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Researchers might have found the Holy Grail in the war against cancer, a miracle drug that has killed every kind of cancer tumor it has come in contact with. The drug works by blocking a protein called CD47 that is essentially a "do not eat" signal to the body's immune system, according to Science Magazine. This protein is produced in healthy blood cells but researchers at Stanford University found that cancer cells produced an inordinate amount of the protein thus tricking the immune system into not destroying the harmful cells. With this observation in mind, the researchers built an antibody that blocked cancer's CD47 so that the body's immune system attacked the dangerous cells. So far, researchers have used the antibody in mice with human breast, ovary, colon, bladder, brain, liver and prostate tumors transplanted into them. In each of the cases the antibody forced the mice's immune system to kill the cancer cells. "We showed that even after the tumor has taken hold, the antibody can either cure the tumor or slow its growth and prevent metastasis," said biologist Irving Weissman of the Stanford University School of Medicine in Palo Alto, California. One side effect of the treatment was that healthy cells were subjected to short-term attacks by the mice's immune system, but the effect was nothing in comparison to the damage done to the cancer cells. Weissman's group recently received a $20 million dollar grant to move their research from mouse to human safety testing. http://m.nypost.com/p/news/international/every_cancer_kills_tumor_them_kind_L9lppJmy9gCoS848cSzqbPThis is incredible stuff guys. We may being living in an era of two major global breakthroughs against HIV AND Cancer.
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This is so exciting. I would love to track how this is doing in human trials. Fingers crossed it proves to be safe for humans.
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That is fantastic news, though should be tempered until the human studies are over. So many treatments that have been found effective in animals have failed in human testing. Let's keep our fingers crossed.
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That science and research stuff can be pretty amazing.
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So I quit smoking 20 years ago. Does this mean I can start again? Forget it, it costs too much and stinks bad. Maybe I'll start a bacon only diet!!! 
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This is great, at least until The big corporate Pharmaceuticals get control of it and make the pills 20 grand a treatment.
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I've seen so many lives, including my own, devastated by cancer. I really hope it works out.
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I've seen so many lives, including my own, devastated by cancer. I really hope it works out.
On friday, we found out that my wifes aunt must have her leg amputated due to a rare cancer. she's my age and 6 months ago, she had no symptoms at all.
My Father, Grandfather, Grandmother, Two Aunts, two uncles have all died of one form of cancer or another.
I'm 61, my dad died of it at 63.. So yeah, I'm fearful.
To me, this is hope that didn't exist to me 1 minute before I read the article.
So yeah, I sure hope it works.
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It's still hard for me to comprehend all of this. There is an incredible chance in my life time to rid HIV and cancer.
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What an incredible, amazing and over the top accomplishment this would be. We have been doing much better at the treatments, but having had one of my brokers die of cancer this year, and another one have to undergo a masectomy this year as well brings it really close to home.
And we are getting ready to have our Relay for Life event here in town.
This would be OMG good.
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Lost both my grandparents on my mothers side to cancer back in the '90's, it is truly amazing to see something like this that we've all hoped for for so long finally be closer than the distant horizon!
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I am fortunate in that my Grandmother is alive and well after surviving cancer twice.
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Good to hear! My grandmother actually beat it back in the '70's, quit smoking and started chewing gum, but then it came back and she died like 9 days after my 1st child was born.
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This certainly looks like a huge step forward. Hopefully we'll see the elimination of a lot of pain, suffering, and deaths caused by cancer.
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Unbelievable.
Thanks SOOOO much for sharing this with us, Candy!
You know- this is the kind of stuff generations wish for, but never truly believe they'll ever see in their lifetimes. If this turns out to be viable, it's earth-shaking in historical importance... on the same order (or more) as penicillin or the original Salk vaccine (... I just heard on the radio last week, that we are about 5 years away from entirely eradicating Polio from the entire planet....).
What boggles my mind is this: After all the research, tests, trials, (and finally) adoption by the FDA, how much secondary research could spring from these new findings?
Shaking my head... and overwhelmed at the moment,
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That is fantastic news, though should be tempered until the human studies are over. So many treatments that have been found effective in animals have failed in human testing. Let's keep our fingers crossed.
