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Woman’s cancer killed by measles virus in unprecedented trial
washingtonpost.com ^ | May 15 at 1:24 am | Lindsey Bever

Posted on 05/15/2014 7:03:39 PM PDT by BenLurkin

Russell said he and his team had engineered the virus to make it more suitable for cancer therapy. And, after just one dose of it, Erholtz’s cancer went into remission. She has been completely cleared of the disease, Russell wrote in Mayo Clinic Proceedings. Though, in this trial, the treatments were successful on only one of the two patients.

And Tanios Bekaii-Saab, a researcher at James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute in Ohio, said the study must be confirmed in large randomized clinical trials — where many hopes get dashed, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported.

“Unless we get to the third stage of development, we are cautiously optimistic,” he said.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: cancer

1 posted on 05/15/2014 7:03:39 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin
Elsewhere: Poliovirus kills area college student's brain tumor

Wonder what other cancers can be cured by viruses.

2 posted on 05/15/2014 7:12:07 PM PDT by Gamecock (#BringTheAdultsBackToDC)
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To: BenLurkin

She was given enough to inoculate 10 million people! That stuned my beeber.


3 posted on 05/15/2014 7:18:49 PM PDT by rdl6989
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To: BenLurkin

Pretty amazing, but if they came out with an engineered virus that cured all cancers 100% of the time with absolutely no side-effects, 100% proven, the FDA would approve it in say...oh..the year 2045, 2345 if Hitlery became POTUS, because it would be an emergency treatment that could say 100s of thousands of lives and we don’t want that now do we. But they’ll continue to approve every drug in existence for every slight discomfort a person has. “Polyslipaphobia - the fear of being chased around a table by timber wolves while wearing socks on a newly waxed floor” Oh we have a drug for that, but it may cause stomach pain, diarrhea, vomiting, bleeding, blurry vision, deafness, joint paint, bloating, skin lesions, loose teeth, gangrene, liver and kidney failure, hair loss and rigor mortis.


4 posted on 05/15/2014 7:24:19 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Hitlery: Incarnation of evil.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

In reality, it takes about 12 years to bring a drug through clinical testing to market.

It is also unlikely that any one treatment will cure all cancers, since cancers are a diverse group of diseases of disregulation of cell function.


5 posted on 05/15/2014 7:31:49 PM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: BenLurkin
This same story appears to be boilerplate. It was posted earlier, nearly verbatim, with a different names, different cancer.

As if the Ministry of Truth inadvertently released an draft copy.

6 posted on 05/15/2014 7:32:02 PM PDT by Spirochete (GOP: Give Obama Power)
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To: Gamecock

If a virus kills it, I wonder about a viral origin myself.


7 posted on 05/15/2014 7:36:25 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: BenLurkin

Wasn’t the a Will Smith movie about this several years ago where the vaccination for turned everyone into zombies or vampires?


8 posted on 05/15/2014 7:40:32 PM PDT by Fai Mao (Genius at Large)
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To: RegulatorCountry

Maybe.

But if a virus can destroy healthy cells why not abnormal ones?

In the case of the glioblastoma and polio virus it may make sense that a modified polio virus can kill mutant brain cells.

Just wondering...


9 posted on 05/15/2014 7:41:01 PM PDT by Gamecock (#BringTheAdultsBackToDC)
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To: Gamecock

While I realize that the virus is genetically engineered for this purpose and is apparently contained, I still have to wonder, by what mechanism is the virus made self-limiting to a given type of cancerous tumor? Could genetically engineered polio or measles enter into the general population via some unintentional means with dire consequence?


10 posted on 05/15/2014 7:51:52 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: BenLurkin
Sounds promising. But will big pharma and cancer research centers/medical universities allow the gravy train to stop or be severely curtailed? Lots and lots of money is at stake here.
11 posted on 05/15/2014 8:18:23 PM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: RegulatorCountry

I wrote a short story on that, a virus based ‘cure’ that winds up killing millions

Titled “The Cure”. Fun to write, but screwing around with smallpox wouldn’t be my first choice.


12 posted on 05/15/2014 9:55:56 PM PDT by ASOC (What are you doing now that Mexico has become OUR Chechnya?)
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