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An Immune System Trained To Kill Cancer; On the verge of a breakthrough.
Topic Started: Sep 21 2011, 03:37 AM (161 Views)
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/13/health/13gene.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all%3Fsrc%3Dtp&smid=fb-share

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There was no trace of it anywhere — no leukemic cells in his blood or bone marrow, no more bulging lymph nodes on his CT scan. His doctors calculated that the treatment had killed off two pounds of cancer cells.


This is one hell of an amazing discovery. I get that it's still in it's testing phase, but if it can be tweaked enough, I'm sure that we're on the verge of actually finding a way to erradicate cancer completely. I've always said that gene therapy is the future of modern medicine, but the medical community always seems hesitant to take risks and experiment with it, though I'm guessing that might have to do with costs. Either way, this is fantastic news!
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It's kind of funny, I was reading the reactions to the treatment, and thought to myself, "Wow, that sounds alot like a cytokine storm." And then I get to the last page of the article and find out that cytokine storms are a potential risk.

But yeah, this is a pretty damn incredible discovery. I'd say this trumps an AIDS cure, and hilariously enough they used deactivated HIV to do it.
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First the AIDS virus, now a possible cure for cancer. This has been quite the week.
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I like it when people use the word "gay" in any context other than a homosexual one - it only proves that they have the maturity of a five year old, as if their obsession with shooters didn't already do a good job of pointing that out. It's also pretty amusing that he pointed out Skyrim considering the fact that, y'know, it's set in the bloody medival era and doesn't even have muskets, let alone generic modern firearms.

But just for fun, let's play around with his logic a bit.

game - gun = gay
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game + gun + Arem = ???


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Sounds like a high risk but VERY high reward study...
I mean, some people would not survive the fevers, understandably.
Of course, if this is done in very controlled conditions (which it would be; it's cancer treatment), people will pull through.
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I just think that with something as risky as gene therapy, extra precautions need to be taken. Since this IS medicine and there will always be people at risk more often than not, that should really be the mentality at all times.
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