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- barcelona10, on 02/13/2009, -0/+14it's incredible what the human body can do...
- DrDigg, on 02/13/2009, -1/+15I keep re-reading this comment and I don't understand what it means. Can you explain?
- Vidalsassgirlie, on 02/13/2009, -4/+16Digg finds a new cure for cancer 2.43 times per day. If only scientists read Digg.
- nightcats, on 02/13/2009, -0/+11I believe the human body has the ability to heal itself of many conditions, if only we understood how to trigger this mechanism.
- Sonan, on 02/13/2009, -4/+13There's that M word being thrown around again. Hopefully science will be able to discover what's going on and find a way to trigger it in others.
- gdha, on 02/13/2009, -0/+7Amazing to hear stories like this, and good to see people can battle things like this.
- mrgodai, on 02/13/2009, -0/+7i spend the last 5 years in a marijuana fog, still cancer free.
- internetcoward, on 02/13/2009, -0/+6dude.....
what? - internetcoward, on 02/13/2009, -1/+7its like saying something is faster than time.
- Oea420, on 02/13/2009, -0/+6This is really important because a lot of the treatments for cancer literally trash your immune system. It says in the article that a lot of remissions happen after an infection, thinking that the immune-system kicks in to overdrive to kill the infection, and catches the tumor in the process.
Also in the article it said that this could be happening on a much larger scale than doctors are aware of... as in every day. If this is the case, treating advanced cancers with things that destroy your immune system could be a bad first-line defense. This could lead the way to treatments that train and bolster the immune system (Like a vaccine) instead of the shotgun idea, where you can get the cancer... but a lot of stuff goes with it....
Very interesting article! - nullcodes, on 02/13/2009, -0/+6There are some viruses that can specifically target cancer cells. The nature of the cancer cell itself is such that the oncolytic virus can easily infect and kill that cell. These viruses, some of which know how to infect humans and are in the wild ... are known as oncolytic viruses. It's possible he got infected with an oncolytic virus while he had cancer.
And yeah, there are companies working on enhancing or engineering oncolytic viruses to cure cancer, but they havent been able to do so reliably and only work for certain specific kinds of cancers.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/10/07103 ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oncolytic_virus - UberNick, on 02/13/2009, -3/+8It's obvious-- natural things, like hearty laughter and Xenu, cure cancer. Unnatural things like Penicillin, on the other hand, are as useless at ***** on a bull.
- Niocan, on 02/13/2009, -1/+5Why yes, Cannabis does cure cancer:
http://www.scientificfactsofpot.com/studies.htm#Ca ...
:) - kelmaster1, on 02/13/2009, -1/+5Oh... They know.
This type of thing has been around for years. It's actually somewhat well known, but it's risky. It was pioneered by Dr. Coley over a century ago...
http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=871
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Coley
Doctors prefer chemotherapy because it's tested, they know what will happen, and its an expensive (profitable) procedure. Cancer immunotherapy is risky, you either die from the disease or you live and the cancer goes away. Doctors don't like to mention this, and when you ask them it's considered an 'out there' practice. But it does cure cancer, and many people are living testaments to having a tumor and it disappearing.
This type of information is intentionally buried because the medical industry is very profitable. Your supposed to die a prolonged expensive death at a hospital while using chemo to extend you life an extra month or year.
This guy got lucky though with the right infection. - Rrab, on 02/13/2009, -2/+6> You can't possibly expect to have a rational explanation for every single thing that happens.
Yes, I can, and given enough time, we will.
Just because we can't currently explain something, doesn't mean we should attribute it to the divine. How long ago were humans attributing thunder and lightning to supernatural gods? The more scientific data we gather over the years, the less we attribute to the supernatural. That's how it always works. - DrDigg, on 02/13/2009, -2/+6You must have has some bad doctor/patient interactions in the past. Nothing would make me happier than to see every patient once, given them a miracle pill that cured them, and never have to see them again.
