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Jaywood2010 on 31 March 2013
rutea7 said:
I've heard of this, my boyfriend asked a nurse his opinion about it here at the hospital and he said the doctors say it might be a long time before it starts being applied.


Yeah sadly.  I'm not sure how long testing takes but I'm sure it isn't a simple task since they have to find all of the side effects and if it has any long term effects.  Hopefully it will be sooner rather than later.  And hopefully it actually works.  It would be great if we made a big step like this to rid cancer or at least contain it for a while




       

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allblue on 31 March 2013

Great news, I hope this time we rid of this curse on humanity for real and even more hopefully, the pharmaceutical company will have enough moral responsibility to not monopolize this. :)



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Izo on 31 March 2013
allblue said:
Great news, I hope this time we rid of this curse on humanity for real and even more hopefully, the pharmaceutical company will have enough moral responsibility to not monopolize this. :)

You know they are going to try to squeeze the most amount of money out of this that they can. If this doesn't work or partially works it wont matter. Medicine is on the verage of curing cancer. If this isnt the treatment its only a matter of time before something else is thought of.

Cancer is probably one of the worst diseases in the world. I am excited to live long enough to see cancer cured. One of my dreams is to see cancer wiped from the face of the earth.



rutea7 on 31 March 2013
JayWood2010 said:
rutea7 said:
I've heard of this, my boyfriend asked a nurse his opinion about it here at the hospital and he said the doctors say it might be a long time before it starts being applied.


Yeah sadly.  I'm not sure how long testing takes but I'm sure it isn't a simple task since they have to find all of the side effects and if it has any long term effects.  Hopefully it will be sooner rather than later.  And hopefully it actually works.  It would be great if we made a big step like this to rid cancer or at least contain it for a while


Yes it would be nice if treating cancer wasn't so much of a rollercoaster of side effects and such a long process.



Soundwave on 31 March 2013

Best news on this board ... like ever.

The advances they've made in fighting HIV/AIDS the last 20 years have been remarkable, it's time that cancer gets its rear end kicked by science/medicine too.

Lets hope this doesn't get lost in the glut of other cancer treatments and really break throughs. The promising thing about this is in theory it could treat any type of cancer. 



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SENTIENT6 on 31 March 2013

Cancer is the world's worst disease (Besides humans), scary disease, strikes so many and any age.



Jaywood2010 on 31 March 2013
SENTIENT6 said:
Cancer is the world's worst disease (Besides humans), scary disease, strikes so many and any age.


Just shows how cruel this world can be :/




       

cusman on 31 March 2013

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SENTIENT6 on 02 April 2013
spurgeonryan said:
SENTIENT6 said:
spurgeonryan said:
That is great! Trillions of donations have finally paid off.

This sounds like it would stop Zombie infection as well.


LOL, I hope then maybe then can cancel the most overrated TV show ever.



Mad Men? Sorry....no luck. People like that are the reason we have cancer.


MAd men gets 1/10th of the hype and viewers as TWD, so no not even close.  TWD has some of the worst writing and characters i've seen in such a popular show.



xwan on 02 April 2013

While encouraging, actual drug to market, probably still 10+ years away. We do have other anti-body targeted therapies already that is being used clinically, some with good results such as Gleevec (imatinib) for CML (now almost curable disease, remission rate 90%); we have other drugs that is not as good but prolong life for some patient such as breast cancer with HER2/NEU receptors, we use trazuzumab.

The new kid on the block is CD20 antagonist, Rituximab.
The CD receptor targeted therapy is probably the future of most cancer therapy.