A virus that kills cancer: the cure that's waiting in the cold

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Cobretti2 on 06 September 2012

This isn't the first time this has happened.

There was some other pill that was found to fight cancer too (or at least prevent further growth - can't remember exactly). It was some medicine from like 50 years ago.

This the patents or whever medical ewquivalent is have expired, meaning anyone could freely create this drug, pharmasuticals did nto take it up because there be no money in it for them.

side ntoe to JazzB1987, electirc vehicles are not practical atm because it takes too long to charge the battery. Those which can be charged quickly had charged in the ball park of 40amps to 80amps required. Can you imagine the stress this would put on a power network (which would not have the capacity to cope) considering most houses would probably have a total 100amp service.

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Mnementh on 07 September 2012

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It will turn you into a Zombie! And spread!

Yes, the years of Zombie-defense-training will pay in the end! The downside is, that I will probably die of cancer in the postapocalyptic zombie-world.

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Hynad on 07 September 2012

wfz said:

SnakeDrake said:

wfz said:

Your right we should let let these old timers die or better yet kill them. Only the wealthy people like the fat auss who thinks the working-class deserves to be payed $2/hour the corrupted politicians and a few war-lords deserves to have longevity.

I'm sorry to say this but you sir is an a*****

/running of topic

I'm not saying we should kill them, I'm only bringing up the point that they're costing us tons of money to keep them alive for short periods of time. When an elderly person does not have the money to pay for surgery and other medical expenses, we pay for it. Do we want to spend 10k, 20, 40k just to keep this elderly person alive for a few months longer? Death is a natural process and I believe that it's something we're trying far too hard to run away from.

You could argue that it's morally the right thing to do (depending on your morals), but can we simply keep throwing all of that money away in effort to prolong elderly people's lives by a few months? The truth is that as much as we want to, we don't have all the money in the world and we will go further into debt and we can't sustain it.

If you believe that bringing up these valid points makes me an asshole, then I'm perfectly fine with it. I realize it might be a somewhat rude awakening you're trying to hide from, but I would argue that our current state of medical spending isn't going to work for much longer.

The very point of medecine is to make people live healthier, longer.