BTW - I don't make a single dime for the medications I prescribe. I used to get crappy pens, but now they don't even give those out. - kcasper, on 02/13/2009, -0/+3This is a good reason to join the World Community Grid and use your computer's extra cpu time to help cancer research.
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/
Have any spare cpu time? - DrDigg, on 02/13/2009, -1/+4Many drug therapies are already targeting the immune system to heal ourselves.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interferon - DrDigg, on 02/13/2009, -0/+3Except trematode infections.
- mmittimm, on 02/13/2009, -1/+4We even cured AIDs earlier this week.
- inactive, on 02/13/2009, -3/+6It's incredible what marijuana can do...
- DrDigg, on 02/13/2009, -1/+3I think that was a little different. He probably had autoimmune pancreatitis. Its a rare disease that is often mistaken for pancreatic cancer, and can go into remission on its own. Biopsies never showed that had cancer.
- ousthouse, on 02/13/2009, -1/+3There are plenty of flukes in science.
- flooriduh, on 02/13/2009, -0/+2The good news; you are not going to die from your cancer.
The bad news; a sheriff from South Carolina wants you in jail. - TejInLA, on 02/13/2009, -0/+2Actually, there have been studies involving marijuana as a treatment for brain tumors. But that's injecting it directly into the tumor bed, not smoking it.
- DrDigg, on 02/13/2009, -2/+4Just because we don't understand how something happens doesn't make it a miracle. I think it should be our goal to have an explanation for why things happen. I don't understand how my wife got breast cancer, but I sure wouldn't call it a miracle.
- egoideal, on 02/13/2009, -1/+3In science nothing is "a fluke".
- mksmothers, on 02/15/2009, -0/+2good thing you aren't a med student. That ***** would get you kicked out of your oncology rotation.
- drunkenoaf, on 02/13/2009, -0/+2Indeed. That's the thing; cancers sometimes go into remission. And this is why you get anecdotes about crystals or somesuch ***** "curing" cancer-- when in fact it was your immune system.
- harrisbradley, on 02/13/2009, -0/+2Digg and Marijuana, two of my most favorite things. Both cure cancer, so I use them all day long.
- mksmothers, on 02/15/2009, -0/+2If people that beat cancer against all odds are experiencing a "miracle", do little healthy babies that suddenly die of SIDS experience anti-miracles? God plays favorites?
- blankman, on 02/14/2009, -1/+3Why the hell is this entire thread turned into a debate about the use of the word miracle? Can't you people just read the article and discuss how cool it is that someone who was given a few months to live is now cancer free (or at least not in any more danger from it)?
But nope, it's all about goofy-ass comments like "oh no they used a word that may hint at a religious belief, I must protest".
When something like this happens, people are going to say "its a miracle" It doesn't have to be religious. - atomic811, on 02/13/2009, -0/+2__̴ı̴̴̡̡̡ ̡͌l̡̡̡ ̡͌l̡*̡̡ ̴̡ı̴̴̡ ̡̡͡|̲̲̲͡͡͡ ̲▫̲͡ ̲̲̲͡͡π̲̲͡͡ ̲̲͡▫̲̲͡͡ ̲|̡̡̡ ̡ ̴̡ı̴̡̡ ̡͌l̡.
It would be nice if they could figure it out. I have to have some tests run soon, but I fear the worse. Just a feeling I have...not even fear (which is unlike me not to be scared) Just symptoms that I ignored for a few months that now have become worse. I hope for the best, but if it is the worst I only hope I have the energy to get through it as right now I have no more energy left.
I have a feeling that some of these remissions are caused by mistake by a virus. Maybe people get infected with a harmless or simi harmless virus and the immune system starts to kill it, some of the virus could be in the tumor and so the immune system can then "see" the cancer. - buckrogers1965, on 02/14/2009, -0/+2Last time I checked, the mind is part of the body.
- desertDenizen, on 02/14/2009, -0/+2Dude sure looks like a vet. I can totally imagine him saying "you weren't there, man."
