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Cancer Resistance Technique Moves To Human Trials
TaeKwonDood tips us to news that a new cancer resistance treatment is going into clinical trials after being quite successful at eradicating cancer in mice. Researchers discovered that certain white blood cells called granulocytes from cancer-immune mice were able to cure cancer in other mice. Now, doctors are putting out the call for healthy granulocyte donors in order to test how well it works on humans. The article quotes lead researcher Zheng Cui saying, "In mice, we've been able to eradicate even highly aggressive forms of malignancy with extremely large tumors. Hopefully, we will see the same results in humans. Our laboratory studies indicate that this cancer-fighting ability is even stronger in healthy humans."
Now that we've seen yet another way to fight against cancer, we'll just watch it fade into obscurity as if it were really just a post on /.'s frontpage.
Have any of these medical breakthroughs actually born fruit? Have any become tenable?
Give a man a fire and he'll be warm for a day. But light a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
...but I think that cancer is likely to be triggered by some psychological conditions. The last time I was stating that the state of one's health reflects the state of one's mind, people were laughing at me, but I really observe that many people that I know / heard of, and who suffer/died from cancer, have had some certain problems. Mainly it were: unwillingness to forgive someone something they've done long time ago; unwillingness to accept the current state of something over a longer period of time; perceived loneliness.
Well, it might not be the *only* cause, but certainly the psychological aspect should never be underestimated when dealing with *any* illness.