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Cancer Cured By HIV
bluefoxlucid writes "Apparently cancer has been cured, by injecting people with HIV. From the article: 'As the white cells killed the cancer cells, the patients experienced the fevers and aches and pains that one would expect when the body is fighting off an infection, but beyond that the side effects have been minimal.' Nifty. Poorly edited run-on sentence, but nifty."
There are worse cancers to have. A friend of mine had lost her mother to rectal cancer. If you ever want to feel like a complete d-bag, talk to a person about someone dying from ass cancer, then after giggling about it, find out they were completely serious. Even more so if it was recent.
>> Both the National Cancer Institute and several pharmaceutical companies declined to pay for the research.
Its disgusting, but of course not.
The pharma companies only want to keep selling symptom suppressants instead of actual cures. They don't want to actually cure people of anything as that means diminishing their customer base.
The National Cancer Institute wont fund this because they, like any other government body, are full of bureaucratic leeches on fatcat salaries that put their own continued employment above anything else, even solving the problem they were tasked to address.