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- lobrien, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20My wife got leukemia at 29. I laughed at masonreloaded's joke. One of the lessons of cancer at a young age is that life's too brief to carry chips on your shoulder.
- masonreloaded, on 10/12/2007, -4/+16Now they have a leukemia trigger, they are only a few steps away from having a complete working leukemia gun!
- Yamanba, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14
Finally NEWS! - sardiax, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10jalapeno: I can understand your offense at the joke, but realize his joke is actually just a joke on words, not really about leukemia.
- drinkGreen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Sounds like great news, but I'm not holding my breath.
Scientists find stuff everyday and 9/10 times it just gets our hopes up until later we find out that its not the discovery we all had hoped for. - mythril, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10You people need to stop being so damn sensitive, its a joke for christ's sake.
Are you going to be uptight ***** for the rest of your life because someone died of a disease?
Guess what: this was a general joke, and is not a personal attack on anyone's character, for anyone to get inflamed over it just shows that you are inherently angry people. - beatlenuttt, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8lost my wife and mother of 3 young ones to it last summer.
- Hattrick, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5My father passed 20 years ago from the benzene version. He was a mechanic and spent a lot of time around heated chemical cleaning systems. We had no other family history or cases of leukemia so it was unexpected. It has made me very cognizant of skin or vapor contact with chemicals like WD-40 or degreasers which usually have benzene in them. Bad stuff.
- incongruity, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Cool. I stand corrected. If one opts to spell "leukemia" rather than "leukaemia" (the British spelling) when searching on Nature's website, you find the group's letter: http://www.nature.com/ncb/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/ncb1432.html
I've rarely been this happy to be wrong. - mailbox125, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4re: jalapeno & halleyscomet
speaking as someone who as undergone two bouts of treatment for lukemia in my lifetime you guys need to lighten up. it was a play on words and was in no way an attack/insult directed toward people with lukemia. - djblast, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4one step closer....
- 10scott10, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3the thing is that leukimia is a very complex diseas. it can have many triggers besides this one. one of the other known causes is genetic disorders where the DNA is not repaired properly increasing the chance of leukimia and other cancers.
- incongruity, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Then why on earth do drug companies make vaccines? The prevent diseases which is essentially a preemptive cure, is it not?
- Juano11, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Article is somewhat misleading. There are many different kinds of Leukemia, likely with many different triggers. Just like there are many different kinds of cancer (the many leukemias being among them).
It always annoys me when I hear "cure for cancer" as if there is ever going to be some single cure-all "Cancer" shot.
Same here, the term "leukemia" is not really very descriptive. Even if this research turns out to be great, it will likely still only effect those with a particular sub-group of leukemia. Which is obviously a positive step, but it's not like we're going to see an end to leukemia with this study. - Celeron, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3About time they came out with a discovery. We were long overdue.
- nikkesen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2No... REAL news! And good news at that!
- bdwoolman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Found it on Reuters. No hoax. Search for 'Leukemia' American spelling.
- incongruity, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1See the previous comments above (specifically the two where I'm talking to myself ;)...) and you'll find this:
http://www.nature.com/ncb/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/ncb1432.html
It's a letter to Nature that's been released online as an advanced online release... (but yeah, I had the same thought) -- do note the other comments pointing out that this only applies to *one type* of leukemia before you get everyone else's hopes up =) - incongruity, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The article states that the work has been published in the June 11th issue of Nature Cell Biology, yet I can't seem to find it listed on Nature Cell Biology's website's listing of the TOC for the current issue. Additionally, the dugg story credits the story to Reuters, yet the story can't be found through Reuters' own website. Sadly I think this is a hoax made to boost ad revenues.
Though I really really hope I'm wrong on this... - lobrien, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's important to realize that there are many types of leukemia and this _seems_ to speak to only one: ATL. It seems very significant for progress on that form and one hopes that it will have broader implications, but it's too soon to get very excited.
- thepharmacist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You need a subscription to Nature to get the article. You can also pay for this single article, or access through your University's proxy server. Nothing's fishy, it's just not free (like most serious science magazines, except for what's on PubMed central).
- incongruity, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1full text in pdf form: http://www.nature.com/ncb/journal/vaop/ncurrent/pdf/ncb1432.pdf (fwiw)
- thepharmacist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1There's research pointing that cervical cancer (caused by HPV) might actually be an STD, since there are correlations between (as independant factors) earliness of first sexual relations, number of partners, history of other STDs and the incidence (and prevalence in retrospective studies) of cervical cancer.
I have yet to read this particular issue of Nature (primary sources are always better than chopped up reporting), but it wouldn't surprise me. - incongruity, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"Which they mostly don't like doing! (Making vaccines that is.)"
That doesn't change the fact that it's done and that the fact that it is done is in direct contradiction to the claim made by Doak, above.
I don't like paying my taxes, but I do it because a: I have to and b: it's nominally better for society that I do than that I don't... - edis0n, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Can you get cancer through sex? Read the article.
- thepharmacist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You DO realize that these companies have to do what it takes to please their shareholders right ? If they stopped making money for the sake of humanity's benefit, they would promptly be driven into the ground by the stock exchange, shareholders would massively sell their stocks, the company would go bankrupt and would not be able to do research on ANY new drug anymore.
Blame the system, not those who are forced to comply with it.
And besides, there are cures for leukemia. Once the cancer's gone, you don't have to take the meds anymore. Your statement is kind of pointless. Cancer is not an incurable disease. Yes, lots of people die from it, but more and more people beat it too. - aMMgYrP, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Strangely something is fishy about this article. I wanted to send a copy of the original paper to my mother who is a nurse and worked with lukemia patients. But I cannot find a this paper in either the print or web editions of the journal that the ariticle says that it is from.
Here is the URL of the journal, maybe I am missing something; http://www.nature.com/ncb/index.html - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Make note the keyword, "treatment".
The drug companies aren't looking for cures, they are looking for treatments.
Gotta keep those pill machines running and the cash a flowing, ***** compassion.
If I ever came across a pharmaceutical company higher up that needed any type of lifesaving assistance, I'd take his/her wallet and all of his/her jewelery. ***** 'em. They aren't concerned with saving others, so why should I be concerned for their sleazy ass? - theman8631, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1It's sad how many digg stories are breakthroughs in aids, cancer & luekemia yet we havn't made any steps large enough to prevent or stop them in any radically different ways then we already do.
- LMH1, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1"Then why on earth do drug companies make vaccines? The prevent diseases which is essentially a preemptive cure, is it not?"
Which they mostly don't like doing! (Making vaccines that is.) - jshauffer, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1Do I write stuff here? Or here? Or here?
How about down here? Or to the right over here? - jalapeno, on 10/12/2007, -14/+3Leukemia funny ... haha ... From your comment I'm guessing you've never known anyone with the disease.
- halleyscomet, on 10/12/2007, -13/+2@masonreloaded
My high school sweetheart had Leukemia.
You sir, are an a**hole.
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