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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."'"
It truly is amazing. Girls who get Pregnant like symptoms when they really want to be pregnant. People who catch an actual cold when they call in sick for work faking it. It's all around us. My girlfriend says that like 6 of the 7 pills she takes are placebos, its only the mondays that are actual birth control. The rest of it is just to get her into the swing of taking a pill each morning, or subconciously help that taking a pill each day has more of an effect.
In fact, I think that since I believe pizza is healthy for me, my body stays healthier when I eat it. I mean, its got your dairy products(cheese), your grain products (dough), some veggies (tomato paste), and meat products (pepperoni!). Thats like, Half the food pyramid right there right?
Before you all point out how much flawed logic there is up in that last section, let me point out that I am still under 130 pounds, and I put most of the blame on the placebo effect of truly believing that fried potatos in any form still constitute a vegitable, contrary to what Jamie Oliver might say.
and me with no mod points.
Sweet informative mod.