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Cancer Therapy with Radioactive Scorpion Venom
BostonBTS writes "Researchers from TransMolecular, Inc. have used chlorotoxin -- a component of giant yellow scorpion venom -- to target radioactive treatments for the deadly brain cancer glioma. From the article: 'In the study, 18 patients first had surgery to remove malignant gliomas, a lethal kind of brain tumor. Then doctors injected their brains with a solution of radioactive iodine and TM-601, the synthetic protein. The solution bound almost exclusively to leftover tumor cells, suggesting that it could be combined with chemotherapy to fight cancer. Furthermore, two study patients were still alive nearly three years after the treatment.' Their paper is slated for publication in the August issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology."
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It's like when Disney started secretly buying land through anonymous entities in Florida & as soon as word got out Disney was the ones actually buying the land, the prices skyrocketed, except in this case, the rockets are skying.
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> Granted, with a sample size of 18, it's not absolutely sure that the treatment was responsible, but
> even with a good sized tail, 2/18 patients lasting 3 years is enough to make it worthwhile funding
> another study....
No. You've still not answered the question. If 2 patients lasting 3 years is what you'd expect to happen without treatment then there would be very little point in funding that study at the expense of another study which showed that 2 patients lasted 3 years where normally they'd all have died.