Is this just a general comment about any drugs that failed to work in humans or do you have firsthand knowledge of cancer drugs that failed after human studies? Just wondering.
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I have a friend who's always had this fear that there actually was a drug already known by some that could cure cancer but the gov't was sitting on it (and paying hush money) because of all the cancer researchers that would be put of of work if its existence was revealed.
I don't believe it for a minute, but I'm so happy to hear the news about the possible potential of this new drug.
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I have a friend who's always had this fear that there actually was a drug already known by some that could cure cancer but the gov't was sitting on it (and paying hush money) because of all the cancer researchers that would be put of of work if its existence was revealed.
Not to be a Negative Nancy, but it's these sort of articles like this that get people to think things like that.
From what I gather, this seems to be a VERY preliminary finding. Otherwise, it would be much bigger story than this. There are many, many cases of early research or concepts that never turn into what people would hope for. That's why you get people who think that we should be driving water powered cars, have hydrogen generators, cures for cancers, etc ... but the government is just holding it back.
I will still have some guarded optimism for this though.
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I have a friend who's always had this fear that there actually was a drug already known by some that could cure cancer but the gov't was sitting on it (and paying hush money) because of all the cancer researchers that would be put of of work if its existence was revealed.
I imagine if there were some vast government conspiracy, it wouldn't revolve around cancer research money, but rather the looming overpopulation problems we'd be faced with.
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I have a friend who's always had this fear that there actually was a drug already known by some that could cure cancer but the gov't was sitting on it (and paying hush money) because of all the cancer researchers that would be put of of work if its existence was revealed.
I imagine if there were some vast government conspiracy, it wouldn't revolve around cancer research money, but rather the looming overpopulation problems we'd be faced with.
Ive heard both of these theories. I dont know that I put much faith in either, but it also wouldnt surprise me. Drug company's would lose billions if cancer was cured.
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Ive heard both of these theories. I dont know that I put much faith in either, but it also wouldnt surprise me. Drug company's would lose billions if cancer was cured.
Or they could make billions for ... you know, selling a drug that cures cancer.
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Ive heard both of these theories. I dont know that I put much faith in either, but it also wouldnt surprise me. Drug company's would lose billions if cancer was cured.
Or they could make billions for ... you know, selling a drug that cures cancer.
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Ive heard both of these theories. I dont know that I put much faith in either, but it also wouldnt surprise me. Drug company's would lose billions if cancer was cured.
Or they could make billions for ... you know, selling a drug that cures cancer.
That would be one company making billions, now there are many companies making billions "treating" cancer.
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I have a friend who's always had this fear that there actually was a drug already known by some that could cure cancer but the gov't was sitting on it (and paying hush money) because of all the cancer researchers that would be put of of work if its existence was revealed.
I imagine if there were some vast government conspiracy, it wouldn't revolve around cancer research money, but rather the looming overpopulation problems we'd be faced with.
Population's expected to peak around 2050, then taper off as more and more nations become developed. Some nations are currently already feeling the effects of population decline. A cure for AIDS/Cancer wouldn't tip the scale a ton, anyway.
To the other statement, there isn't a cure out. You wouldn't be able to shut up the scientific community if they found a cure. Information would be everywhere before it even got finalized and all the other labs would jump in on trying to replicate results.
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I have a friend who's always had this fear that there actually was a drug already known by some that could cure cancer but the gov't was sitting on it (and paying hush money) because of all the cancer researchers that would be put of of work if its existence was revealed.
Not to be a Negative Nancy, but it's these sort of articles like this that get people to think things like that.
From what I gather, this seems to be a VERY preliminary finding. Otherwise, it would be much bigger story than this. There are many, many cases of early research or concepts that never turn into what people would hope for. That's why you get people who think that we should be driving water powered cars, have hydrogen generators, cures for cancers, etc ... but the government is just holding it back.
I will still have some guarded optimism for this though.
Not so preliminary, they've apparently been working on this for ten years, and now it is moving into human trials phase 1.  Probably the reason it hasn't had much attention is that there are very many immunotherapy drugs in the works for treating cancers. Most of them target specific cancers. This one is different. It's just that immunotherapy drugs are nothing new or revolutionary, it's an emerging science I guess since these type drugs have only been around for 20 years or so. It's just taken a long time of experimenting with this approach since the human immune system is incredibly complex and only the tip of the iceberg is known about it.
