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Measles Can Kill Prostate Cancer!

sciencedaily.com — A new study has found that certain measles virus vaccine strain derivatives, including a strain known as MV-CEA, may prove to be an effective treatment for patients with advanced prostate cancer. The findings show that this type of treatment, called virotherapy, can effectively infect, replicate in and kill prostate cancer

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  • hypercrypt, on 01/22/2009, -1/+50Wasn't it a measles derivative that supposedly cured cancer in I am Legend (2007) with Will Smith?
  • sandiegodude, on 01/22/2009, -1/+42I was getting worried... Here it is Thursday and Digg hadn't found a cancer cure this week yet.

    Good job Digg, curing cancer since 2004!
  • koldmilk, on 01/22/2009, -1/+34This is how I am Legend started if anyone remembers...ZOMBIES!!!
  • Daemastrius, on 01/22/2009, -1/+27OH SHI-
  • awtripp, on 01/22/2009, -0/+25"Sir, I need to show you something on your x-rays..."

    "Yes, I heard weasels cured prostate cancer"
  • Lunarbunny, on 01/22/2009, -0/+24My dad had prostate cancer...he had it surgically removed but I think he still feels some numbness in the side of one leg because of the surgery. An effective treatment like this would probably been a lot nicer
  • vilago, on 01/22/2009, -0/+19that's actually the submitter's avatar
  • flammablewater, on 01/22/2009, -0/+17We'll be waiting for you in Canada

    PS Bring your own coat. It's colder than you think up here.
  • koldmilk, on 01/22/2009, -0/+16Anyone left after the first infections hit head for the Walmarts we will hold up in there then move north!

    PS. Bring your own guns please!
  • Azerael, on 01/22/2009, -0/+11Meanwhile down here in Australia we'll be like WTF, mate?
  • flammablewater, on 01/22/2009, -0/+10I was just about to post this!!! Quick, we need shotguns!
  • vilago, on 01/22/2009, -0/+9...IT'S A SPACE STATION
  • dagr8tim, on 01/22/2009, -0/+8That's no woman......
  • metrodigg, on 01/22/2009, -1/+9Do gynecologists have a journal call "Vag"? If not I call dibs!
  • dse78759, on 01/22/2009, -1/+8This was an episode of 'House', I'm pretty sure.

    The one where House is crank and bitterly sarcastic to everyone...
  • ricker2005, on 01/22/2009, -0/+7It's not a magazine. It's a scientific journal. And I'm guessing the people who study the prostate and prostate cancer probably name their journal "The Prostate". Just like people who study neuroscience have "Neuron" and hematologists have "Blood".
  • LogicBomB, on 01/22/2009, -0/+7Don't know why you were dugg down, that's much more correct than zombies...

    Actually, there was NOTHING zombie like about those creatures.
  • Hulk3403, on 01/22/2009, -0/+6Hi i'm Robert Neville, I can help you.
  • malman4, on 01/22/2009, -0/+5I had them both...take the measles if you're not really stupid..........
  • Pete0430, on 01/22/2009, -2/+7Who names a magazine "The Prostate"?
  • scamper22, on 01/22/2009, -0/+5Is that the one where at the end of episode he sees something mundane in regular life that stimulates a theory of the diseased patient and thus provides the cure?
  • josephbloseph, on 01/22/2009, -1/+6Vampires
  • inactive, on 01/22/2009, -0/+5Dugg for ironic username "Touching Wood"
  • docbob84, on 01/22/2009, -0/+5Nah I think it was Scrubs. Remember the one where Dr. Cox calls JD stupid, and at the end the case somehow turned into a life lesson for not only JD but everybody around him? Yeah, that was a good one...
  • SuperIntendent, on 01/22/2009, -1/+5I CAN HELP YOU! LET ME SAVE YOU!

    Oh boy zombies are comin'
  • punkcat, on 01/22/2009, -0/+4think of steve!
  • RaptorChrist, on 01/22/2009, -1/+5Masturbation cures prostate cancer. Use it or lose it!
  • LogicBomB, on 01/22/2009, -0/+4Vampires. Goddamit - second poster to get it wrong.

    1. They were smart
    2. They were photosensitive
    3. They had feelings
    4. They weren't (un)dead
    5. They slept
    6. They could be killed without destroying the brain

  • Daemastrius, on 01/22/2009, -0/+4I wish I could dig you twice
  • BoneStamp, on 01/22/2009, -0/+3I'm here in the walmart, where the ***** are you guys? I'm running out of ammo!!!!
  • drunkenoaf, on 01/22/2009, -0/+3Brilliant. Now diggers can also believe that measles virus is an evil product of the cynical pharmaceutical industry...
  • alisaborovik, on 01/22/2009, -6/+9ahhhh has no one seen I Am Legend?!?!
  • frak143, on 01/22/2009, -0/+3It's too late. Zappa is already dead.
  • docbob84, on 01/22/2009, -0/+3Saying "the cure for cancer" is like saying "the cure for infectious disease". To the layperson it sounds meaningful; when you look deeper you realize there are so many types of cancer, and so many causes for each type, and so many things that can go wrong, there is no single medicine or technique that can "cure" them all. Articles like this one that focus on a single cancer or type of cancer are a little more meaningful.
  • Chairboy, on 01/22/2009, -0/+3The good news: Measles can be used to cure prostate cancer.

    The bad news: The way the treatment is administered: http://preview.tinyurl.com/cncznw
  • evildeadguy, on 01/22/2009, -0/+3I read it at first as "Weasels Can Kill Prostate Cancer!" and thought it to be a bit of a drastic approach.
  • nesagwa, on 01/22/2009, -0/+2"Im one of those people"

    A nutbar?
  • mtg1287, on 01/22/2009, -0/+2We're f*cked
  • jace319, on 01/22/2009, -0/+2The fact that certain viruses can kill off certain cancers is not new. William Coley was one of the first people who made the connection. See the DamnInteresting and Wikipedia article for more info:

    http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=871

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Coley
  • andarnold, on 01/22/2009, -0/+2Well, you'll either have cancer, or measles. I would rather have neither.
  • scamper22, on 01/22/2009, -1/+3anal sex cures prostate cancer... I can administer the cure if you're like.
  • vilago, on 01/22/2009, -0/+2that's your g-spot
  • stonebear, on 01/22/2009, -0/+2Was my nickname in highschool.
  • flammablewater, on 01/22/2009, -0/+2now THAT is scary
  • Velvolver, on 01/22/2009, -0/+2Can this be used to kill other types of cancer? If not, then why?
  • BoneStamp, on 01/22/2009, -0/+2The pharmaceutical industry isn't cynical, they're optimistic if you ask me... especially when they describe the side effects of their medications. They still do unethical ***** though.
  • captmorgan555, on 01/22/2009, -0/+2Your comment and name conflict.
  • LogicBomB, on 01/22/2009, -0/+2Cancer cures are simply one of those things that couldn't be covered up. We all know SOMEONE we care about who's been affected by cancer either as a victim or a relative of a victim.

    Thinking that all those scientists only care about is money is fine and dandy but you better believe that once someone they care about gets terminal cancer they'll whistleblow faster than a professional porn star.
  • halo3d, on 01/22/2009, -0/+2robot vampire nazis who are also zombies
  • inactive, on 01/22/2009, -0/+1http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=xHKTE75dgE4
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