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Some Tumors Are Responding to A New Cancer Therapy (bloomberg.com)
A new cancer therapy in an early-stage trial by the U.S. National Cancer Institute "continued to be safe and show durable responses against solid tumors for some patients," reports Bloomberg. "In a trial of 14 patients who received different doses, three patients' cancers have shrunk partially, according to a study presented Sunday... The researchers had presented initial positive data in November, and the updated study shows that the three partial responses were durable, with one cervical cancer patient's response continuing at 15 months." Kite Pharma Inc. licensed the therapy, and by the end of the year will file an "investigational new drug" application with the FDA to begin the next round of testing. The therapy involves genetically engineered T cells, targeted to the solid tumors using the MAGE-A3 protein as a unique marker expressed in up to 30 percent of cancers.
This just takes the price for least informative summary ever. So a new cancer drug has effects. Ok great, every day we see these trials and most have at least some effect. Only in the last sentence is desribed why this particular trial is worth mentioning.
If an experiment works, something has gone wrong.
For only $500,000 per dose.
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How is this news? Honestly guys, I've never considered doing quitting Slashdot before, but what is this?
It's Slashdot's dirty little secret: many posters are actually meatbags. Sometimes some of them forget to pretend that they aren't interested in meatbag-only news, like meatbag debugging techniques.
If you're (understandably) grossed out by meatbag-related news, yeah, you might want to consider relocating.
Funnily enough, the medical establishment actually sells drugs that went through trials which proven that they do, in fact, have a positive effect on cancer. I'd love to see some results of medical trials done with alternative therapies.
have outlawed further research into this.
But what happens when Republicans get cancer?
It's not a tumor.
You might be surprised how little effect in some cases.
And some aren't.
Thanks for reading!
Nice blurb. Of course it mentions FDA aproval otherwise it would be verboten.
Now if you or someone you know is sick with Cancer or another one of those "incurable" diseases my advice is: do not be afraid to search for a cure yourself.
They should - many of the so-called "cures" are dangerous in many ways. Some of them directly (as injecting poisons isn't healthy) and some indirectly (reducing effects of medical treatment). Some are "harmless", assuming the patient doesn't think they should replace real, proven effective treatment with whatever snake-oil they choose. Those in the third category can even have positive effects just as any other placebo.
The very idea of a cancer cure is idiotic as it is a wide spectrum of different kinds of cellular malfunction. That's the reason there are a lot of different drugs and treatments as something effective for one of the cancers will not be effective for another kind.
Yes, a cure. I'm sure it's a crazy concept for many people stuck with approved science but until you have direct, personal experience with an option you can't dismiss it anymore than you can dismiss mainstream-approved chemoterapy and radiotherapy, which by the way are bigger killers than the cancer itself.
And that's bullshit spread by ignorant fools and people wanting to make money on peoples fears and hopes. How do I know? Science, medical science.
Yes there are people that dies of the cancer treatment, most commonly by a fragile body overdosing on painkillers. It isn't talked about much but is a reality. But how should those deaths be avoided? Many terminal cancer cases are extremely painful and not giving them large amounts of painkillers would be torture of people not (even if they'd want to) capable of ending their own lives, even with the Hippocratic ideals in mind allowing the patients to be tortured by their own decaying bodies for a few extra days of "life" in agony isn't a realistic choice.
Mind you I'm not saying there aren't charlatans out for desperate people.There are a lot... in the medical establishment as well as outside of it. Caveat emptor.
I can count 6 people I know of (having read their sites, articles etc.) that thought they knew a cure for cancer. They all died of the cancer they were sure to be cured. Some of them just "knew" the cure(s), some of them left a huge pile of robbed corpses.
There are people that claim to have been cured by something, the thing in common is that they either was self-diagnosed or diagnosed by quacks.
If someone told me or anybody else I know that I/he/she have terminal cancer I'd seek a second opinion (not expecting any better news) and then just accept palliative care trying to make my/his/her last days as comfortable as possible.
I'll end by noting that you didn't say what any of the "cures" are.
Genetically modified T-cells to treat cancer, reminds me of this.
https://xkcd.com/938/
Jut use the old, proven cures:
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com...
Seems to me we don't work on the obvious attack vector.
Cancer affects organs and tissues.
DNA is a script for "Life" from cradle to grave.
Why not re-write the script to "temporarily" edit out that tissue or organ.. say surgery without surgery.. so now your clear of cancer.. those cells basically "Deleted" themselves.
Then re-edit the script "grow a new organ" or tissue.. using stem cells.. or simply inform the extracellular matrix.. time to grow a new organ.. or regenerate that tissue.
You could cure HIV and other retrovirus infect cells the same way..
The only problem would be "making up" for the temporarily missing organ.. or tissue.. temporarily.. many organs are semi-redundant.. or could offload some of the other responsibilities.
Brain recycling though might be a little tough.. you would want to "download" the mermories.. or save them off in some fashion while the brain was being replaced. The upload them later.
have outlawed further research into this.
Read the article. It's a GMO technology, so only Republicans will use it.
If you want to put your lives in the hands of an industry that makes trillions as long as you stay sick, that's up to you.
I didn't mention any specific cures because I don't want to be seen as shilling for a particular cause. Anyone who is interested can pick a search engine and start digging.
I'll say this - The more effective cures are very likely the ones that got banned. Also search for books burned by the FDA - when the government burns books it's usually a good endorsement of the work.