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Can you imagine how much money would be "lost" if this drug did what it is purported to do ? A complete medical sector would cease to exist overnight . I put this cancer cure up there with cold fusion and UFO 's it is nice to think that they exist but what about the reality . Think for a minute what negative effects this would have if true and yes I know how batcrap crazy that sounds .
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I don't think its bat crap crazy,I think it is very plausible. I don't think it is our government doing it but I don't believe for a second that there hasn't been huge advances in fields that the technology was bought and sat on by the industrys that would be put out of business by this technology.
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They've been saying that for years about the oil industry paying off the developers of hydrogen and electric cars
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I think it could be more subtle than that too, like using money to put road blocks in the way of developing technology.
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I dont believe the conspiracy stuff. The human immune system is so complex that humans barely understand how it works and most research is a shot in the dark. Conspiracy isnt blocking anything, the lack of knowledge is. There are at least 120 different immunotherapy drugs in human trials right now. If there was some conspiracy, these would not exist. Its not a conspiracy, its a race, and whoever gets it right will make bank. http://www.cancerresearch.org/
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Not to be a Negative Nancy, but it's these sort of articles like this that get people to think things like that.
From what I gather, this seems to be a VERY preliminary finding. Otherwise, it would be much bigger story than this. There are many, many cases of early research or concepts that never turn into what people would hope for. That's why you get people who think that we should be driving water powered cars, have hydrogen generators, cures for cancers, etc ... but the government is just holding it back.
I will still have some guarded optimism for this though.
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I don't think its bat crap crazy,I think it is very plausible. I don't think it is our government doing it but I don't believe for a second that there hasn't been huge advances in fields that the technology was bought and sat on by the industrys that would be put out of business by this technology.
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he's lived for how long with HIV?
wonder why there aren't more conspiracy theories about Magic and Stern like there were with Jordan (nearly same timeframe). Magic agrees to take the fall and raise awareness for HIV as penance and gets to stay involved with the league, continue raking in $$ and eventually makes enough to buy a stake in the Lakers and Dodgers.
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NOBODY would agree to what Magic went through. For what? He would have done been around the game with or without the annoucem....ugh, forget it.
Conspiracy theories are so lame.
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There are those who choose to see skin cancer as a result of a sunny day. I am not one of them.
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yeah, but they are fun 
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That is fantastic news, though should be tempered until the human studies are over. So many treatments that have been found effective in animals have failed in human testing. Let's keep our fingers crossed.
Is this just a general comment about any drugs that failed to work in humans or do you have firsthand knowledge of cancer drugs that failed after human studies? Just wondering.
I can answer that with my own experience. My daughter was used for several different "Trial" chemo's with her fight with cancer. She was one of like 9 kids to try a chemo that destroys the vascular system of tumors so the tumor would starve to death. It worked for a time and she lived about a year longer than the average person with her tumor. It unfortunately stopped working over time and the med was destroying her vascular system as well...she had to stop taking it and the tumor came back with much faster growth rate than at first.
We also tried an alternative medicine called antineoplastins which sounds similar to this break through. Dr. Burzinski in Houston Texas developed it. It is a synthetic version of what all our bodies already have to fight cancers. People with cancer have a lower number of them so he developed a synthetic version and it is administered as a liquid pumped into a catheder into the body. He has had good success despite the FDA only allowing people who have tried mainstream methods and who's docs have said there was nothing else they could do. Only those who have no chance of survival can try his medicine and he has cured several and lengthened life for many more. When my daughter died there was evidence the treatment was working...she had dead tumor tissue present on her MRI scans...but it was too little too late. I think she may have survived had we gone there first. The youngest child ever cured of a grade 4 brain tumor was cured o his treatment. It cost about $8,000 a month and is non toxic...that s compared to hundreds of thousands a month for mainstream radiation and chemo which is toxic. He has not cured everyone that comes but does better than mainstream especially when you consider he only gets the toughest cases.
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I remember a recent thread where folks were mocking California for its big spending. This money is from a CA state grant.
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