the legs of the elderly. Pain and suffering costs were not that much compared to paying for the medical needs.

Its a shame every ignorant dumbass likes to bring this up when they have no clue about how the system actually works.

Re:Okay, lets try it then...

[CAIMLAS]

No, the medical "community" is much more concerned with "how will this effect our financial bottom line? what of the millions invested in the current 'medicines' we have, which do not work, and provide our golden lifestyles?" than "what about the sick and dying".

It's one main reason why 'alternative medicine" has been so slowly accepted. However, people (individuals) have caught on, and a movement has started to help educated the masses.