- Hetman, on 02/13/2009, -2/+4I find that you do not give us humans enough credit. We do not need miracles to go on.
- nullcodes, on 02/13/2009, -0/+2You may be correct, actually I believe (but haven't fully checked .. so don't take as absolute fact) the first time that metastatic cancer has been definitely cured .. it was via immunotherapy .. which is deliberately introducing an agent to make the immune system work in a useful manner.
Over a hundred years ago, a guy named William Coley found that if he deliberately inoculated tumors of certain cancer patients with certain bacterial derivatives.. the cancer would disappear. This was the discovery of cancer immunotherapy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coley%27s_Toxins
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunotherapy
So it could be that, or it could be infection with an oncolytic virus which targets the cancer cells directly .. Or, it could be the immune system naturally wisening up (a sort of autoimmunity activating). - tgc1, on 02/13/2009, -2/+4What the hell are they all going on about? It was his Handle Bar Mustache that saved him. You don't mess with a dude with a Handle Bar Mustache. The pure awesomeness of it, scared the cancer away.
- k3rfuffl3, on 02/14/2009, -0/+2Perhaps he stopped eating like *****...?
- mattlamb, on 02/14/2009, -0/+2I recently spent 2 months telling my melanoma to go away, rubbing it and visualizing my cells attacking it, it chnaged from black to almost skin color, It was surgically removed and I was told it has regressed 100%, they also removed some lymph glands in my armpit to double check, and I was all clear. Yep I believe the mind of even this atheist can work wonders.
The hard part is truly believing you can actually control your body and its cells. - wonkavsn, on 02/14/2009, -0/+2Digg <3 curing cancer.
- atsguy, on 02/14/2009, -0/+2"He took a strange cocktail of 17 vitamins and supplements, including shark cartilage pills, and imagined the metastases were rats and he was chasing them with a club. In Depth: 6 Miracle Cancer Survivors."
Ahh the power of visualization. I read a similar story with a young boy dieing from cancer, i forget what kind of cancer he had. But he was given a short time to live. So everyday he would imagine that the cancer cells were the evil sith, and that star wars x wing fighters were shooting them and destroying them. When the doctor saw him a couple of months later, he was surprised that that the cancer was GONE...
check out also Silva Mind Control Method! - desertDenizen, on 02/14/2009, -0/+2All statistical outliers are flukes, by definition.
- Lockhart1, on 02/13/2009, -0/+2Plenty of scientific discoveries are flukes. Penicillin to name one.
- taokr, on 02/14/2009, -0/+2If the mind had anything to do with it, it was activating the immune system to do the actual work of killing the cancer cells...hence it was the body, with some help from the mind. :)
- beauley, on 02/14/2009, -0/+1For a few decades now, the U.S. has been advocating and implementing irradiation of some of our foods, mainly ground beef, chicken and as of late, many of our fruits and vegetables. During much of this time period, public reaction has been predominantly against it and many consumer advocates hope to eventually topple our governments efforts.
http://www.gomestic.com/Consumer-Information/Shoul ...
Should We Irradiate Our Foods? - troyguy2, on 02/14/2009, -1/+2Look up Vitamin B-17 and Apricot seeds. Apparently a good direction in fighting cancer. Sad that it can also be a banned substance.
- maroger, on 02/13/2009, -3/+4Dugg for "Doctors dismiss it as a fluke." Idiots, pure unadulterated idiots more interested in profit than health.
- breadfred, on 02/13/2009, -1/+2Right. The Mind. Did you notice the Capital M?
The Mind is what your brain, a physical part of your body, creates. It is easy to endorse superpowers to your brain, but in the end, we are talking about chemical and electrical processes, neurological influences and what not. The combination of these form your mind. Mind, Body, One.
*****, someone else finish my thought process as I am to pissed to do this. - inactive, on 02/14/2009, -0/+1I believe chemotheraphy is the biggest cause of cancer patient death! We should invent a drug that boost our immune like it is on steroid and let the immune system to pillage and plunder the cancer cells!
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