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- outToLunch, on 06/30/2008, -10/+211hmm, I saw "I am Legend" :(
- mmilton, on 06/29/2008, -3/+203News of promising cures appear all the time. I don't understand why government regulations slow the process to years. Wouldn't most terminally ill cancer patients want to be guinea pigs and therefore help to accelerate and shorten the testing time? We need to dramatically change the way we test and approve new treatments.
- Pfkninenines, on 06/30/2008, -1/+73Well, I live in Vermont...Bring it on.
- peaceninja, on 06/30/2008, -1/+65well it sounds like we've managed to cure every ailment in mice then. mickey mouse can live forever in more ways than just copyright protection.
- elipabst, on 06/30/2008, -4/+58The reason you keep hearing about all these cures that work in mice but somehow you never hear about them working in humans isn't because they aren't being tested, it's because they don't work.
There are 2 major hurdles, 1st mice are not humans. Despite being relatively closely related evolutionarily, we're finding out that some things that work in mice don't translate into humans because our biology is significantly different.
2nd, some of these mice models of disease are actually poor models of the human condition. Mice are highly inbred so can get quirks of inbreeding that results in a similar looking disease that isn't actually related to the human condition. - ObamaWins08, on 06/30/2008, -5/+49Is there a cure for "I am Legend" being repeatedly referenced?
- Wakkyweed, on 06/30/2008, -2/+45Yeah, if we keep on curing everything that kills rats we will produce a species of super-rat that will be resistant to all forms of disease and poison. And I, for one, will welcome our new Rodent Overlords.
- TypeEE, on 06/30/2008, -2/+33I heard a cancer cure once every 2 months, is this real?
- Meursault, on 06/30/2008, -4/+33So certain people have a better stock of white blood cells than most? Wonder if we'll have white blood cell celebrities.
"Breaking: White cell superstar Harvey Kemp has just signed with Genentech for 17 million!!!" - inactive, on 06/30/2008, -0/+27The cure is the Butterfly?
- GorfTron, on 06/30/2008, -1/+26Sometimes I wish I was a mouse. I could be on the cutting edge of cancer research.
- jonnyeh, on 06/30/2008, -1/+25I'm sorry to hear that.
- mattc908, on 06/30/2008, -0/+21You realize its so expensive because A. its still in development B. it hasn't been manufactured (for lack of a better word) aka. mass produced to lower the cost C. Any medicine in test states is hugely expensive.
- inactive, on 06/30/2008, -2/+22Half cylon half human blood.
- inactive, on 06/30/2008, -2/+22The cake is a lie
- inactive, on 06/30/2008, -1/+19Yes, I assure you this is the real one.
Sincerely,
Some guy on the internet - afireinside13t, on 06/30/2008, -0/+17The lab I work in has also achieved many cures in mice. The step from mouse to human is an enormous and cautious one.
- dafragsta, on 06/30/2008, -1/+18You've got it backwards. The cure will get cheaper. Once the method is out there, people will find competitive approaches to it's application. There is no shortage of cancer patients.
- Thrilltone, on 06/30/2008, -4/+20They need to start cloning the ***** out of that li'l bastard
- Vikaas, on 06/30/2008, -0/+16Wow. Pathetic statement.
- HeyLew, on 06/30/2008, -0/+16dont forget you get to do alot of fun drugs too!
- LacY, on 06/30/2008, -1/+16Because if they don't slow the process, we put out drugs and treatments without knowing the full effects. Just look at thalidomide (whoopsie... pregnant women don't have morning sickness... but they DO have defective babies). Some still fall through the cracks (ala Vioxx), but the regulations are put in place to try to minimize that. Terminally ill patients are often treated as guinea pigs, but there's no sense wasting the time and money--and potentially shortening the time they have left or severely hurting their remaining quality of life on a treatment with little real promise.
- Tehzz, on 06/30/2008, -4/+18Is a scientist named Robert Neville working on the project at all, by chance?
- thashiz, on 06/30/2008, -0/+13$100,000 per patient is nothing really, in cancer treatment. I was diagnosed with cancer in early 2004, and one of the surgeries alone would have cost around $127,000. Luckily I had insurance that covered it.
I lived, by the way. - Gemfinder, on 06/30/2008, -0/+13Yes, they're all real.
Cancer isn't one disease than can be silver bulleted. - Flashypoo, on 06/30/2008, -0/+12We can only hope this actually works. I have a good friend who could be saved if they'd hurry up and find the cure.
- GT35R, on 06/30/2008, -0/+12Bingo. People assume there is one generic form of cancer. Cancer is a category of disease like "bacterial infection". We have treatments for many bacterial infection but not all.
- cheesehound, on 06/30/2008, -0/+12There are many cures out there more promising than standard chemotherapy, radiation, etc. My aunt had her marrow sucked out of her bones, cleaned of cancer cells, and reinserted (she also did get the standard chemo, radiation). Sci fi stuff, and not something she would have gotten the go ahead for without luck and a bit of fear on the provider's part. Time for all of these promising cures (math calculations, cell implants, etc.) to be something besides "experimental", please.
