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Cancer Vaccine That Mimics Lymph Node
SubComdTaco writes "Harvard has announced their approach towards an implantable cancer vaccine (press release here). To anyone familiar with how the immune system works, this appears to be a synthetic lymph node, an intriguing bit of biomimicry. From the Science Daily article: 'A cancer vaccine carried into the body on a carefully engineered, fingernail-sized implant is the first to successfully eliminate tumors in mammals, scientists recently reported in the journal Science Translational Medicine. The new approach, pioneered by bioengineers and immunologists at Harvard University, uses plastic disks impregnated with tumor-specific antigens and implanted under the skin to reprogram the mammalian immune system to attack tumors. The new paper describes the use of such implants to eradicate melanoma tumors in mice. ... The slender implants... are 8.5 millimeters in diameter and made of an FDA-approved biodegradable polymer. Ninety percent air, the disks are highly permeable to immune cells and release cytokines, powerful recruiters of immune-system messengers called dendritic cells. These cells enter an implant's pores, where they are exposed to antigens specific to the type of tumor being targeted. The dendritic cells then report to nearby lymph nodes, where they direct the immune system's T cells to hunt down and kill tumor cells.'"
hmm could this be used for HIV as well then? program the immune system to attack it?
If it cures my cancer, I don't care if the think is the size of a hockey puck and they have to stick it in my forehead*.
*Ass was too expected.
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It's not what I would normally consider a vaccine- I was going to post that it wasn't a vaccine at all, but a quick examination of the definition of the word indicates I was about to firmly place foot-in-mouth had I done so.
A fantastic breakthrough if it works, though. I have been hearing about potential strategies to enable a cancer victim's own immune system to attack tumors, but this is the furthest along that I've heard of. Good jorb!
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unless the foreign components are later found to cause cancer themselves.
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According to the article, it releases "antigens specific to the type of tumor being targeted". Sounds more like a treatment, unless you plan to implant antigens for every known tumor type.
I think whoever CAN tag should probably throw on "iamlegend".
I'm curious though, Isn't a cancer cell really just a normal cell that's basically gone "immortal" and reproduces indefinitely? Isn't there a chance that this vaccination could accidentally tell the immune cells to attack cells that are normal but could have a similar antigen? Just curious.
and get your Lupus / out of control immune system deployment widget.
Can I urge you to go for a colonoscopy when recommended. Too many people put it off because they're embarrassed or think it will be painful - believe me, surgery and chemo are far worse.
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I would be worried about invoking autoimmune diseases.
Making the immune system attack (only) the cancerous cells seems to be a popular research subject these days.
Another company called Immunovative is taking a slightly different approach which does not require an implant.
They are currently running human clinical trials in Israel and California. More information here.
Disclaimer: A close friend of mine is participating in the clinical trial in Carlsbad.
This cancer thing is so fantastic I don't reckon anybody cares that Dr. Zamboni of Italy has cured MS (Multiple Sclerosis) eh? He tried it on a fluke with his wife first and it fixed her up immediately. He found a blockage that was preventing blood from getting out of the brain so it was causing damage and stuff. I lost the link but I'm sure Google has it. Yeah baby, and for some odd reason he didn't do it on mice for 10 years first!
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The Press Release is dated January 22, 2009. Has there been any recent developments? What's the timeline for human trials?
He got a Nobel Peace Prize for the discovery that cancer is destroyed in a high-oxygen environment like when you hyperventilate a little or sit in an oxygen chamber (like what Michael Jackson was "accused" of doing before he went out for the night to stalk children).
There is another matter all alone that removes cancer, and it was synthesized under the trademark "Leyatrill": Vitamin B17, being found abundantly in the seeds of fruits particular Apricot-seeds.
Of'course you will not hear about any of this, because look at all the f*cking bums that make a living off perpetuating cancer; all the social clubs and "help" clinics, all the fund-raisers, all of it is bogus. 15 million people die every year from infections after surgery and treatments endured in malpractice alone. 3rd-world countries don't even have a name for cancer because they don't get this. Only industrialized countries that have such high Heavy Metal poisoning and bad food quality are what diminish the Immune System to allow cancer to take hold. The fact is cancer is nothing more than a fungus ( http://cancerisfungus.com/ ) that everyone has in them just from the environment, and it only gets out of control when the Immune System takes a dive; a cancer sends out virus it makes to take-over your cells no different than a pile of cellulose in the forest, then it lowers the PH level of your blood and skin so that it can digest and absorb the nutrients that compose your body, then when finished it sprouts an impaling growth that is otherwise known in the fungus world as the fruiting body.
Just go for Vitamin B17, an Oxygen tank or O-zone treatments, maybe even some Cesium Chlorite to rub directly onto your skin above the cancer.
while interesting not really the first: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/66162.php
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