Oh, a cure! If only someone had thought of this sooner.
Yeah, most of us were thinking of trying to spread cancer, you know, to cull the weak.
People posting callous comments about cancer deaths keeping the population in check have obviously NOT lost a loved one to the horrid disease!!!
I haven’t posted but I’ve been giggling at them. And yes I have lost a couple of loved ones to the big C.
Sometimes, laughing at cancer is the best response.
The problem is, also, that cancer is not just one thing. There is no cure for cancer per se, there may be cures/vaccines for specific types but never THE ONE cure.
The HPV vaccine is not a cure for cervical cancer - the theory is that there are a number of versions of HPV that are driving something like 70% of cervical cancer cases - the other 30% or so, who knows? The prevailing theory is that chronic infection drives processes that lead to dysplasia and then to malignancy.
If you can prevent infection by these strains of HPV, then you prevent the cancer.
Now, except for the early or pediatric cancers, living long enough to die by cancer, or Parkinson’s or dementia or whatever is itself a victory, having survived or avoided the other competing causes of death.
But if you want to avoid the usual cancers, either die early of things like infectious disease or heart disease or the like. Or rid yourself of your complex biological structure: cancer is a matter of deranged processes of complex cells.
Now, there is an avenue of research where patients are treated by attempting to trigger immune responses to cancer cells, but the major treatments either involve resection of cancer, or interference with cancer cell biology or destroying cancer cells via heat or cold or radiation.
Apparently there already is a cure but because it can’t be patented the pharmaceutical companies want nothing to do with it. (Read: They can’t make money off it.)
http://technorati.com/lifestyle/article/the-cure-for-cancer-has-been/
I’m not surprised at all - cancer brings in Big Money.
(I lost my best friend to small cell sarcoma, she was 38.)
Then there was another scientist that developed a cure, but big pharma had the researcher killed and his research destroyed.
I think I remember hearing about that. Wasn’t he in the same small plane crash that killed the guy that invented the 200 mile per gallon carburetor?
Buddy Holly invented a 200 mpg carburetor?
The man was multi-faceted.
Horseshit. I’m sorry about your friend, but please be more credulous. Don’t tell the rest of us that there’s a really super-duper easy cure for cancer and nobody cares about it because of impossible coverups. The drug companies would find a way to make money off this if it cured cancer (they’ve spent some money to test it), scientists would want the fame and recognition they would get from a cancer cure, and the press has written about it because there’s always major excitement about progress against cancer. The chemical you’re talking about has some promising aspects but some serious side effects, too, and it may make cancer grow faster in some cases.
There will never be a single, all-encompassing cure for cancer, because cancer is a multitude of diseases share only one thing in common: cells growing out of control. Each cancer is unique, even in a particular cancer type.
That’s not a cure for all cancers. At best, it might work as a treatment for a certain subpopulation of people with a certain cancer type. And it’s already in late-stage clinical trials (admittedly not funded by the pharmaceutical industry).
Cancer often returns after being removed from the body. You could say that its nature’s “Sock Account.”
Why doesn’t Marley just ban it?
There are all sort of promising therapies that are “4 or 5 years down the road.” Of course I’ve been hearing that for 20 years.
The latest one I’ve heard about is this:
Sounds great but seems like getting 100% attachment rate would be the problem.
Oh, I don’t know. I think she’s credulous enough already.
Yup, I botched that one. :smack: I meant skeptical or one of its synonyms.
Well, there’s still obesity. We’ve got that goin’ for us.
:: D & R ::