That said, here's something else to be excited about in the field, thanks to a bunch of smart, dedicated researchers. Score. - danomagnum, on 06/30/2008, -0/+12You haven't found it, that's for sure.
- neoice, on 06/30/2008, -0/+12This doesn't mean a cure for cancer by the way. Just a cure for one type of cancer. If it works.
I work in the medical industry and I was at a seminar for this earlier this year. The thing DOES work, as long as the cancer is in the exact same place and type. ie. The injection that would cure a lung cancer, won't be able to cure a skin cancer.
This means that we would need to develop an injection for every kind of cancer that exists. Which is currently impossible with our technology. - explnx, on 04/27/2009, -1/+13"If I had a nickel for every time cancer was cured in mice, I would have a ***** of nickels."
~ Dr. David Sandstrom from ReGenesis - VariableTangent, on 06/30/2008, -2/+12If you think that we don't get drugs to the counter fast enough, perhaps you should read this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TGN1412
I for one, am glad they test it in a small group before sending it to the masses. - LacY, on 06/30/2008, -0/+9Since all of our drugs have pretty much been tested on animals (I assume you're not counting humans as animals, in which case it'd definitely be all drugs), and we haven't removed all drugs from the market, I'm going to go ahead and doubt the stats on that one.
- bwdd, on 06/30/2008, -1/+10Well, he's not saying it won't work or won't be effective, but he is saying that it's going to be near impossible for the average person to pay for it.
- GeckoSlayer, on 06/30/2008, -0/+8And D. the researchers need lots of money to cover the insurance when something messes up.
- ObamaWins08, on 06/30/2008, -0/+8I'm like Jonas Salk, infecting myself first for the cure...
- CalamariAce, on 06/30/2008, -2/+9Remember that it is the mice that are experimenting on us, not the other way around...
- explnx, on 04/27/2009, -1/+8I don't think the whole "give a vaccine to everyone by infecting them with a retrovirus, ***** informed consent" delivery model would be considered ethical in real life.
- Gemfinder, on 06/30/2008, -0/+7H'mm. That's about what treatment as it stands now runs.
Given the choice between paying 1000 Ben Franklins for the old medieval "cut-burn-poison" technique or paying the same for this treatment, I think it'll be a slam-dunk. - Gr1nch, on 06/30/2008, -0/+7Well I am from Maryland. I'll see you there. Sooner or later.
- Bots, on 06/30/2008, -1/+8use monkeys. ***** peta
- MuffinPatrol, on 06/30/2008, -0/+6We all know that cancer cures turn everyone into zombies, this is fact!
- inactive, on 06/30/2008, -1/+7The study will cost $100,000 per patient receiving therapy in America. Elsewhere there is a good chance it will only cost you your government collective public medical insurance which is deducted from you in tax or by monthly low cost payments to government regulated private insurers. So yes it does cost you money but no more than it already does. In America however if you can't afford our draconian insurance costs and unregulated "high risk" (i.e. those that are sick and have only insurance, not shares in a fortune 500 company), patient disposal systems then you are on your own.
Even Vietnamese get better care. - metallidevils, on 06/30/2008, -0/+6comforting that this has less diggs than a JC Penny commercial, no?
- exomni, on 06/30/2008, -0/+6Hopefully something comes of this, yet another friend of mine was diagnosed with cancer last week.
- topgigmedia, on 06/30/2008, -0/+6Blame it on the families suing when treatments fail or even harm the test subjects. I worked in this space for 5 years and saw this first hand.
- Flagg3, on 06/30/2008, -0/+6Vioxx is a good drug. It was voluntarily removed from the market by Merck because of the bad publicity and all of the lawsuits. Yes, it does have negative cardiovascular effects which can be severe in people who are at risk for heart disease, but the findings also show that the problem appears to be endemic of all NSAIDs.
As a matter of fact, not only was the drug never banned in the U.S., the FDA advisory panel actually requested that it be put back on the market because the benefits far outweigh the risks, and that the actual risks are no higher than even ibuprofen.
This country is lawsuit happy, and people seem to feel that all substances should be 100% safe with absolutely no potential risk for all people, when the simple fact is that there are very few substances that have no measurable LD-50, and that for a product to actually have any sort of efficacy, it must therefore have potential negative side effects as well. To put it another way, far more people die from adverse reactions to peanuts, shellfish, milk, eggs, soy or hundreds of other natural substances than they ever do from prescription drugs.
That's not to say that there are no risks involved, but people need to be aware that there are potential risks and side effects from everything, and that no substance can possibly be 100% safe for all people - simple as that. - TheGuruStud, on 06/30/2008, -0/+6Pharmas can't (well, won't) allow this.
- Lumbeekid06, on 06/30/2008, -7/+12dont you think life is worth more than that?
- Tophillious, on 06/30/2008, -0/+5I hope this is real. My stepdad died of cancer on the 25th. :(
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