A Cancer Cure Most Doctors Won't Tell You About

damninteresting.com — During the early 1900's, Dr. William Coley re-discovered a cancer treatment that was surprisingly effective. By infecting tumors with common bacteria, Coley learned the body could be triggered to kill off cancerous tumors. Conventional modern medicine rarely employs Coley’s technique today for 1 reason: they still don't understand how it works. Jul 16, 2007 View in Crawl 4

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ingxia Jul 18, 2007

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Wrong. This is only partially true. A company called (suprise, suprise) Coley Pharmaceuticals just released data (albeit, showing lack of effectiveness) from a non-small cell lung cancer trial. Another company, Dynavax Technologies is in the middle of a colorectal cancer trial and is still enrolling patients in the Washington, DC area. See <a class="user" href="http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct/show/NCT00403052?order=1">http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct/show/NCT00403052?order=1</a> The experimental drug 1018 ISS activates the same receptors and is basically the essence of the virulent bacteria used in Coley's experiments. But as the article says, the drug must be administred at the same time as today's standard of care which is always chemotherapy, thereby killing immune cells and not giving the drug a real chance of success. The US FDA is basically at fault here because it doesn't allow companies to test a drug alone, it's always together with standard of care (i.e. radiation/chemo) meaning a Coley-like therapy will have a difficult time succeeding.

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If the shoe fits, diggers will have to wear it. People are spamming the same nonsense repeatedly. Ill dig you up just for that! :-D

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Imperium, stop posting lame responses then. I have to respond to people that are making illogical statements. These are issues that can all easily be fixed if people start to think for themselves. Since they are not, I have to post the truth. I know you wont agree and honestly I question your motives. Any problem can be solved if enough people want to solve it.Oh, and it is not bulls**t. I know from experience that such issues can easily be addressed provided more people are interesting in addressing them, than the number of people with bad motives wishing to sabotage the chance to solve them.

satanguy Jul 18, 2007

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it doesn't necessarily have to be medicine, it could be lifestye things that are effective in helping prevent cancere.g not smoking or exercise...

joshlrogers Jul 18, 2007

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I don't deny that at all, although negotiate is a very strong word as it is more along the lines of this is our payouts take it or leave it. Then you have to play the medical billing game where you use overly complicated coding system that is so vague you have to just try different codes until you get the one that pays the most.Doctors hands are tied behind their back and the insurance companies know it. If they don't agree to be an in-network doctor for an insurance company then they lose that clientele. I am under the belief that getting paid something is better than not getting paid anything at all and I would suspect most of them are as well.I also attribute this to some of the errors that doctors are prone too because to make a decent living post Malpractice and costs associated with running the practice they have to see as many patients as they can. It is like the difference between an upscale restaurant and a fast food restaurant; the upscale restaurant wants you to stay in your seat as long as possible and treat you, it is more profitable for them to take their time and entice you to eat more. A fast food restaurant is more profitable the quicker they can spit you out. Now which food is better and less prone to pubes in the salad?Same thing if doctors aren't as pressed for time they can deliver a more thorough medical exam and possibly diagnose better and more cost effectively. Malpractice would drop as there would be less mistakes causing costs to drop even more. Nobody sees any of this because the insurance companies and their VERY effective lobbyists don't want you to.And don't forget blame on our government "representatives" who benefit as well by not keeping the health consumer informed.

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