The very idea of a cancer cure is idiotic as it is a wide spectrum of different kinds of cellular malfunction
The treatment in TFA (assuming that TFA is about the same treatment that was in the news a couple of days ago) works by allowing the body's natural defences against cancer to work properly. Cells become cancerous all of the time but they're almost always killed immediately by your autoimmune response. Some mutate in a way that prevents the immune system recognising them as broken and can then spread quite quickly. This treatment allows the immune system to recognise the cancer cells, so is likely to work on most, if not all, forms of cancer. The catch is that it requires a specific implementation for each patient.
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Don't worry, they gave the research to the Umbrella Corporation to secretly develop in an underground lab in Raccoon City.....
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Three responders out of fourteen. Wake me when there's been a real clinical trial that's properly powered. And the only endpoint that really matters is survival.
Immunotherapy has been applied to another type of cancer, and the results look promising.
For those that don't know, immunotherapy was a big breakthrough in cancer research in 2010. It's very expensive, as it has to be tailor made to the patient and the specific form of cancer. Many times it involves genetically modifying the patient's immune system to recognize the cancer cells as an infection.
One of our competitors trademarked the term "hypothesis". From now on, we will call them "boneheaded ideas".
Nice blurb. Of course it mentions FDA aproval otherwise it would be verboten.
Now if you or someone you know is sick with Cancer or another one of those "incurable" diseases my advice is: do not be afraid to search for a cure yourself.
They should - many of the so-called "cures" are dangerous in many ways. Some of them directly (as injecting poisons isn't healthy) and some indirectly (reducing effects of medical treatment). Some are "harmless", assuming the patient doesn't think they should replace real, proven effective treatment with whatever snake-oil they choose. Those in the third category can even have positive effects just as any other placebo.
The very idea of a cancer cure is idiotic as it is a wide spectrum of different kinds of cellular malfunction. That's the reason there are a lot of different drugs and treatments as something effective for one of the cancers will not be effective for another kind.
Yes, a cure. I'm sure it's a crazy concept for many people stuck with approved science but until you have direct, personal experience with an option you can't dismiss it anymore than you can dismiss mainstream-approved chemoterapy and radiotherapy, which by the way are bigger killers than the cancer itself.
And that's bullshit spread by ignorant fools and people wanting to make money on peoples fears and hopes. How do I know? Science, medical science.
Yes there are people that dies of the cancer treatment, most commonly by a fragile body overdosing on painkillers. It isn't talked about much but is a reality. But how should those deaths be avoided? Many terminal cancer cases are extremely painful and not giving them large amounts of painkillers would be torture of people not (even if they'd want to) capable of ending their own lives, even with the Hippocratic ideals in mind allowing the patients to be tortured by their own decaying bodies for a few extra days of "life" in agony isn't a realistic choice.
Mind you I'm not saying there aren't charlatans out for desperate people.There are a lot... in the medical establishment as well as outside of it. Caveat emptor.
I can count 6 people I know of (having read their sites, articles etc.) that thought they knew a cure for cancer. They all died of the cancer they were sure to be cured. Some of them just "knew" the cure(s), some of them left a huge pile of robbed corpses.
There are people that claim to have been cured by something, the thing in common is that they either was self-diagnosed or diagnosed by quacks.
If someone told me or anybody else I know that I/he/she have terminal cancer I'd seek a second opinion (not expecting any better news) and then just accept palliative care trying to make my/his/her last days as comfortable as possible.
I'll end by noting that you didn't say what any of the "cures" are.
Let's get something clear, ALL Cancer is terminal.
It may go into remission, but the cells are ALWAYS in your body, waiting for the next chance to invade an organ or vascular system.
As someone who recently lost a life partner after an 18 year battle, I have the chops to go with the statement. Anyone who tells you that you're 'cured' of cancer is blowing smoke up your behind.
There are many spectacularly successful cures for cancers that simply enable the body to reverse the process that started the tumor in the first place.
My father-in-law had a 10cm lung tumour last year and in 23 days the tumor shrank 50% and was gone in 60 days. The "magic"? The juice of 1.5kg of carrots daily.
Oncologists just laugh and shake their heads because their information network doesn't have room for anything outside the feeds from their petro-chemical overlords. Yes, I said it. They're just being kept in the dark on purpose, minions in the war for the financial exploitation of the world's ignoramuses.
Get started here... and many others.
I guess you would have to get affordble treatment outsideof the USA (Europe,Israel, Russia, Canada, etc)
"Affordable" in Russia? What a horrible joke. Treatment in Russia is not affordable. It was kinda affordable in USSR but you had to spend a lot of time proving that you need treatment, and even then it was matter of luck and bribing the "right" people. Today nothing real is available through "free" system except very basic paperwork and if you need real treatment you have to pay a lot of money. And commercial medical insurance is outrageously expensive, impossible to pay for average people.
And if you've got cancer, you are done in Russia. They won't even provide painkillers because painkillers are "drugs" and to get daily dose your relatives have to stand in lines almost every day and still officials often refuse to give out painkillers! Medical personnel is afraid of being accused of drugs trade, cops are in constant search for easy prey to accuse somebody without real hard work.
About two years ago a well known rear-admiral Vyacheslav Apanasenko commited suicide because medical personnel refused to give him painkillers. His suicide caused serious uproar in media -- and NOTHING changed. So if you've got cancer in Russia you'd better kill yourself, because you'll be left dying without aid and even without painkillers.