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FDA Approves Vaccine For Prostate Cancer
reverseengineer writes "The US Food and Drug Administration has given its first first approval for a therapeutic cancer vaccine. In a clinical trial 'involving 512 men, those who got Provenge (sipuleucel-T) had a median survival of 25.8 months after treatment, while those who got a placebo lived a median of 21.7 months. After three years, 32 percent of those who got Provenge were alive, compared with 23 percent of those who got the placebo. ... "The big story here is that this is the first proof of principle and proof that immunotherapy works in general in cancer, which I think is a huge observation," said Dr. Philip Kantoff, chief of solid tumor oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston and the lead investigator in Dendreon's largest clinical trial for the drug. "I think this is a very big thing and will lead to a lot more enthusiasm for the approach."'"
jenny mccarthy told me vaccines give me prostate cancer
no thanks, i'll pass. i get my health advice from mtv hosts
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
I also hope it gets rid of prostate exams :)
Never antropomorphize computers, they do not like that
I'm trying to figure out if "Provenge" is the most awesome or terrifying name for a drug I've ever heard. Also from the wikipedia page it "consists of a mixture of the patient's own blood cells" and their special "fusion protein".
I'm going with terrifyingly awesome!
I just hope the commercials feature Chuck Norris.
Ahhh yes, but if the hypotenuse to the quasar were perpendicular to the linear equation then wouldn't the gravitation of the median be devised by the quandary?
As someone who got hooked on ciggies about six years ago and actually enjoys the habit, news like this is promising to me. I hope the science behind this vaccine can be generalized to other forms of cancer, including lung cancer. I understand the reasons for banning smoking all over the place for reasons other than health, but it would be great to have advances in health technology to negate the effects of smoking. Since I have yet to quit and am not motivated to try again, I'm kind of banking on it.
Your brain is not a computer.
Only on Uranus (or prostate)...
Dendreon said Thursday the drug will cost $93,000 per patient. Their stock was up today.
And it can make you impotent. Which is great because now that your new hair can attract women, you can't take advantage of the situation.
well research shows that the more you have sex and masturbate when you are young increases your chance of prostate canacer, and with teens having sex at a younger and younger age i think this company will be making some good money from this later down the road. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090126082343.htm
>each day you clean the pipes per week gives you and ~X% reduced chance of getting this dreaded disease.
Ok. Fine by me, but who is this "not X percent", and why is he getting a free ride? Oh, I get it. You call the person in your fantasies "not X percent?" Weird.
If they had used this reasoning and allowed insurance to pay for full service massage parlors in the health care bill, it would have passed without anyone complaining. Now there's change I would believe in!
5 times a week?!?
How am I ever going to keep count, let alone get the number down to 5?
Crumb's Corollary: Never bring a knife to a bun fight.
See - Internet Porn really can kill you!
I'm still not certain that I believe it. Is ScienceDaily a reputable source?
Fortunately, when I was in my 20s the internet wasn't available to most people and it took 2 hrs to download a single unknown photo from a BBS. I never saw any porn in my teens, just the Queen "bicycle" album art. Oh how far we've cum.