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New Anti-Cancer Drug Put Cancers To Sleep In Mice -- Permanently (medicalxpress.com)
"Australian scientists have taken a 'major step forward' in the world of cancer research," reports ABC (the national broadcaster of Australia). Long-time Slashdot reader Artem Tashkinov quotes an announcement from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research: In a world first, Melbourne scientists have discovered a new type of anti-cancer drug that can put cancer cells into a permanent sleep, without the harmful side-effects caused by conventional cancer therapies.
Published today in the journal Nature, the research reveals the first class of anti-cancer drugs that work by putting the cancer cell to sleep -- arresting tumour growth and spread without damaging the cells' DNA.
The new class of drugs could provide an exciting alternative for people with cancer, and has already shown great promise in halting cancer progression in models of blood and liver cancers, as well as in delaying cancer relapse.
One of the lead researchers says the new compounds "had already shown great promise in preclinical testing."
Published today in the journal Nature, the research reveals the first class of anti-cancer drugs that work by putting the cancer cell to sleep -- arresting tumour growth and spread without damaging the cells' DNA.
The new class of drugs could provide an exciting alternative for people with cancer, and has already shown great promise in halting cancer progression in models of blood and liver cancers, as well as in delaying cancer relapse.
One of the lead researchers says the new compounds "had already shown great promise in preclinical testing."
Didn't we all hire someone here on Slashdot to keep track of all the miracle cancer cures? This may have been in the late 90's.
Number of cancer cures announced in stories on Slashdot >= Number of flying-car-coming-tomorrow stories on Slashdot
Maybe it was me who we hired. I forget. I may have been the one who was supposed to keep track of the Alzheimer cure stories.
"If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid." - Epictetus
What is remarkable is that they claim to target any cancer. Cancer is hard to cure because it is as diverse as people.
TFA says they induced senescence - the lack of ability to divide - to cancer cells, but they do not tell us how they managed to target cancer cells only.
That's it, I'm using CRISPR to turn myself into a mouse.
Corruption is convincing someone that the selfless ideal is the same as their selfish ideal.
It's not that it never works in humans, a rather significant number of drugs just never really make it to the market for various reasons--including things like not wanting to have to deal with lawsuits from idiots who didn't pay attention when told that this only sometimes worked/needed time to work/only worked on very specific cancers/any and all combinations thereof. It's expensive to do human testing, too, especially since having somebody drop dead while you're testing it may result in an auto-fail even if it's almost certainly not anything whatsoever to do with the drug.
Drug agencies tend to be rather paranoid about letting drugs onto the market...and pretty laid back once it has been, never mind that (especially in diverse countries) there are some side effects you just cannot expect to routinely and reliably catch in testing.
The cancer drug I will take when the time comes will be the new one announced by China that US and European pharma will angrily call a theft of its own IP. That's how I will know it's not just another bullshit folk remedy.